Samuel LUSK SR (January 29, 1751?-August 14, 1792)

Samuel LUSK

?-August 14, 1792

BIRTH: still researching this

Father: still researching this
Mother: still researching this

Wife: Susannah STEPHENSON (c.1754-?)

MARRIAGE: Augusta, Tazewell County, Virginia

DEATH: August 14, 1792, Wythe County, Virginia

Children:
William F. LUSK (c.1770-1792)
Robert A. LUSK (c.1771-1792)
James R. LUSK (c.1772-1792)
David LUSK (1773-?)

Samuel LUSK JR (1776-?)

*Click on Samuel Lusk JR's name to read a narrative by James F. Carver.
Mary LUSK (1782-?)

Pedigree

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SOURCE: RootsWeb.com

*note: Lusk in Ukrainian is said to be a derived form of the word lusk which means "river bend or winding river." Lusk is also a place in medieval Volhynia. Lusk in Gaelic means "cave." It is believed this Lusk line is of Scotch/Irish origin and descended from John or William Lusk of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The earliest known Lusks in the Mid-Atlantic region, Philadelphia southward to the Carolinas, where brothers, John and William of Chester County, Pennsylvania, who were born in the late 1600's There was a Nathan Lusk whose will is recorded in Augusta County, Virginia in 1748. There was a James and William Lusk, possibly brothers, who were members of the Providence Presbyterian Church of Augusta County, Virginia in 1753 along with members of the Houston family.

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