The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730.
West Virginia is located in the Appalachians and was originally part of Virginia. The capital and largest city is Charleston. It became a state during the Civil War and was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.
The American Flag was adopted in 1777.
Peter Burr was born in 1727 in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Peter married Mary Stewart.
Mary Burr (1756, married Daniel or David Smith)
Abigail Burr (1758)
Sarah Burr (1761, married William Biggs )
Miriam Burr (1763, married John Conklyn),
Jane Burr ( 1765, married John Melvin),
Peter Burr (1767, married Iscerna (Hannah) Sewell),
Hannah Burr (1772)
Peter married Jane Calhoun on February 17, 1775.
James Burr (1776, married Nancy McGarry),
Elizabeth Burr (1777)
Moses Burr (1778)
Ann Burr (1780, married John McGarry)
William Burr (1783, married Margaret Young) and
Esther Burr (1785, married Thomas Embly).
The Burrs were early settlers in, what is now, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. They moved there about 1750 and lived near Bardane in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
From Frederick County Road Orders
8 February 1769, Frederick County Order Book 14 Part 2, p. 409
Upon the petition of Sundry Inhabitants that a Road may be opened from Semples furnace to the Warm Springs Road above Peter Burrs Ordered that Thomas Hart William Dark James Lloyd & Henry Lloyd or any Three of them being first Sworne do Veiw the same & Report the conveniences & Inconveniences that may attend the opening a Road on the same.
Peter died on January 20 1795 in Berkeley County.
Peter Burr House
Frederick County, Virginia was formed in 1743 from Orange County. Old Frederick County included all or part of four counties in present-day Virginia: Shenandoah, Clarke, Warren, and Frederick, as well as five in present-day West Virginia: Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan.
