Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Jacob McClendon, Sr.    b. 1725    d. 1799   WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA

 

He came from North Carolina and settled on Fishing Creek.  He served in the Georgia Troops under General Elijah Clarke.

 

Buried: Old McClendon Family Cemetery, Danburg, Georgia.  His headstone was placed at Kettle Creek Battleground, Washington, Georgia.  His tombstone gives his birth and death dates as 1715 – 1793.

 

See:       (1) Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots.  Reported to D.A.R. in 1958.

              (2) Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County, v. 2, p. 62, 86.

              (3) Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, Patriots & Descendants, v. 1, p. 143.

              (4) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 422.

              (5) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p.116.

              (6) Tombstone.

 

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

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548 Cedar Creek Drive

Athens, GA  30605-3408

Author: Peter Kristian Widell

Jacob McClendon migrated to Georgia from North Carolina in 1774 according to Augusta land records.  The first court at Wilkes County, Georgia, was held at his home, August 25, 1779 at which nine Tories were tried, convicted, and sentenced.  This was at Danburg, ten miles from Washington, Georgia.  He fought at the Battle of Kettle Creek.  He was granted 287 acres at Washington County for his service in 1784.

Reference:  Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, Knight, Pg. 20, 119, 317, 374, 386.

 

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