I have to admit I’ve been way, way, way more successful during the past month as I’ve uncovered so much new information than I ever expected!

In my multiple previous posts during May 2025, I’ve accounted for much of Caspar Starr’s adult life in Maryland and Rowan County, North Carolina.

However, there was a huge gap in his timeline that basically covered the years of the American Revolution. Caspar sold his land in Baltimore County, Maryland on 2 September 1776 and disappeared until resurfacing in Rowan County, North Carolina when he purchased land there.

As I’ve posited the theory that Caspar Starr married Catherine Trush, daughter of Martin Trush, deceased in 1762, of Baltimore County, Maryland, I decided to follow the Trush FAN club for further clues.

Keep in mind that there are more spelling variations of the [perhaps] Treisch surname than I have fingers.

There is a comment about Jacob Thrash posted on the FamilySearch family Tree that says he went to Culpeper County, Virginia before moving on to North Carolina and, finally, Georgia.

Jacob Thrash, and Caspar Starr for that matter, likely traveled the Great Wagon Road from Maryland through Virginia all the way down to North Carolina and eventually to Augusta, Georgia. Culpeper County, Virginia is just east of the Great Wagon Road.

My next step, then, hoping that Caspar Starr, heading down the same road, might make the same choice of location to stop and live for a while.

Success! “Jasper” Starr, as his name was often recorded, purchased land in Culpeper County, Virginia on 21 September 1778 and the deed conveyance [Deed Book I:14-16] notes that it was the same land on which he currently lived.

The land, containing 200 acres and situated on the south side of the Robinson River, was purchased from Stephen and Magdalena Fisher.

In addition to the land records, “Gaspar” Starr, another spelling variation, appears on the Culpeper County personal property tax list for 1782. There was one white tithable in the home and he owned six horses and eight cattle. Tax owed was £1.4.0.

Caspar and Catherine Starr sold the same piece of land on 21 April 1783 to Daniel Mauk of Shenandoah County, Virginia [Culpeper County, VA Deed Book L:286-288].

This pretty much accounts for Caspar Starr’s adult life, beginning in 1760, when he was living in Frederick County, Maryland, but purchased land in Baltimore County, Maryland.

He and his young family headed south as the Revolutionary War broke out and lived in Culpeper County, Virginia.

At the close of the war, he once again moved south to Rowan County, North Carolina, where he died in 1814.

Next, we’ll look at an updated timeline for Caspar Starr and his family.