Third Generation

8. Samuel BRANDENBURG was born about 1774 in Hampshire County, West Virginia Colony, British Colonial America.⁶ He died about 1846 at the age of 72 in Hampshire County, WV.⁶ Hampshire County, WV was formed in 1754 from parts of Frederick and Augusta Counties in Virginia. Although its creation was authorized in 1754, Hampshire County was not actually organized until 1757 because the area was not considered safe due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754–1763).

According to Samuel Kercheval's A History of the Valley of Virginia (1833), the county was named in honor of its several prize hogs. The story goes that Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), who owned the Royal Grant to the area, came upon some very large hogs in Winchester and asked where they had been raised. He was told that they were from the South Branch Potomac River Valley (now Hampshire County). He remarked that, when a county was formed west of Frederick, he would name it in honor of the county Hampshire, England, famous for its very fat hogs.)

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Samuel BRANDENBURG and Matilda BARNES were married.⁶ Matilda BARNES was born (date unknown).

Samuel BRANDENBURG and Sally HENSON were married in 1797 in Madison County, KY.⁶ Sally HENSON was born (date unknown).