Person:James Fulton (35)

James Fulton was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Disambiguation

Not to be confused with James Fullen of Botetourt County, VA, who married Sarah Whitley 23 Mar 1772 in Botetourt County, VA.

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 2, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Fulton, James - entered service 1778in Augusta County, Virginia, where born 4/15/1751; moved in 1808 to Ohio, where applied for pension 1836 in Addison Township, Gallia County, OH; Pension Application Rejected, less than 6 months of service; in 1850 J.R. Fulton of Gallipolis, Ohio, executor of soldier's estate; query letter in file states soldier was born 4/15/1752, was of Scotch-Irish descent, married Miss Matthews, had 4 sons and 1 daughter at time he moved to Ohio, eldest son William married Jane Lockridge in Virginia, further soldier granted land in Gallia County, Ohio, for Revolutionary War service. F-R3849, R1037.

Notes

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jennings/manuscript/jhnfltn02.htm

5. iii. James Fulton was born 15 April 1751 in Augusta County, Virginia and died 15 July 1839 in Gallia County, Ohio. He and his wife are buried in the Bing Cemetery.(8) Married Jane Matthews, daughter of William Matthews (9) and Mary Wright. Jane Matthews was born 29 January 1753 (10) , Augusta County, Virginia and died 1819 in Gallia County.

James Fulton went to Gallia County about 1806 from Augusta County, Virginia. Several deeds for James Fulton were found in Augusta County, Virginia all on the Great Calfpasture River, but farther south in the valley than that of James Fulton's (d. 1753) family(11) .

James Fulton served very briefly in the Revolutionary War. However, his application for pension was rejected. On James Fulton's application for pension on April 12, 1836 under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1831, he states he marched from Augusta County , Virginia, to Point Pleasant, (West) Virginia where he took part in the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. For his part in this battle he was later awarded a farm in Ohio for each of his four sons for the payment of a small fee for the patent or deed in the Ohio Land Company office in Marietta, Ohio. This march totaled 700 miles (as crow flies) in wilderness and took nearly two months.

In June 1778 he was again drafted into service under Lieutenant John Wahab proceeded to Warm Springs..where joined Regiment commanded by Colonel Abram Smith, and then to Hale's Fort on Jackson River where he remained five weeks and then received his discharge and returned home to Augusta Co....Also 1779 served three months under command of Captain William Kincade and marched to Portsmouth, etc.

He further states that in the month of August, in the year 1781, he was drafted for three months and placed in a company commanded by Lieutenant Wahab, and attached to a regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Lewis. He was then by order of said Col. Lewis directed to press into the service a wagon and team and convey the baggage to South River which was about forty miles distant, and then, (being a blacksmith by trade) he was directed by said Lewis to do certain blacksmith work, and then to come and join his company near Little York. And after having pressed a wagon and team, and conveyed said baggage as ordered, which took him about two months, he hired a substitute by the name of John Grinter, who was accepted in his place for the balance of the time for which he had been drafted and he again returned home to Augusta Co., Virginia. Total 80 miles.

In summation, he was rejected for pension because he could not prove he had served the required six months; it was thought by some officer that it should not have taken him two months to do the blacksmith work on the wagon and go that far with the baggage. When he applied for the pension in 1836, the Battle of Point Pleasant was not considered a battle of the American Revolution. Also, when he testified in 1836, he was almost 85 years old and his memory was not accurate on dates and names.

Six children:(12)

+ 12. i. Mary Fulton born circa 1777, Augusta County, Virginia. Married: 3 August 1797, Augusta County, to Samuel Bing by Reverend John Montgomery, pastor of Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church, on the Great Calf Pasture River.

+ 13. ii. Margaret Fulton born circa 1779, Augusta County, Virginia Married 19 March 1799 (marriage bond only) to Ferdinand Kinkead; lived in the area of Bath and Highland counties.

+ 14. iii. William Fulton born circa 1777-1778. Married 27 September 1803 Augusta County to Jinney Lockridge. Died 1871 at age of 94.

+ 15. iv. Thomas Fulton born circa 1785 married Margaret Hix (1793-1894).

+ 16. v. John Fulton born circa 1791; married 1) Mary Martindale; 2) Nancy Shaver Adkins; died 6 April 1864; Buried Bing Cemetery.

+ 17. vi. James R. Fulton, Jr., born circa 1795; married Margaret Gross (1802-1888)