Richard Snowden Kirkland (II)
b c1728 family home near Occaquan River, (now Fairfax Co.) VA*
d. probably 04 Dec 1804 near Clouds Creek, Edgefield Co., SC
m. Sybil/Sibbell (possible dau. of Abraham Odom) [identified in a deed of 1770]
Children | |||
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Thomas Kirkland | b. c1748-1760 | d.1788/9 | m. Lucretia Cotton (her 2m. Benj. Arrington-d. Edgefield Co., SC [KSBR V2 p 225] Lucretia buried in Humphreys Co., TN) |
James Kirkland | b. c1748-1760 | d. c1804 | m. Sarah |
John Kirkland | b. c1748-1760 | d. a. 1810 in Edgefield Dist., S. C. | m. Sarah |
Constant (Coney) Kirkland(f ) (v2 p187) | b. c1748-1760 | d. | m. Benjamin Loveless |
Sybil/Sibbell Kirkland | b. c1748-1760 | d. | m. (unknown) Ganes/Gaines |
Benjamin Kirkland | b. c 1750 ?SC ?VA ?NC | d. Nov. 1805 Barnwell Co., S.C. | m. Alcey (Odom?) |
Aaron Kirkland | b. c1748-1760 | d. 6 Dec1842 | m. Elizabeth |
The wife of Snowden, Sybil, may have been the daughter of Abraham Odom who's family and immigration pattern follows closely to the Kirklands. Richard Odom, Abraham's father, owned land in Nansemond County, Virginia and moved by 1715 to Chowan County, North Carolina. This region eventually becomes part of Edgecombe and Granville Counties in which the Kirklands are documented to have lived. Abraham Odom submitted three petitions for land on the Wateree River in South Carolina on 18 Dec. 1754 on which the Kirklands had filed claims. Both Abraham's wife and a daughter were named Sybil. They started to sell their land on the Wateree River on the 6th March of 1760 and moved to Georgia by 1764. They seemed to have moved back to South Carolina with at least two purchases on the waters of the Savannah River in 1767. These are the same regions in which Robert and Snowden Kirkland had tracts of land. Snowden's property was adjacent to Abraham Odom on Pipes Creek in South Carolina. The circumstantial continuous relationship from Virginia days is very strong and indicates for Peacock and a few other researchers the probability of a marital relationship between Abraham Odom and Snowden Kirkland. No marriage record, probate record, or church record has verified this conclusion. [Peacock 101-103]
Land records for Georgia are almost non-existing but South Carolina records show the move into that territory at the right sequence to fit the records of the Seven-Day Baptist history out of Georgia.
17 Apr 1764 - SNOWDEN KIRKLAND
1768 South Carolina Baptists, p. 169, Footnote 135,
Crozer
MS Furman Univ., S. C.
SNOWDEN KIRKLAND and wife were constituents of Clouds Ck.
Church
... ( Manuscript actually says " ... in 1768 when Mr. Martin
administered the Lord's Supper to SNOWDEN KIRKLAND & ----e
with
some others ..." This probably is "wife". [KSBR v. 1, p74]
24 Jan 1770 - Deed Bk. P-3 pp. 103-107 Rec. 24 Feb. 1770
31 Aug 1797 - Vol. 36, p. 111 (indexed for Richard Kirkland)
1776- War of Independence
Four of the sons of Snowden are documented to have been British loyalists. James, John, Benjamin and Aaron Kirklands names were listed on the payroll of the British militia. They were among a rather sizable portion of South Carolinans who felt the British were responding to their needs better than might this new group of malcontents that wanted independence from Britian. According to Peacock, Aaron was a corporal and served during the siege of Savannah in 1779 and during the last abttle at Camden in 1781. Benjamin and John fought with Colonel John Cruger in the backcountry of South Carolina when the fort at 96 was abandoned and the army retreated to Orangeburg. James fought in the back country as well as in the Coastal Islands. All fought for the British until the abandonment of South Carolina in 1782. The question remains as to why these men would continue their British service even after completion of the war at Yorktown in 1781 and then they returned to South Carolina to pick up their lives there while other Loyalist like their uncle Moses left the area. John even gets another grant of land in 1785. Peacock believes that the locals were somewhat supportive of their decision to join with the British therefore coming home would have been much less traumatic. [Peacock 113-114]
The following writing was by Levi Kirkland the only known son of
Thomas Kirkland.
1778, July -"The Declaration of the Birth and Progress of Levi
Kirkland" was first provided to the KSBR by Turner Kirkland, owner
of
the Dixie Gun Works, Gunpowder Land, Union City, Tenn 38261. He is
a
decendant of Levi Kirkland, son of Thomas of Edgefield Dist., SC.
Later
Kenneth Kirkland of Chicago discovered an earlier version that is
used
here. There is some variation in the dates and names between these
two
documents. The following copy is believed to be more accurate to
the
original in which the basic name list, at least, has been proved
through other sources. The original remains lost to date.
This Declaration from the best of my recolection is correct, but I acknowledge I am faliable, and must soon fall to all timely matter, but have a home beyond the grave, where that perfect Being will be complete and all His members like him, and shall see Him as He is.
Written this day the 10th of October, 1847, by Levi Kirkland"
["Declaration of the Birth and Progress of Levi Kirkland,"
records of
Kenneth Kirkland, KSBR Vol. 2 p 511]
1810- John Kirkland seems to have died by this year. The records are very confusing on John Kirkland since there were three Johns in region in this time period. Our John Kirkland was not listed in the census records for 1810 but his wife Sarah was there with children. He does not seemed to have moved to Georgia during his life as did two other Johns. [Peacock 122]
Source:
Kirkland Family Index || Elroy's Family Index || Ancestoral Chart #10 || Kirklands of Henry Co., AL
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