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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Sergeant Major / Civil Service
Author: Algernon Robert Sigmon
Nathaniel Vannoy b. 16 Feb 1749 in Potts Creek, Rowan Co. NC d. 26 Jul 1835 Greenville, South Carolina. He was a sergeant major under Colonel Benjamin Cleveland at the battle of Kings Mountain and served in skirmishes with the British, Tories, and Cherokees. He was a planter and Sheriff of Wilkes County during revolutionary time. While in the company of his brother, Captain Andrew Vannoy, Nathaniel captured the infamous Tory Riddle and two of his Tory friends who had been robbing and killing patriots in the vicinity of Wilkesboro. At the direction of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, he hung the three on the Tory oak which stood until about 1990 at the Wilkes County courthouse. He was Register of Deeds of Wilkes Co. NC in 1814 and 1815 and later a Baptist minister, having been a founding member of the New Hope Baptist Church in 1830. Nathaniel was granted 200 acres of land in Wilkes County 23 Oct. 1782. This land was surveyed for him 27 Dec 1779 and was located on the south side of Beaver Creek, a branch of the South fork of New River. (Book 49, p. 148, File 420, Secy. of State's Office, Raleigh, NC) He was granted an additional 100 acres further north of his earlier grant on 10 July 1788. (Book 66, p. 396, File 853, Ibid.) These two tracts were in what is now Ashe County. Ten years later, on 5 Dec 1798, he was granted 100 acres of land on a branch of Lewis Fork Creek in Wilkes Co. (Book 100, p. 50, File 149 1/2 ibid.) and on 10 Dec. 1802 and 28 November 1812 two additional tracts containing 20 acres and 50 acres respectively both on the waters of Lewis Fork Creek were granted to him. (Book 116, p. 235, File 2060 and Book 127, p. 131, File 2487 respectively.) Lewis Fork Creek is located in Wilkes Co. ten miles north west of Wilkesboro. The Lewis Fork Creek farms of Nathaniel Vannoy adjoined those of Robert Cleveland, brother of Col. Benjamin Cleveland. Family tradition says that the Vannoys and Clevelands were related through common ancestors to the family of Oliver Cromwell. As for the Clevelands, President Grover Cleveland presented a bible to Caroline Yates, grandchild of Nathaniel Vannoy, as a memento of the family relation. Nathaniel lived on Lewis Fork in Wilkes Co. next to Col. Cleveland. Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ann Ray 18 Oct 1773 in Surry County, NC and the couple had nine children: John, Joel, Jesse, Elizabeth, Sarah, Andrew, Ann, Jane, and Susannah. He died at the home of his daughter Sarah Cleveland in Greenville, SC and is buried in Springwood cemetery in Greenville. Compiled by Larry Cockerham, 14 Nov 2007 and Clint Franks May 2005. Copied from Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.
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