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From: "Sherrill U Williams" <>
Subject: Re: [WILDER-SOUTH-L] TN Rev. War Land Warrants
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:31:34 -0400


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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