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 1760 - 1833 (73 years)
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| Name |
John Bachlott |
| Birth |
1760 |
St. Malo, Brittany, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
06 Jun 1833 |
Camden Co GA |
| Burial |
Camden Co GA |
| Person ID |
I239 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
3 Oct 2015 |
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| Notes |
- John Bachlott was born 1760 in St. Malo, Brittany, France, and came to America by 1788.
After the Revolution, John Bachlott married Mary Counad (also spelled Cunnard and Conrad) in Princess Anne County, Virginia on February 23, 1787. The Bachlott?s lived in Amherst County, Virginia until 1795, when they moved to South Carolina and then into the city of Charleston. In 1800, they moved to St. Marys, where they lived on a large plantation located behind Oak Grove Cemetery extending toward Borrell Creek. He also owned another plantation in Nassau County, Florida, along with a tannery in St. Marys.
- As a resident of Camden County, John Bachlott had two fortunate draws in the 1821 Land Lottery, and received land in the Fifth (1827) Land Lottery which recognized his service in the Revolutionary War. John Bachlott died on June 6, 1833, at the age of seventy-three years, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, along with his wife, Mary, who had died on October 7, 1811. The Bachlott walled plot has ballast stone for its lower courses and then is topped in brick. At least six generations of Bachlotts are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
- Four of John and Mary Counad Bachlott?s nine children died young, others included: 1) Joseph who married Mary Frances Rudulph, daughter of Patriot Thomas Rudulph; 2) John, Jr.; 3) Lewis; 4) Alexander; and 5) a daughter, Mary Catherine who married Francis Rudulph, son of Patriot Thomas Rudulph. John Bachlott?s sons, Joseph Bachlott (1st LT) and Lewis Bachlott (PVT) served in the St. Marys Volunteer Guards in Colonel William Scott?s Detachment during the War of 1812. John Bachlott?s son-in-law, Francis Rudulph served as a sergeant in the 1st (Chambers) Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, US Army during War of 1812. John Bachlott?s grandsons, Joseph Bachlott and John R. Bachlott, were members of St. Marys Masonic Lodge. At least six generations of Bachlotts are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
- John Bachlott came to America by 1778, reportedly with Marquis de LaFayette, with whom he served in Pennsylvania, Monmouth and Newport. Between September 28 and October 19, 1781, he participated in the Battle of Yorktown, or ?Little York? as it is called on his marble grave stone. In 1783, he sailed with the French Navy under Admiral Count de Grasse to the West Indies where the British defeated the French. Three thousand Frenchmen died during the battle, and John Bachlott was captured and imprisoned in Jamaica.
- SOURCES-
1-- Pioneers of Wiregrass, Folks Huxford, Volume 4
2-- History of Ware County, GA- pages 415- 417
3--History of the Georgia Militia- Vol 3, Camden County, page 111, Footnote 119 - by Gordon Smith
- SAR Ancestor #P-106265
- Grave marked by Marshes of Glynn Chapter SAR 12 Sep 2015
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