Display Patriot - P-160243 - Jaques/James FAURE/FORD Sr
Jaques/James FAURE/FORD Sr
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P-160243
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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Find-a-Grave offers no evidence of a stone - June 2023
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Author: John Edward Laycock
James Ford Sr. was born in 1708 at Henrico County, Virginia, a son of Jean Pierre Faure (Peter Ford) and Mary Elizabeth Agee. His father and mother were both French and part of the Huguenot immigration to America. James Ford Sr. married Ann Bondurant, a daughter of Jean Pierre Bondurant and Ann Tanner, about 1728. Ann’s family were also Huguenots who had settled at Virginia. They were the parents of nine known children: Mary Elizabeth, Judith, Peter, Magdalene, Ann, Rachael, James, Ruth, and Boaz.
In 1754, he served the Colonial Militia in the French and Indian War under Colonel Washington. He served in Peter Hogg’s Company and was wounded1 in the Battle of the Meadows (also known as the Battle of Fort Necessity) during which he lost an eye from a musket ball. In 1770, he appealed to the House of Burgesses to receive a pension for the loss of his eyesight.2
"A Petition of James Ford was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, that the Petitioner being in the Service of this Colony, at the Battle of the Meadows, in the Year 1754, received a Wound in his right Eye, by a Musket Ball which deprived him of Sight thereof and that he is growing old, and become week; [sic] and therefore praying the House to take his condition into Consideration and grant Relief.”3
“Ordered, that the said petition be referred to the consideration of the Committee of Public Claims; and that they do examine the Matter thereof, and report the fame, with their Opinion thereupon to the House.”4
“Resolved, that it is of the opinion of this Committee, that the Petition of James Ford, late a soldier in the service of the Colony, under the command of Colonel George Washington, is reasonable; and that he ought to be allowed the Sum of Five Pounds for his present Relief; and the further Sum of Five Pounds per annum during his Life in Consideration of the Wound he received at the Battle of the Meadows and his being thereby rendered incapable of getting necessary Substance."5
According ‘Publick’ claims for Buckingham County, Virginia, James Ford provided material aid of 22 pounds of bacon, three bushels of corn and he provided pasture for 17 horses for the Armand Legion. 6
James Ford, Sr. died before 1788. His final resting place is not known, it is believed to be at the Monacan Farm Cemetery at Manakin, Virginia.
Sources:
1. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. January 1894. Vol. 1, No. 3. Pg. 278-287.
2. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1770-1772. Pg. 31, 49.
3. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1770-1772. Pg. 31. (May 29, 1770)
4. Ibid.
5. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1770-1772, Pg. 49. (June 6, 1770)
6. Abercrombie and Slatten: Virginia Revolutionary ‘Publick’ Claims, Vol. 1, Pg. 165, 173.
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