Pulling the FAG and other notes from the About:
Veteran of the Revolutionary War.
The Rockwood Times, Rockwood, TN, Thursday, 10 Mar 1910, Vol. XXX, No. 10.
"Local History. Soldiers of the Revolutionary War Who Were Buried In Roane County." by Capt. W.E. McELWEE. Names mentioned: Samuel WALKER, Wm. SMITH, Jas. WOOD, Harry LEE, Gen. Robert E. LEE, Robert CROW, Uriah RECTOR, Samuel KINDRICK, Cumberland RECTOR, John BOWMAN, Col. J.W. BOWMAN, John WALKER, James WALKER, Wm. WILLIS, Cronimus ACRE, Thomas CRUMBLISS, Henry CRUMBLISS, David BLEVINS, Wm. MEAD, James McELWEE, Wm. WHITE, Richard WHITE, James McELWEE, Joseph OVERTON, John McCOWN, John HOOD, Peter AVORY, John STAPLES, Ben STAPLE, Ahiga SNOW.
* Fauquier Co Virginia Deeds pg 201
* pgs 463-466 22 June 1778 Sale
* bet URIAH RECTOR and ELIZABETH, his wife of LEEDS PARISH and GEORGE GLASCOCK of same
* L70 on waters of GOOSE CREEK, part of purchase of JOHN RECTOR, decd of Burgess Ball
* sd GLASCOCK'S LAND
* corner of sd Glascock
* WM TURLEY & JOHN KINCHELOE
* Lick Branch
* line of JOHN PEYTON HARRISON
* 48 acres
* signed
* URIAH RECTOR
* ELIZABETH RECTOR
* recorded 22 June 1778
* ack by grantors
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=germanna&...
Email from Patricia Broemmel, , 28 July 2007:
Uriah was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, as was his brother, Maximillian.
He served with Captain John Ashby's Company and Colonel Thomas Marshall's 3rd Va. Regiment. He was wounded in the war, having dislocated his knee. He remained a cripple for the duration of his life. His pension # was W7135. He applied for this pension on September 8, 1823, as did his brother, Maximillian.
Uriah and his family moved to Roane Co., TN, in 1805.
Unfortunately, all records in Roane Co. were destroyed during the War of 1812 and probably during the Creek and Indian Wars. So all documentation between 1800-1820 in Roane Co. is lost forever. (My history may be off a little here.)
Pension Application 8 SEP 1823 Roane County, Tennessee approved.
In the Militia BET 1770 AND 1783, James Rivers Communities Botetourt County, Virginia. In 1776 he was in Capt. John Ashby's Company, in the Regiment of Col. Thomas Marshall, State of Virginia.
Indicted 1779 Fauquier County, Virginia, for Gambling.
On the Tax Rolls BET 1781 and 1787 in Botetourt County, Virginia.
1830 Roane Co Tennessee pg 34
Jacob F Kindrick
10001 males
20001 females
Samuel Kindrick
000220001 males
0012001 females
Richard Rector
0022101 males
0000101 females
Uriah Rector
0100000001 males
00010001
all in a row
"Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance, $814.93 Amount Received March 29, 1824. Pension Started Age 78. (1835 TN Pension Roll)
"Fauquier County VA loose papers indexed.....15 April 1784....John Peyton Harrison filed a complaint against Uriah Rector, the eldest son and heir at law to John Rector, who had been "killed by thunder" before he made a deed for his sale to Harrison on the lot on which John Clark lived. Uriah refused to honor the bond of his father that the formal conveyance would be completed. Uriah said Harrison had not paid for the tract. The bond was dated 15 April 1773. (From John Alcock author of "Fauquier Families, 1759-1799".) Uriah was not in Fauquier County at this time.
(Email from George W. Durman to Patricia FAULKNER Broemmel on 30 July 2007)
I've found several references to Uriah's son, Richard, in databases on the Internet/Web. Some people have Uriah being married first to Elizabeth HILL on 9 Apr 1771, in Fauquier Co., VA. Those people have Richard as their son. They have Uriah marrying, second, Elizabeth McPHERSON.
Something very odd! Some of those same databases have Uriah with a son, Richard, by Elizabeth HILL, AND with a son, Richard, by Elizabeth McPHERSON!!!!! This just absolutely makes no sense! If Uriah had married Elizabeth HILL in 1771, he would have been only 15 years old and that just doesn't stand up. Someone has erred greatly on those databases. 'Course, one person really screws up and then lots of people just copy the information, being unwilling to dig out any information for themselves.
'''There seems to be another Uriah RECTOR, born 1756, son of Harmon RECTOR and Mary Ann HITT or NELSON. This Uriah is also listed as being married to Elizabeth McPHERSON, with a son, Landon. This Uriah is also listed as married to Winifred ?.
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Here's something else I found in one of the databases:
Tommie Brittain has a tentative list of children for Uriah but she emphasizes the uncertainties:
By Elizabeth:
* Landon, b. 1778 in Fauquier Co., VA;
* John, b. 1780 in Fauquier Co., VA; and
* Richard, b. 1785 (he was in the War of 1812).
By Winifred:
* Uriah, Jr., b. 1800-1810;
* Nancy, b. 1810;
* Elizabeth, b. 1814; and
* William, b. 1821. (John Blankenbaker)
According to John Blankenbaker Uriah married second Winifred ? in South Carolina.
Uriah Rector's widow Winifred Rector made a pension application on Dec 5, 1854. She lived with her daughter Nancy Rector Harris. Her son, William Rector also lived in Illinois. Orison Harris and William Rector gave supporting testimony.
According to Debbie Henderson he married Elizabeth McPherson and Winny Winnifred in Greenville, S.C. May have had a daughter named Susan who married Jonathan J. Gibson in Roane Co. Tn. on 11-3-1824.
(FROM THE SAME SOURCE AS ABOVE, BUT VERY, VERY IMPORTANT)!!!
The twelve hundred and twenty-sixth note in a series of Notes on the Germanna Colonies: Finding where Uriah Rector hung on the Rector tree was not easy. (Maybe that statement did not come out the way it should have.) The question is, "Who was Uriah Rector's father?"
For more than 200 hundred years he was assigned to Harmon, son of the John Jacob Rector, but there were problems in this assignment. The will of Harmon was ambiguous and only named one of his sons.
In an effort to solve this problem, Tommie Brittain collected data on Uriah and Maximillian Rector to see if she could find a clue.
Uriah Rector was born about 1756 according to his pension application, and Maximillian was born a couple of years later according to his pension application.
Uriah joined the company of Capt. John Ashby in the regiment of Col. Thomas Marshall in the line of the State of Virginia in 1776. He suffered by getting his knee out of place and was discharged at the end of two years.
Maximillian joined the same company and served at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. Later he was taken prisoner at the siege of Charleston which was his fate until the war was over.
Uriah was married to Elizabeth, perhaps a Hill, in 1777. They sold land not long after they were married in Fauquier County, Virginia.
Maximillian has no land records in the county.
In 1779, Uriah made the county records again when he was indicted for gambling.
From 1781 to 1787, Uriah appears on the tax lists of Botetourt Co.
In 1786, Maximillian appears in this latter county as a witness to the marriage of John Rector and Chloe McPHERSON.
(NOTE JOHN RECTOR WAS URIAH'S BROTHER, JOHN BENJAMIN RECTOR DID MARRY CHLOE MCPHERSON AND LATER MARRIED REBECCA SEVIER AND LIVED IN GREENE CO. TENNESSEE)
The story gets a bit hazy for a few years but eventually, both men appear in Tennessee.
From 1792 on, Uriah appears in a variety of records in Tennessee of every type imaginable.
In 1803, Uriah is in Washington Co., Tennessee. A mystery occurs in 1805 when Uriah married Winifred in South Carolina. Uriah and Winifred moved to Roane Co., TN.
In one record a John Kaebler is mentioned. In 1823, Uriah Rector, age about 67 years, made a pension application from Roane Co. TN. The pension was approved and Uriah died in 1833 and is buried at Rockwood.
Winifred moved with some of the children to Illinois from where she made a pension application in 1854. Her daughter Nancy Rector married a Harris. Her son, William Rector, also lived in Illinois. Tentatively, there were three children of Uriah by Elizabeth and four by Winifred.
Maximillian had a similar history to Uriah - the same company in the Revolution, ties to South Carolina, in Botetourt County, and in Tennessee. He was in the Greene County tax list in Tennessee in 1804. The similarity of experiences suggests that Uriah and Maximillian were brothers. There is a lot more information that could be said but this will establish that these two Rectors were in Tennessee (to go with some earlier ones). (John Blankenbaker)
The twelve hundred and twenty-seventh note in a series of Notes on the Germanna Colonies: We have John Alcock to thank for finding where Uriah should be hung on the Rector tree. When Jack sent me the results, he added a few comments.
"Since it was snowing this morning [March 19, 1997 in Fauquier County, VA], I went over to the courthouse instead of working outdoors. I paid particular attention to the "loose" papers in the Fauquier Co. Courthouse which have been catalogued and indexed. I was especially drawn to the name Rector but without any unusual finds. When I finished, I called my wife Mariana to say I was on the way home for lunch, but there was no answer. So I said to myself, 'It will take only a few minutes to look at the Chancery indexes.'
I turned to the index of plaintiffs and my eye caught the name Uriah Rector as defendant to John Peyton Harrison. This was no accident; it was only one page out of perhaps two hundred. Finally, a little bit of luck was with me as the case identifies Uriah Rector's parentage.
You can follow the details in the copies which I am enclosing.
The originals are ID 204 in Box 4, 1792 - item 007." John Peyton Harrison filed a complaint on 15 April 1784 against Uriah Rector, the eldest son and heir at law to John Rector who had been "killed by thunder" before he made a deed for his sale to Harrison of the lot on which John Clark then lived.
Uriah refused to honor the bond of his father that the formal conveyance would be completed. Uriah said Harrison had not paid for the tract. The bond was dated 15 April 1773. The John Rector who was killed by thunder was the son of John Rector and the grandson of the 1714 immigrant Hans Jacob Richter.
John, Jr. died before the end of June 1773 when administration of his estate was granted to William Kincheloe (a relative?). John Rector, Sr. had died before the end of March 1773 leaving 100 acres to his grandson, John, who would have been a brother to Uriah. The sheriff was ordered to bring Uriah into court to answer the complaint, but he could not be found as he was no longer resident in Fauquier County. A final decree was issued in August 1792, but no copy was in the file. John Alcock is the author of "Fauquier Families, 1759-1799" which has been acclaimed as an outstanding source of reference material on the people of Fauquier County." (John Blankenbaker)
* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44318351/uriah-rector Find A Grave Memorial] - [http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Jun 16 2021, 18:21:02 UTC''
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