On 1/5/2012 8:25 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
Hi Jane,
I don't know. I'm forwarding your question to the list. Someone else may
know. I did find this post archived in the old John Cooley Mailing List.
http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/old/2006-December/000001.html
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Subject: Cooley Cemetery, Mercer County, Ky
From: "Jane Wisdom"
Date: Thu, January 5, 2012 6:55 pm
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I just found something refering to a Cooley cemetery in Mercer Co., Ky.
The person listed here is a brother to Margaret Kirkland that married
Randolph White. They were neighbors of John Cooley, Sr. You may remember
that four of Margaret Kirkland White's children married John Cooley, Sr.
descendants. If this Cemetery still exists, might find the date for the
death of John Cooley? Wife???
Jane Wisdom
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnwboring&id=I7032
last update: 2001
John KIRKLAND , SR. born 1753, Prince George County, Virginia,
died 1838, Mercer County, Kentucky.
NOTES: John Kirkland, born in Prince George County, Virginia, in
1753, served as a Private of Cav., Virginia Line, under Captains
Theodoric Bland, Richard Call and Edward Jones at Dandridge,
Virginia, Continental Troops, and also as an Indian spy under
Captain Doherty on the frontier. He was paid a pensionfor
his service on March 4, 1831, and March 30, 1833.
Source:Tennessee DAR, "Membership Roster and Soldiers", p. 973
(1961),
citing Burns, "Revolutionary War Soldiers in Kentucky Counties",
p. 43. Married ? PORTER (635).
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=parkerpitkin&id=I6621
last update: 2010
Name: John Kirkland
Sex: M
Birth: 1754 in , Prince George County, VA 1
Death: 27 JAN 1837 in Dixville, Mercer, Kentucky, USA 1
Name: John Kirkland 1
Birth: 1754 in , Prince George County, VA 1
Death: 27 JAN 1837 in Dixville, Mercer, Kentucky, USA 1
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mercer&id=I3279
John Kirkland served in the Cavalry, Virginia Line, under Captains
Theodoric Bland, Richard Call and Edward Jones at Dandridge,
Virginia, Cont inental Troops, and also as an Indian spy under
Captain Doherty on the frontier. He was paid a pension for his
service on March 4, 1831, and March 30, 1833.
The DAR Patriot index has John's death date as 1837, but Mercer
County Court Order Book 'P' has the date as 1838. I believe the
County record is more reliable.
Of John's 7 sons (Joseph, William, John Jr., Isaac, Abraham,
Jacob, and Alexander), William was listed in the Mercer County
census for the years 1 810-1840 (he died sometime before 1842). In
1820, Joseph, John Jr., Is aac, & Abraham were listed. Only
John Jr. of these 4 appeared in the 1830 census and beyond: Joseph
died before 1830 and Jacob, Isaac & Abraham all moved to
Missouri around 1823, right after Jacob married. Alex ander
appeared as the head of household for the first time in the 1830
census of Mercer Co., but around 1833 he moved to Indiana.
Note: John was assigned as the guardian for Elizabeth Tolly in
1801 (his wife Mary's baby sister????), and raised her (giving
bond for her marriage to Christopher Vanarsdall in 1810). Then
John Kirkland Jr. gave bond for her marriage to Samuel Huff in
1817.
Marriage 1 MARY TOLLY b: BEF 1767
Married: 14 MAY 1783 in , Lincoln, Kentucky
Children
William Kirkland b: ABT 1784 in , Mercer, Kentucky
John Kirkland b: ABT 1790 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Joseph Kirkland b: ABT 1791 in , Mercer, Kentucky
NANCY KIRKLAND b: ABT 1792 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Mary Kirkland b: ABT 1793 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Jacob Kirkland b: ABT 1793 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Alexander Kirkland b: ABT 1794 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Abraham Kirkland b: ABT 1795 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Isaac Kirkland b: 25 DEC 1796 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Marriage 2 Porter b: BEF 1763 in , , , USA
Note: DAR Patriot Index lists a wife named ? Porter.
Married: BEF 1779
Marriage 3 Barbara Walker
Note: Bondsman: James Slaughter
Married: 8 NOV 1810 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Sources:
Title: DAR Patriot Index
Text: DAR Patriot Index
Title: Mercer Co. Court Order Book 'P', p.407
Text: Mercer Co. Court Order Book 'P', p.407
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tsmith&id=I330022
last update: 2011
Name: John KIRKLAND
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1750 in Pennsylvania
Death: 2 JUN 1831
Burial: Nevada, Mercer, Kentucky
Reference Number: Taf:1.136+29.2
_FSFTID: L7FV-82C
Change Date: 12 JUN 2010 at 17:53:13 1
Marriage 1 Mary FOLLEY b: ABT 1754 in Pennsylvania
Married: 14 MAY 1783 in Stanford, Lincoln, Kentucky
Children
Abraham KIRKLAND b: 1778 in Mercer Co., Ky
Isaac KIRKLAND b: 1780 in Mercer Co., Ky
Jacob KIRKLAND b: 1782 in Mercer Co., Ky
William KIRKLAND b: 1784 in , Washington, , Kentucky
Nancy KIRKLAND b: 1788 in Mercer Co. Ky.
Mary Perline KIRKLAND b: ABT 1790 in , Mercer, Kentucky
John KIRKLAND b: 1790 in , Mercer, Kentucky
Joseph KIRKLAND b: 1791 in , Mercer, Ky
Alexander KIRKLAND b: 1794 in , Mercer, Ky c: in Adel, Dallas,
Iowa
Hannah KIRKLAND b: ABT 1798 in , Mercer, Kentucky
http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/s13634.pdf
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements &
Rosters
Pension Application of John Kirkland S13634
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Kentucky } Mercer County viz } This day John Kirkland
senr personally appeared in open court and made oath That he is
now in the seventy ninth year of his age & that he was a
revolutionary soldier, that in the spring of the year 1776 He
enlisted in Capt Theodorick Bland company of dragoons of the 1
Virginia Regiment, and Capt Bland was afterward promoted st to be
a Colonel of Dragoons 31 Mar 1777], that he enlisted for the term
of two & a half years and faithfully served out his time, the
s’d Bland being the Col and Richard Call his Captain, and I
enlisted in Volandford[?] near Petersburgh in the State of
Virginia. That he was in the Battle of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777],
Germantown [4 Oct 1777] and Monmouth [28 Jun 1778] and several
other skirmishes and that he faithfully served out his time and
was honorably discharged in fall of the year 1778 in Winchester in
the State of Virginia. That he is not a Pensioner of the United
States neither has he ever been on the pension list and he hereby
releases all other claims to a pension – he farther states that he
again in the fall of the year 1779 He enlisted with Capt Edward
Jones in Col Greens [John Green’s] Regiment for the term of
eighteen months and was detatched into several other Regiments of
the continal line of Virginia Troops and He continued to serve as
a faithful soldier in Capt Jones Company until the expiration of
his time of enlistment when he was again honorably discharged at
Rudgelys Mills [sic: Rugeley’s Mill 12 mi N of Camden] in the
state of South Carolina, being both enlistments a soldier of the
Virginia Troops of the continental line. That I do not know of any
person by whom I can prove my services except by strong
circumstantial evidence He farther says that he has long since
lost his discharges witness my hand this 6th day of July 1832 –
John hisXmark Kirkland
[Philip Board (pension application S14979) and John Bridges
(S47819) deposed that after conversing with Kirkland they were
convinced of his service. Charles Kirkland deposed that he had
seen one of John Kirkland’s discharges about 50 years previously.]
State of Kentucky }
Mercer County Viz } On this 4th day of February 1833 personally
appeard in open court before the justices of the Mercer County
court now sitting John Kirkland senr, 79 years of age a resident
citizen of s’d county and state who being first sworn according to
law makes oath to the following declaration for the purpose of
obtaining a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th day
of of June 1832 viz I John Kirkland now seventy nine years of age
a resident Citizen in the county of Mercer and State of Kentucky,
do hereby declare that I entered the service of my country during
the revolutionary war at the time and under the officers hereafter
named In the spring of the year 1776 according to my recollection
I enlisted in Capt Theodoric Blands company of of Light Dragoons
for two years and a half at Petersburgh in the state of Virginia
and we first marched to Williamsbugh [sic: Williamsburg] where we
were stationed and were employd with Capt Dandridges [Alexander
Spotswood Dandridge’s] company in collecting provisions and on
occasional excursions in the neighborhood as a guard, and late in
the fall we were marchd to the North and met the Prisoners taken
by Genl Washington at Princeton [3 Jan 1777] between Philadelphia
and Trenton – and at Trenton we Halted some time and thence joined
Lord Sterling [sic: William Alexander, Lord Stirling] at Basking
ridge and Morristown, and soon after Capt Bland was promoted to be
a Major and then Colonel of our Corps, and then Captn Richd Call
was my captain the whole time as well as I now can recollect, and
when the Brittish returnd from New Brunswick in Jersey, we took
possession of the place and I was also in Elizabeth town and at
Newark and had several skirmishes with small parties of the enemy,
and when the Brittish sailed round for the Delaware, we returned
and were stationed at different places above Philadelphia and when
the British advanced on that place my Regiment with the main army
met them at Brandywine where we had a severe battle, which lasted
until near night, and as well as I now recollect Genl Stephens
[Adam Stephen’s] Brigade first gave way and we then retreated
back, and were stationed not far from Germantown and not long
after I was engaged in that Battle, which was a very warm one for
a short time, and after this my company retired to Morris town
where we continued making excursions during the winter and spring,
and in June when the Brittish left Philadelphia we were ordered to
pursue them and at Monmouth we had another severe Battle with
them, Genl Lee Brought[?] in the Battle but Genl Washington had to
come up and [illegible word; see endnote] some unfortunate order
which [Gen. Charles] Lee had given My company had a severe
conflict for a short time – after this Battle, I was marched to
the White Plains where I remained until my time was near expiring
in the fall 1778 when I was marchd back to Winchester in Virginia
when I was honorably discharged, which discharge I have long since
lost or mislaid; after this Period I was in the Militia service
twelve months but do not consider it important now to give a full
statement as I was in the Regular army as dragoon two years and
six months, first under Capt Bland and then under him as a Colonel
during the short time – I further state that I have no documentary
evidence of my age or services having long since lost them. I also
state that I was born in the county of Prince George in the State
of Virginia and was raised in Dunwiddie [sic: Dinwiddie] county
where I resided when the war commenced, and I enlisted in
Petersburgh Virginia, I was an enlisted soldier in Col Blands
Regiment of Dragoons, being a volunteer & not a drafted
soldier. I do not know now of any person alive by whom I can prove
my services except by imputation – after the revolutionary war was
nearly over in the fall 1781 after Cornwallis was captured [19
Oct] at which time I was in the militia service in Carolina I
removed to Kentucky now Mercer County where I performed several
militia tours and guard as an Indian Spy, and was also with Gen’l
[George Rogers] Clark then marched against the Indians on the Big
Miami in the fall 1782 in Capt Dohertys [possibly John
Dougherty’s] company. I farther hereby relinquish all claim which
I may have to any pension from the united states except the
present or any other annuity, Witness my hand this 4 th February
1832 [sic]
John hisXmark Kirkland
NOTES:
A size roll compiled at Chesterfield Courthouse after 1 Sep 1780
includes the following: Jn’o. Kirkland/ age 25/ height 5 6¾/
farmer/ born and residing in Prince George/ dark-brown hair/ hazel
eyes/ fair complexion/ enlisted 11 Sep 1780 for 18 months.
At the Battle of Monmouth Gen. Washington had to countermand Gen.
Lee’s orders to retreat.
On 29 Mar 1853 John Kirkland, Jr. assigned power of attorney to
obtain any benefits due for the service of his father, who died in
the fall of 1837.
--
Curt, in Phoenix, Arizona
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=curti_m
Received on Fri Jan 06 2012 - 09:51:29 MST