Larkin SEYMOUR & Sally BRUCE
Father: Larkin SEYMOUR, (son of George SEYMOUR), b. 1759, Halifax County Virginia, d. 1850/1852, Grainger County Tennessee
Larkin Seymour was born in Halifax County Virginia per World Connect file Darell Dunlop.Larkin is proved as the son of George Seymour in his father's will see notes George Seymour. Although the date is 1758 I have used the date he states on his Rev War pension application of 1759. Larkin states he first moved to Grainger County Tennessee in 1806. Indeed the last tax list he shows up on in Virginia is in 1798 Halifax County, Larkin has a string of land deals he is involved in throughout Grainger County, Tennessee. Land records are recorded at bottom of page after notes. There is a story told to me about Larkin Seymour from a man named Horace Seymour who saw a court record for him in Halifax County Virginia where he was arrested for selling alcohol on the courthouse steps of a county that had tried to outlaw booze. Larkin was selling it and was arrested on the spot. So many people in the county on that day had bought it on their way into the courthouse that they could find no one to attest or witness that he was selling it and the jury had people who had imbibed as well. Larkin was acquitted. Larkin applied for a Rev War pension very late in life when he was 84 years old. Here from Darrell Dunlops great summary of those papers which i have in hard copy “ Revolutionary war soldier, serving under Gen. Lawson at Boyd's Ferry, and under Gen. Greene in VA and NC, where he fought in the battle of Guilford Courthouse. He also participated in the seige of Cornwallis at Yorktown. His application for a pension was disapproved because of lack of documentation or witnesses. He did not apply for the pension until 1843, when he was 84 years old. He moved from Halifax Co., VA to Grainger Co., TN in 1806. ” Larkin also states that when he moved his discharge papers were in a chest , which either got lost in the move or his children who often played in that chest lost or destroyed his papers. Many soldiers who applied this late had trouble getting proof for pensions because of lost paperwork and because many witnesses were dead. Larkin admits he was drafted into the army. Larkin lived until a very old age and is in the home of his son George Barton Seymour in 1850 as a 92 year old man.Land documents follows.p. 418 and 419 James BOONE to Larkin SEAMORE / SEYMORE (Body of deed says JOSEPH BOONE) This Indenture made this sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve Between JOSEPH BOONE of the State of NORTH CAROLINA and County of JOHNSON of the one part and Larkin SEYMORE of the State of Tennessee and County of Grainger of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of Seventy dollars to me in hand paid the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowleged have granted bargained and sell unto the said Larkin Seymore part of a tract of land situated lying and being in the aforesaid county of Grainger beginning at a beech on a little ISLAND in the CREEK below a Survey of NATHAN WHITEFIELD and runs East… containing four hundred acres more or less being granted to said NEEDHAM WHITEFIELD by Patent bearing date 11th day of July 1788…. Signed Jos. Boone. Witnessed by Rober (his mark) Wash and William Hamilton. Grainger Co Tn. November Term 1814 . Grainger Co. Tn. DEEDS Volume D
Grainger County Tennessee Court Minutes Volumes 1, 3, 6, and 7 various pages Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Project and TNGenWEb Project Archives by Judy Wright <jtillison@msn.com jtillison@msn.com> July 1997 USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or for other commercial presentation. GRAINGER CO. TN. Court Minutes Vol. 6; 1824-1830 Ordred by the Court that Gray Garnett ENGLE be appointerd Solicitor general protem. for the present term of this court. Ordered by the Court that the following persons be a Jury of View to view a road between the farms of James DYER and Francis K. JONES at the corner of a small field belonging to James DYER, to the foot of a hill near Francis JONES Smithshop, to wit: George BAKER, Jonathan DALE, Thomas CARDWELL, David ELKINS, William STARNS, Adam STARNS Junr., David BEELER, Joseph BEELER Junr., Mark MUNROE, George MUNROE, Joseph HILL Junr. , and Larkin SEAMORE, and make report to next Court. Grainger County Tennessee Deeds Volumes C through F various pages Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Project and TNGenWEb Project Archives by Judy Wright <jtillison@msn.com jtillison@msn.com> July 1997 Recorded August Term 1813 Grainger Co. Tn. p.235 bottom March 22nd 1814 I Joshua HICKEY register for… p. 240 Larkin SEAMORE to Robert MONROW ( MONROE ) This Indenture made the nineth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen between Larkin SEAMORE of the state of Tennesseee and county of GRainger of the one part and Robert MONROW of the state and county aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that I the said Larkin Seamore for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars to him in hand paid the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged hath by this presents granted bargained and sold and doth by these presents grant bargain alien sell enfroff and confirm unto the siad Robert Monrow a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred and thirty one acres lying and being in the county of Grainger and State of Tennessee RACCOON VALLEY on BULL RUN being part of a four hundred acre survey granted by the State of North Carolina NEEDHAM WHITFIELD bearing date July Eleventh 1788 and bounded as follows To wit, Beginning on a Black Oak and Dogwood fifty five poles west of the beginning corner of land grant thence north two hundred poles to a Black Oak thence west one hundred and fiv poles to a black gum thence south two hundred poles to a post oak thence a straight line to the beginning Together with all and singular the woods, water, watercourses, profits commodities hereditarments and appurtances whatsoever to the said tract of land belonging or appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders Rents and Issues thereof and all the Estate right title Interest of him the said Larikin SEAMORE his heirs and assigns.
Mother: Sally BRUCE, (daughter of (Private)), b. ABT 1762
Married ABT 1785
Children:
- James SEYMOUR, b. ABT 1787, Halifax County VA, d. AFT 1864, Union County Tennessee
- unknown SEYMOUR, b. 1789, Halifax County Virginia
- unknown SEYMOUR, b. 1791, Halifax County Virginia
- unknown SEYMOUR, b. 1793, Halifax County Virginia
- Isaac SEYMOUR, b. Mar 1795, Halifax County Virginia, d. 22 Sep 1877, Lindley Mercer County Missouri, bur. Hughes Cemetery, Mercer County Missouri
- Cardwell SEYMOUR, b. 1798, Halifax County Virginia
- Mildred SEYMOUR, b. 1803, Halifax County Virginia
- Rachel SEYMOUR, b. 1806, Halifax County Virginia
- George Barton SEYMOUR, b. 9 Apr 1809, Grainger County Tennessee