When I wrote about Samuel Pryor and wife Frances Meriwether (see post) (shortened link) I started stumbling upon other Meriwether connections. I’m sharing a list of these connections to advance your search in VA.
1. Samuel Pryor purportedly married Frances Morton Meriwether in 1760 in Goochland Co., VA.
2. Frances Morton Meriwether later Pryor was the mother of George Meriwether who was an early settler in Louisville, KY area and had written to George Rogers Clark (the brother of the Lewis and Clark explorer) to advance to founding of Louisville.
3. Nathaniel Pryor who came from Louisville to serve in the Lewis and Clark Expedition had been bounded (as an apprentice?) to Obadiah Newman on 15 October 1795 in Jefferson Co., KY (Louisville’s county); Obadiah was married Martha W. Meriwether.
4. Of course, Mr. Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was Meriwether Lewis.
5. Martha “Patsy” Pryor, daughter of William Pryor and Elizabeth Hughes married Robert Meriwether. She was born in 1782 and is on the 1850 Census in Goochland County, VA.
