Person:Henry Pawling (6)

Henry Paulin was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

Contents 1 Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA 2 Will Abstract 3 Records in Augusta County, VA 4 Records in Bedford Co., VA 5 Records in Botetourt County, VA 6 Records in Kentucky		Welcome to Old Augusta Early Settlers Beverley Manor Borden's Grant Register Data Maps Places Library History Index
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 11.--17th May, 1768. Thomas Stanton, of Orange County, N. C., to Henry Paulin, of Bedford County, Va., £85, on Woods River, 100 acres. Teste: John Pearey, Richard Davis, Nicholas Welch.

• Page 450.--17th June, 1769. James Patton's executors to Henry Paulin, £15, 62 acres patented to James, 3d November, 1750, on Craig's Creek. Teste: Andrew Crockett, Samuel McRoberts.

Disposition of Land in Botetourt County, VA:

• 1770 June 28 - Botetourt County: Henry Paulin sold to Samuel Pepper 100 acres on the north side of Woods River which was called Buffalo Pond. [Source: Annals of SW Virginia (1769-1800), by Lewis Preston Summers, 1929, page 538].

Will Abstract

Henry Pawling - Garrard County, Kentucky Will Book B, pg. 75

Names wife, Elizabeth Pawling. To Eleanor Watkins, to Polly Watkins, dau. of Eleanor, under age.

Exec's, John Boyle, Jr., James Thompson, Samuel McKee.

Written March 9, 1812.

Witnesses: John Alderson, Joshua Jacobs, John L. Pawling, Noah Brannon, Benjamin Alderson, William Dunn, William Sampson, Samuel Johnson, A. Jennings.

Amendment March 19, 1812

Probated Apr., 1814.

[Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, pg. 43]

[Note: Henry Pawling and his wife Elizabeth Wallace died without isses, which explains why he did not refer to any children in his will].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Page 9.--19th September, 1766. Henry Field's estate appraised by James Neeley, Wm. and Edward Carvin--Paid accounts to, viz: Wm. Simpson, Stephen Trigg, Henry Paullen.

• Vol. 1 - Boyd vs. William Dougherty.-Sundries. 1766, February 2d, May 23d, September 30th; 1767, August 1st, to Henry Paulin; August 22. Contra: 1766, September 30th, by 72° ginzang root, 2/6d; 2 3/4 deerskins, 4/.

• 18 Aug 1768 (Augusta Co, Va.) Nicholas Welsh, witness to deed, Staunton to Paulin, is dead.

• Vol. 1 - MARCH 27, 1769. - (169) Henry Pauling, Joseph Murty and John Potts--to view a road from Joseph Murty's house down Craig's Creek and Patterson's Creek into the main road from John Crawford's to the Stone House.

Records in Bedford Co., VA

Henry Pawlin is named in the will of Nicholas Welch, Jr. of Bedford County, VA, written 28 May 1768, as follows:

item I give to my Beloved Son Henry Pawlin, one Cow and Calf. [Note: the exact relationship with Nicholas Welch has not yet been determined, needs additional research].

Records in Botetourt County, VA

• 14 February 1770, BCOB 1, p. 8 - Ordered that Henry Paulin, Andrew Crawford and Samuel McFarran or any two of them being first sworn before any one of the Justices of the Peace of this County do view the way from Thomas McFarran’s by Patterson’s Creek to Henry Paulin’s on Craigs Creek and report the Conveniences & Inconveniences thereof to the Court. (Source: http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/07-r22.pdf Botetourt County Road Orders, 1770-1778])

• March 1770: Henry Paulin one of the persons appointed to view the way from Thomas McFarran's by Patterson's Creek to Henry Paulin's on Craig's Creek, having made report that a waggon road might easily be made there, it is ordered that upon one other of the viewers signing the said report before any one of the Justices of the Peace of this County Samuel McFarran with the tithables belonging to that Precinct do open & keep the same in repair from Craig's Creek waggon road to Patterson's Creek, and that Henry Paulin with the tithables belonging to his Precinct do open & keep the same in repair from Patterson's Creek to his own house and that John McFarran and John Potts do appoint the tithables to each Precinct. (Source: Botetourt County Court March 1770).

• March 1770: Henry Paulin & James McAfee produced commissions from his Excellency the Governor appointing them Lieutenants in the Militia, and John May produced a commission from his Excellency the Governor appointing him Quartermaster in the Militia, and thereupon they severally took the usual oaths to his Majesty's Person & Government and repeated & subscribed the test. (Source: Botetourt County Court March 1770).

• March 1771: This day came the parties by their attorneys, & thereupon came also a jury, towit: William McBride, Moses Collier, Robert Bowen, Reese Bowen, Henry Paulin, John Hanna, Thomas Rowland, William Rowland, Nathaniel Evans, Hugh Bartley, William Hall and John Jackson retd. verdict that deft, is not guilty. Judgt. accdgly. & that deft, recover of the plff. his costs by him about his defence in this behalf expended. (Source: Botetourt County Court March 1771).

• March 1771: This court doth appoint William Walker surveyor of the road in room of Henry Paulin, who is now discd. from that office. (Source: Botetourt County Court March 1771).

• 13 July 1773, Henry Pauling was the surveyor of the road from John Howard's to the county line of Bedford.

Records in Kentucky

• 1792: Names of the Kentucky members of the Virginia Convention which ratified the present Constitution of the United States:

Lincoln County

John Logan

Henry Pauling

[Source: "Historical Sketches of Kentucky: Embracing Its History, Antiquities, and Natural Curiosities, Geographical, Statistical, and Geological Descriptions", pg. 147].

• Henry Green on 21 July 1797 authorized a survey of two 400 acres tracts then in Mercer County. These tracts were apparently originally the property of William Green Jr. and were obtained on 11 May 1780. One tract was adjacent to Henry Pauling and the other was adjacent to John Gore. [1]

1.   Lyman C. Draper Manuscript Collection.

   Col. Jacob (Jehu) Stephens lived in what is now Wythe County on Reed Creek...-5 ft. 8-heavy made, & strong active man, a great wooodsman & a fine gunner. Rather illiterate...It was on Goose Creek in Bedford Co. where he Bufords lived, he was raised. Stephens' halfbrother & older(the same mother) was Capt. Henry Paulin...married for his first wife a Ramsey, a sister of Wm. Col. Stephens was a farmer - good character- lived in a Dutch settlement. Moved to Tennessee just as the bells of the Indians Wars...moved to Little River in Knox Co., Tennessee... Died there somewhere about the close of the War of '12.

2.   Bockstruck, Lloyd de Witt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., c1988)
   pg. 8.

   Botetourt County:
   
   13 March 1770 - John Bowyer, Capt.; David Robinson, Capt.; James Cloyd, Capt.; Francis Smith, Capt.; Robert Doak, Capt.; Philip Love, Capt.; Matthew Aruikle [s/b Arbuckle], Capt.; Anthony Bledsoe, Capt.; Walter Crocket, Capt.; Arthur Campbell, Capt.; Henry Paulin, Lt.; John May, QM; James McAfee, Capt.

3.   Reuben Gold Thwaites, Louise Phelps Kellogg. Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774: : Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. (Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1905)
   pg. 315.

   Return [of] Troops from Botetourt on the Expedi[t]ion against the Ohio Indians 1774 Septr. 7
   
   Companies
   Col. Wm. Fleming
   Capt. Henry Paulin, 1 Lieut., 1 Ensign, 4 Sergt., 1 Fifer, 1 Drummer, 53 Rank & File.

4.   American Genealogical - Biographical Index. (Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States|Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library).

   Name: Henry Pauling
   Birth Date: 1740
   Birthplace: Virginia
   Volume: 132
   Page Number: 293
   Reference: Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, saliors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):610

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/43811243/person/26122599321/facts

6.   Bentley, Elizabeth P. (Elizabeth Petty). Virginia Military Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983).

   4. Pauling, Capt. Henry, for pay of his Comp'y of Botetourt Militia, Acco't, 1020.16.4

7. ↑ Wallace, George Selden. Wallace: genealogical data pertaining to the descendants of Peter Wallace and Elizabeth Woods, his wife.

   2². Elizabeth Woods [Wallace], was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, in the year 1745. Married Colonel Henry Pawling and died on the 11th day of January, 1814. No issue.

8.   Geneanet Community Trees Index.

   Name: Henry Pawling
   Gender: M (Male)
   Birth Date: 1743
   Birth Place: Charlotte County, Virginia, USA
   Death Date: 1814
   Spouse: Elizabeth Baker Wallace

9.   United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).

   Name: Henry Pawling
   Residence Date: 6 Aug 1810
   Residence Place: Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, USA
   Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 2
   Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1
   Number of Enslaved Persons: 11
   Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
   Number of Household Members Over 25: 4
   Number of Household Members: 16

10.   Jillson, Willard Rouse, and Kentucky. State Land Office. The Kentucky land grants: a systematic index to all of the land grants recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924. (Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1925).

    Grantee: Henry Paulin
    Number of Acres: 1,000
    Survey Date: 17 Feb 1789
    County: Bourbon
    WaterCourse: Main Fk Slate Cr
    Book Number: 16

11.   Jillson, Willard Rouse, and Kentucky. State Land Office. The Kentucky land grants: a systematic index to all of the land grants recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924. (Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1925).

    Grantee: Henry Paulin
    Number of Acres: 1,000
    Survey Date: 7 Dec 1783
    County: Jefferson
    WaterCourse: Beech Fk
    Book Number: 8

12.   Whitsitt, William H. The life and times of Judge Caleb Wallace: some time a justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983)
    pg. 97.

    Probably the entire family of Caleb Wallace, consisting of his father, Samuel Wallace, his brother, Andrew Wallace, and his brother-in-law, Col. Henry Pawling, with their respective households, accompanied the expedition. The Wallace records affirm that they all came to Kentucky in the year 1782.
    
    [Pg. 144]
    Elizabeth (Woods) Wallace, the only sister of Judge Caleb Wallace, was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, in the year 1745. She married Col. Henry Pawling, and died at the house of her brother Caleb on the 11th of January, 1814. Herself, Caleb Wallace, and both of his last wives are interred in the family cemetery at the place where Wallace resided in Woodford County. It is at present owned by Col. Withrow. Col. Pawling and his wife had no issue. For a number of years before his death she lived separate from him.