Person:Nathaniel Davis (38)

Will Abstract

A-2 NATHANIEL DAVIS: 21 Feb 1781 to my bro ROBERT DAVIS my blacksmith tools; my cloth to be divided between ISAAC AND ROBERT: to ROBERT land and money is __~_ Col. JOHN SW__HANS; to take good care of MOTHER (not named); my sister MARY; my sister ANN; my sister ELIZABETH land at Bartlett Springs and young mare I had of WM POUCH; ROBERT's son JAMES.

Exr: my bro ISAAC AND ROBERT DAVIS.

Wit : ROBERT DAVIS, MARY DAVIS

Sgnd: NATHL DAVIS

Proven May session 1781

ABSTRACTS WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE - WILL BOOK A 1777-1860, Abstracted from Microfilm by Bettie B. Davis, from "Ansearchin News", Vol. 24, No. 1, 1977

Records

1778-1779: Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Washington County, NC [now Tennessee], VOLUME 1, 1778-1779: Geroge Vincent to John Criscon, 150A, pbo Nathaniel Davis. TNGenWeb.org

From Revolutionary War Pension Statement of John Greer (1764-1844):

He again volunteered at the same place in the year 1781 for three months under Colonel John Sevier, Jacob Brown was his Captain. They marched to the Cherokee Nation to the Chickamauga Towns, & burnt the towns. They set out in the month of September he thinks & remained in service about one month. They suffered much with cold & hunger got no written discharge. He again volunteered at the same place in 1781 or 82 not certain as to time for three months under Colonel John Sevier, Captain Davis [Nathaniel Davis] was his Captain. They marched to the Cherokee Nation to the Overhill Towns, burnt the towns, killed five the Indians, took 15 prisoners not far from these towns. Captain Davis, my Captain was wounded. We made an effort to get him home, got him in the Greasy Cove in Washington County where he died. He was in service two months, got no written discharge. Southern Campaign American Revolutionary Pension Statements and Rosters

From Revolutionary War Pension Statement of James Campbell (1759-1844):

Applicant states that sometime in the June following, 1781 he again volunteered for a tour of six months into a Company commanded by the said Captain Gibson – this Company had been raised by the orders of Colonel Sevier and was commanded about three months by the said Captain Gibson, but on his going to North Carolina Captain Nathaniel Davis took the command, who, applicant understood, had been a Captain in the Continental Army before that time – During this six months applicant and his company were busily employed in hunting after in pursuing the Tories who flocked over in numerous instances, they caught a great many, particularly at the time when the troops from said County, had gone over to Kings Mountain, the Tories came over in large numbers, and were taken and punished. In this service was applicant and his company constantly employed during the six months for which he had volunteered at the termination of which period applicant got another certificate of service from his said Captain Davis, which certificate he disposed of in the same way as the one mentioned above – applicant states that sometime in the latter part of the year 1781 Colonel Sevier issued a proclamation for as many as were disposed so to do, to meet him up on Long Creek, now in Jefferson County, to take an excursion against the Cherokee Indians – applicant furnished his own horse and provisions and met at the place above mentioned and with about 170 others they marched under the command of said Colonel Sevier down into the Cherokee nation, crossed the French Broad River at Buckingham's Island, and having been informed by some of their men, who had gone forward to spy the Country, that a body of Indians were not far ahead of them, they proceeded on and overtook them in what is now Blount County and killed seventeen of their number and drove the rest into their nation – After this skirmish applicant and his company retreated to Buckingham's Island, where they remained until they were strengthened by a force of five or six hundred men from Virginia under Colonel Arthur Campbell Southern Campaign American Revolutionary Pension Statements and Rosters

1.   Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008.

   Name: Nathaniel Davis
   Probate Date: 1 Feb 1781
   Probate Place: Washington, Tennessee, USA
   Inferred Death Year: Abt 1781
   Inferred Death Place: Tennessee, USA
   Item Description: Will Books, Vol 1-2, 1779-1889
   
   

2.   Tennessee, United States. Early Land Registers, 1778-1927.

   Name: Nathaniel Davis
   Register Date: 9 Jan 1779
   Register Place: Washington, Tennessee, USA
   Grant or Warrant Number: 1098
   
   

3.   Alderman, Pat. One heroic hour at King's Mountain : Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780. (Erwin, Tennessee: P. Alderman, c1968)
   Pg. 4/76.

   Pg. 4 - John Sevier summoned his men to muster in Greasy Cove in March of 1781 for a campaign against the Middle Towns of the Cherokee, located in Western North Carolina. Three companies, commanded by Captains Valentine Sevier, James Stinson and David McNabb, rendezoused in Greasy Cove. They crossed the mountains by way of Spivey Gap. Jonathan Tipton served as Major. Nathaniel Davis was wounded in this campaign. Enroute home, he died in Greasy Cove and was buried there.
   
   Pg. 76 - During an attack on Cowee, Nathaniel Davis was seriously wounded and John Bond killed. Sevier sent Davis, accompanied by a member of the force, back home by way of the trail they had traveled going down. Nathaniel Davis did not reach home, as he died in Greasy Cove and was buried there.

4.   Allen, Penelope Johnson. Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution: A Roster of Soldiers Living During the Revolutionary War in the Counties of Washington and Sullivan. (n.p.: Tennessee Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1935)
   pg. 40.

   P. 2 - Will of Nathaniel Davis, "of Washington County, State of North Carolina", Feb. 21, 1781:
   Bro. Robert Davis; Mother; Sisters Mary, Ann, Elizabeth.
   Bro. Robert's sons. James. Bros. Robert and Isaac, Exs.
   Teste: Robert Davis, Mary Davis.
   Recorded May Sessions 1781.

5.   TNGenWeb Project, Tennessee Genealogy at its best.

   Page 6 Nathaniel Davis 21 July 1781 [s/b 21 Feb. 1781*]
   In Washington County, state of North Carolina.
   
   Brother Robert Davis: all blacksmith tools, a horse called Tom, my stallion, colt and my cloath. Also 100 acres of land ________ Biddle and what money is in _______ Jonathan Lewis land. Take good care of our mother during her life and care for my 3 sisters.
   Sister Mary: my man called Vines, 1 cow and calf and half the land where I live.
   Sister Ann: the other half of the land and a bay mare, 1 cow and calf.
   Sister Elilzabeth: 100 acres of land at Bethel Spring, a young mare that I had of William Pruett, 1 cow and calf.
   Brother Robert: 1 cow if he will get Ann a new side saddle.
   Nephew James, son of Robert: the colt he calls his own.
   
   Executors: Brothers Isaac and Robert Davis.
   Witnesses: Robert Davis, Mary Davis
   
   * date of will listed is in error, TNGenWeb website coordinator has been e-mailed to correct the date error.
   
   http://tngenweb.org/washington/records-data/index-to-wills-and-inventories/will-books-1-2/

6.   Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008.