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122. Catherine (Katherine) Wroe (Married Dr. Moses Payne (121) on 27 October 1787 in Shenandoah, Virginia according to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The date is confirmed in Ancestry.com Virginia Marriages to 1800 and The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, p. 268)

 

Born: About 1761-62 in Westmoreland County, Virginia in an area which is now part of King George County of William Hyrum Wroe (243) & Grace Chancellor (244). (Source of information: The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, p. 268).

Died: About 1812. (According to The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, p. 270..."In 1812, Caty Payne paid tax on the lot formerly owned by Dr. Payne and the indication from the tax list is that she died about this time, for this identical lot appears on the tax lists of Frederick County 1813-1921 as Moses Payne's Representatives. Also the name of Catherine (Caty) Payne does not appear on any of those tax lists."

[Her siblings included:

Original (Originall) Wroe (122a) (Married Sarah Kenner) Born: 1758-59 Died: 1809 (Shortly after the Revolutionary War, he moved with his mother to Fauquir County, Virginia where on 16 June 1788, he married Sarah Keener, daughter of George Turberville Kerner and his wife, Martha. Under terms of his father's 1781 will, Original inherited all of his father's share of land in King George County (formerly Westmoreland County) that had originally been owned by Original's grandfather, Original Wroe (485). Then by a deed dated October 4, 1782, he purchased the share that had been inherited by his Uncle Richard Wroe, "except one half of an acre including the grave of Original Wroe (485)." Original (122a) is considered to have been one of the founders of the town of Front Royal, Virginia.

William Wroe (Married: his cousin Sarah Chancellor Wroe) Born: about 1759-60 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Died: 1841 (In 1776, he enlisted as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Burgess Ball, in the 5th Virginia Regiment, which was commanded by Col. Josiah Burgess Parker. Affidavits in his pension application state that during his two years of service, as occasion demanded, he served at various times in the navy as well as in the army. Beginning in 1800, William and his brother Original Wroe, both appear as members of the Chester Masonic Lodge #61 in Front Royal, where William served as treasurer in 1801 and as senior deacon in 1803. His membership was declared dormant in 1809. On July 10, 1815, a court order decreed his appointment as Constable in the district which was composed of the First Battalion and 97th Regiment of Virginia in Shenandoah County, and he served in that capacity for several years.) ;

Eleanor Wroe (Married Rodham (or Rhodham) Keener December 29, 1790) Born: 1765-66 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Died: about 1800 (She predeceased her mother);

Rebecca Wroe (Married: James Kendall in 1785) Born: About 1767-68 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Died: ?;

Jane Chancellor Wroe (Married: Edmund Pagett June 21, 1792) Born: About 1769-70 in Westmoreland County . Died: ?,

Grace Wroe Born: About 1772 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Died: prior to her mother's death in 1804;] Source of information: The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe p. 184-286]

 

Miscellaneous:

As quoted from The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, p. 268, "Catherine is named for her grandmother Catherine Cooper (488) and was a minor when her father died in 1781. With her mother, she moved to Northern Virginia after the Revolution and, on 27 October 1787, she married Dr. Moses Payne, formerly of New Jersey, but then of Front Royal, Virginia."

Catherine and her husband, Moses, had 7 children: John, Grace (Gracy), Mary (Polly), Catherine Chancellor, William Wroe (61), Moses Congo, and Jane Chancellor.