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Some Descendants of Richard Brandon & Agnes 'Nancy' Kincade of Union District, SC




Generation No. 1


      1. Richard2 Brandon (George?1) was born Bet. 1748 - 1752 in Huntington Township, York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania1, and died 25 June 1781 in Brandon's Defeat, Union County, South Carolina2. He married Agnes 'Nancy' Kincaid Abt. 1773 in Union County, South Carolina3. She was born 5 October 17544, and died 9 February 1840 in Union County, South Carolina5.

Notes for Richard Brandon:
1779 Colony Resident
BRANDON, Richard 1779 Colony, SC Resident Old 96th DISTRICT

Pension file W21714 SC Line.

From: ABSTRACTS OF REV. WAR PENSION FILES by Virgil D. White
BRANDON, Richard, Agnes or Nancy, W21714 SC Line, sol srv under his bro Col. Thomas Brandon & was killed in Jun 1781 at "Brandon's Defeat" in Union Dist SC, sol had m in winter or spring of 1773 to Agnes or Nancy Kencad & she was allowed a pension by SC as long as she lived, wid d 9 Feb. 1840 Union Dist SC leaving 3 children: Catharine, wife of Dabney Becknell & she d 6 Jan. 1852; George; & Elizabeth Brandon. Elizabeth appl 5 Feb 1852 for pension that would have been due her mother, sol's children were: Lettis b 9 Jan 1775, John b 6 Mar 1776, Elizabeth b 7 Nov 1777, Catharine b 3 Jun 1779, George b 17 Jul 1780 & Jane who was under 12 yrs of age in Mar 1793 & was also a state pensioner.

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Rev. War Pension Claim W. File No. 21, 714

Agnes 'Nancy' Kincade BRANDONs Pension Application for her husband Richard Brandon's Revolutionary War Service.

[Agnes did not herself apply for a federal pension, after she died her daughter Elizabeth filed to get the money due her mother. Agnes received a South Carolina State Pension for life, and did not realize she was also allowed a Federal Pension.]

Abstract of Pension Application

State of South Carolina Union District

On this the 5th day of February A.D. 1852 Before me B. Johnson Judge of the Court of Ordinary for the district and state aforesaid personally appear-ed Elizabeth Brandon who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.

That this declarant on behalf of herself and the surviving children of her mother Agnes Brandon widow of Richard Brandon late of Union Dis-trict does state that her Father Richard Brandon was an officer and private soldier in the army of the Revolution as she has always understood and still believes and as such he served the United States against the Com-mon enemy from the commencement of hostilities until he was killed in in the service of his country in June 1781. Declarant further states that her Father entered the service of his country as a private horseman, Capt. Jolly’s Co., Col. Brandon’s Regiment shortly after the commencement of hostilities and was afterwards promoted to the rank of sergeant of Quartermaster in his Brother Col. Brandon’s Regiment until he was killed at Brandon’s defeat in Union District S.C. the last of June 1781 as above stated for which her Mother Agness or Nancy Brandon was allowed first an annuity and then a pension by the state of South Carolina at the rate of $60 per annum which she continued to draw until the time of her death but to give the particulars of his said Father’s service declarant cannot, but always understood he was in the battles of Blackstocks, Kings Mountain, Cowpens and at Brandons defeat where he was killed as above stated and was in in the Snow Campaign for some three months then in the Florida Campaign some four months in 1775 and 1776 and then in Brandon’s Regiment after the fall of Careyton as above stated under General Sumter as a horseman until his death.

Declarant further states that her father Richard Brandon was married to her mother Agness Brandon the winter or spring of 1773 [lived?] as husband and wife they been together until the death of her husband the said Richard Brandon as above stated leaving the said Agness a widow and that her mother the said Agness departed this life in Union District on the ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty (1840) not having in-termarried after the death of her aforesaid husband and leaving the following children her surviving to wit Catherine Becknell, George Brandon and Declarant, two of whom to wit George Brandon and declarant are still living and both of age.

Declarant further states that she was not aware until recently that her mother was entitled to a pension from the United States supposing that she was pre-cluded by drawing a pension from this state.

Declarant would offer in support of the marriage of her father and mother their original family register which has always been kept in the family and is believed to be strictly correct and is hereunto appended.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned.
B. Johnson the
[???] of ordy of Union District Elizabeth X Brandon
mark
The declarant further states that a man by the name of [Dotter?] that lived on Packolett collected or got one of the [Indents?] for the services of her Father Richard Brandon which she distinctly recollects and she is now seventy four years of age.
B. Johnson her
Judge of the court of ordy Elizabeth X Brandon
for Union District mark

I B. Johnson Judge of the courty of ordy for the District and State aforesaid do herby certify that it has been [shown?] in evidence to the satisfaction of the court that Agness Brandon commonly called Nancy Brandon widow of Richard Brandon who was killed in Brandons defeat, union District South Carolina in the times of the Revolutionary War and that the said Agness was a pensioner of the State of South Carolina and the rate of sixty dollars per annum and that she departed this life in Union District South Carolina on the ninth day of February one thousand eight Hundred & forty leaving the following children her surviving to wit Catherine Becknell, Elizabeth Brandon the declarant and George Brandon and that Catherine Becknel has since died and that George and Elizabeth Brandon is now her only surviving children and both of lawfull age and that the entitled to full credence.

Given under [???] hand and seal of office at Union Court House the 6 day of February 1852 in open court.
B. Johnson
Judge of the Court of Ordy Of Union District So. Ca.

[Appended Birth Register page]

Agness Kincade Was born Oct. 5, 1754

Lettis Brandon Was January the 9 1775

John Brandon Was Born March the 6 1776

Elizabeth Brandon Was Born November the 7 1777

Catherine Brandon Was born June the 3 1779

George Brandon Was Born July the 17 1780

[can’t read] [There was also a daughter Jane, who was under twelve years of age in March, 1793 and was also a South Carolina state pensioner]

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More About Richard Brandon:
# Children: 6
# Marriages: 1
Burial: Old Union Cemetery, Union County, South Carolina
Military service: Revolutionary War

Notes for Agnes 'Nancy' Kincaid:
Was allowed a pension for life from SC Pension file #W 21714.

are these her family?
Brandam, George 1830 UNION DISTRICT p. 161
Brandon, Agnis 1830 UNION DISTRICT p. 162
Brandon, Christopher 1830 UNION DISTRICT p. 162


More About Agnes 'Nancy' Kincaid:
Census: 1830, Union County, South Carolina
     
Children of Richard Brandon and Agnes Kincaid are:
  2 i.   Lettice3 Brandon, born 9 January 1775 in Union County, South Carolina6,7; died Bef. February 1840 in [not mentioned as surviving her mother].
  More About Lettice Brandon:
# Marriages: unknown
+ 3 ii.   John Brandon, born 6 March 1776 in Union County, South Carolina; died 9 December 1829 in Pickens County, Alabama.
  4 iii.   Elizabeth Brandon, born 7 November 1777 in Union County, South Carolina8,9; died 30 July 1868 in Union County, South Carolina10.
  Notes for Elizabeth Brandon:
1850 Union Co, SC census
appears with her [nephew?] George D.A. Brandon

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sc/union/census/1850/0042b.gif

Elizabeth applied for the pension due her mother 5 Feb 1852.


  More About Elizabeth Brandon:
# Marriages: none
Census 1: 1810, Union County, South Carolina
Census 2: 1850, Union County, South Carolina11
  5 iv.   Catherine Brandon, born 3 June 1779 in Union County, South Carolina12,13; died 6 January 1852 in Union County, South Carolina14,15. She married Dabney Becknell 26 March 1802 in Union County, South Carolina16; born 16 July 1780 in Amherst County, Virginia17; died 17 October 1873 in Union County, South Carolina18.
  Notes for Catherine Brandon:
Obituary from: The Unionville Journal, Fri., 16 Jan 1852
Died, on the 6th inst., at the residence of her husband, in Union District, of Pneumonia, Mrs. CATHERINE BECKNELL, consort of Mr. Dabney Becknell, in the 74th year of her age, leaving a husband, four sons, and five daughters, with numerous relatives and friends to mourn her loss. The deceased had been a respectable and useful member of the M.E. Church during the last forty years of her life, and sustained in all the relations of life an umblemished character, devoting her whole time and talent to the interests of the Church, her family and friends, and is now, we trust and believe, reaping the reward of her labors in the Paradise of God, where sickness, sorrow, pain and death, are felt and feared no more.

Lots on this family at Madeline Greene's <mlgreen@prodigy.net> homepage:

http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/e/Madeline-L-Green/index.html


  More About Catherine Brandon:
# Children: 9?
Burial: unmarked grave, Old Union Cemetery, Union, South Carolina19
Census: 1850, Union County, South Carolina20

  Notes for Dabney Becknell:
Beacknal, Dabney 1830 UNION DISTRICT pg.161

From Nonie Kenney - "Dabney Becknell came to Union, SC about 1800 from Amherst, Co.,VA. He had a brother who settled near Traveler's Rest in Greenville Co. They were driven from VA by the Indians. The Indians killed some Becknells and some of the Becknells killed some of the Indians. Some Becknells went to TN and in some way, their name was changed to Bicknell. There is a Bicknell
College in PA. Dabney's grave is marked with a field stone and the initials "D.B."


  More About Dabney Becknell:
Burial: Old Union Cemetery, Union, South Carolina21
Census 1: 1810, Union County, South Carolina
Census 2: 1840, Union County, South Carolina
Census 3: 1850, Union County, South Carolina22
+ 6 v.   George Brandon, born 17 July 1780 in Union County, South Carolina; died 21 March 1863 in Pickens County, Alabama?.
  7 vi.   Jane Brandon, born Aft. March 1781 in Probably Union County, South Carolina23; died Aft. March 1793 in Probably Union County, South Carolina24.
  Notes for Jane Brandon:
Jane was under 12 years of age and was also given a state pension for her
father.
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