Display Patriot - P-268040 - John PEMBERTON

John PEMBERTON

SAR Patriot #: P-268040

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: NC      Qualifying Service: Captain
DAR #: A088272

Birth: 12 Oct 1742 Furness / Lancastershire / England
Death: 25 Oct 1813 Bristol / Sullivan / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Captain: COL Isaac Shelby, NC Militia
  2. Battle of Kings Mountain

Additional References:
  1. The King's Mountain Men, Katherine Keogh White, 1924, pg 216
  2. NSDAR Cites: Pension record of William Carr, S.1896

Spouse: Elizabeth Stanton
Children: Stanton; Diana; Benjamin; Nancy;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1961-03-13 IL Unassigned Eugene Carter Mason (87154)   
1971-03-24 VA Unassigned Raymond Kit Carson (101197) Hannah   
2000-01-28 IL 5681 Jo Allen Hackett (153233) Stanton   
2006-07-17 CO 25989 Jesse Howard Hallowell (167431) Stanton   
2006-07-17 CO 25990 Jesse Van Hallowell (167432) Stanton   
2007-01-23 CO 27210 Paul Howard Hallowell (168371) Stanton   
2007-08-08 IL 28712 Francis Eugene Hackett (169473) Stanton   
2012-08-15 TN 48648 James Phillip Newman (163679) Diana   
2015-07-27 TN 65303 Thomas Pemberton Vaughan (195685) Benjamin   
2022-11-18 TN 104380 John A. Boyer Jr. (224385) Elizabeth   
Burial:
Cold Spring Cemetery (C-0076223)
Location:
Bristol / Sullivan / TN / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2133640
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
196682586
Marker Type:
VA horizontal
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photos by permission: Frederick Arnold Weyler, Tennessee Society SAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Pemberton-HawkinsG-Grant Cemetery is located in the Holston Valley on the farm of Mrs. Carl Leonard. An Emmett Community



Author: Frederick Arnold Weyler
John Pemberton was born 12Oct1742, according to some descendants, in Lancastershire England to Richard Pemberton and Ann Atkinson. He married Elizabeth Staunton Delaney in Culpeper County VA in 1765. John died in Sullivan County TN 25Oct1813.

Culpeper Co, VA Deed Book E page 561 recorded Pemberton’s purchase of a tract on 08Aug1768, On 15Mar1773, Jonathan Cowherd, John Delany and John Pemberton appraised the estate of Richard Breeding deceased, in Culpeper County. About 1778, the Pemberton’s moved to the Holston River Valley, at the time presumed to be Virginia, later determined to be North Carolina, now Sullivan County, Tennessee.

As a captain in Colonel Isaac Shelby’s Sullivan County NC militia, John Pemberton excused John Gorsage from the Kings Mountain expedition on the condition that Gorsage strip a wagon for iron to shoe horses for the others. On 24Sep1780 Colonel William Campbell went to confer with Evan Shelby at Paperville while his company proceeded to Pemberton Oak N 36.56508 W 82.07172 then with John Pemberton’s men, on to Sycamore Shoals of Watauga. Known members of Pemberton’s company at Kings Mountain are Jacob and Joseph Beeler, William Carr, Thomas Laughlin, William McCormack, Samuel McGaughey, Thomas Morrell, John Peters, John Sharp, and Frederick Weaver.

JGM Ramsey’s record of the feud between John Tipton and John Sevier shows that Pemberton came to the defense of Tipton.

John and Elizabeth Pemberton are buried at the "Pemberton/Hawkins/Grant" Cemetery. GPS coordinates: 36.532685, -82.114551

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Children

William Pemberton (1766)
James Pemberton (1767)
Sarah "Sally" Pemberton (1765/70)
Elizabeth Pemberton (1772)
Thomas Pemberton (1775)
Stanton Pemberton (c1778)
Ezekiel Pemberton (1781)
Dianah Pemberton (c1783)
Benjamin Pemberton (1786)
Nancy Pemberton (1788)



On 24Sep1780 Colonel William Campbell went to confer with Evan Shelby at Paperville while his company proceeded to Pemberton Oak N 36.56508 W 82.07172 then with John Pemberton’s men, on to Sycamore Shoals of Watauga.
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