Capt. Francis Conway, III

  Notes and Events:

• Relationship: G4 grandfather.

• Community Service: Captain Conway was member of the King Geo. Co. Committee of Safety 1774-6., 1774.

• Military: Revelutionary War, 1775-1778. He served for three years in the Continental Line, 1775-1778. His was one of the cases of Revolutionary Claims rejected by the Congressional Committee on claims in 1842, with the statement that, "His name is not on any roll now to be found, nor was he paid, by Va., or the U. S. for any service. It is altogether impossible he could have performed a service of these years, though his heirs were allowed the bounty of 4000 acres for that service, Sep. 1, 1838." (Rep. 1063, 27 Cong., 2 Sess., Aug. 2, 1842, p. 27.)
To this report the Cong. Committe on Public Lands replied; (Rep. 457, 28 Cong., 1 Sess., May 2, 1844, p. 139.)
"In the case of Capt. Francis Conway, he was proved to have been in the minute service in Sept., 1775, and for more than three years thereafter. A reference to the executive journal of Sept. 10, 1776, showed him to have been commissioned Lieutenant on that day in the regular service."
Commissioned 1st Lieut. of the four companies of Minute Men from the Caroline District Sept. 12, 1776
Commissioned Captain in Oct. 1776

• Note, 1784, King George Co., VA. In 1784 Captain Conway laid out ten acres of his land on the Rappahannock River, King George Co., VA, into half acre lots and received right by Act of Assembly, May, 1784, to sell the same and to establish thereon a town by the name of "Port Conway," of which town Jno. Skinker, Geo. Fitzhugh and others were made Trustees. (Hen. XI., 363).

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Francis married Elizabeth Fitzhugh, daughter of Maj. John Fitzhugh and Alice "Eliza" Catlett Thornton, on 20 Mar 1770. (Elizabeth Fitzhugh was born on 10 Oct 1754 in Belleair, Fairfax Co., VA and died on 21 Feb 1823.)