Person:Thomas Pullen (2)

Thomas Pullen is a suspected (but not proven) child of Joseph Pullen.

Records of Thomas Pullen

Census, 1810, Rockbridge Co, Virginia. Possibly Thomas - the name is smeared: 1 male 16-25, 1 male <10, 1 female 16-25

• Witness: 116 Acres on Buffalo Creek, 2 Aug 1813, Rockbridge Co, Virginia. I'm not really certain what the significance is. Thomas and Joseph Jr (? brother) attest for a land transaction. Joseph Pullen, Sr. lived near on Buffalo Creek as he also owned land.

Rockbridge County, VA Deed Book K, pp. 85-86. (Abstract)

2 August 1813 $500.00 116 Acres Israel Cowen and Lucy his wife and George Cowen and Samuel Cowen of Rockbridge County, VA to Benjamin Bogan of same. Tract of 116 Acres, part of 136 Acres in Rockbridge County, VA on waters of Buffalo Creek.

Beginning at a poplar hickory and Spanish oak, N 64, W 58 poles to 2 wh. oaks, N 25, W to a pine on the side of a hill corner Jean Doltons land and with her line, Down the hill to a bl. oak by a stony path another corner to Jean Dalton's land, With her lien again crossing a dry gully to a dogwood stump, several sprouts growing out of the top of it, Up the meanders of the run to three lynns at the foot of a steep hill, Up the hill to a chestnut oak another corner to Jean Dalton's land With her line to a poplar her corner formerly a line in the old survey, Leaving her line S 65, W to a bl. oak on the side of a ridge, S 20, W 52 poles crossing a branch and over a ridge to a pine, S 33, E 68 poles, crossing another branch and up a steep hill to a hickory on the top of sd. hill, S 9, E 42 poles down the hill and crossing the draft to a bl. oak on the east end of a ridge, S 45, E 28 poles to a wh oak in a bottom by a road side S 73, E 45 poles to 2 hickory grubs at the mouth of a dry gully being a corner of sd. Cowen's & Wm. Reid's dividing line N 46 3/4, E 89 poles crossing a run to a Spanish oak &gum corner David McWilliams old survey N 82, E 9 poles to beginning. Land with appurtenances, warranted by grantees as their moiety of the tract.

Test: Israel Cowen (Seal) John Crawford Senior Lucy Cowen (Seal) Thomas Pullen (x his mark) George Cowen (x his mark) (seal) Samuel Cowen (x his mark (seal) Joseph Pullen Junor (x his mark)

Rockbridge County Court 2 August 1813 Acknowledged by Israel Cowen, Lucy Cowen, and Geo. Cowen. Lucy privily examined. Attest: And. Reid CRC

Rockbridge County Court 2 September 1816 Acknowledged by Saml. Cowen. Ordered to be recorded Teste Calohill Mennis DC

• Census, 1820, Lexington, Rockbridge Co, Virginia. 1 male 26-45 (Thomas), 1 female 26-45 (Elizabeth), 4 males <10, 2 females <10 - 1 person in agriculture

• Census, 1830, Rockbridge Co, Virginia. 1 male 40-50 (Thomas), 1 female 40-50 (Elizabeth) , 1 male <5, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 20-30, 1 female <5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 15-20

Thomas married Elizabeth Grove, daughter of Leonard Grove and Unknown, on 11 May 1809 in Rockbridge Co, Virginia.1 (Elizabeth Grove was born about 1788 in Greenbrier Co, Virginia and died on 20 May 1868 in Rockbridge Co, Virginia.)

Source: http://sarahsgenealogy.lunarpages.com/gedcom/11511.htm