Person:Abner Quarles (1)

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Pvt. Abner Quarles
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Name Pvt. Abner Quarles
Gender Male
Birth? Est 1755 Lunenburg County, Virginia[assumed age 21 when entering military service]
Marriage to Anna "Annie" Edwards
Death? 1823 Robertson County, Tennessee

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. 4, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Quarles, Abner - entered service 1776 in Continental Line; Bounty Land Warrant #584 issued 2/28/1811. F-BLW548, R1989.


Records

From Biography of James D. Hubbard, grandson of Abner Quarles:

James D. Hubbard, one of the leading farmers of Lauderdale County, was born in Caswell County, N. C., May 10, 1809. His father, William Hubbard, was born in Virginia, in 1787, and moved with his parents to North Carolina when a boy, where he married Nancy Qualls, a daughter of Abner Qualls, one of the Revolutionary soldiers, who fought through the entire war of independence.

References
  1.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

    Pension Application of Abner Quarles BLWt548-100
    Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

    [The file contains only the following copy of a voucher for a land bounty:]
    This is to sertify, that the bearer Abner Quarles was enlisted in the serveis of the United States Nov’br. 1776 and has continued for the war, in the Cont’l. Vign’a. [Continental Virginia] line to this date June 26, 1780. Parker Cap’t. Virg’a. Line.

    Image:Abner Quarles Military Land Warrant No. 548.jpg

  2.   United States. U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008).

    Name: Abner Quarles
    Issue Date: 4 Mar 1811
    Acres: 100
    Meridian: U.S. Military Survey
    State: Ohio
    County: Knox
    Township: 6-N
    Range: 11-W
    Section: 1
    Accession Number: OH2120__.109
    Metes and Bounds: No
    Land Office: Ohio
    Canceled: No
    US Reservations: No
    Mineral Reservations: No
    Authority: June 1, 1796: United Brethren Warrant Act (1 Stat. 480)

    Image:Abner Quarles Land Grant 100 Acres.jpg

  3.   Ohio, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908.

    Name: Abner Quarles
    Warrantee Name: Abner Quarles
    Land Office: Ohio
    Total Acres: 100
    Signature: Yes
    Canceled Document: No
    Issue Date: 4 Mar 1811
    Metes and Bounds: No
    Statutory Reference: 1 Stat. 480
    Multiple Warantee Names: No
    Act or Treaty: 1 Jun 1796
    Multiple Patentee Names: No
    Entry Classification: United Brethren Warrant Act
    Land Description: 1 34 US MILITARY SURVEY No 6 N 11 W 1

  4.   Federal Land Series a Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land Patents Issued by the United States Government, with Subject, Tract, and Name Indexes. (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
    Pg. 134.

    923 2 Mar 1811 8/01/021

    Registered by: Hon. James Cochran
    Registered for: Abner Quarles
    Location: Mil - 11 6 1 34
    Based upon the following Army land Warrant:
    Issued to: Quarles, Abner, Pvt.
    No: 548
    Acres: 100
    (Note: Sent 2 Mar. 1811)

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  5.   Tennessee Genealogical Society. Ansearchin' News. (Memphis, Tennessee: Tennessee Genealogical Society)
    Vol. 17, No. 1, January - March 1970.

    70-8 DARNELL, FEATHERSTONE, GRANT, GUNN, HUBBARD, HUTCHINSON, OGG, QUARlESQUALLS,
    ROBERTSON, SHERROD, SOLOMON, SMITH: Still working the Quarles-Qualls
    bone around. Abner's pts. still lost. He enl. Cont'l Army 1776, Lunenberg Co.,
    Va., discharged 1783 with pay and Ky. bounty land; in Caswell Co., N.C., 1790; d.
    Robertson Co., Tenn. 1823. Will names w. Anna, was she Anna Grant whose folk
    came to Guthrey, Todd Co., Ky.? Ch. named in will: William, Richard, Polly, M.
    James or Thomas Gunn(?), and a Tincy who m. Mr. Robertson, also a dec'd. dau. who
    left 2 small ones, Charlotte and James Hubbard. Who knows these folk? Richard
    Quarles (later Qualls) b. 1798, N.C., to Abner Quarles, m. three times: 1st a
    Miss Robertson who left 4 ch. and d.; 2nd in 1834 to Rachel Solomon and 3rd to
    Elizabeth Ogg. Bible says "Rachel Featherstone" surmise she was a widow Solomon,
    had ch.: Robert, Henry, Richard, Logan, Wesley and Jessie before she d. 1854.
    Richard d. 1870 probe Keysburg, Ky., but will probated Montgomery Co., Tenn.
    Mrs. Horace J. Kittrell, 7244 W. Lake Drive, Dallas, Texas 75214.