Display Patriot - P-240878 - James MALCOM/MALCOLM

James MALCOM/MALCOLM

SAR Patriot #: P-240878

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Soldier
DAR #: A073234

Birth: 1752 / Augusta / VA
Death: 23 Feb 1829 / Morgan / GA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Pvt, Capt Dickey, Augusta Co., VA Militia
  2. Also, Gen Nathaniel Greene, VA Militia, Guilford Co Courthouse, NC, 16 Mar 1781
  3. DAR cites ENTERED 1827 GA LAND LOTTERY DRAWING AS REV WAR SOLDIER

Additional References:
  1. Georgia Rev War Soldiers’ Graves; supplement. Draft. H. Ross Arnold, Jr, Hank Burnham and Mary Jane Galer, compilers. GASSAR. 1999. Arnold, H. Ross (Herman Ross), Burnham, H. Clifton (Henry Clifton). (1993)
  2. GA Rev War Soldiers' Graves.GSSAR
  3. ROSTER OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA, McCall, pg 496
  4. Hoxford, GA Genealogical Magazine, Jul 1964
  5. MORGAN CO, GA, LAND LOTTERY ELIGIBLES, 1825-1827, pg 20, FHL #1276553
  6. McCall, Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in GA, pg 225
  7. Gwathmey, Historical Register of VA in Rev, pg 496

Spouse: (1) XX XX; (2) Sally XX;
Children: John; George Washington; Gannaway; David; Sarah/Sally; James; Anna; Mary Ann;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1967-02-22 NH Unassigned Neal M Parr (92824) David   
1987-03-19 PA 225709 Conrad Scott Rizer (129180) Ganaway   
1988-12-09 TX 221852 John Thomas Monk III (132146) James   
1990-03-30 GA 218438 Mark Lewis Goodwin (134722) George   
1990-03-30 GA 218469 Tinnie Glynn Jackson (134750) George   
1990-03-30 GA 218470 Walden R. Wells (134751) George   
1990-03-30 GA 218499 Patrick Winston Hunter (134777) George   
1990-04-17 GA 218025 Marshall William Hunter (134819) George   
1990-04-23 TN 218116 Doyle Ernest Richardson (134898) John   
1990-05-31 NC 214701 Jeffrey Doyle Richardson (135104) John   
1993-10-19 VA 209947 Darrell Eugene Malcolm (141491) George   
2000-05-25 TX 6593 Samuel Jefferson Cobb Jr (152766) George   
2001-02-06 GA 8370 George Malcom Rooks Jr (155146) George   
2008-05-02 GA 31547 Kenneth Allen Donaldson Sr. (171586) John   
2009-03-26 GA 34376 James Bertram Hawk (173568) John   
2009-08-31 GA 36371 David James Hawk (174990) John   
2020-05-29 TN 91673 William Joseph Gregg Jr. (215496) David   
2020-08-21 GA 93379 Winburn Jackson Dickens (216594) Ganaway   
2022-06-10 CA 102095 George Malcolm Rooks III (222676) George   
2022-06-10 CA 102096 George Malcolm Rooks IV (222677) George   
Burial:
Herndon (aka Annie Mary Missionary Baptist Church) Cemetery (C-0373604)
Location:
Social Circle / Walton / GA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2183361
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
21130068
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • There is an obelisk erected and VA issued marker here for James Malcom. These were placed by family members in the 1950s, however; there is no record of where James Malcom and his wife, Nancy Sally Gannaway Malcolm, were actually buried. These are likely cenotaphs
  • Gravestone noted that James Malcom served in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
  • Photos displayed courtesy of Malcom Griffith, GASSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

James Malcom   b. 1752  d. 2/23/1829     WALTON COUNTY, GEORGIA

 

He served as a Captain in the Virginia Navy and commanded the ship, Tempest, a small frigate.  He fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and was captured by the enemy in 1781.  He remained a prisoner for the rest of the war and came to Georgia in 1789.  He received a pension for his services and was a member of the Baptist Church for 25 years.  He died at his home in Morgan (now Walton)

County.

 

Buried: Greene-Malcom Family Cemetery, Good Hope. 

 

See:       (1) DAR. Historian General Card file.

              (2) Mrs. Marcella Lee, a descendant, Alma, Georgia.

              (3) Marriages and Deaths: 1820 to 1830, p. 79.

             (4) Wayfarers in Walton, p. 809.

 

Source:  Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke.  Edited by: Ryan Groenke.

 

A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index. 

 

Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.

 

Printed in the United States of America

New Papyrus Co., Inc.

548 Cedar Creek Drive

Athens, GA  30605-3408




Author: Malcom Bradley Griffith
James Malcom was born about 1752 at Augusta County, Virginia Colony, a son of George Malcom and Sarah Preston.  He served in the Virginia Militia as a Private in Dickey's Company under General Nathaniel Green, and fought in the Battle of Guildford Courthouse.  He married Nancy Sally Gannaway (born 19 Julu 1761, died 23 February 1829) in 1773 with the marriage producing 10 children - five sons and five daughters (some dates are approximate).
 
Mary Ann (1775-1850)
David C. (1776-1834)
Gannaway (1779-1830)
Elizabeth (1782-1861)
John "Rich John" (1784-1862)
Sarah "Sally" (1787-1870)
James, Jr. (1789-1834)
"Elder" George Washington (1791-1864)
Nancy (1798-1828)
Anna (1802-1868)
 
James participated in the 1827 Morgan County Land Drawing as a Revolutionary War Soldier.
 
Some records list James Malcom as a Naval Captain.  Captain James Malcom is a completely different person, and probably a cousin to this James Malcom.  Unfortunately, this confusion lead to his incorrectly being listed as a Captain on the Green Cemetery markers and earlier family histories.
 
There are two cairns, or rock tombs, in the Herndon Cemetery believed to belong to James and Nancy of the style very common to the Southern States in the early 19th century.  Additionally, James Malcom's daughter, Anna, married Joseph Herndon's son, Elisha Merriman Herndon (both of whom are interred in the Herndon Cemetery) in 1821.  Further, Joseph Herndon died in 1830, mere months after James Malcom.  Lastly, researchers decades ago noted an "M" etched in the head or foot panels of these cairns.
 
All factors considered, the evidence is stronger that James and Nancy rest in the Herndon Cemetery than in the Green Cemetery. 
 
Photographs of the markers in the Green Cemetery and of the clairns in the Herndon Cemetery are attached.
 
His obituary in The Southern Recorder, published in Milledgeville, Georgia, Saturday, March 14, 1829 (Reprinted in the Georgia Genealogical Magazine, #13, July 1964, pg. 785) reads:  
 
       Died, in Morgan County, on the 23rd of February, James Malcom, aged 77 years. 
       He was a native of Virginia, but has been a citizen of Georgia for forty years.  He
       was a soldier during the Revolution-was in the Battle of Guildford Court-House. 
       Twenty five years of his life he had been an orderly and acceptable member of the
       Baptist Church.  He has left many relatives and friends to mourn his death.
 
 
 



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Additional Information:
  • DAR NOTE: (there are potential issues) regarding this man's lineage
    • MOTHER OF PATRIOT'S CHILDREN BORN BEFORE DEC 1797 IS NOT KNOWN
    • PATRIOT'S DAUGHTER, ANN, BY HIS WIFE, SALLY X, MARRIED X HERNDON. THERE IS NO PROOF ANN WAS THE WIFE OF MERRIMAN HERNDON - Jan 2015


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