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 1752 - 1815 (63 years)
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| Name |
John Colley |
| Birth |
14 Sep 1752 |
VA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Burial |
1815 |
| Death |
27 Nov 1815 |
Wilkes Co, GA |
| Person ID |
I289 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
3 Jan 2018 |
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| Notes |
- John W. Colley was born on September 13, 1752, in Norfolk, Virginia, to Mary Strong, age 19, and Edward Colley, age 22. He was the eldest of the seven children.
- John W. Colley married Sarah France on October 17, 1780, when he was 28 years old. Sarah was his only wife. John and Sarah had seven children. Sarah France was born on June 6, 1763 in Henry County, Virginia to Elizabeth Jennings and Henry France. Sarah France died on December 21, 1833, in Wilkes, Georgia, when she was 70 years old. Sarah was buried in the Welcome Fanning Family Cemetery in Washington, Georgia.
- In the possession of the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond, Virginia: Illinois Papers, document 56, Misc Reel 1384, frames #214 & 215. Payroll for Capt. Parmenas Brisco's company of Lincoln County, Militia, John Colley, Gen G R Clark expeditions, NW Territory July--August 1780, account submitted March 25, 1783. *1783 was the settlement of all accounts for the Terriotry as Virginia ceded the lands to the United States at the close of the war.
Private, VA Troops, Capt. Briscoe?s Company (was also known as Captain Charles West?s Company, and is more fully identified as the Third Virginia Regiment,which was commissioned under Colonel Thomas Marshall. An officer by the name of Lieutenant James Monroe served in the Third Virginia Regiment from 1776 to 1778 or1779. In 1816, this same James Monroe was elected President of the United States)
Name also appears in a receipt dated March 10, 1778 for 7 gallons of molasses for the use of 16 men sick in their barracks.
- Sources - Wilkes County Wills: 1794-1819 Roll # RHS-370 Georgia State Archives, Page 122: 1810-1816, Written: May 30, 1815, Recorded: November 27, 1815
-Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800
-John Colley Family Bible, on loan to the Washington-Wilkes Historical Museum in Washington, Georgia
-Sarah Elizabeth Colley (daughter of John Milton Colley, great-great granddaughter of John Colley) DAR Application submitted 10 October 1936, accepted on 16 December 1936.
- Grave marked 20 May 2017 by Washington-Wilkes Chapter GA SAR.
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