FREEMAN, JOSHUA Ancestor #: A042086
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 04-14-1754 NORTH CAROLINA
Death: 9- -1832 KNOX CO TENNESSEE
Service Source: PENSION OF JONAS HILL, *SR1799
Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUBSTITUTE
A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A042086
A Richard Kirby/Kerby lived from the early to mid-1780s until 1795 in Yadkin/Surry County, North Carolina with his family, and his presence was documented in the 1790 Federal Census, as well as in community records of his service as a juror, overseer of roads, and church member. The profile of family ages and sexes as extracted from the census is in agreement with the Kirby household who migrated to Tennessee; but that tie is confirmed by Richard and Sarah having transferred their church membership from a Methodist Episcopal church in Surry County to the church in Rockland, Blount County, Tennessee. In Surry County, the Kirby family established a close relationship to the family of Joshua Freeman, with two children of Richard and Sarah marrying two children of Joshua and Lucy (King) Freeman. (Joseph L. Kirby married Eliza Freeman; Richard Kirby Jr. married Temperance Freeman.) Joseph Kirby "came of age" during this sojourn, was a witness on a deed transaction in 1791 together with his father-in-law Joshua Freeman, and in February 1795, bought land adjacent to his father?s property on Grassy Creek.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ahopkins/kirby/richard.htm
https://www.geni.com/people/Joshua-Freeman/6000000025881308155
