Phebe Carman was born 4 March 1724/25 at Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey. She died 25 January 1801 at Berryville (formerly called Battletown), Frederick County, Virginia and is buried in the graveyard at the Old Buck Marsh Meeting House at Berryville.  She married before 1743 in New Jersey to Isaac LaRue, born 11 January 1711/12 in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County (now Mercer), New Jersey, died 20 March 1795 at Berryville, Virginia and is buried with his wife at the Old Buck Marsh Meeting House, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Cresson) LaRue. (Interestingly, Isaac's grandfather was Constable of Staten Island and Phebe's grandfather was Justice of the Peace of Cape May, New Jersey).

After marrying in New Jersey, the Isaac and Phebe (Carman) LaRue relocated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in what had just been organized five years before into Frederick County at an area called Long Marsh (a stream about 3 miles from Berryville). The house that Isaac LaRue built there was of logs and about fifteen feet high and as his family grew he would add a room or "pen" to it until the log cabin finally had five or six.  Their first child was born in 1744 when Phebe was just nineteen and her last child wasn't born until 24 years later.

Isaac LaRue was an active man. Not only did he farm but he also raised horses in a heard of 100 or so. On 24 July 1758 he cast his vote for election to the House of Burgesses for George Washington, who was one of the candidates for election from his district.  And it had been George Washington, the surveyor, who had surveyed Isaac LaRue's lands at Long Marsh. Isaac LaRue over time became a very prosperous Virginia Planter, and bought up more and more lands in Virginia and areas that would later split and become West Virginia (which did not yet exist). In the County Clerk's Office of Hardin County, Kentucky there are six land titles preserved and attested to by Squire Boone, less known brother of Daniel Boone (coon skin cap, killed a bear when he was only three... ), documenting 6,250 acres that Squire Boone had passed through in 1779 and another 3,335 acres in 1783. The relationship with the Boone family is suspected to be from when the parents of Isaac LaRue and Squire & Daniel Boone both lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (where Daniel Boone was born - not on a mountain top in Tennessee).  Isaac LaRue further has recorded from the "Journal of Colonel George Washington" of his expedition of the Ohio River in 1754, some 21,000 acres of a patent land on the Ohio and Sandy Creek, which George Washington was also granted a large tract by Governor Dinwiddie.

Children of Isaac and Phebe (Carman) LaRue:

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