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Facts and Events
James Gilmour was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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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. :
Gilmore, James - born 1/17/1745 in Pennsylvania; moved with a child to Augusta County, Virginia, where raised; entered service there in 1764 & 1774 against indians; moved in 1775 to Kentucky Territory where planted corn at Boonesborough; returned in 1776 to settlement at Holston River & entered service there; moved in 1780 to Montgomery County, Virginia, where entered service in 1781; moved in 1782 to Kentucky where settled in Lincoln County; moved in 1815 to Christian County, Kentucky, where granted Pension in 1832; query letter in file states soldier died 11/1834 in Christian County, Kentucky, Last Will & Testament probated there 12/2/1834. F-S30432, R1077.
Will Transcript
- I JAMES GILMOUR of Christian County, Kentucky being old, weak & inform of body, but of sound and disposing mind, and knowing also, that men must die, have thought it best by will to make a disposition of such property as I own to take effect upon my death, I desire then that my body, after death, be properly interred and that my Executor hereinafter named pay all & every one of the debts I owe. I further will that my Executor so soon after my death as convenient may sell my tract of land in Christian County and on the Little River upon such reasonable credit as shall ensure the best price for it, and that the money arising from this sale, thereof be equally divided between my three sons, JAMES GILMOUR, GEORGE GILMOUR and ALEXANDER GILMOUR.
- For the purpose of collecting a debt which has long been owing to me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I have not long since caused an Execution to be issued from the Clerk's Office of the Christian Circuit Court against his estate by virtue of which the tract of land on which he now resides, was sold and other property. The land is bounded as follows -- It is part of a certain tract decided by JOHN CATES to JAMES & GEORGE GILMOUR containing two hundred and thirty two & 1/2 acres lying on the western side of the Little River and beginning at three Black Jacks, thence South 223 Poles to a stake, passing at 215 Poles two Black Jacks 7 at Post Oak, thence West 167 & 3/4 Poles to a stake & three hickories and a black jack pointer, thence North 89 & 1/2 degrees East 167 & 3/4 Poles to the beginning. This land I purchased under at Sheriffs's sale from JOHN BUCKNER, Deputy Sheriff will show. I also purchased under the same execution the following property: 5 horses, 5 yoke of steers, one waggon {sic}, three cos, four feather beds & furniture, nine sheep, one bureau, four ploughs {sic}, 3 sets of gear, 15 head of hogs, the crop of corn & eight common chairs - the whole of which land, agreeable to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property together with a negro girl named MATILDAY, purchased also under the same execution, I give & bequeath to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, THOMAS ELLIOTT GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR, the children of the said GEORGE GILMOUR, to them and their heirs forever - and if any of them shall die without issue living at the time of their death, their portion of said property to continue & go to the survivor or survivors, in exactly equal shares.
- The balance of the debt due me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I also give to my grandchildren to be by them collected, if after they shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, they shall choose to do so.
- I appoint my son GEORGE GILMOUR executor of this my Last Will & Testament and require of him that he carry the same into full effect hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made.
- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 25th day of Sept. 1829.
- Signature: JAMES GILMOUR {seal}
- Signed, sealed, acknowledge & published in our presents {sic}
- R. WEBBER JACOB SHERRILL
- CODICIL (dated 25 May 1932)
- I JAMES GILMOUR Sr. of Christian County and State of Kentucky being old and inform of body but of sound and disposing mind think proper to change my Will of 25 Sept 1829 owing to the change in my son GEORGE GILMOUR situation.
- I give by this supplement Will and bequeath to my son GEORGE GILMOUR, all the property that I have devised to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR in my above mentioned Will including the land with chattels with the exception of the negro girl MALTILDA, which I sold, and including the balance of the execution named in my former Will, to him and his heirs forever hereby revoking that part of my Will of the above date that relates to my above named grandchildren. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 day of May 1832.
- Signature: JAMES GILMOUR
- JACOB SHERRILL and NATHAN ADAMS
- Will and Codicil proved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky & County of Christian, signed by ABRAHAM STITES on 2 December 1834.
- [Source: Christian County, Kentucky Will Book H on pages 335 - 337]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
Biography of James Gilmour by Ron Stephens
Birth: Jan. 17, 1745, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Nov. 18, 1834, Christian County, Kentucky, USA
JAMES GILMOUR was born in Lancaster County in the colony of Pennsylvania on 17 January 1745. His parents were JAMES and ANN GILMOUR and they moved the family to Augusta County, Virginia in 1748 where son JAMES continued to live "until grown". This is documented in his Revolutionary War pension application #S30432 for military service in the Virginia and Indian Wars submitted under oath in Christian County, Kentucky on 3 September 1832 when he was 87 years of age.
According to JAMES GILMOUR's sworn statement "the first military service he ever performed in this country was before he was of age to be involved (when) he substituted and served a tour at Fort Ferment on the head of the Bull Pasture River in Augusta County, Virginia". This was most likely in the year 1762, when he was 17 years old. This was time time of the Seven years War between England and France which was known in the North American colonies as the "French - Indian War". The War was finally concluded with the Treaty of Paris on 10 Feb. 1763 and one of the stipulations was that France was "to give up all of its territory west of the Appalachian Mountains extending west to the Mississippi River. The treaty, however, did not end the hostilities between the Indian tribes and the English colonists and in 1763, this proved disastrous for the British garrisons west of the Appalachian Mountains. In May and June 1763, several British garisons were destroyed by rebellious Indian forces under Chief Pontiac. On 29 July 1763, new troops were dispatched to replace these garrisons and it was in this period that JAMES GILMOUR served. "In March 1764...he was sent to Fort Dickenson on the Cow Pasture River in Augusta County where he served a tour. "The same Fall he joined a volunteer company under the command of Colonel Al Neil [and] marched to Pittsburg where he joined Col. Bogart, crossed the river there and marched down the river 130 miles & held a treaty with the Indians [on 17 November 1764]. JAMES GILMOUR continued to reside on the frontiers of Virginia until the Spring of 1775 when he comes [sic] to Kentucky and planted corn the same summer at Boonsborough..."
It was at Boonesborough that JAMES GILMOUR befriended DANIEL BOONE. In 1776, JAMES GILMOUR again enlisted in the military and served as an "Indian Spy" and sergeant under the command of Colonel Christy on the Holston River in southwestern Virginia and it was there that they mounted a major campaign to subdue the Cherokees. In his own words, "Col. Christy chose me as a spy for his army and I continued in that service until he marched to their towns and held a treaty with them and returned in November...and that ended my spying service".
1780, JAMES GILMOUR moved to Montgomery County, Virginia and was drafted and served under the command of Colonel Preston where "we marched to North Carolina where we had a skirmish with the British Army on the Haw River about eight days before the Battle of Guilford Courthouse". He then stated in his pension that "I moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1782 and settled in Lincoln County where I resided until the year 1815 and then removed to Christian County" where he resided until he died.
In 1777 and 1779, Virginia enacted legislation which granted four hundred acres of land in Kentucky for those who had settled there prior to 1 January 1776 plus an additional one thousand hundred acres for those who actually made improvements to their land. Because JAMES GILMOUR had both settled at Boonesborough and "planted corn" there prior to this time he qualified and for large tracts of land in Lincoln County on the Hanging Fork of the Dix (Dicks) River near present day Stanford. He eventually sold most of this land to TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH who was married to his daughter JENNIE GILMOUR.
After he moved to Christian County, Kentucky in 1815, JAMES GILMOUR, according to William H. Perrin's "Historical and Biographical Sketches of Christian County, Kentucky" was "probably the first Presbyerian who settled in southern Kentucky" and he was a founder and ruling elder of the first Presbyterian Church formed in that County in about 1817. His son GEORGE GILMOUR and son - in - law, TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH were also members of this church. He died in Christian County on 18 November 1834 and was buried there.
JAMES GILMOUR was married to an ELEANOR [last name probably CALLISON] and they were the parents of at least five children. It is thought that she died in 1789 and that he was married again to Losey Lodden and that they were the parents of at least one son.
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Children:
Jennie Gilmour Bronaugh (1781 - 1828)*
James George Gilmour (1784 - 1847)*
George Gilmour (1788 - 1835)*
Alexander Gilmour (1790 - 1861)*
Robert C. Gilmour (1792 - 1822)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Gilmour Cemetery
Christian County
Kentucky, USA
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Created by: Ron Stephens
Record added: Oct 01, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 42580675
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/33932680/person/18581496213
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Petition of James Gilmore [Gilmour] and Stephen Huston VAS1957 2
Transcribed by Will Graves 5/4/15
[From Digital Library of Virginia ] Kentucky County's Legislative Petitions
To the Hon. Members of the House of Delegates
The petition of James Gilmore & Stephen Huston humbly Sheweth
That your petitioners were employed in Lincoln County by Capt. John Martin and Capt. Samuel Kirkam [Samuel Kirkham] as Scouts to Discover the Approach of the Indian Enemy. That they served as such from the 21st day of April until the 2nd day of July in the year 1781 and that they never received any Compensation for their Services – and pray that your Hon. Body may take their Case into Consideration and grant them such relief as you may think Just and Right.
And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.
[Note: There appears at the bottom of the first page of this document a note written by the clerk of the Auditor's Office but the same is too faint to discern any part of it. I base the view that this is a note from the clerk of the Auditor's office on the fact that the handwriting looks like that of J Pendleton, a clerk in the Virginia Auditor's Office.]
[Reverse]
Gilmour & Huston Petition
12 November 1791
Referred to Claims
Reasonable
Vouchers to Col. Logan
Referred 25th [indecipherable abbreviation of a month] 91
http://revwarapps.org/VAS1957.pdf
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James Gilmour
Birth: Jan. 17, 1745
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Nov. 18, 1834
Christian County
Kentucky, USA
JAMES GILMOUR was born in Lancaster County in the colony of Pennsylvania on 17 January 1745. His parents were JAMES and ANN GILMOUR and they moved the family to the "Beverly Patent", Augusta County, Virginia near Staunton in 1748 where JAMES GILMOUR Jr. "continued to live "until grown". This is documented in his Revolutionary War pension application #S30432 for military service in the Virginia and Indian Wars submitted under oath in Christian County, Kentucky on 3 September 1832 when he was 87 years of age. It is also documented in a letter to OTTIE GREINER from the the United States Dept. of Interior Bureau of Pensions on 21 April 1926.
[PLEASE NOTE: The father of this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the JAMES GILMORE who was married to MARTHA ANN DENNISON and who settled well south of Staunton in what became Rockbridge County, Virginia and who are buried near Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia; please see biography of JAMES GILMOUR SR (1722- 1785)].
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