Notes: Georgia Society SAR Graves Registry

Matches 51 to 100 of 921

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51	A native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in Washington County, Virginia, and served a tour of duty in Virginia Troops. In 1780, he moved to Washington County, North Carolina (now part of Tennessee), and enlisted as a private in the North Carolina Troops. He also served as a private in the Georgia Troops under Captain James Montgomery, Captain, William Trimble, and Colonel Elijah Clarke. In 1783, he moved to the Ninety Sixth District of South Carolina and in 1793 to Buncombe County, North Carolina. In 1818, he moved to Habersham County (later Fannin County), Georgia, and settled near Morgantown Baptist Church. His widow, Mary, applied for a pension for his services. Her claim was rejected for lack of proof of service.	Fain, Ebenezer (I51)
52	A native of Culpepper County, he enlisted on February 1, 1776, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, as a private in Captain Dillard's Company of Virginia Troops commanded by Colonel Lewis. On February 1, 1778, he re-enlisted in the same company commanded by Colonel Clark. He enlisted January 27, 1780, as a Lieutenant of Virginia Troops and later received a pension for his services. After the war, he lived in Buncombe, North Carolina and Rabun County, Georgia.	Dillard, John (I54)
53	A native of England, Willam Gorman's parents were Christopher and Susannah Gorman who had immigrated with three sons William, John and Joseph to Lunenburg County, Virginia by 1753. Christopher Gorman and his son William Gorman were also in list of tithables for Pittsylvania County, and found in other records of Halifax, then Pittsylvania Counties, Virginia. In 1765, William Gorman was married in Virginia to Jane Clark, daughter of Joseph Clark. They had two sons: William, Jr. who died young and John who married Rebecca Lang. William Gorman and family settled in Camden County prior to 1790; their residence was called, Gorman?s Bluff Plantation, and was on the north side of the Satilla River, now in Charlton County. He served as a private in the Camden County Regiment of the Georgia Militia during 1793. After William Gorman died in 1806, he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in unmarked grave. Sources: 1-- Camden?s Challenge: A History of Camden County, GA, Compiled by Marguerite Reddick, page 38- 2-- Census substitute 1790- William Gorman St. Marys District, Camden County ? Resident- (GA 1792 ? 1819 Tax Lists Index) --Listed on 1794 Tax Roll ? Deed Book A 3-- Census substitute 1810- Jane Gorman ? widow of Patriot William Gorman; John Gorman, son of Patriot William Gorman--Listed on 1809 Tax Roll, Camden County Images of Camden County Will Book B 1777 to 1787 ? Gorman, William	Gorman, William (I259)
54	A native of Goochland County, VA, he enlisted as a Pvt. in Wilkes County, NC. He served as a Sergeant during the Revolution.	Rice, Leonard (I207)
55	A native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he moved to South Carolina and served as a Lieuntenant in the South Carolina Militia. He came to Georgia toward the close of the war and was a soldier under Colonel Elijah Clarke. He received bounty land for his services and was elected to the offices of Surveyor and Clerk of Court. He served 4 times as a Presidential Elector and was a Mason and a member of the Baptist Church for 15 years. He died of Palsy.	Graybill, Henry (I157)
56	A native of Loudoun County, VA., He enlisted on Sep. 1, 1780. on the Holston River in Capt. George Russell's Co. of the North Carolina Troops commanded by Colonel Campbell and was at the Battle of King's Mtn. He also served in 1781 in Capt. Samuel Alexander's Co. of the Georgia Militia commanded by Col. Elijah Clarke. He drew land in the 1832 Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery as a Rev. War Soldier and resident of Elbert County. He is buried at Sardis Cemetery, Hart County, GA off Hwy 29.	Richardson, Amos (I126)
57	A native of North Carolina, he served as a private in the North Carolina Continental Army under Colonels Jones Johnston and Jethro Summer. He served at Charleston and Savannah and participated in the Battles of Valley Forge, Brandywine, and Germantown.	Barrow, James (I327)
58	A native of York County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and served for eight months in Captain Michael Raider's Company of the Virginia Troops. He re-enlisted and served as a private in Captain John Rush's Company of Colonel Harris' Regiment of the Virginia Continental Line and also in Captain George Huston's Company commanded by Colonel Sims. After the Revolution, he lived in Rutherford and Buncombe Counties, North Carolina. He later received a pension for his services. In 1838, he was living in Union County, Georgia.	Tanner, Michael (I55)
59	A note on the term ?Refugee? may be in order here. Gannaway Martin was attached to Lt. Col. Elijah Clarke?s command in early 1780. After the surrender of Charleston in May 1780 most of the forces under Dooly and Pickens were captured and signed an ?Oath of Allegiance? in order to be released from prison. The Militia forces that had remained in Wilkes County hence became known as ?Refugee?s? for refusing to sign the Oath of Allegiance. After Dooly?s death these men formed under then Col. Clarke. Many were engaged in the Battle of Musgrove?s Mill and the Siege of Augusta. But by October of 1780 they were no longer able to protect the Wilkes County region. They gathered their families and with 600-700 women and children and began their long march to Watauga, North Carolina. These Wilkes County Militia men continued to serve as ?The Refugee Militia? with some serving through the Carolinas before returning to Wilkes County.	Martin, Gannaway (I140)
60	A VA Government marker was unveiled at his grave and the family history was read by Miss Delrey Adams a g-ggranddaughter. (Marker lost now).	Haynes, Moses (I208)
61	Abraham and Ann Bessent had seventeen children, of whom fourteen survived their father: 1) John was murdered near St. Mary?s in 1815 for port duty taxes; 2) William Wilson lived in Dyer, Tennessee; 3) Ann married Darius Couch, a Major General under Winfield Scott; 4) Matthew William lived in Colquitt, Georgia; 5) Abraham J. was Methodist preacher and merchant in Valdosta, Georgia ; 6) Cornelius and wife, Ann Swearingen lived in St. Mary?s; 7) James married Elizabeth Braddock and lived in Nassau Co., Florida; 8) Peter Gaston died in Atlanta; 9) William Abraham married Sophia Piles and lived in Duval Co, Florida; 10) Robert was buried in Oak Grove in an unmarked grave; 11) Alexis married Mary J. McGillis; 12) Adeline married Willis Lang and lived in St. Marys.	Bessent, Abraham (I237)
62	Abraham Bessent died while in service during the War of 1812 on September 28, 1814, ?of the prevailing (yellow) fever?, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in a low, walled plot. His wife, Ann Gore Bessent lived to be over ninety years old. When she died on September 5, 1852 in Newton County, Georgia, her remains were brought back to St. Mary?s and buried in Oak Grove alongside those of her husband.	Bessent, Abraham (I237)
63	Abraham Bessent was born on May 28, 1763 in North Carolina, and resided in All Saint's Parish, Georgetown District, South Carolina during the American Revolution. After the Revolutionary War, Abraham Bessent, served in the North Carolina Legislature, and moved to St. Mary?s in 1805; where he served Camden County as State Representative, Justice of Peace, Justice of Inferior Court, Surveyor and Tax Collector. He was a lawyer and owned a general store under his home at the northeast corner of Osborn and St. Mary?s Streets. He was a local Methodist preacher, one of the founders of the St. Mary?s Methodist Church and Trustee when City deeded land for chapel which now stands on Conyers Street.	Bessent, Abraham (I237)
64	Abraham Helton was a Cherokee Native American. Enlisted in the Continental Army, 2nd Regiment, VA Line in summer of 1777. Regiment joined Washington's army the day after the Battle of MOnmouth Courthouse and marched to White Plains. Marched through NY, PA, NJ and MD. Participated in no battle. Discharged at the expiration of his enlistment. Resided in GA from about 1807 until his death. In 1812 he fought in the Indian War.	Helton, Abraham (I143)
65	Abraham Marshall is DAR ancestor A073696 and SAR ancestor P-241763. During the Revolutionary War, Abraham served as a Chaplain in Colonel John Stewart's Regiment of the Georgia Minutemen from Richmond County. He fought at the Siege of Augusta, Brown's Fort, and at the Battle of Burke County Jail. He was taken prisoner during his service. After the war, he received 747.5 acres of bounty land along Town Creek in Washington County for his services. He was a minister for 53 years, a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention, and was a Trustee of the University of Georgia. Source: "Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers", p. 169-170 with additional sources listed at end of entry.	Marshall, Abraham (I249)
66	Abraham Marshall was a worthy successor to his illustrious father, Patriot Reverend Daniel Marshall. The elder Marshall and Shubal Stearns were the founders of the Separate Baptist movement in the South. Abraham was born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1748. He was converted at the age of 19 at Stephen?s Creek Baptist Church in South Carolina and was baptized by his father in the Savannah River. Immediately after his conversion, Abraham began his preaching ministry. The first 20 years was devoted almost exclusively to itinerant preaching. Upon the death of his father in 1784, he assumed the pastorate of the Kiokee Baptist Church, a church he would serve for the next 35 years. But he would never desert his first love, the itinerant ministry. His extensive ?labors were not confined to a single city or town, to any one county or state, still less to a single church.? Abraham possessed a gift not afforded to most of his contemporaries ? the ability to clothe his messages in eloquence. A biographer wrote, ?His voice was one of great power, melody and flexibility. In nothing, perhaps was he more remarkable than the power of description. He would portray the glories of heaven with such matchless force and breadth, that his hearers could scarcely remain upon their seats; and he would depict the miseries of the lost in such terrible, burning language, as almost to make the hair stand erect upon your head.? No man founded more churches in Georgia than Abraham Marshall. One of the churches he founded was First Baptist Church of Augusta, which he organized in 1817 and pastored until May 1819. Marion Symms, historian of the First Baptist Church of Augusta, describes ?Marshall riding down the streets of Augusta on his old white horse, his saddle bags packed with New Testaments and tracts which he freely distributed, at the same time inviting all to come and hear the Gospel preached at the Court House. Often, merry groups of young people would go expecting amusement, but they left us their testimony that having heard Abraham Marshall they stayed to pray.? One of the most remarkable events in Abraham Marshall?s ministry began on May 10, 1786, when he left Kiokee on a trip to Connecticut, which ended six months later on November 17. He had ridden horseback approximately 3000 miles through 11 states preaching a minimum of 197 times. Conversions on the trip were counted in the hundreds. But the numbers who heard him were astonishing. In New England, he spoke time after time to hundreds and on one occasion to 3,500 eager listeners. Not since the days of Whitfield had such large and enthusiastic crowds gathered to hear the gospel preached and never by a Baptist preacher. Benedict, the historian, states that, ?Crowded assemblies followed him wherever he went.? It is calculated that Abraham Marshall preached to between 40,000 and 50,000 on his journey to and from New England. One of his greatest personal triumphs while in New England was the winning of his cousin, Eliakim Marshall, to Baptist principles. Eliakim had been a much respected and highly esteemed pedo-baptist minister for 30 years. After several discussions with Abraham, Eliakim became convinced that infant baptism was unscriptural, and in spite of family opposition, he and Abraham Marshall went to a nearby river where Abraham preached a sermon on baptism and immersed Eliakim in the presence of hundreds who had never witnessed a baptism according to the biblical pattern. On the following day, Abraham had the privilege of delivering the sermon at Eliakim?s ordination, who was faithful to his decision and embarked late in life on a new ministry in the Baptist denomination. The next day, Abraham left on his return trip to Georgia. For the next 33 years he labored faithfully and consistently until his death on the evening of August 15, 1819, at the age of 71. Sources: 1. "Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers", p. 169-170 with additional sources listed at end of entry. 2. "Georgia's First Continuing Baptist Church" by Waldo P. Harris III and James D. Mosteller, Appling, Ga.: Kiokee Baptist Church, 1997. 3. "Abraham Marshall: The Eloquent Baptist Pioneer" written by Thomas Ray, Baptist Bible Tribune located at http://www.tribune.org/?p=185	Marshall, Abraham (I249)
67	Abraham was Collector of Customs for the Port of St. Mary?s when the British threatened St. Marys during 1814, he took the government funds on hand amounting to about $20,000 in cash and $130,000 in securities and hid them in the woods several miles from St. Mary?s. After the war was over, his son John went to the hiding place on June 13, 1815, and on his way back on horseback to St. Marys with the valuables when he was waylaid, beaten to death and robbed by five Spanish renegades who had come from the Territory of Florida.	Bessent, Abraham (I237)
68	Absalom Hooper learned the gunsmith trade while in the army where he also learned to blacksmith. He died on December 9, 1845 in Haywood (now Jackson) County North Carolina.	Hooper, Absalom (I290)
69	Absalom Hooper was born on the Broad River in SC about 1763. His father died when he was very young. He actually grew up from age thirteen until age twenty serving in the Revolutionary armies of South Carolina and Georgia.	Hooper, Absalom (I290)
70	Absolam joined his unit in Charleston in 1776. He served at Sullivan"s Island and at Fort Moultrie helping to repel the British in their first attempt to capture Charleston. This attempt failed. Absalom Hooper then went with General Howe in an unsuccessful attempt to punish the Tories and Indians in their stronghold in Florida. He fought at Brier Creek and Fort Stono. He was in the attack lead by French General DeEstaing at Spring Hill in an attempt to take Savannah back from the British. In this fight, he was wounded by a musket ball in his right arm. He was with Benjamin Lincoln's Army defending Charleston and was wounded in his left thigh by a musket ball. Benjamin Lincoln surrendered all of his forces and Absalom Hooper became a prisoner of war. He recuperated from his wound till he felt strong enough and he escaped. He had no unit to go back to because they were all prisoners so he went into Georgia trying to get to his uncle's house. He was captured by Tories and held for five days before being released. He then heard of Elijah Clarke's Georgia Militia. So he found them and joined them. In Elijah Clarke's Militia he was at the siege of Augusta and was at the capture of Fort Brown and Fort Greyson. Then he was at a battle on the Little River in South Carolina. Then he when with General Wayne on his attempt to to retake Savannah. He then went with Elijah Clarke on an expedition against the Cherokees at Long Swamp. He stayed with Elijah Clarke until the treaty was signed. Pension W7813 January 1833 Haywood Co NC	Hooper, Absalom (I290)
71	According to Charles? Revolutionary War pension application, he served 3 tours of duty during the year 1781 in Virginia.	Strong, Charles (I326)
72	According to his pension record, Reubin Hill was born in the York District of South Carolina in 1764. When he was quite small his father?s family moved to Tryon County, NC. This area later became Rutherford County, NC.	Hill, Reuben/Reubin (I317)
73	According to information provided by descendants the following information was obtained through research in DAR Library; "Dempsey Tyner was born on 4 August 1755 in Chowan County, NC."	Tyner, Dempsey (I231)
74	According to the inscription on his grave stone, James Baird died on April 12, 1815, in St. Johns County, Florida, when he was forty-six years old. He must have been over fifty years old to have served on the galley in 1778. His remains were brought to St. Marys where he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. His tablet is enclosed within a high walled plot	Baird, James (I238)
75	According to the memoirs of Henry Park's son, William Justice Parks, his father went to KY to "seek in a new and rich country and their future". However, the Indians would not permit this. They killed his uncle and drove the others out.	Parks, Henry (I236)
76	After arriving in Georgia about 1767, Robert Hammett Sr. sold a brother-in-law a Deed Gift of Virginia land he received from his father. He settled his family in Wilkes County and by 1790, the Hammett family had acquired almost 2500 acres in Wilkes, Washington, Greene and Oglethorpe counties. He raised his eleven children in the Wilkes County community.	Hammett, Robert Sr. (I111)
77	After his first wife, Martha Pender died, he married Sarah Susannah Oswald (1770-1807 in 1785). They had six children, as follows: Mary (1788); Daniel McLachlan (1791); Sophia (1792); Susannah (1794); Joseph Oswald 1797), and Martha ?Patsy? Stewart (1799) whose grandson was President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1810, Daniel Stewart married his third wife, a widow, Sarah Hines Lewis, and they had two daughters: Sarah Caroline (1813) and Georgia Drussilla Stewart (1814).	Stewart, Daniel (I286)
78	After his marriage to Martha Justice, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and was active until his death.	Parks, Henry (I236)
79	After the revolution, Thomas Maxwell traveled to Elbert County by wagon train and began to preach the Baptist Faith establishing churches (Falling Creek, Holly Springs, Line Baptist Church and other churches).	Maxwell, Reverend Thomas (I287)
80	After the Revolutionary War, Daniel Stewart was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Liberty County Militia, and charged with defense of Liberty County?s frontiers from Creek Indian raids from the west and south of the Altamaha River. A treaty of peace with the Creek Indians was arranged by Colonel Daniel Stewart by 1790. During that period and into the nineteenth century, he also served as a state representative for two years, as sheriff of Liberty County, and state senator for ten years.	Stewart, Daniel (I286)
81	After the Revolutionary War, he and his family moved to Pendleton District, South Carolina. In 1852 following his sons, he moved to Franklin County, GA, settling near the mouth of Lightwood Creek on the Savannah River in what is now Hart County. Upon his death, December 16, 1849, he was first buried in Mt. Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, with his remains moved in 1961 to New Harmony Methodist Church Cemetery because of the construction of Lake Hartwell.	Carter, David Sr. (I213)
82	After the Revolutionary War, Samuel Axson moved to Sunbury in Liberty County, Georgia, and established a medical practice. In 1823, he helped to incorporate the Walthourville Academy in Liberty County.	Axson, Samuel Jacob T. (I283)
83	After the RS war Laughlin Fannin migrated to Elbert Co., GA. he was on the 1793 January list for Elbert Co, Ga. Grand Jury; (Source: The Official History of Elbert Co., Ga. by John H. McIntosh Pg. 48) 1795: Elbert County Voter's List 1782, 4th & 9th, October Laughlin Fanning furnishes supplies to Patriots. Source: Mecklenburg Co., Va. OB 5 Pg. 133 Mecklengurg Co., Va. Order b. 4. p. 442; Revolutionary War Records of Mecklenburg Co., Va. by Elliot, p. 60 , 177 Laughlin's daughter Sussannah married RS Pvt. Nathan Arendall and after getting sick apparently he was buried in Franklin Co, GA	Fannin, Laughlin (I149)
84	After the war he returned to Rutherford County.	Hill, Reuben/Reubin (I317)
85	After the war he settled on Pistol Creek in Wilkes County, Georgia. He and his wife Sarah moved to Pendleton County South Carolina and he received a land grant of 200 acres for his Revolutionary War service. He sold that land and moved to Haywood County North Carolina before 1810. He lived on Caney Fork Creek in what is now Jackson County North Carolina.	Hooper, Absalom (I290)
86	After the war, Clark returned to Georgia politics and was twice honored by election to the office of Governor of the State of Georgia. In 1827 he retreated to the secluded borders of St Andrews Bay in West Florida. There he accepted the appointment of Indian Agent from President Andrew Jackson.	Clark, ` John (I338)
87	After the War, he moved to Elbert County, GA, where he applied for and received a pension for his services.	Rice, Leonard (I207)
88	After the war, in 1783, he moved to Wilkes County where he received a land grant and worked as a surveyor. He served as a state senator, as a justice of the peace, and as an Elder of the Smyrna Presbyterian Church before the building was transferred to the Methodists.	Talbot, John W. (I313)
89	AKA Wanslow	Wansley, John Sr. (I226)
90	Allen Gay married Abigail Castleberry Sep 1787. Abigail Castleberry Gay died Jan 1824. Allen Gay married widow Ann Pickron Barton?/Benton? Oct 1824.	Gay, Allen (I116)
91	Also: PHOTO: Robert Walters Rev War Service CATEGORY: Document DESCRIPTION: From: Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia And Other States By Howard H. McCall ATTACHED TO: Robert Walters (1731-1794)	Walters, Robert Sr. (I270)
92	Alston Massey had nine children by his first wife and possibly six by his second one. There are living descendants in the Columbus, Georgia area and elseqhere. There is a large well-tended Massey cemetery on the Fort Benning GA army reservation a family that may or may not have been related. Alston S. Massey may have been buried in Monroe County, near Monroeville, AL or he may have been buried in the New Hope Methodist church cemetery where his tombstone is located. There is no record of Monroe County burial or grave site. Alston Massey was born north of Halifax, NC, probably in VA, and the family then resided SC for 45 years. then moved to Georgia for the next twenty years or so, then on to the vic of Monroeville, Alabama. Massey is listed in Chesterfield SC in the 1800 and 1910 U.S. Census records, He moved c. 1821 to Jasper GA for a short time. Then he is listed as rediding in Harris County, GA in the 1830 and 1840 Census records. In 1850 he is listed in Monroe county, AL. Alston Massey d. July 17, 1853 at the age of 91 years near Monroeville, AL. After his death, Emaline and her family moved to Hays county, TX after 1858. In the 1860 census she was listed as married to L.S. Jennings, but lived with him only a short time. She was later shown to be living with her son, Wiley. She lived to be 80 years old. The Coweta Falls Chapter SAR planned and conducted a dignified re-dedication ceremony at the New Hope cemetery while recognizing therer are two different possibilities fvor this patriot's burial location.	Massey, Alston S. (I101)
93	Although details of Stephen Crow’s military service in the Revolutionary War have not come to light, both Stephen and his brother Isaac qualified to draw as a Revolutionary War soldiers in the 1805 and 1827 Georgia land lotteries though that doesn’t constitute evidence that their service was in Georgia. Land and census records place him as a resident of Chatham County., North Carolina during the period of the war as well as afterward as late as 1800. According to one source, he appears in the company of Captain Isiah (Isaiah) Hogan in Chatham County, North Carolina where his name, as well as his brothers, John, James, and Joshua, is misspelled as Cron rather than Crow. Stephen Crow, one of (at least) nine children of James Crow and Grace Denson, was born 28 Feb 1749/50 in Orange County, North Carolina. In 1773 in Orange County, North Carolina, at the age of 23, Stephen married Margaret Stroud (born 1757; died 1838 in Clarke County, Georgia), the daughter of Revolutionary War soldier John Stroud and his wife Sarah. Note that Stephen’s brother Isaac Crow, also a Revolutionary War soldier, married Elizabeth Stroud, a sister of Stephen’s wife Margaret In 1783, at the age of 33, Stephen purchased 150 acres on Stumps Mountain in Chatham County, North Carolina. He is listed in the 1790 census as a resident of Chatham County, North Carolina. In 1795, Stephen and his brother John were executors of their father’s will. One year later Stephen bought the portion of his father’s home place which had been bequeathed to Stephen’s brother Isaac. He is listed in the 1800 census as a resident of Chatham County, North Carolina Between 1800-1804, Stephen and family moved to Clarke County, GA and joined the Mars Hill Baptist Church. By 1805, he qualified as a year long resident of Georgia to take part in the Georgia land lottery. Though he wasn’t among the successful drawers in 1805, he drew again in the land lotteries for 1807 and 1827, receiving land in Wilkinson, Muscogee, and Coweta counties. On January 17, 1806, Stephen Crow was excluded from the membership of Mars Hill Baptist Church. On October 17, 1807, Stephen’s son-in-law Jeremiah Burnett (m. Rachel Crow) was ordained by Mars Hill Baptist Church to preach. In 1807, Stephen was a resident of Brown's District, Clarke County, though he continued to own land in North Carolina as late as December 1808 when he sold 250 acres to his brother John. In his will of June 8, 1832, Stephen Crow names his wife Margaret, sons Abner, Aaron, Martin, Joshua, Eli, and daughter Rachel Burnett. The executors are his wife Margaret Crow, Isaac Crow, and William Stroud. Stephen Crow died at age 84 and his will was proved on July 7, 1834. (Clarke County, Georgia B page 135). He was buried here at Mars Hill Baptist Church, Watkinsville, Georgia Two of Stephen and Margaret’s granddaughters, Nancy Ann and Naomi Burnett, married two sons, Jeremiah and Robert, of William Daniell, Sr. Two other grandchildren of Stephen and Margaret Crow married two grandchildren of William Daniell, Sr.	Crow, Stephen (I95)
94	Ambrose Wright, born April 26, 1745, in St. Matthew's Parish, Georgia. He signed the Georgia Declaration of Independe on July 1, 1777 in Chatham County and was commissioned as Captain of the German Fusiliers of the Georgia Troops. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty; of the Provincial Congress; and of the Council of Safety. He served also as Commissary General. He was the father of CSA Major Gen. Ambrose Ransom Wright.	Wright, Ambrose (I173)
95	Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia, Elijah Clarke (sometimes spelled "Clark") was born in 1742, the son of John Clarke of Anson County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Harrington around 1763.	Clarke, General Elijah (I278)
96	An infirmed Drury Banks began his Revolutionary War pension application under the Act of 1832 as a citizen of Coweta Co GA. He gave a deposition on 3 May 1834, and died soon thereafter. The application gave his account of his service only in 1780, along with additional demographic information and supportive testimony. The application was rejected after Drury?s death because it mentioned less than 6 months of service in 1780, and not because of a lack of documented military engagement. The veteran was deceased, and could not appeal by providing proof of military activities in other years.	Banks, Drury (I229)
97	And there are Certificates from the State of Georgia to Owen Fluker granting him 287 ½ acres of land in Washington County ??.as a Bounty for his Services?? in May 1784. This was the second step of a five-step process that Revolutionary patriots went through to receive land due them because of their service to the colony during the Revolutionary War.	Fluker, Owen (I295)
98	And there are Grants made to Owen Fluker in Wilkes County in March of March of 1784 for 800 acres on Kettle Creek and in August of 1784 for 900 acres on the Ogeechee River. (These appear to be Headright grants.) There is a map by C.I. Hammett of land grants along Kettle Creek which shows Owens property containing 840 acres in 1784 and reaching all the way from Kettle Creek on the north to the location of the Fluker home on the south.	Fluker, Owen (I295)
99	Angus McCurry, Sr. received land grants for his Revolutionary War service including 462 acres on Powderbag Creek, 275 acres on Lightwood Log Creek, 300 acres on Cedar Creek and 490 acres in Wayne County.	McCurry, Angus Sr. (I212)
100	Angus McCurry, Sr. was born in Scotland in 1755 and came to America with an expedition on the Flora McDonald ships in 1774.	McCurry, Angus Sr. (I212)

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