Molly Gaskins

(436> Molly Gaskins -- Born 1753. Parents unknown; wife of
Peter <498>; mother of Nelly <--->, Patty Robinson <238>,
Thomas Gaskins (219>, Jacob Gaskins (205), Anna Gaskins
<142>, Moses (046>, and Aron (047>. Residing at Taurus in
1782. Sent from Taurus to Coles Point in February 1784.
Tithable at Coles Point in 1785. Sent to the Shenandoah
tract in April 1787. Residing at Scorpio in 1788 and 1791.
Named in 1791 deed of emancipation. Scheduled for
emancipation in 1793. Emancipated by deed dated January 1,
1793; deed proved in Westmoreland County Court, February 28,
1793 (found by the court to be over the age of forty-five).
Sources: Deed of Emancipation, August 1, 1791, pt. 1, pp.
11, 18, 21, and pt. 2, pp. 9, 25; 2d Book of Miscellanies,'
p. 65; Letterbook, 1782-1784, pp. 7, 173; Westmoreland
County Personal Property Tax List, 1785, VSA; Letterbook,
1785-1787, pp. 251-53, 255-56; Letterbook, 1792-1793, p. 37;
Westmoreland County Deeds and Wills, No. 18, 1787-1794, VSA
microfilm, pp. 291-92.