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 1748 - 1791 (42 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Quarterman |
| Birth |
17 Mar 1748 |
Dorchester/Berkeley/SC  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1791 |
Liberty Co, GA |
| Burial |
1791 |
| Person ID |
I322 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
31 Jan 2022 |
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| Notes |
- P-274726
- In early 1752, the congregation of the White Meeting House in Dorchester, South Carolina, petitioned for grants of land in the Midway District of Georgia. John Quarterman, Sr., received a land grant of 500 acres on July 11, 1752, in the Midway District, and his family, including sons: John, Jr., Thomas, Robert and William, arrived in Midway with seventeen other families in 1754. When Midway "Meeting House" was organized Thomas Quarterman signed the Articles of Incorporation and served as a Selectman in 1766 and Deacon from 1785 to his death in 1791.
- Midway Congregational Church records show John Quarterman, Sr. as an organizing member. All the Quartermans were members of the Midway Congregational Church, died in Liberty County and are assumed to be buried in the Midway Cemetery, and three, Thomas Quarterman, Robert Quarterman and Joseph Quarterman, currently have a tombstone marking their graves.
- Early settlers in St. John's Parish took the lead in Georgia's fight for independence from England. Along with many other citizens, especially Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett and Nathan Brownson, the Quarterman men participated in the activities. Two, John Sr. and John Jr., died before the Revolutionary War began, but six participated in the War as follows: Two of John Sr.?s sons, Thomas & Robert Quarterman served as privates in the Georgia Militia under the command of Colonel John Baker, and his other two sons, William and Richard Quarterman, served in the Georgia Troops, along with two of John Sr.?s grandsons, Joseph, and John Quarterman III.
- His brother, Robert, served in the Georgia Militia, under the command of Colonel John Baker. In May 1776, the militia unit?s name was changed from St. John?s Riflemen to Liberty County Militian this; but younger brothers, William and Richard; Thomas? son, Joseph, and a nephew, John III, all served in the Georgia Troops.
- He married Rebecca Bacon (1744 - 1775) on November 29, 1757, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Baker Bacon, and they had five children: Margaret Rebecca (1758) who married Joseph Norman in 1775; Joseph (ca 1760 ? Revolutionary War Soldier) who married Elizabeth Quarterman (daughter of Robert Quarterman RS) in 1787; Thomas who married Renchie Norman; William, and Sarah Quarterman. Rebecca Bacon Quarterman died on March 11, 1775
On May 13, 1777, Thomas Quarterman married Rebecca Sumner Smallwood, widow of Matthew Smallwood, and they had one son, John (1777 ? 1790). Thomas? third marriage was to Rebecca Baker Ball, a widow of Edward Ball and daughter of William and Sarah Osgood Baker in South Carolina in 1779. Their four children were Susannah (1784); Robert (1787 - 1849) who became a minister; and Thomas (1791 ? 1792). Thomas? third wife, Rebecca Ball Quarterman died in 1792.
- Grave Marked 29 Apr 2019 by Blue Ridge Mountains, Brier Creek, Captain John Collins, Marquis de Lafyette, Marshes of Glynn, Ocmulgee, Robert Forsyth and Wiregrass Chapters of the GA SAR.
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