Apple Pie Ridge Road is in Frederick County, Virginia. In 1751 Quaker families settled along Ridge Road. The road became known as Apple Pie Ridge Road when Hessian soldiers, captured during the revolution, would go to the ridge to eat the apple pies baked by the Quakers.
Early Quakers were persecuted. In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends were banished on pain of death.
Rent rolls were lists of landowners showing whether they had paid their annual quit-rents to the Crown. A quick-rent was a feudal remnant and was paid by a freeholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
Joseph Lupton, Jr. was born January 5, 1718 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His birth was recorded in the Middletown Monthly meeting minutes. His parents were Joseph Lupton and Mercy Twining.
He moved to Frederick County, Virginia with his family about 1740.
Joseph married Rachel Bull on August 17, 1750, at the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia. Rachel was born about 1719 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Lupton, son of Joseph Lupton of Opeckan [Hopewell Meeting] in ye County of Frederick and Colony of Virginia, and Rachel Bull, daughter of Richard Bull of ye County of Chester of province of Pensilvania; 17th day of 8th month, 1750; at Isaac Hollingsworth's home, Opeckan. [signed by] Joseph Lupton Junr. [&] Rachel Lupton.
Their children included: David Lupton (1757, married Mary Hollinsworth),
Phineas Lupton (1759),
Rachel Lupton Wood (1761, married Joseph Wood),
Ruth Lupton (1764),
Ann Lupton (1767),
Hannah Lupton (1770), and
Lewis Lupton (1775).
They settled in Frederick County on a large tract at the head of Babb's Marsh that Joseph inherited from his father in 1758. He also inherited his father's gold-headed cane.
Joseph Lupton appeared on the rent roll of Frederick County, Virginia in 1759.
In 1760 Joseph was one of the men who were appointed to visit "a scattered number of friends Living on Mill Crick, Middle Crick and Tuscarorah," who could not come to the Hopewell Meeting.
From Frederick County Road Orders
5 April 1765, Frederick County Order Book 12, p. 396
Joseph Lupton is Appointed Overseer of the Road from Winchester to Opeckon at Armstrongs ford & It is Ordered that the Tithables within five miles on Each Side of the Road work Thereon under him
2 September 1766, Frederick County Order Book 13, p. 173
Robert Willson is appointed Overseer of the Road from Winchester to Opeckon at Armstrongs Place in the Room of Joseph Lupton Itis Ordered that the usual Tithables work thereon under him
In 1771 the Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia appointed Joseph Lupton as one of those to meet the committee from the quarterly meeting.
Joseph died in 1791. He left a large estate to his family, which consisted of Rachael his wife, son David, Ann Updegraff, Hannah Lupton, and David and Rachel Wood, his grandchildren.
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1684.
It is north of Philadelphia and just west of Trenton, New Jersey.
Opequon Creek is tributary of the Potomac River. It joins the Potomac northeast of Martinsburg and its source is at the foot of Great North Mountain. It is part of the boundary between Frederick and Clarke counties in Virginia and between Berkeley and Jefferson counties in West Virginia.
