Person:Jesse Webb (1)

Pension file S3501-Jesse stated that he enlisted in 1781 in Greene County, North Carolina under Captain Lusk who commanded a company in the North Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel Middleton.The regiment was marched across the Santee River in South Carolina and later to Eutaw Springs where they joined in the battle there under General Nathaniel Greene, in the brigade under General Sumter, later Jesse's company marched to Orangeburgh, South Carolina where they fought Tories until his term expired. Sometime after the was, Jesse was in Franklin County, Georgia. There is a Record that he made a deed there in 1790 for 297.5 acres of a 1788 land grant. He received a land grant in Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1807, one of those first ones which indicated occupancy long before 1807.

    The Jesse Webb home was located at Chestnut Hill, the site now owned by Ruth & Hollis Thornton.  The original log house burned.
    On Sunday afternoon, October 22, 1978 a stirring service of dedication of the marker for Jesse Webb was conducted in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery by Newport's William Cocke Chapter of the DAR.

The following was contributed by Jay Webb of Clinton, TN<webb2705@@knox.mindspring.com>

    Jesse and his brother, John Webb, were living in Wilkes County, Colony of Georgia in 1778 when the British landed troops and captured Savannah.  Jese's testimony (S301) places him and John (R11249) in at Niles Fort on the Broad River, Georgia.  In late 1780's, Jesse, John & many other militia soldiers were driven by British soldiers & Indians into South Carolina, across the BLue Ridge and Iron Mountains to the western slopes of the Appalacian Mountains, (at that time Washington County, North Carolina, later Tennessee) where they made their camp on the Nolichucky River.  This is how & why John & Jesse came to be in what is now East Tennessee.  Jesse was back in Georgia by late January of 1784 and registered for a land grant.  On February 2, 1784, a Georgia certificate was issued that certified that Jesse was an inhabitant of Georgia prior to the war & was a refugee from British arms, which entitled him to a land grant.  Jesse's Georgia land grant was issued January 4, 1785 and registered January 14, 1785.  The 287 1/2 acre bounty is registered in Book A, folio 12 & recorded Libeer B, folia 133 #398.  It is very possible that Anna was with Jesse in Georgia while he owned the land in Franklin County.  If so, their first three children would have been born in Georgia.