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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Birth: abt 1740 / Orange / VA Death: 07 Oct 1780 King's Mountain / York / SC
Qualifying Service Description:
Killed Indians at Island Flat Battle; in Chriatian's Cherokee expedition, 1776
Lt in frontier defence, 1777-8
in Chicamauga expedition, 1779
KIA at King's Mountain
Additional References:
46th-55th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
Spouse: Mary Montgomery Children: Members Who Share This Ancestor
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Author: Frederick Arnold Weyler
Robert Edmonson Sr. was born in Orange County VA abt 1740. He married Mary Montgomery. Serving as Lieutenant in the William Edmondson Company of Colonel William Campbell’s Washington County VA militia, Robert was killed in action at the Battle of Kings Mountain on Saturday afternoon 07 Oct 1780. Lt. Robert Edmondson Jr. was wounded at BKM. They were not father and son, but were elder and younger neighbors. One of them signed the call to “Fighting Parson” Charles Cummings to the Ebbing Spring Presbyterian congregation.
The Edmondson clan had their names variously spelled Edmondston, Edmiston, and Edmundson. J Edmundson M.D. was rector of Augusta Academy 1760 to 1770. Robert Edmiston graduated from Liberty Hall Academy (Augusta was renamed, then Liberty Hall was renamed, now Washington & Lee University and VMI). Edmondston’s Fort was behind Old Moore Cemetery at Lodi VA in 1776.
According to most sources (Bobby Gilmer Moss being the most accurate) seven Edmondson’s were among the Virginians at the Battle of King’s Mountain. Three Williams, two Roberts, Andrew, and Samuel. Lewis Preston Summers also names Moses and John Edmondson. Others also name Thomas Edmondson and John Montgomery Edmondson. Summers apparently named those who mustered to oppose Patrick Ferguson, then returned home. Many rosters list patriots who were at Cowpens, but not in the battle. Some include those who herded the Tory prisoners to Bethabara but were not in the battle.
WC DB I- Page 265 - Robert Edmondson...400 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the south side of the south fork of Holstein...Beginning on the north side of a valley...May 20, 1784 - Robert Edmondson, assignee of Benjamin & Johnathan Thomas, assignees of Barnabas Anderson...400 ac...on Rush Creek...includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1776...August 31, 1781 N 36.70335 W 81.71790
Page 265 - Robert Edmondson...257 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the south fork of Holston River...Beginning on the north side of the river, corner to John Edmondson, Jr.'s land...line of William Edmondson, Sr...corner to the patent land...line of John Buchanan’s land...on the north side of the river...May 20, 1784 - Robert Edmondson, assignee of William Edmondson, assignee of Robert Huston...400 ac.. on the south fork of Holstein River, 108 ac surveyed for William Edmondson, Sr. on March 15, 1774...includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1770...August 17, 1781
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