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Facts and Events
James Gilliland was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Disambiguation
Not to be confused with James Gilliland (1745-1810) of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Augusta and Botetourt Counties, Virginia, who married Susannah Young.
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. :
Gilliland, James - born & reared in York County, Pennsylvania, where he entered service early in Revolutionary War; moved to Augusta County, Virginia, where he entered service; moved in 1779 to Washington County, Virginia, where he entered service in 1780; granted pension there in 1833 at age 88 when son David resided there at age 66; query letter in file in 1913 from G.M. Fleming of Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia, states wife was descendant of soldier; query letter in file states soldier died at age 93; query letter in file states soldier married Susannah in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania & they moved soon after to Rockingham County, Virginia . F-S15852, R1075.
- The James Gilliland that married Susannah [Young] appears to be a DIFFERENT James Gilliland (1745-1810) that died in Botetourt County, Virginia in 1810.
Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:
- Page 16.--17th November, 1770. George Adam ( ) Bright and Mary ( ) to James and Samuel Gilliland, of County of York, £80, 170 acres in Beverley Manor at head of a branch of South River, David Hays line. Teste: Joseph Moore, James and John Tate.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Page 350.--Part of the plantation James Gilliland lives on
References
- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
James Gilliland was born circa 1745 at York County, Pennsylvania.1,2 He married Hannah Laird circa 1765 at Pennsylvania.2 (David Laird, Hannah's father, mentions her in his will, as follows:
"In the name of God Amen that I David Lard of Washington County, State of Virginia... And to my daughter Elizabeth McCune twelve pounds and my bed and furniture and the remainder of my estate to be equally divided amongst my daughters Mary Feril and daughter Hannah Gilliland... At a court held for Washington County the 19th day of July 1803...").
At the start of the Revolutionary War, the Indians being troublesome on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, the men where he resided were assigned to guard and protect the frontiers from near the Potomac to the Susquehanna. He was out on this service for three months in a company commanded by Captain John McConnaghe and was then honorabley discharged. He and Hannah then moved to Augusta County, Virginia where he was enrolled in a company of militia commanded by Captain James Tate.1
James was appointed a Lieutenant and performed a tour of duty under Captain Alexander Long against the Indians in the vincinity of Tygart's Valley.1
About 1779, he and Hannah moved to Washington County, Virginia.1 In 1780 he was drafted and marched in Captain Andrew Colville's company in a detachment commanded by Colonel William Campbell in the expedition called King's Mountain. He also marched in a company commanded by Captain Alexander Montgomery in a detachment of militia under Colonel Arthur Campbell against the Cherokee Indians.1
James was listed on the 1782 tax list for Washington County, Virginia under Captain James Montgomery's Precinct showing one taxable, three horses, and sixteen head of cattle.3 On June 26, 1786 James received a grant for 200 acres of land on the waters of the middle and south fork of the Holstein River [sic] in Washington County.4 He was listed on the tax list for Washington County dated August 3, 1787 showing three males under the age of 16, three horses, and three head of cattle. On May 21, 1793, James and Hannah sold 125 acres on the north side of the Holston River to Hugh Mahaffey for 100 pounds. This was part of the tract of land that was granted to James by patent dated June 26, 1786.5,6 On that same day they sold 30 acres, part of the same original 200 acres, to Hugh Neely for 10 pounds.7,8 On May 17, 1795, Samuel and Margaret Weir, of the county of Knox in the territory of the United States south of the River Ohio, sold to James for £100, 152 acres of land on the waters of the south fork of the Holston River which was originally granted to Samuel on May 1, 1787.9 On February 15, 1802, James and Hannah sold 125 acres of land on the south fork of the Holston River to Bartholomew Neel for £140.10 On December 12, 1804, James exchanged warrant No. 1466, dated July 22, 1803, for 70 acres of land situated on the south fork of the Holston River adjacent to land that he and Hannah lived on and also adjacent to land that their son, James Jr., lived on.11
In the 1806 Personal Property Tax List of Washington County, Virginia there were the following Gillilands names which I believe are James and his sons:
Gilliland, James
Gillihan, James, Jr.
Gilliland, Joseph
Gilliland, William
Gilliland, David
Gilliland, John
Gilliland, Robert.12
On January 10, 1810 James received another 70 acres of land situated on both sides of the south fork of the Holstein River adjoining his son James Jr.13 James Gilliland appeared on the 1810 Federal Census of Washington County, Virginia, with a household listed as two white males 16-25, one white male 26-44, one white male 45 & over and one white female 45 & over.14
James applied for a Revolutionary War pension on November 27, 1833.1 He died after 1834.
There is a possibility that James was the son of John Gilliland and Jane ?. He is listed as such in the book The Loving Irish - The Gillilands compiled by Martrue Hutcheson Greenwood.15
Two marriages were found listed in the book Washington County, Virginia marriages : ministers’ returns, 1776-1855 abstracted by Marty Hiatt & Craig Roberts Scott. They were Elizabeth Gilliland to Moses McConnell, January 31, 1805, James Harper, minister; and Mary Gilleland to Ebenezer McEwen, May (8 or 9) 1905, Edward Crawford, minister. Either one or both could be daughters of James and Hannah.
On November 17, 1770, James and Samuel Gilliland, of County of York, purchased 170 acres of land from George Adam Bright and his wife Mary for £80 in Beverly Manor, Augusta County, Virginia at the head of a branch of the South River. It's not known yet if this was the James Gilliland who married Hannah Laird. But, if James is indeed the son of John Gilliland from Menallen township, York County (now in Adams County), Pennsylvania, that would make sense as John and Jane had sons named James and Samuel.16
Children of James Gilliland and Hannah Laird
◦Samuel Gilliland+
◦John Gilliland+17 b. b 1765
◦James Gilliland+12 b. bt 1766 - 1784
◦David Gilliland+1 b. c 1767
◦Joseph Gilliland b. c 1776
◦Jane Gilliland1 b. c 1776
◦Robert Gilliland+12 b. c 1784
◦William Gilliland b. c 1785
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~elsinger/gilliland/p10.htm#i290
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension application of James Gilliland S15852
Transcribed by Will Graves
State of Virginia, Washington County
On this 27th day of November 1833 personally appeared before me William Buchanan Justice of the peace in and for the County of aforesaid, and a justice of the court of Washington County being a court of record, James Gilliland aged eighty eight years, and who by reason of bodily infirmity and his great age, is unable to attend in court, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
The said James Gilliland states that he was born and raised in the County of York and State of Pennsylvania. Then at the commencement of the revolutionary War the Indians being troublesome on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, the people of a certain district or country in which he resided were assigned to guard and protect the frontiers from near the Potomac to the Susquehanna. That on one occasion he was out on this service three months in a company commanded by Captain John McConnaghe and was honorably discharged. Afterwards he removed to the County of Augusta in the State of Virginia where he was enrolled in a company of militia commanded by Captain James Tate, who afterwards commanded a company at the battle of Guilford and was killed. That he was appointed a Lieutenant in said company after being enrolled in it, and whilst he resided there he performed a tour of duty as Lieutenant under Captain Alexander Long against the Indians in the country of Tygart's Valley in which service he was engaged at least three months, if not longer. Every search has been made for this Commission among his papers, but it cannot be found. He therefore concludes that the said Commission is lost. He afterwards about the year 1779 removed to the County of Washington, where he has lived ever since. After settling in said County he was in the year 1780 drafted and marched in Captain Andrew Colville's company in a detachment commanded by Colonel William Campbell in the expedition called the King's Mountain expedition in which Major Ferguson [Patrick Ferguson] was killed and his party captured – and on this tour he served six weeks or upwards. He also marched in a company commanded by Captain Alexander Montgomery in a detachment of militia under Colonel Arthur Campbell against the Cherokee Indians and served one month and was honorably discharged from all the said services, his discharges being verbal ones. He performed other services, but being unable to state the length of time of each he omits to name them. He therefore says that during the revolutionary war he faithfully served his country five months and two weeks as a private militia soldier and three months as a Lieutenant. He has made some proof as to his service but does not know of any clergyman now living who knows any of the above circumstances or who has lived in his neighborhood. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me.
S/ James Gilliland [last name is totally illegible]
S/ Wm Buchanan
Washington County, to wit:
This day David Gilliland, now about sixty s[paper torn] years of age personally came before me James [last name obliterated by a tear in the paper] a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath deposes that he perfectly recollects the fact of his father, James Gilleland, acting as Lieutenant in Captain James Tate's company in the County of Augusta, but has no recollection of ever seeing his commission. This affiant was then a boy but large enough to notice matters of that kind being and about nine or 10 years old. This affiant further recollects that his father went on an expedition against the Indians under Captain Alexander Long. That he went in the spring and was gone upwards of three months. This affiant also recollects well after his father removed to this County of his marching on an expedition to King's Mountain under Colonel William Campbell – and also against the Cherokee Indians under Colonel Arthur Campbell.
Signed and sworn to this 26th day of November 1833.
Attest: S/ James White
S/ David Gilliland, X his mark
http://revwarapps.org/s15852.pdf
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