After all the talk about doing research in Virginia's courthouses, I want to state the obvious. All this information is available by interlibrary loan through the Library of Virginia. Go to the website, lva.virginia.gov, go to the bottom and click on site index and go to Local Records. You'll find lots. There is also information available re Revolutionary War soldiers, but I can't remember where it is. Search the catalog, or maybe the LVA librarian can help. It's a great system!!!
--- On Sun, 7/3/11, PJ THOMAS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: PJ THOMAS <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Pittsylvania & Bedford Co, VA. Militia Lists & Oaths of Allegiance
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 12:35 PM
Hello & thanks for your reply: Full name is DANIEL COLEMAN EDWARDS, b. abt 1750 in VA. Ancestry.Com always show birth as being in Bedford Co but I find no proof. He was supposely the son of WILLIAM EDWARDS & Grizzel Coleman, dau. of Daniel & PATIENCE ELLIOTT. DC's will was probated in Cumberland Co [Southam Par] 22 Jan 1770 & refers to his dau. Grizzel as Grizzel Edwards. Patience's will was probated 26 Aug 1771, Southam Par, Cumberland Co. per "Abstracts of Cumberland Co, VA Will Books 1 & 2, pp. 43 & 47.
I went to Cumberland Ct House & searched for Daniel but found only William.
In Pittsylvania Co. I found a copy of an Indenture in Deed Book 11, pp 246-247 dated 15 Feb 1798 whereby Bennett sold to DANIEL C. EDWARDS OF THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD. Proving his residence prior to that date was Bedford Co & then became resident of PittsCo. In another deed dated 15 Sep 1820 Daniel's full name is used [DCE].
In "Marriages & Deaths From Lynchburg, VA Newspapers 1794-1836 sponsored by Randall Holt Chapter, NSD of the American Colonists, p. 180 has a brief obit & from there I found a complete copy of same: MR. EDWARDS WAS A SOLDIER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR...Obit has a title ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER GONE. That statement is not enough to prove his service as I submitted DCE DAR last year & was told that I needed more proof. He has never been submitted before.
If I had to guess, I would guess that he lived in BedCo during the War years... so far, no proof. No Oath taken in PittsCo. but I cannot find any such list for Bedford. I queried PittsCo Historical Society, nothing there in the way of anything!
So: if DCE's parents are in fact Wm. & Grizzel, why was he born in Bedford Co. & lived there for a good part of his adult life? He is not to be found in Maude Carter Clement's book, nor in the 1777 Oaths list of PittsCo, nor VAs Colonial Soldiers nor VA Military Records but for one DANIEL EDWARDS who was paid along with others for work on the fort at York Towne, p. 464. DAR replied that he would not have traveled to York Towne just to help build a fort. Someone once suspected he had been in the 14th or 15th VA Reg. No proof yet.
Do I know too much! Also know he did not give food, animals tot he War effort in any of the 3 counties.
Thanks
PJ- Original Message ----- From: "marsha moses" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Pittsylvania & Bedford Co, VA. Militia Lists & Oaths of Allegiance
What is his name?
On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:10 PM, PJ THOMAS wrote:
> Hello: Need some direction. My 4th Great-Grandfather died in Pittsylvania Co in 1832 & obit in Lynchburg papers noted that he served during the Revolution but I find no proof. How can I obtain copies of the referenced data? Research in Cumberland Court House [county where he probably lived during some part of his adult life] turned up nothing. Thanks in advance!
> PJ
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