PIPER.
John Piper first purchased land in Albemarle in 1779. He
then bought from Alexander Henderson four hundred acres
on Lickinghole, which he sold to John Buster in 1792. In
the meantime, in 1783, he bought from Charles Wingfield a
place between Batesville and the Nelson line, which he made
his home. When the records begin again in 1783, he was an
acting magistrate of the county. In 1815 he conveyed nearly
five hundred acres of his land to his son. His wife's name
was Ann, and his children William and Elizabeth, the wife
of Garrett White, of North Garden. William, who succeeded
to the homestead, died in 1835. He and his wife Elizabeth
had eleven children, Mary Ann, Garrett W., William, Nancy,
the wife of Robert Field, Marshall, Willis, Jeremiah, Elizabeth,
the wife of Richard M. Durrett, Richard, Frances and
John. Some years after the death of the father, the place
was sold to William H. Turner, and those of the family still
living removed to Missouri.
