Richard Sebree Jr. (1752 - bef. 1836)

Born 29 Mar 1752 in Orange Co, Virginia

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Died before 4 Mar 1836 before age 83 in Scott, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Private Richard Sebree Jr. served with Orange County Militia, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

Richard Sebree Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A101254.

Richard Sebree Jr. is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-286717
Rank: Private

Richard was born on March 29, 1752 in Orange Co., Virginia. "His mother's identity is not known. He was presumably the son of the Richard of Northumberland and Orange counties..."^[1]

He married Esther Watts, daughter of John Watts, around 1770 in Virginia. They had possibly 11 children.

Richard was in the American Revolution serving three tours of duty totaling seven months of service. He first enlisted in 1778 Capt. Belfield Cave's company. They marched to Richmond from Orange County where they were under the command of Col. Thomas Barbour. After two months of service, he was mustered out.^[2]

The next year 1779, he again enlisted and served this time under Capt. Richard Crittenden Webb. Their Colonel was Francis Taylor and they were stationed at the Barracks in Albemarle Co., Virginia. Again, the service lasted two months.^[3]

Richard served for three months under Capt. Benjamin Johnson and Col. Thomas Barbour for his third tour of duty, in 1780, which proved to be the worst where "hardships great & suffering & exposure & he was prevented from a [4th] Tour to take Cornwallis on account of lameness by a snag."^[4] His brother John died during the surrender of Yorktown.

Richard was, "a very prominent and wealthy planter."^[5]

An allowance was made for him on February 27, 1782, "for a gun impressed for Orange Militia which gun he made oath was never returned..."^[6]

Richard was listed in the 1782 Orange Co., Virginia tax roll along with his father Richard and a William Sebree.^[7]

Richard and his family moved to Kentucky in about 1792 not long after selling their Orange Co., Virginia property.^[8] Richard and Esther, "in 1795 were among thirty-five members of the Baptist church at Great Crossing... who, with consent of the parent church, became charter members of a new church at McConnell's Run, part of the Elkhorn Association, with Elijah Craig as pastor."^[9]

His grandson Noah remembered Richard in 1891, "I remember my grandfather, Richard, Sr. very well. He once visited my father Richard, Jr., on our farm near Owenton, Kentucky, in the year 1830... I was too young then to ask many questions, being but ten years old. I had often heard him speak of his home in Old Virginia... I have been told since boyhood, he left a very large and valuable estate in Virginia, to which I am the only heir. I am too old to go there and look it up, particularly so, if I should be compelled to go into Court, and for this reason could not make up my mind to go. I have been repeatedly written to, in the time past, with regard to it, and often said I would go, but I have put it off until I am too old now to give it my attention."^[10]

According to one source, he passed away around the 4th of March, 1833 at the age of 80. ^[11] However, in a write-up on his grandson Reuben Sebree it stated that Richard, "lived to be over ninety years of age..."^[12]

The Sons of the American Revolution website has that he passed away on September 5, 1835.^[13] The truth is that he signed his last Revolutionary War pension receipt on that date meaning he died after that date with his last check of March 4, 1836 remaining unclaimed.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ Sebree Studies, Willa I. Guss, & Kathryn S. Salyers, page 19.
2. ↑ Transcribed Pension Application of Richard Sebree S14424
3. ↑ Transcribed Pension Application of Richard Sebree S14424
4. ↑ Transcribed Pension Application of Richard Sebree S14424
5. ↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1890, page 436.
6. ↑ Orange County, Virginia Minute Book 2, page 206.
7. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States in the Year 1790, Virginia, 1908. page 39.
8. ↑ Sebree Studies: Lineage of Charles Jenkins Sebree (1854-1913) and Collateral Lines Traced to Colonial Virginia by Willa Irwin and Kathryn S. Salyers, 1984, page 19.
9. ↑ Sebree Studies: Lineage of Charles Jenkins Sebree (1854-1913) and Collateral Lines Traced to Colonial Virginia by Willa Irwin and Kathryn S. Salyers, 1984, pages 14 & 15.
10. ↑ The History of the Sebree Family, William Ellis Sebree, 1892.
11. ↑ Watts-Online, Descendants of Edward Watts, Thomas Watts and John Watts, Issue Number 85, Jennie Williams, May 1, 2001. Note: Not exactly sure where this date was found by Jennie Williams, though it may have been connected with his military pension files.
12. ↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1890, page 436. Note: This seems unlikely as H. W. Sebree was born in 1817 and it was claimed that Richard died when he was "a small boy." He would have been 25 if Richard died in 1842 at 90 years of age.
13. ↑ [https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/286717 Richard Sebree Profile at the Sons of the American Revolution Website
14. ↑ Sebree Studies, Willa I. Guss, & Kathryn S. Salyers, page 19.

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Name: Richard Sebree State: VA County: Orange County Township: 02 01 Year: 1782 Record Type: Continental Census Page: 39 Database: VA Early Census Index