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From: Adams <>
Subject: Re: [WILDER-SOUTH-L] TN Rev. War Land Warrants
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:07:01 -0400
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Hi Sherrill,

I do remember Joab being listed in a North Carolina Militia in 1777. I'll have
to go through my notes and try to find the information again.

I also remember along time ago, before you joined the list, I remember seeing a
Joseph Wilder listed as a Tory and I believe that it was in North Carolina.
This was in a book at the NGS Library. However, I didn't have time to copy the
information at the time. If I remember correctly, didn't someone post something
stating this fact? Looks like I need to go and find that book at the NGS
Library.

Could you explain Tories to me? I was never good at history......lol I think I
missed that day when they were studying that part of history.....lol

Beth

Sherrill U Williams wrote:

> Beth - no I don't have Joab's revolutionary record. If he served at all,
> and there is some evidence that he did, it was probably in some local
> militia group that kept no records. Considering where he was living during
> the revolution, I would say that was true for him. There are few military
> records for those mountain boys, unless they lived long enough to apply for
> pensions. Also considering where he lived, I would guess that he had
> loyalist (tory) leanings, and spent most of the war period "hid out." That
> explains our difficulty in attaching children to him. There were a number
> of prominent and well-known Tories in the moutain area where Joab lived -
> and a large number of patriot, militia, soldiers whose entire revolutionary
> service was spent in hunting the Tories down. Old Timothy Perkins was one
> of the noted Tories in Wilkes (part now Ashe) Co, NC......and we know the
> later relationship between the Perkins and Wilders in Whitley Co, KY. I do
> despair of ever finding any substantial and authoritative source data for
> Joab Wilder and his children.
> Sherrill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adams <>
> To: <>
> Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [WILDER-SOUTH-L] TN Rev. War Land Warrants
>
> >Hi Sherrill,
> >
> >Do you have any information on Joab's Revolutionary War Service such as the
> >Company and Regiment in which he served? I'm trying to locate Joseph's
> service
> >record. We have a couple of references that state that he served in the
> >Revolution, but have been unable to locate his service record.
> >
> >Beth
> >
> >Sherrill U Williams wrote:
> >
> >> Beth,
> >> TN Revolutionary War Land Warrants are really North Carolina Land
> >> records. TN was part of NC during the Rev. War. The original records
> would
> >> be at NC Archives. I am sure, however, that all or most of the TN land
> >> records for land granted by NC were copied by TN after statehood (1796).
> NC
> >> set aside a special military boundary in TN for granting to her Rev.
> >> soldiers. Go to the Lib of Congress and look for this book:
> >> "North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791," by Betty Goff
> Cook
> >> Cartwright & Lillian Johnson Gardiner, 1958. There are only two Wilders
> in
> >> the index: Joab Wilder's grant (which we have - not military) and
> Randol
> >> Wilder. Randol received 1000 acres on the south side of Cumberland
> River.
> >> This grant was assigned "by the heirs of Randol Wilder, Cpl." to James
> >> Gloster Brehon.
> >> Sherrill
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Adams <>
> >> To: <>
> >> Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:44 PM
> >> Subject: [WILDER-SOUTH-L] TN Rev. War Land Warrants
> >>
> >> >Hi Everyone,
> >> >
> >> >Does anyone know where I can find the TN Rev. War Land Warrants? Would
> >> >these be located at the TN Archives in Nashville? Any help would be
> >> >appreciated.
> >> >
> >> >Beth
> >> >
> >

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