Nathaniel Luttrell (1747 - 1840)

Born Oct 1747 in Prince William, Virginia Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla Ann (Shelton) Luttrell — married about 1780 in Fauquier County, Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died May 1840 at age 92 in Hardeman County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Nathan Luttrell has Irish ancestors.

Nathan Luttrell served with Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

Nathan Luttrell was a Virginia colonist.

Nathan Luttrell was part of a Southern Pioneer Family.

Nathan Luttrell was born October 1747 in Prince William County, Virginia Colony (Fauquier County in 1759). He is the son of Michael Luttrell and Dinah Unknown. He passed away about May 1840 in Hardeman County, Tennessee.

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Marriage

Nathan Luttrell married Priscilla A. Shelton, a daughter of James Shelton and Susanna Vardaman, about 1780 in Fauquier County, Virginia. (He was living in Fauquier County when he enlisted in Revolutionary War service in 1780.)

Timeline

• 7 December 1787 - Michael Littrell [Nathan's brother] bought 80 acres in Henry County, Virginia for £20 from John Preston. Nathan Littrell witnessed the deed.
• 22 February 1799 - Chainman on a survey for 133 acres of land, surveyed for Rodham Luttrell, Lincoln County, Kentucky.^[1]
• 23 February 1799 - Chainman on a survey for 200 acres of land, surveyed for Lot Luttrell, Lincoln County, Kentucky (M. Luttrell also a Chainman, which may be Michael). ^[1]
• 4 March 1799 - Chainman on survey for William Goode, Lincoln County, Kentucky.^[1]
• 23 August 1800 - Appears on Kentucky County Tax list, "Second Census" of Kentucky, in Lincoln County, Kentucky.
• 1808-1809 - Moved with family to Lincoln County, Tennessee
• 4 May 1815 - State of Tennessee vs Nathan Littrell, Lincoln County: indicted for trading with a negro; hung jury; mistrial declared. Later tried again with another hung jury and mistrial declared. ^[2]
• 2 February 1816 - State of Tennessee vs Nathan Littrell; indicted for trading with negroes. "This day came Geo. Coalter soliciter & says that he wishes no further to prosecute the deft. on the part of the state and prays the assent of the court to enter a noli prosequi which is granted him, a noli prosequi entered accordingly. It is therefore considered by the court that the defendant be discharged."^[2]
• 1 September 1816, Nathan named on deed of James Shelton, Sr., Lincoln County, Tennessee. Recorded November 1816.^{[citation needed]}
• 7 August 1820 - Appears on 1820 Federal census in Lincoln County, Tennessee. In household are Nathan and wife, Priscilla, 2 males age 10-15, 1 male and 1 female age 16-25, 1 male and 1 female slave under age 14, 1 female slave age 26-44.^[3]
• 29 January 1825 - Nathan Littrell, of Jackson County, Alabama, deed to Joseph Vines, 30 acres in Lincoln County, Tennessee. Land was surveyed by James Bright, C.S., 30 July 1813. This property was located "southeast corner of a 205 acre tract laid off for the use of schools and in the west boundary of a 640 acre tract granted to Andrew Shutz (Street)" in 1811. Recorded Lincoln County, Tennessee 5 July 1825.^{[citation needed]}
• 1827 - Land Grant of 60 acres to Nathan Luterell, Lincoln County, Tennessee^[4]
• 1 June 1830 - Appears on 1830 Federal census in Lawrence County, Arkansas Territory. In household are Nathan and wife, Priscilla, 2 males under age 5, 1 female age 5-9, 1 female age 20-29 (daughter or daughter-in-law and grandchildren), 1 male slave age 10-23, 1 female slave age 36-54.^[5]
• 1828-1832 - Nathan and his son, Nathan Luttrell, Jr., appear on Arkansas Territory census records in Current River Township, Lawrence County.
• October 1834 - Nathan Luttrell's track, south boundary of, mentioned in deed: Zachariah Arnold to Thomas Luttrell, Lincoln County, Tennessee.^{[citation needed]}
• 3 July 1837 - Applied for pension for Revolutionary War service while living in Weakley County, Tennessee. Jeremiah Shelton made deposition in support of the application. It was suspended and later rejected 19 September 1837; letter to Hon. J.R. Poinsett.^[6]
• May 1840 - Approximate date of death of Nathan Luttrell
• 4 July 1840 - Estate Sale of Nathan Luttrell's estate in Hardeman County, Tennessee.

Revolutionary War Service

Application for Pension:

State of Tennessee
Weakley County
County Court, July Term 1837
On this 3rd day of July 1837 personally appeared in open Court, before the County Court new sitting, Nathan Luttrell a resident of the County of Weakley, in the State of Tennessee, aged ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1780 as well as he can now recollect under the following named officers and served as herein stated. I was drafted for a three month tour, and entered the service under a Capt. whose name I cannot now recollect, but our Major was named Chun. At the period of my first draft I resided in Farquhar County, in the State of Virginia. During my first three month service we were in no particular engagement, but marched to the head quarters of General Marquis Lafayette, near Richmond Virginia, from whence we proceded to the Chickahomey Mills, where we had a skirmish with a Company of the British light horse, and killed some, & took others prisoners. The prisoners, three in number we took to Richmond, and there being no person there to receive them, we returned with them, and give them up to the Regular troops. We then marched up the country, & passed near Fredericksburg, and shortly after my first three months tour expired. And on my return home, I was again drafted for a second three months tour, and entered the service under Capt. Hellman with Col. Edmunds and Genl. Washington, two of our superior officers. Our company marched to old Williamsburt, & there joined the ballance of the army, from whence we proceeded to the Town of Little York, where we were stationed, untill the memorable engagement between Genl. Washington & Lord Cornwallis, which resulted in the defeat of the British army, and
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The consequent surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the American Commander in Chief. From York, the Company of Capt Hellman to which I belonged, together with several other Companies took charge of a number of British, who had been taken prisoners at the battle of York, and guarded them to Winchester in Virginia, where we give them up. With these events my second three month tour expired, making the whole time which I served six months. During the whole of which time I was a private. I received a discharge at the end of each tour of service, both of which I have long since lost, not deeming them of any particular service to me. I have no documentary evidence and I know of no person whose testimony I can procure, who can testify to my services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
s/ Wm H Johnson Clerk
Nathan Luttrell X his mark
Mr. Jeremiah Shelton a clergyman and Chapman Taylor residing in the County of Weakley, and State of Tennessee, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Luttrell who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be ninety years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ Jeremiah Shelton
Chapman Taylor
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And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jeremiah Shelton who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in Weakley County, Tennessee, and that Chapman Taylor who has also signed the same, is a resident of the same County & State, and is a credible person, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
s/ Caleb Brookfield, JP
Richard Murrell, JP
G W Cavitt, JP
I, William H Johnson Clerk of the County Court of Weakley County, that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Nathan Luttrell for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office this 3rd day of July A.D. 1837. s/ Wm H Johnson Clerk

Children

• William Luttrell (b. about 1780 in Henry, Virginia, d. before 1 June 1850 in Polk County, Missouri or Denton County, Texas, married Franky Elizabeth Shelton on 20 September 1805 in Lincoln County, Kentucky, 9 children

• Rodham Luttrell (1785 - after1870) b Virginia Colony, d Pike Co., Indiana, married Matilda Horton (1785-after1880), 9 children

• James Henderson Luttrell

• Shelton Luttrell (1795-1882) b Casey Co., Kentucky, d Schuyler Co., Illinois, married Sarah Ann Bryant (1792-1894) on 13 November 1813 in Lincoln Co., Illinois, 10 children

• Jacob Colbert Luttrell (c1799-1866) b Kentucky, d Hardeman Co., Tennessee, married Violet Childers (1805-1880), at least 5 children

• Bluford Luttrell (c1812-1891) b Lincoln Co., Tennessee, d Brumley, Miller Co., Missouri, married Malinda Jane Shelton (1813-1879) on 4 June 1832 in Marion Co., Illinois, 8 children

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} List of original land grant surveys along Green River in Lincoln and Casey Counties, Kentucky (1781-1836), page 498
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Lincoln County, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1814-1817; pp 194, 243, 299
3. ↑ Census Year 1820; Lincoln, Tennessee, Page: 298; NARA Roll: M33_123
4. ↑ Lincoln County, Tennessee; Grant Book 6, p 412, Grant #5089
5. ↑ Census Year 1830; Lawrence, Arkansas Territory, Page: 2; NARA Roll: M19-5
6. ↑ Application #R 6536; Revolutionary War Pension Papers; Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010

• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLJ-ZDP : accessed 16 March 2017), Nathaniel Luttrell, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 298, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 123; FHL microfilm 193,685.

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPX-CC9 : 18 August 2015), Nathan Luttrull, Lawrence, Arkansas Territory, United States; citing 2, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 5; FHL microfilm 2,473.