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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Church Cemetery adjacent to the Flat Rock Baptist Church. Grave located in second row at front of cemetery closest to the church
Located next to larger standing headstone of his daughter Sarah Windsor
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Author: Danny G. Crouse
Samuel Arnold was born in 1750 in Virginia, the child of Thomas Arnold and Abigail Wyche. He married Elizabeth Wright on September 5, 1771, in Fauquier County, Virginia. They had at least seven children during their marriage: William, Thomas, John, James, Daniel Sarah, Elijah.
Service Source: WELLS, SURRY CO NC LAND ENTRIES, 1778-1781, P 7 Service Description: TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO RECEIVE STATE LAND GRANT, 1778 NC Militia Soldier; Private in Colonel Dixon's Regiment, Salisbury District,; wounded and taken prisoner in South Carolina
He died in 1831 in Yadkinville, North Carolina, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried in the Flat Rock Baptist Church Cemeery, Hamptonville, southern Yadkin County, North Carolina. The church is located at 3800 Flat Rock Church Road. The marker is a flat slab.
Samuel ARNOLD – b. 1749-1749 Spotyslvania Co., VA; d. Before March 17, 1829 Surry Co., NC (src. AMERICANS OF ARMORIAL ANCESTRY, pg. 408) Married Elizabeth WRIGHT September 5, 1771 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia (src. Marr. Lics. bond dated Sept. 5, 1771, recorded at county clerk’s office in Warrenton) and leaves the area for Surry Co., NC with his father-in-laws’ family. Elizabeth Wright, b. 1754 Prince William Co., VA, was the daughter of John Wright (b. 1728) and Ann Williams (b. 1735) (src. AMERICANS OF ARMORIAL ANCESTRY, pg. 408). Was a Private in the Revolutionary War (src. AFAS VOL. 1, NO. 1, pg. 15).
(Dobson; Surry Co., NC Will Book 1, pg. 152) Joseph Masters of Surry County in his will dated 14 June 1781 appoints "my friends John Wright and Samuel Arnold executors". (src. Office of the Secretary of State, Raleigh, N.C. file #461.)
Surry Co., N.C. John Wright. Warrant for survey dated 1 Dec. 1778, 300 acres on both sides of Miller’s Creek adj. Samuel Arnold’s line and the line of Lewis Elliott ..."
Elizabeth Wright, Samuel Arnold area:1T184,185: "The removal of Capt. John Wright, Junr, Gent., from Fauquier Co. To Buck Shoal & Twnsp, Surry (now Yadkin) NC, is proven by various indications among which:
1. He disappears completely from Fauquier records (except in his father’s will) immediately after the sale to Peter Grant of the last of his property in Fauquier Co., Sept. 21, 1774
2. He first appears of record in Surry Co., N.C. in Feb. 1775, as defendant in an action at law brought by Joseph Crouch, in which John Wright’s son-in-law, Samuel Arnold, became one of the ‘sureties’ named on the defendant’s bond (Surry Co., N.C. filed court paper for Feb. Term 1775; also in ‘A Civil Docket for the County of Surry’ Book 1 (unpaged) "New Actions in Feb. Term 1775.")
3. In his will (recorded in office of the Clerk of the Court at Dobson, N.C.) proved at the May term of the court, 1790 of Surry Co., N.C. ... "I was born in Faquier Co., State of Virginia on the 18th day of Feby 1758’ and filed with this affidavit now in the U.S. Pension office is the original leaf of his family Bible bearing records of births, marriages, and deaths, among which is the entry, ‘Father Departed this Life Oct. 30, 1789’ (See Pension papers file #11,899 at U.S. Pension Office). Source: http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/39f53b95-4d6c-4504-93a7-2783affce380/37126637/19265520344?_phsrc=inU265&usePUBJs=true
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