- "The greatest numbers of early Augusta settlers were from the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland..."
Sources: Augusta County Historical Society Website [1] ; "Ulster-Scots in Virginia, from Pennsylvania to Shenandoah", by Richard McMaster
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"Nathaniel Kelly, the first member of his family of whom we have information, was born in Ireland, settled in New Jersey, and died in Augusta County, Virginia December 22 1805. His wife, Martha, died at the same place, November 19, 1797."
Source: West Virginia and Its People, Volume 3, Thomas Condit Miller and Hug Maxwell, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913, West Virginia
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- "On the back of one page [in the Bible's addenda] has been written 'Traced back to Nathaniel Kelly Born about 1720 / Died in Augusta Co. VA. 1805 / Martha his wife Born _____ 1720/ Died in Augusta Co. Va. 1797"
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"Nathaniel Kelly, the first member of this family of whom we have any information, was born in Ireland, settled in New Jersey, and died in Augusta County, Virginia, December 22 1805."
West Virginia and its People, Volume 3, pg. 856
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