Ribble, Phinney, Dillinder, Hibler, Stephens, Bates, Lynn:Information about Loving Bledsoe
Loving Bledsoe (b. 1753, d. 1816)
Notes for Loving Bledsoe:Loving Bledsoe
Loving was the son of Susannah Fulkerson Bledsoe, who was the daughter of Frederick Fulkerson and a niece of Captain James Fulkerson. He served from southwest Virginia. http://www.fulkerson.org/revolutn.html#LOVING
Ancestral File Number:
Loving came to Missouri from North Carolina after 1812. He removed from Washington co.Virginia. as far as all records can determine. He sold land from what wasthenWashington Countybut fell into present day Scott County Virginia. Lovingfirstappears in Washington County in the 1782tax list with 100 acres and1tithe. His father,Thomas, died in Rowan County North Carolina in 1758.
The marriage of Millicent Head, also called Mildred, Milly and Amelia in
records, toLoving Bledsoe is listed in the book: The Head Family,pub.1963
by John Harris Watts, p. 186/7.Loving himself never filed for a Rev.War
pension.He died before he could. But thanks to his half brother William
Stewart: We do know something of his service record.William says inpartin
his pension application:
A short time before the battle of Kings Mountain, the applicants brother David
Stewartand half brother Loving Bledsoe were drafted to go in the army.
Before the day of rendezvousing; orders came that all should go who were able; and the three of themvolunteered - it being about the month of September of the year in which the Battle ofKings Mountain was fought (7 Oct. 1780). They commenced their march from Holston up the Doe River and crossed the Yellow Mountain at the Ball place to Kings Mountain under Cols. Isaac Shelby and William Campbell, and Capt. George Maxfield and other officers;and he recollects that at Broad River a council washeldamong the officers and it was determined to steal a march uponFergusonat Kings Mountain; accordingly the horsetroops under Cols.Shelby andCampbell went on leaving the foot company and did stealthemarch onFergusonand the battle was fought before the foot company showedup.Thisapplicant being one of the foot County arrived after the battlewasfought and the British and Tories were all taken prisoner andweredelivered to the foot company to guard..The next day we marched toSalisbury and the next night a Courts Martial was held and itcondemned31 or 32 Tories prisoners to hang and the same night we didhang9 ofthembut do not know the reason the others were not hanged. . . . .They found Tarleton was near and as they had nearly as many prisoners asmen,they had to escape so they burned twowagons of plunder, taken atthebattle, and marched towards Salisbury and hung anotherTory thatday.They went on and nearSalisbury met another Company of CarolinaTroopsWho took the prisoners and they were discharged from that tour.Tour ofduty was fromthe month of September till about November.
There is one more reference to Loving Bledsoe's Rev. War service:
North Carolina Dept. of Archives, Rev. Army Accounts; vol. 1, p. 73 folio 4 reads:
An account of Specie Certificates paid into the Comptroller's OfficebyJohn
Armstrong: Entry Taker for land in North Carolina, viz.: Number 201 grantedstrong:Entry
Taker for land in North Carolina, viz.: Number 201 granted by Bagge and HuntertoLoving
Bledsoe 13 Aug. 1782 the sum of 7 pounds 8 shillings 6 pence; interest 12
shillings 9 penceto 16 Jan. 1784. Total: 8-1-3.
The above two references areabstracted from the book: pub. 1975 by Ronald
Donaldson: Donaldson, Ransdell and Allied Families;AmericanBicentenarions.
We learn something of Loving's activities from the Deeds book of Washington
County, Virginia. which are again quoted from Donaldson's book mentioned above:
Bk. 5, p. 198:Indenturemade 20 March 1813 between Loving Bledsoeandwife and Gaven Head. Loving and wife Mildred for the sum of $200 sell to Gaven Head land on both sides of the north fork ofthe HolstonRiver;part of 366 ac. patented to said Loving Bledsoe 31 Jan.1804.Wit:George Hickam, Anthony Bledsoe, JohnHuntsucker.
Bk. 5,p. 189:Indenture made 20 March 1811 between Loving Bledsoeandwife Mildred who sell to John Huntsucker for $100 a parcel oflandinWashington County in the Many Sinks ...part of 366 ac. patented toLovingBledsoe Jan. 1804 from ..... Valentine Bledsoeland, then crossingarich valley ......... Wisconsin
There is one more reference to Loving Bledsoe's Rev. War service:
North Carolina Dept. of Archives, Rev. Army Accounts; vol. 1, p. 73 folio 4 reads:
More About Loving Bledsoe:
Ancestral File Number: KP0B-0D.
Record Change: 24 Feb 2005
More About Loving Bledsoe and Millicent Head:
Marriage: 177452, 53
Children of Loving Bledsoe and Millicent Head are:
- +Gaven Bledsoe, b. 1786, Virginia54, d. Mar 1836, Jackson, Missouri54.