Andrew VANCE

                   Cooper - Taxed in Frederick co, VA in 1753 &/or 1754. Wealthy.
                  

                   1734: Land surveyed on Shenandoah River, Frederick county, VA on 30 Dec. 1734. Survey No. 16. 2050 acres
1744: Taxed in Frederick county, VA in 1744.

Not listed as  AndrewÕs son, but he lived in the right area at the right time and Samuel had a son named David.
                  

                   I donÕt think these are his parents. His brothers (Samuel, John & David) named their sons after each other, but none of them named them Ephraim.

Vause rhymes with cause.

Ephraim Vause, born abt 1718 married Theodocia Hulling , July 11, 1738 at the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. It is supposed that Ephraims forebearers were among the German Palatines from the banks of the Rhine and the Neckar, who entered the colonies through Delaware Bay in the early 1700's. In 1746 Ephraim had patented land in Augusta County on the Virginia Frontier. His name first appears in the Augusta County Deed Books in Jan 1746 when he received a grant of 200 Acres . The site of Old Fort Vause known today in Shawsville, Montgomery County, Virginia.