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Author: Frederick Arnold Weyler
Nathaniel Dryden was born in Augusta County VA abt 1745. He married Mary McGee in 1770. The Dryden brothers came to the Blacks Fort area from Augusta County about 1779, settling south of Abingdon in the Wolf Creek and 15-Mile Creek watersheds. April 1780 Washington County Virginia appointed Nathaniel Dryden as Ensign of the militia. Nathaniel was among those killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780, serving as ensign under Captain David Beattie, Major William Edmondson and Col William Campbell. On 21Mar1781 Washington County court entry: An inventory and appraisement of the estate of Nathaniel Dryden, deceased exhibited in Court and ordered to be recorded. David Beattie’s supplemental ration list included Nathaniel Dryden.
Boys, I believe you all did your duty, and deserve well for it but let me tell you, had it not been for Campbell and his Virginians, I'll be d—d if Ferguson would not have been on that mountain yet Maj. Lewis speaking to his brothers of the Cleveland regiment (Draper, 1881) In the David Dryden will, Augusta County 1772, land was divided to wife and sons William and Nathaniel. The Augusta Co estate settlement was in 1776. Nathaniel had debits and credits. Nathaniel Dryden was listed among the Rockbridge County tithables of 1778. A Washington Co survey of Aug 1781, shows Joel Dryden, heir of Nathaniel, where he now lives.
Son of the deceased, Nathaniel Dryden was Justice of the Peace in Washington Co VA. On17Jun1823 he notarized the statement of Capt. James Keys re/ BKM. Nathaniel Dryden and Sylvester Baker are justices in Montgomery County Mo in the 1830s declarations for: S16628 Robert Baker, S17215 John Wyatt, S17618 Jacob Patton , S17137 Daniel Taylor. --------------------------------------------------------------- Washington County Surveyor Book-
Page 36 - Joel Dryden...200 ac...commissioners certificate...on both sides of Holstein River...Beginning with James Doran & David Drydens land...corner to Thomas Berry, Sr...June 16, 1782 - Joel Dryden, heir of Nathaniel Dryden, decd, assignee of Benjamin Grag, assignee of William McNab, assignee of Thomas Stubbs ...200 ac on Holstein River adjoining Thomas Berry, includes the place whereon Dryden now lives, actual settlement made in 1771...August 24, 1781
Page 173 - David Dryden...330 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on Holstein River on the Fifteen Mile Creek...Beginning in a rocky gap...on Joel Drydens line...corner to Dryden & James Doren...corner on Oliver Alexanders land... on the west side of Fifteen Mile Creek...at the mouth of Fifteen Mile Creek...June 15, 1782 - David Dryden, assignee of John Row...400 ac...on both sides of Holstein River...160 ac surveyed for David Dryden on February 1, 1774, actual settlement made in 1771...August 30, 1781 Page 176 - Joel Dryden...125 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on both sides of Little Mockison Creek, waters of the north fork of Holston River...bounded on the north by Mockeson Ridge and on the south by Clinch Mountain...Beginning at the foot of the mountain, corner to Silas Enyarts land...on the south side of Mockeson Ridge...February 20, 1784 - Joel Dryden, heir of Nathaniel Dryden, decd...400 ac...on Little Mockeson Creek, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1776...August 24, 1781
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