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William Preston (Virginia)
Col. William Preston (December 25, 1729 – June 28, 1783)〔Colonel William Preston ''Gravestone,'' Preston Family Cemetery, Smithfield Plantation, Blacksburg, Virginia〕 played a crucial role in surveying and developing the colonies going westward, exerted great influence in the colonial affairs of his time, ran a large plantation, and founded a dynasty whose progeny would supply leaders for the South for nearly a century.〔''The Smithfield Review, Volume XIV,'' "The Fincastle Resolutions," Jim Glanville. page 91〕 He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and was a Colonel in the militia during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the thirteen signers of the Fincastle Resolutions, a predecessor to the United States Declaration of Independence.〔''The Smithfield Review, Volume XIV,'' "The Fincastle Resolutions," Jim Glanville. page 81〕
He was a founding trustee of Liberty Hall (later Washington and Lee University), when it was made into a college in 1776.〔Williams, Richard G (2013). Lexington, Virginia and the Civil War. The History Press, 2013. Retrieved online http://books.google.com/books?id=SnlXXMRrD3MC&pg=PA22&dq=%22sampson+mathews%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a_58VNDGHuHlsAS4_oKQCw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22sampson%20mathews%22&f=false〕
==Personal life==
William Preston was born on Christmas Day, 1729, in Limavady, Ireland, to Col. John Preston and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth's father Henry Patton was a prominent shipwright and merchant, and her brother James Patton served with such distinction in the Royal Navy that the Crown granted him between 100,000 and 120,000 acres in America to permit British colonization beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains.〔Preston, F.L. "(John Preston 1699-1747 )". 2007. Accessed 28 September 2013.〕 The family immigrated to Augusta Co., Virginia, in 1738 on James's ship.〔Osborn, Richard Charles. ''William Preston of Virginia, 1727–1783: The Making of a Frontier Elite.''1990, Dissertation, University of Maryland College Park. pages 9–10〕 Subsequent French and Indian resistance and reversal of British policy limited the impact of the family's grants, but Prestonsburg, Kentucky, was named in John's honor by its later founders.〔Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', (p. 242 ). University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 Aug 2013.〕 In 1755, he survived an Indian attack against a settlement that was part of a property (later known as Smithfield Plantation) that he inherited from his uncle, Colonel James Patton who died in the incident.
Remaining in Virginia, William married Susanna Smith on January 17, 1761, and together they had 12 children. He and his family moved to Smithfield Plantation, in present day Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1774 and it served as his final home.〔Family Tree, Historic Smithfield Plantation Museum〕 He previously resided at Greenfield Plantation at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Greenfield )〕
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