Display Patriot - P-104214 - William APPERSON/EPPERSON
William APPERSON/EPPERSON
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P-104214
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No Fid-a-Grave GPS coordinates for this cemetery, 04 Jan 2021
Author: Danny G. Crouse
William Alexander Apperson was born on 22 March 1757 in New Kent, Virginia, the son of Peter & Frances (Poindexter) Apperson.
On 6 June 1781 in Surry County, North Carolina, he married Elizabeth Carr. They had the following known children:
John was born on 8 March 1783 and married Cecilia Mitchell.
Peter was born on 23 March 1784 and married Elizabeth Petty.
Thomas was born in 1790 and married Luvitha Vest.
Alexander was born on 28 March 1792 and married Mary Mitchell.
Elizabeth was born on 30 June 1795 and married Thomas Sprinkle.
Note: previously, son John was credited with being married to Emilia Bell. That John was not the son of the Patriot.
On 21 April 1784, Private William Apperson was deeded 228 acres of land in North Carolina for 30 months of service to the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War—land grant No. 608. In her Widow's pension file is a deposition by William Head states: "that he was well acquainted with William Apperson, alias Epperson, above named, in time of the Revolutionary War; that he knows said Apperson served under Joseph Philips, a Continental Captain in the Army of the United States, for two and one-half years in the place of a Wm. Harrison, and also three months in the militia for and in this deponent's place, and that he paid him for so doing."
Another deposition by Thomas Sprinkle states "he oftentimes heard the within named William Apperson in his lifetime relate the various expeditions that he had performed as a soldier in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that he heard him say he was under Colonel William Shepperd as a Minute Man and Guard at Old Richmond when a certain Robert Tate was hung dead as a Tory and one certain battle, or engagement, when he, wit the rest of the Whigs, retreated in haste from the British and Tories at Reedy Creek, lost his gun by hooking in a sapling and dropped his knapsack and swam across the creek."
The Patriot died on 22 March 1826, in Surry County, North Carolina, at the age of 69, and was buried in Apperson Family cemetery near East Bend, Surry County, North Carolina.
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