Person:John Kirkpatrick (27)

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22. John Kirkpatrick (6)(7) was born about 1744 in Scotland?. He died on 13 Aug 1785. John Kirkpatrick was born 1744, most probably in Scotland, and died 13 A ug 1785, Chester, South Carolina. On 8 Mar 1772 he was married to Eliz abeth Craig in the Bullock Creek Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Willia m Alexander. Elizabeth was born 27 April 1749. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, J ohn's widow, died 30 Jun 1838, apparently in Chester County, South Caro lina. She did not remarry after John Kirkpatrick's death.

On 8 April 1846, Joseph Kirkpatrick, son of John Kirkpatrick, and a res ident of Chester, South Carolina, aged 70 years, stated that he was the o nly surviving child of John Kirkpatrick and that the same John Kirkpatr ick had been an officer in the militia of South Carolina in the Revolut ionary War. Joseph Kirkpatrick supplied, in support of his application , a commission from Governor Rutledge of South Carolina, commissioning t he said John Kirkpatrick..."by these presents do commission and appoint , you the said John Kirkpatrick, to be a Captain of a company of foot i n the New Acquisition and in Col. William Bratton's Regiment, which sai d Company you are to lead, train, muster and exercise, according to mil itary discipline..."* The commission is dated 11 April 1781 ("and in t he fifth year of the independence of America").

This paper is included in the pension claim papers of Joseph Kirkpatric k based on his mother's relationship with John Kirkpatrick. Another pap er in the same file states that Kirkpatrick was a Private and a Captain i n the regiments commanded by Cols. Bratton and Roebuck. (Apparently a p ension had been paid to Elizabeth Kirkpatrick prior to the claim of her s on Joseph.)

Captain Day Jewell states that one John K. Jameson, age 62, made oath t hat he served with John Kirkpatrick in the Snow Campaign in 1776-77, an d further that other indents and documents show service under Colonels M offet and Sumter, and that he (John Kirkpatrick) furnished wagons, team s, and supplies to the military forces over a period of years.

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• The territory called the New Acquisition had been acquired from North C arolina by a trade made in 1772. It consisted of those parts of the pr esent counties of York, Cherokee and Spartanburg, South Carolina, that l ie north of the 35th degree of North Latitude. North Carolina received l and East of the Catawba Indian reservation in exchange.

He was married to Elizabeth Craig on 8 Mar 1772 in Bullock's Creek Church, York Co., South Carolina. Elizabeth Craig(6) was born on 27 Apr 1749. She died on 30 Jun 1838 in Chester, South Carolina. John Kirkpatrick and Elizabeth Craig had the following children:

90 i. Eleanor Kirkpatrick. +91 ii. Joseph H. Kirkpatrick. +92 iii. Jane Kirkpatrick. 93 iv. James Kirkpatrick. +94 v. Mary Kirkpatrick. 95 vi. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick(6) was born on 14 Aug 1784. She died on 8 Aug 1810.