Agnes LaForce (Moseby)

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A206465

Prisoner of War during American Revolution.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LD16-3RG

One of Agnes' ancestors, Edd Mosby, was a Quaker. It's written that their meetings were held at his house 'til he helped build them a church. He's also said to have been a fine coffin maker. After he built the church the Quakers refused to pay him what they owed him. He was so furious he refused to have anything to do with them so they disowned him. It's said even his own wife & children disowned him. It's also said when he died no one showed up to claim anything so his property was sold...I don't know what was done with the money.

Looks like Agnes inherited her ancestor's luck. She & Rene II were ran off out of VA because he was a Tory. They barely reached KY when one of their son's accidentally shot & killed Rene.

An old book I just stumbled across recently claims after burying Rene they moved on & made it to their destination. It claims they were there about three years before being captured by the British & Indians, marched off to Canada & held there as POW's til after the Revolutionary War.

One witness claimed there was a fight & some of Rene's sons & son-in-laws were killed as a result. Somebody else makes it seem like Agnes & her children weren't captured at Martin's Station like some others & the witness was mistaking this family for another. He points out her letter for proof. In this letter the only death she mentions is Rene's. She claims she's a widow who needs her slaves back so she can finish raising 5 fatherless children. Tory or not, she never got their slaves back.

Upon release she supposedly went back to VA where she died. SOURCE DMLeFORCE, Find a grave

CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800, AUGUSTA COUNTY COURT RECORDS. ORDER BOOK No. XXIV., page 345 Martin vs. Lindsay.--George Chowning, aged about 32 years, 14th August, 1765, deposes: Rene Laforce, aged 42, August 8th, 1765. Agnes Laforce, his wife, aged 40, August 8, 1765. Robert Cawthon, aged 29 years, 8th August, 1765. Source: All Scots-Irish in Virginia, Vol. 1 results for Raney Laforce ____________________________

11 children include

1. Randolph Laforce b: Abt 1747 in Goochland County, Virginia
2. Barney Laforce b: Abt 1752 in Goochland County, Virginia
3. Samuel Laforce b: Abt 1757 in Goochland County, Virginia
4. Monsieur Laforce b: 21 Jul 1768 in Goochland County, Virginia
5. Sarah Mosby Laforce b: Bef 1774

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagerj&id...

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• Reference: MyHeritage Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 10 2018, 15:20:07 UTC