Re: Seale, Anthony 1700 VA
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Re: Seale, Anthony 1700 VA
5/14/00
My source for the birthdate of Joshua Seale, son of Charles and Lydia Muse Seale, is as follows:
Fairfield Co SC Deed Book M, pp. 162-163. This is the deed of the heirs of Charles Seale to their brother Daniel Seale. This proves that Joshua, Daniel, and Thomas Seale were brothers. Joshua and Daniel moved to Mississippi Territory about 1811, Thomas moved a few years later. Joshua and Daniel lived in the same approximate area of MS I believe until the 1840s. Records of Marion Co MS and census records confirm this.
1800 Anson Co NC Census listing for Joshua Seale. He is aged 16-26, proving that he was born AFTER 1774.
1850 Union Parish LA census listing for Joshua Seale. He is aged 75, birthplace in SOUTH CAROLINA. This puts his birth in approximately 1775.
1860 XXX County TX census (can't put my hands on this one at the moment, but he was aged 85 and born in SC also.
I have never encountered many Joshua Seales in my research, and I believe all the above records are for the same man. If so, then clearly all three of these censuses agree that Joshua Seale WAS NOT born in 1765. The 1850 and 1860 censuses agree that he was born about 1775, in SOUTH CAROLINA.
Thus, in my opinion, the above information is sufficient to prove that Joshua Seale, son of Charles and Lydia Muse Seale, was born in about 1775 in South Carolina. Since the Revolutionary War begin in 1776 and ended in 1782, when Charles Seale's son Joshua was between 1 and 7 years of age, he could not possibly have served in any military capacity during the American Revolution.
However, it has been published in numerous books and in family sheets passed around by various Seale researchers over the past 50 years or so that Joshua Seale was born in 1765 and WAS a Revolutionary War soldier. I have recently checked a newly published index to Revolutionary War pensions and military records, and there is NO RECORD of any man by the name of "Joshua Seale".
Up until 1997, I was in contact with Mrs. Emma Seale Gentry of Austin, Texas, a descendant of Joshua Seale. She informed me that she had no idea where the misinformation on Joshua Seale came from. Mrs. Gentry said she believes that someone wanted to enhance Joshua Seale's life, and fabricated this tale of his being a Revolutionary War soldier.
Do you know of proof that there was a Revolutionary War soldier by the name of "Joshua Seale"? If so, were there two men by this name? I believe the census records listed above are sufficient to prove that Charles Seale's son Joshua did NOT serve in the Revolution.
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