Person:James Kirkpatrick (18)

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THIRD GENERATION 21. James Kirkpatrick (6)(7) was born in 1743 in Pennsylvania?. He died on 1 Jan 1781 in York Co., South Carolina. James Kirkpatrick is said to have been born in 1743. Since his father e migrated from Belfast, Ireland in 1736, and shortly lived in Pennsylvan ia prior to being found in 1750-51 in South Carolina and receiving land g rants from the governor of North Carolina in 1754.

According to family sources he was killed by a group of Tories during t he Revolution. He is buried in Bullock's Creek Cemetery, York County, S C. The headstone reads: "James Kirkpatrick, Deceast, 1781"...the stone l ies flat to the ground and is found in the older part of the cemetary n ear other Kirkpatricks.

James Kirkpatrick served in the Revolution with the South Carolina mili tia. An indent is on file in Columbia, SC, at the South Carolina Archiv es, made to James Kilpatrick for duty with Brandon's Regiment 'Before a nd since the fall of Charleston'. Brandon would be Thomas Brandon, bor n in Pennsylvania and migrant to what is now Union County, SC. Brandon o ften served under General Sumter. We know he was active at Musgrove's M ill, King's Mountain, Blackstock's and Cowpens. We do not have any info rmation as to whether James Kirkpatrick was with Brandon during any of t hese actions. This indent (U2956 Book X) was paid 17 November 1788 and r eceived and signed for on that date by Thomas Gillham, executor, James K irkpatrick's father-in-law. The signed receipt, again, bears the name o f James Kilpatrick but is unquestionably James Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick met his death during the Revolution in his own home during a t umultuous period of the war. South Carolina was torn by war, by shifti ng allegiances, by bitter blood fights between the native Patriots and T ories, and by family differences. After an engagement James Kirkpatrick w ent parole for a captured Tory neighbor named Mayfield, allowing him to r eturn home to his family. The men returned to their respective homes. S till smarting from the battle loss, a group of Tories who had discovere d from Mayfield that Kirkpatrick had returned home, surrounded his hous e. Bursting through the doors they killed him in front of his wife. Th e date is ordinarily given as New Years Day, 1781. This is family trad ition, but has continued to be told in all four son's families down thr ough the years.

James Kirkpatrick married Susannah Gillham, a daughter of Thomas Gillha m abt. 1765 or thereabouts their oldest child was born in 1766. James K irkpatrick died intestate. We have uncovered NO records--inventories, s ale bills, guardianships or otherwise-- bearing on this intestacy.

After Kirkpatrick's death Susannah Kirkpatrick married Joseph Scott. Da y Jewell states that this marriage took place in South Carolina circa 1 783. He further states that the Scott family moved to Georgia about 178 8. From later records we find the family in Jackson County Georgia. Sco tt's will dated 25 November 1817, and on file in Jackson County, Georgi a, states: "First I give to beloved wife Suanna Scott one negro woman n amed Nance & her girl child named Rachel together with their future inc rease to be disposed of in any way she may think proper, also two cows & c alves, her choice, one bay horse called Raustor, all my stock of hogs, o ne feathered bed & furniture, all my household & kitchen furniture & al l my plantation tools, all to be at her disposal except one cupboard wh ich at my wifes decease I give to my son Joseph....."

Susannah (Gillham) Kirkpatrick Scott removed to Illinois in 1818 with h er son James Kirkpatrick, escorted apparently by his brothers John and F rancis who returned from Illinois Territory for the task. Susannah died , date unknown, apparently in Sangamon County, Illinois, while living w ith her son John.

An undated paper by John Fletcher Kirkpatrick, a grandson of Susannah ( Gillham) Kirkpatrick Scott, tells the story this way: "After his death ( James Kirkpatrick) she married a man by the name of Potts (actually Sco tt--probably a transcription error over time). At his death my father ( John Kirkpatrick) and uncle Frank (Francis Kirkpatrick) went to Georgia a fter her and Uncle James and family and moved her to Illinois, but I ca nnot remember the year. She lived with us when we lived in Bond County a nd went with us when we moved to Sangamon County, near Springfield, whe re she died." ("History of the Kirkpatricks", paper by John Fletcher Ki rkpatrick, son of Susannah's son John. No date.)

He was married to Susannah Gillham (daughter of Thomas Gillham and Margaret Campbell) in 1765 in York Co., South Carolina. Susannah Gillham was born about 1746. She died in 1831 in Sangamon Co., Illinois.(10) Youngest of 11 children born to Captain Thomas & Margaret 'Peggy' (Camp bell) Gillham. Married James Kirkpatrick, son of James & Mary (Newton? ) Kirkpatrick, who was born in 1743 in what is believed to have been Pe nnsylvania. James died on 1 Jan 1781 at the hands of a neighbor whom h e had paroled to his home. He was killed in front of his wife and fami ly. James Kirkpatrick and Susannah Gillham had the following children:

+85 i. Thomas Newton Kirkpatrick. +86 ii. James Gillham Kirkpatrick. +87 iii. Francis Kirkpatrick. +88 iv. John Kirkpatrick. 89 v. Polly Kirkpatrick.