Dr. Patrick Vance & William Kirkpatrick Vance: History and Descendants

Dr. Patrick Vance of Ireland settled in Lexington Virginia but his descendants moved mainly to Greeneville and Jonesborough Tennessee and eventually Kingsport Tennessee. His son William Kirkpatrick Vance settled in the Greeneville Tennesee area and raised a family of eleven. Those children spread to Georgia Texas Alabama and other parts south and west but leaving several prominent families in Tennesee. This is the complete story of Dr. Patrick and William Kirkpatrick with a list of every known descendant. The author visited Lexington Virginia on several occasions digging as deeply into Dr. Patricks story as possible. Never before has this information been compiled in and published in its entirity; this true genealogy of Dr. Patrick describes a descendant of a landed Scottish and Irish family that still owns a castle at Barnbarroch Scotland.