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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Soldier
Birth: abt 1762 / / VA Death: Jan 1812 / Greenbrier / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Served in the Greenbrier Co, VA Militia
Reimbursed for supplying his on provisions while on duty in Dec 1781
Provided supplies to the Militia
Additional References:
Virginia Public Claims Commissioners Book 3, pg 5 and 12
Author: Jim L. W. Faulknbury
James Huggard, Jr. was born circa 1762, probably in Botetourt Co., Virginia. He married Elizabeth, possibly the daughter of David Williams named in David’s 1836 will in Greenbrier Co. The area in which they lived in Botetourt Co., Virginia became Greenbrier Co., (West) Virginia in 1777. Following the American Revolution, James Huggard Jr. filed a public service claim in 1783 for providing provisions to the Greenbrier Co. Militia. Upon examination of the actual Public Service Claims Commissioners Books (Library of Virginia, reel 5, Books 3, Greenbrier County, pages 5 and 12 dated 6 September 1783), the approval of his claim for provisions was for furnishing his own provisions while on militia duty beginning in December 1781, thus he also provided military service. James died in Greenbrier Co., about 1812. His widow Elizabeth died there in 1856. The children named in Elizabeth’s will and also in earlier land transactions were: · James Huggard · Joseph Huggard · Madison Huggard · Elizabeth Airy · Margaret Blake · Jane Huggard · Sarah Huggard
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