| Family |
Phebe GANDY, b. CA 1736, New Jersey, USA  , d. Abt 1770, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA (Age ~ 34 years) |
| Married |
17 Aug 1752 |
Cape May Courthouse, NJ |
| Notes |
David Casto traveled to Fairfield Township, Cumberland Co., South Jersey to accompany Phebe Gandy to a Baptist Church at Cape May Courthouse, NJ to be married. They were declared married on 17 August 1752 by Nathaniel Jenkins. They returned to Turkey Point and established a home at Downe Township north of Egg Island. A baptismal record for David and Phebe was found dated 1765 at the Dividing Creek Baptist Church, Downe Township, NJ. By this time, they had at least five children.
They traveled north to Salem, New Jersey, then took the Great Wagon Road at York , PA. They crossed the Potomac River into Hampshire Co. It is believed they had another daughter while at Hampshire (Berkeley) County. They traveled on to establish a claim at the mouth of Buffalo Creek on the Monongahela River. They both died about 1770 in Berkley County, WV.
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I believe this is what has been called the Billy Burris story. Pompey Leggit was the father of Thomas, about whom the story is written. Philippi is in what is now Braxton County, but it was 1738 before Augusta and Frederick counties were formed in what is now WV. Counties were formed as the population of an area grew large enough to need it's own government. Braxton was formed from parts of Kanawha, Lewis and Nicholas counties in 1836.
In "A While Ago Times", Volume 2, Page 12
At the end of a story titled "Thomas Leggit Story"
. . . Dr Leggett's great-great-great grandfather, Pompey Leggit, a man named William Burris, and others, whom Dr. Leggett named, did indeed establish a permanent settlement near present Philippi, West Virginia, in 1704; that William Burris, son of William and Mary Morgan Burris, born in Delaware in 1670, died in 1759 near the site of this settlement; and that his son, Enoch, and two stepsons, last name Casto, continued to live in that area until they died.
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| Children |
| | 1. David Casto, b. 1753, Dividing Creek, NJ , d. 23 Jan 1802, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA (Age 49 years) |
| | 2. Phoebe Casto, b. 2 Jan 1755, Dividing Creek, NJ , d. 2 Jan 1855, Angerona, Jackson, West Virginia, USA (Age 100 years) |
| | 3. Catherine Casto, b. 19 Dec 1758, Cumberland Co, NJ , d. 13 Aug 1837, Madison County, Ohio, USA (Age 78 years) |
| | 4. John CASTO, b. Between 1758 and 1761, Dividing Creek, South Jersey , d. Abt 1831 (Age ~ 73 years) |
| | 5. William CASTO, b. 1764, Dividing Creek, NJ , d. Dec 1836, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 72 years) |
| | 6. Elizabeth Casto, b. Abt 1765, d. 30 Mar 1818 (Age ~ 53 years) |
| | 7. Sarah Elizabeth Casto, b. 10 Mar 1769, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA , d. Abt Apr 1851, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 82 years) |
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| Family ID |
F149 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
West Virginia Pioneers
1721 - Abt 1770 (49 years)
