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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Birth: 23 Jun 1740 / Spottsylvania / VA Death: 23 Jun 1800 / Bulloch / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private: NC Continental Line
Paid for services rendered
Additional References:
DAR cites Haun, NC Rev Army Accounts, Vol 3, Part 2, pg 332
Hay, Roster of the Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, with an Appendix Containing a Collection of Miscellaneous Records, North Carolina. Durham: The North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932, pg 265, 549
NC Rev War Pay Vouchers, 5632, Roll S115.115
Spouse: Mary Ann Monk Children: Ezekiel; William Henry; Ansel; Hezekiah; Jerusha; Absolom; Mourning; Josiah; Joel;
Flat V/A style stone, not contemporary with the death of the Patriot.
DAR marked the grave in the 1970s
Find-a-Grave cites Pvt Henry Jackson Parrish Sr.
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The cemetery is located on the county line between Bulloch County and Candler County on the Bulloch County side.
Author: LtCol James T Thomas Callender (Ret.)
RESEARCHER NOTES - submitted by Wayne Taylor - 5 Sep 2023
The data you have for Henry Parrish SAR Patriot # P-266053 is incorrect on a number of levels.The Henry Parrish that served in the Rev war in Halifax district NC was a completely different man, this Henry Parrish is on the 1790 census of Franklin Co NC, he was married to Elizabeth Strother and died in 1811 in Wilson County Tennessee.
Henry Parrish 1740-1800 was born in Goochland County VA, he was married to Margaret Oden on Sept 16th 1765 in St James Parish Goochland County VA, he served as a sergeant in the 2nd Regiment of the VA Continental Line in which he was paid L70-8-2 and received 200 acres of land for three years of service.Henry Parrish became a substitute for Moses Johnston and served to the end of the war as such,for this service he was paid in Spanish gold.
The 2nd regiment that Henry Parrish served in took part in the southern theater which took Henry to Georgia where he fought at Savannah and the Ogeechee river.After the war Henry Parrish sold the 200 acres he received for his service and moved to Wilkes Co GA where he purchased land on the Ogeechee river,this land bordered the land of John Parrish who was the cousin of Henry. John Parrish was the son of Ansel Parrish and Mildred Atkins who were married Feb 20th 1758 at St James Parish Goochland Co VA.In 1798 Ansel Parrish sold his property and moved to Wilkes Co GA and bought land next to his son John.
It was in Wilkes Co GA that Henry Parrish married his second wife Mary Monk, she was the mother of his three youngest children. The property of Henry Parrish and John Parrish was at the junction of Long creek and the Ogeechee river, in 1797 Henry Parrish moved to Bulloch Co GA where he was granted 450 acres, he died just three years later, Henry had a grandson named Oden Parrish, son of Josiah Parrish...Wayne Taylor
Land office Military Warrant No 4109 Oct 7th 1786 - Henry Parrish - 200 acres of land due unto the said Henry Parrish in consideration of his services for three years as a sergeant in the Virginia Continental Line.
Back of Warrant Nov 19th 1786 - I hearby give my rights to this warrant to William Stokes - Signed Henry Parrish, William Stokes
Henry Parrish 2nd regiment Virginia Continental Line - Pay roll Oct 1777- Sept 1779
Henry Parrish Sergeant Infantry Virginia Continental Line - Full pay balance due L70-8-2 - Feb 7th 1786
Deed Book CC pg 11027 August 1787 - Benjamin Few and Rachel his wife of Richmond Co., to Henry Parrish of Wilkes Co GA., for 45L (pounds), 92 acres on the Ogeechee River, part of a tract granted to Few.
Wilkes Co Georgia 1788 - Thomas Gambill to John Parrish for 35L 240 acres of land in Wilkes Co Georgia on long creek adjoining the land of Henry Parrish, Benjamin Few,George Cooper,John Edmondson
St James Parish Goochland Co VA - Ansel Parrish to Mildred Atkins Feb 20th 1758 - Henry Parrish to Margaret Oden Sept 16th 1765
April 12th 1801 Warren Co GA (created from Wilkes Co) - Ansel Parrish purchased 100 acres from John Torrance, land joined by John Parrish
A Chronology of Georgia American Revolution Battles and Skirmishes - June 22nd 1778 Ogeechee River - March 20th 1780 Ogeechee river
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Henry Parrish b. c1740 d. 6/30/1800 BULLOCH COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served for 36 months as a private in the North Carolina Continental Line from the Halifax District and received 274 acres of bounty land in North Carolina for his services.
Buried: Upper Lott's Creek Church Cemetery.
See: (1) Bulloch County, Georgia Genealogical Source Material, p. 437.
(2) Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, January 1982, p. 29.
(3) Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, p. 265.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, 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.
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