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Revolutionary War Veterans That Lived in Bledsoe County, Tennessee
Alexander, Dan Billingsley, Samuel Brannon, Thomas
Brown, Stephen Crawford, John Curtis, John
Dalton, John Davis, Andrew Doss, John
Ford, John Sr. Hale, John Hughes, Francis
Kelly, Alexander Kerklin, George [Kirkland?] Malaby, John
McDonough, Andrew Narramore, John Pollard, Chatten
Pryor, Matthew Rains, John Reed, Lovett
Roberson, James Roberson, William Smith, Laton
Standefer, Benjamin Sutherland, Daniel Thomas, John [born NC]
Thomas, John [born VA] Thurman, Charles Thurman, Phillip
Tollett, John Walker, George Wilson, Greenberry
Excerpt from Bledsoe County, Tennessee, a History, by Elizabeth Parham Robnett. Contains one variation—that of the first John Thomas in Bledsoe County, Tennessee that had been previously omitted, with evidence. Rick S. Thomas, Alexandria, Virginia.
More on the first John Thomas in Bledsoe County (born NC):
25 Feb 1808. Petition of citizens of Bledsoe County who settled in the Indian Boundary Line before it was run and who left their improvements asking that some provision be made to restore their property when the Indian title is extinguished. Among the settlers who signed the petition was a John Thomas from Roane County, TN4.
12 Jul 1808. John Thomas. In persuance of the law in such case made and provided, I have surveyed for John Thomas 162 acres of land, claimed and held by right if improvement occupancy and preemption lying and being in Bledsoe County in Sequatchy Valley on Sequatchy Creek. Joining lines with Stephen Shillgar and bounded as followeth to wit, beginning at a mulberry at ash and cherry tree and Lynn on the bank of creek corner to said Shillgar and with his line, S 51 E 230 poles to a white oak and black oak on his line then leaving said poles S 41 W 142 poles to a post oak and white oak N 52 W 190 poles to a beech and hack berry and dogwood on the bank of the creek and up the several courses of the same one hundred and forty-six poles to the beginning. Signed: Samuel Walker, D.S. Witnesses: Robert Shillgar and Thomas Bryant. Roane County, Tennessee, John McClellan's Surveyors Book, 1808-1810, pages 80-81.
25 Feb 1809. Petition of citizens of Bledsoe County, TN who settled in the Indian Boundary Line before it was run and who left their improvements asking that some provision be made to restore their property when the Indian title is extinguished. Names of citizens included John Thomas.
1809. John Thomas5, Bledsoe County, appointed Justice of the Peace. 1809 House Journal, page 191.
1810-1811. John Thomas. Bledsoe County Circuit Court Docket.
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