Andrew Arnett
Andrew Arnett came over the mountains from the Eastern Shore about 1785 and settled on Big Indian Creek in Monongalia County, Virginia. The village that grew up on that ground is Arnettsville. Samuel Wiley's history of the county, published in 1883, says he owned six hundred acres adjoining it.
The Eastern Shore is the long peninsula between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic, split between Maryland and Virginia.
He married Elizabeth Leggett about 1792. Their eldest daughter, Mary, called Polly, was born on 6 November 1794. At least nine more children followed over the next twenty two years, the last of them Thomas, born about 1816.
He served in the county militia. Wiley's lists of the officers of the Monongalia regiment put Andrew Arnett as lieutenant of the first company under Captain John West, and as a captain from 1808. Every free white man of military age was enrolled in the county militia. A Captain Richard Price commanded the sixth company of the same regiment, and Andrew's widow married a Richard Price the year after his death.
He made his will on 12 March 1824, "being in a low state of health but of perfect mind and memory." He was dead before the May term of the county court, when two of the witnesses proved it.
The will divides his land equally between his four sons Andrew, John, Solomon and Thomas, "according to quantity and quality." It leaves his personal estate to his wife Elizabeth for the support of the children, and what remained at her death to his four daughters, Mary, Elisabeth, Casandra and Sarah. The four youngest children, John, Solomon, Sarah and Thomas, were each to have a hundred dollars, paid by James and Daniel Arnett out of notes they had given him.
James and Daniel had already been provided for, and the notes were their side of the bargain. James Arnett, the eldest son, lived until 25 February 1880 and died at eighty three. His son A. M. Arnett gave the death to the county clerk. Wiley names A. M. Arnett's grandfather as this Andrew.
Andrew was buried in the family ground that became the Fetty-Hogue Cemetery at Arnettsville. His daughter Polly, her husband Charles Glasscock and his widow Elizabeth were all buried there after him.
His daughter Mary was the wife of Charles Glasscock, married at Monongalia County on 27 August 1814. The Glasscock family's own account, printed in 1912 while her grandson was governor of West Virginia, names her as the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Leggett) Arnett. It says her mother outlived Andrew and married a Price. The will fits it closely. Its eldest daughter is a Mary, its widow is an Elizabeth, and a note in the margin of the will book names her as Elizabeth Price. Mary named one son Andrew and another Arnett.
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Cite: Heirology, "Andrew Arnett (1772-1824)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/andrew-arnett-1772-1824-b1d983.