Branstrator Farm has been in the Branstrator family since 1821 when Andrew Branstator (different sp) bought it for $3.00/acre  from the heirs of Stephen Mason who was given 1000 acres of land in Aug. 1790 by an Act  To enable officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment in a document signed by George Washington, Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State and James McHenry, Secretary of War.

Andrew (6/9/1782-6/20/1848, his wife Frances and many of their children were buried in the family graveyard on the highest land on my farm.