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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1747 / Prince George's / MD Death: bef 23 Mar 1836 / Scioto / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
Pvt for the Continental Service, Maryland Line
Additional References:
Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of MD Troops in the American Revolution, Volume 18, pg 35;
Revolutionary Patriots Listings, Prince George's County, MD, pg 334;
The patriot’s father, Thomas Wilcoxon Jr., wrote his Will on May 25, 1775 and he died December 15, 1776 in Prince George’s County. Thomas, Jr., gave to his eldest son, Thomas III, several tracts of land including Deer Park where he lived and where the family grew tobacco. Thomas III was born 1747 in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
By June 1776, General Washington appealed to the Continental Congress for more troops. Maryland responded by organizing the "Maryland Flying Camp" of 3,400 militia troops. The Flying Camp was then authorized to join the Continental Army, and assigned to fight beside troops from Delaware and Pennsylvania in the area of operations stretching from Maryland to New York. Thomas Wilcoxon III responded and enrolled under Ensign Horatio Clagett at the age of 29.
As the War came to a close, Thomas married Mary Dent Hardey in Prince George’s County on April 23, 1781. She was 24 years old when they married. Her parents were George Hardey Jr. and Lucy Dent.
Their first son Walter Dent Wilcoxon, whom the author of this biography descends, was born in in the same county on November 15, 1782. By 1788 the family is in South Carolina. In 1793 they leave South Carolina (broad river area) and by 1798 they are found in Virginia, then in Georgia in 1800, and on to the Fairfax Court House in Virginia where they stayed for four to five years. In 1801 he is listed as the executor of his mother’s estate and at about 1805 the family is found in Portsmouth, Ohio. The Wilcoxon family eventually settled in Washington Township, Scioto County, Ohio where Thomas Wilcoxon III died in March 1836. After the death of their father, his sons moved to Stephenson County Illinois where son Walter died two months after his father in May 1836.
Thomas and Mary Dent had six children; Walter born 1782 in MD, George born 1788 in SC, Thomas D. H. born 1790 in SC, Levi born 1793 in SC, Rezin born 1798 in VA, and Thompson born 1800 in Georgia. His wife Mary Dent preceded him in death dying in 1833 in Scioto County, Ohio.
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