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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: Death: bef Feb 1801 / Oglethorpe / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
Oath of Alligence
Additional References:
Oaths of Allegiance, 1777 - as published in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Feb 1985, Vol 23, pg 8
no FInd-a-Grave record found - Dec 2020 - record showed cemetery as "Black Family"
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Author: Dr. Michael Maxwell Black
Thomas Black (c1726-1800) was born in Lancaster County, PA between 1726-1740, migrated with his family to Frederick County, VA in 1766, to Pittsylvania County, VA in 1774, and to Wilkes County, GA in 1786.
He married Mary (mnu) about 1758. He first appears on the tax list in Donegal Twp., Lancaster County, PA in 1759, where he was noted as a tavern keeper (Donegal Twp. Assessment Lists, 1759). He operated the Sign of the Bear tavern until 1764. He is found in several records of the day as an estate administrator and also several when he experienced legal issues over his importation of a servant (Lancaster County, PA Quarter Sessions).
Thomas Black qualified as a patriot several times while living in Pittsylvania County, VA. He appears on the tithables lists 1774-1778 (Pittsylvania County, VA Clerk’s Office, Tithables 1767-1785 and Misc. Lists 1782, 1784, 1785, p. 105, 132, 149, 172, 200). He was nominated for ensign in 1775 (Deed Book 4, p. 293-294), captain in 1777 (Court Orders Book 4, p. 39), provided supplies to the wife of a solider in 1777 (Court Orders Book 4, p. 40), security for tax collection in 1780 (Deed Book 1778-1780, p. 74-75), filed public claims in 1782 (Virginia Revolutionary Publick Claims, vol. III, p. 761), and paid land tax in 1782 (The Land Tax Lists of Pittsylvania County, Virginia 1782-1802, by Gayle Austin, p. 3, 10). Along with his son, Lemuel Black, he takes the Oath of Allegiance in summer 1777 (Chiarito, Marian Dodson, Feb. 1985, Oaths of Allegiance, 1777, Pittsylvania County, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 3-11). [Note: This Thomas Black should not be confused with a man of the same name who married Susannah Richardson and was living in Halifax County, VA during the Revolution and died in Pittsylvania County, VA in 1814.]
Removing to Georgia in 1786, he was active in legal records in the 1780s-1800s in Wilkes, Elbert, and Oglethorpe counties, GA. He died in late 1800, with his will recorded February 3, 1801 (Oglethorpe County, GA, Will Book A, pp. 101-102). Legatees include: wife Mary Black, and children, Lemuel Black, William Black, Mary Brewer, John Black, Thomas J. Black, James Black, and Agness Black.
His sons sold all 321 acres of Thomas Black’s land December 20, 1810 (Oglethorpe County, GA Deed Book G 1810-1812, p. 311-312). His widow last appears in the 1811 Clarke County, GA tax digest, so it is presumed she died about that time. They are most likely buried at the Black Family Cemetery in Oglethorpe County (unmarked).
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