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Facts and Events
Working Timeline for Capt. Robert Brevard
(Supposed Events - Collecting Sources)
- bef 19 Sep 1749, Rowan County: entered upon land at the headwaters of Rocky River
- 29 Sep 1749, Rowan County: petitioned the Council of NC for a land warrant of 649 acres
- 28 Mar 1751, Rowan County: petitioned the Council of NC for a land warrant of 640 acres in Anson County (Colonial Records of North Carolina, 4:951, 959; North Carolina Land Grants, 11:4-5; 2:10; 10:310)
- 25 Mar 1752, Anson County: Lord Granville granted to Robert Brevard of Anson (later Rowan) County, North Carolina, 640 acres on Rocky River in that county
- 29 Jan 1755, ? County: Granville made a further grant to Robert Brevard of Rowan County, North Carolina, of 102 acres on Rocky River.(Rowan County Deed Books 3:156-159; 4:857-858)
- bef 1776, Rowan County: Robert Brevard, along with James Alexander, taught school in Rowan County before the Revolution. He owned only two slaves in 1768, and only seven in 1797, which would seem to indicate that he did not farm extensively. (Ramsey, Robert W. Carolina Cradle. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1964. 177, 190)
- 1776: Rev War - see Military Records below
- 1785: he made a claim to the House of Commons and Senate of the State of North Carolina. The nature and outcome of this claim were not clear. Perhaps he was applying for a pension or to recover property lost during the war. (State Records of North Carolina, 17:315; 20:32)
- Aug 1797, Iredell County: he made his Will
Military
- During the Revolution Robert Brevard served with Captain James Houston's Company of North Carolina Rangers during the tour of Ramseur, in present day Randolph County, North Carolina. No Further record of service was found. (National Archives, Military Service Records - R1234)
- While the British destroyed his house for good measure they tried to take his daughter Asenath to get her to reveal the hiding placeof her husband Capt. James Houston who had been badly wounded in a previous battle.
- Served in Captain Alexander Osborne's Company. (State records, 22:398-399 and Wheeler's History, 237.)
References
- Recorded, in Find A Grave.
[cos1776 Note of Caution: Memorial page exists with secondary genealogical information posted, however, it contains NO burial information, listing Burial:Unknown.]
- ↑ Will Transcript of Robert Brevard, in Source Needed.
WILL OF ROBERT BREVARD - 13 Aug 1797, Iredell County, North Carolina
In the Name of God, Amen. I, Robert BREVARD of Iredell County and State of North, Carolina, farmer, and planter, Being well advanced in years, but in Sound mind and memory (Thanks be to God) Calling to mind the mortality of, my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die, Do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say, principally and first of all, I give and Recomend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I Recomend to the Earth, to be buried in a Decent and Christian manner at the descretion of my Executors, Nothing Doubting, but at the Generell Resurection I shall Receive the same again, by the Almighty power of God; and touching such worldly estate as it hath pleased, God in this life to bless me, I give, Demise, and dispose of the same, in the following manner and form:
- I give and bequeath to Sarah, my beloved wife, the use of the plantation on which I now live, together with all my farming tools, stock of Horses, cattle and Hogs, my Household and kitchen furniture during her lifetime - Excepting such articles only, as I hereby otherwise dispose of, also a negroe wench called Leah, and her two youngest children, named Tom and Sandy, to be disposed of as her property, as she may think fit, likewise I give to her use, and service, during her natural life, the two negroe fellows, Petter and Prince.
- To my Daughter Charlotte, I bequeath and demise, her bed and furniture, a walnut table, two cows and calves, a Horse called Flint, and her saddle and bridle, a negroe boy called Job, and all that tract or parcel of land lying and Being within the Buts and bounds herein described: Begining at my line on the East Side of my land opposite the mouth of a small branch which heads near my field where a school house formerly stood and Running West untill it strikes my field, then with my fence a straight line continued untill it intersects my upper East and West line; then East with said line to my corner, thence to the beginning, together with all intrests and appurtenences thereupon belonging.
- To my Daughter Prudence I bequeath and Demise the property she has received and a negroe girl named Chaine; also all that tract or Parcel of Land lying and being within the Buts and bounds herein mentioned: beginning at a white oak (at) my SouthWest corner thence with my north line so far as that a line running paralel with a Spring branch on which I formerly had a milk house; will include ten rods on the upper of said branch down to my medow fence, thence a Strait 1ine to the mouth of said branch, then crossing the creek in such a direction that a straight line will strike the upper corner next the creek of that field which has a pond in it, then by a straight line past a pine tree which stands inside of said field untill it intersects my line, then with my line West to the beginning, together with all intrests and appurtances there to belonging ____.
- To my son Robert I give and bequeath my still and Vessels thereto belonging, the waggon, and the property he has already Received, also the negroes Dick, Venus, and Sam, and the remainder of my lands not herein disposed of, likewise the negroes, Petter and Prince, at the time of his mother's death. I do hereby ordain and appoint my son Robert to pay all my lawful debts and to Enable him thereto I hereby give him the crop of cotton now growing,
reserving only what may be necessary for family use; and also the appraisement of a horse lost in the service of the United States.
- I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Robert and Alexander YOUNG to be the Executors of this my last will and testament, and do utterly disolve and disanull all and Every other testament with legacy bequest and Executors by me in anyways before named willed bequests, radifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of August one thousand and seven hundred and ninety seven.
Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said Robert BREVARD as his last will and testament in presence of us,
- Adam BREVARD
- James YOUNG
- John BREVARD
- Robt BREVARD
- ↑ Family Recorded, in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States. Landmark, The. (Statesville, North Carolina)
23 May 1913.
THE OLD BREVARD PLACE
There is a broad cultivated field belonging to Mr. John Y. Templeton, near Mooresville in old Iredell. in this field is what looks like a cellar - it really was once the well-stocked basement to the house of John Brevard.
In 1748, when his son,Ephraim, was four years old, John Brevard came from Maryland and settled here. In the large log house above this basement, he and his wife, Jane McWhortor, rear a family of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters.
When the Revolution comes John and Jane are old people, but they send eight sons to the Patriot Army. Ephaim as assistant surgeon under Gen. Lincoln, is made a prisoner at the surrender of Charleston and died before reaching home;John, Adam, and Alexander serve in the Northern Continental Army and then come South to help at home; Hugh, Robert, and Benjamin serve in the Southernmilitia at Ramseur's Mill; and the (a portion here is unreadable)Brevard, an old woman now is at home alone. Her daughter, Mary, the wife of Gen. Wm. Davidson, has gone with Geo. Templeton ten miles away to "Hopewell," where, "by torch light" they bury her husband, just killed at Cowan's Ford. The other three daughters, Nancy, Jane and Rebecca, have been sent across "Purgatory" to be safe from the invading army. Alone the old mother faces her foes, who say, "These houses must be burned." Why? "Because you have eight sons in the rebel army." She saves nothing. What she snatches from the flames is immediately thrown back, and so today, "in my mind's eye," I see a house where heroes were born and bred. John Brevard's two brothers, Robert and Zebulon, and their sister, Elizabeth Huggins, live near by. All are Patriots, and in Robert's home he and his wife, Sarah Craig, have reared a family of thirteen children - two sons, Joel and Robert, and eleven daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, Asenath, Jane, Lydia, Mary, Charlotte and Prudence. The two Roberts, father and son serve in the Patriot army, at least one of them being at Ramseur's Mill, and ten daughters serve as valiantly at home. The British burn Robert Brevard's home, too, but at least the family Bible is saved.Today that old Bible is the treasured possession of Robert Brevard's great-great-great grand daughter in Missouri. The record in the Bible is "beautifully done in India ink and very fine drawings on the margin of angels' heads, etc - quite a work of art." A photograph of this old record has come back to Iredell by way of California to the third Margaret Brevard. "Robert Brevard's daughter, 1. Margaret Brevard Huggins, Jan. 1754. 2. Margaret Brevard Stockton, Oct. 18, 1812. and 3. Margaret Brevard Harrill." Mrs. Margaret Brevard Harrill is now Regent of the Fort Dobbs Chapter of the D.A.R., the patriotic band of women who are doing so much to preserve our local history and make us hear "the music of bygone years long past with all their hopes and fears." So, here's to you - dear phantom houses and Revolutionary Patriots - "To live in hearts we leave behind is to wear the asphodel crown of immortality.
- ↑ Family Recorded, in Family Bible - Brevard, Robert owned by Alberta Malugen of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. (Privately held).
Robert Brevard was born June 10, 1718 died Feb. 24, 1800.
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