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Private: CAPT James Bonnel's company Spenser's NJ Regiment; MAJ General John Sullivan 1781 - Continental Line
Additional References:
30 Nov 1781 Payroll register for Capt James Bonnel's company Spenser's New Jersey regiment under Major General John Sillivan NARA microfilm series M246 roll 63
Spouse: Martha Lydia/Pattie Mallett Children: James Jr; Joseph M; Robert; Levi; George Washington; Jesse; John; Lydia Jane; Nathan; William Mallet; Sarah Elizabeth; Nancy
Image taken and provided by compatriot Craig S. Isaacson (NC) member 141694
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Exit Interstate 26 W at exit 11. Left on Highway 213 to Highway 1565 (Gabriel’s Creek Road). Turn left (south). Drive approximately 2 miles to Gabriel’s Creek Baptist Church. The cemetery address is 132 Gabriel’s Creek Church Road, Mars Hill, North Carolina.
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Author: Craig Steven Isaacson
James was born in Country Antrim, Ireland, in about 1740.
He served in the Continental Line with New Jersey. Some sources say Virginia. Records from 1782 show he and his family living in New Jersey, which gives a degree of credit to his service with New Jersey troops.
By 1790, he had moved his family to Surrey County, North Carolina, where he was listed in the first Federal Census reports for that county as the head of a family of nine males and three females.
He was married to Lydia "Patty" Mallett. His known children were:
Robert was born on 2 September 1769 and married Elizabeth Jarvis.
James was born about 1772 and married to Elizabeth Summers
In 1795, the family relocated to Buncombe County (now Madison County), North Carolina. As the Cherokee Nation was still defending its sovereignty rights against the settlers from the Piedmont of North Carolina as they moved into the Blue Ridge Mountains, Anderson's home resembled a fort to some degree.
The Patriot died in 1815 and is buried in the Gabriel's Creek Baptist Church Cemetery just southwest of Mars Hill, North Carolina.
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