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1765 - 1839 (~ 99 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Sampson Strickland was born between 1740 and 1765; died on 16 May 1839 in Franklin County, North Carolina. Notes:
The list of the children of Sampson Strickland and his wife Bythe, is from his Revolutionary War pension claim file no. R-10264. He was a resident of Wake County, North Carolina during the Revolutionary War, where he took the oath of allegience on November 24, 1777. In 1780, he married his cousin, Bythe Strickland in Wake County. He died May 16, 1839 at about age 82 years, when a resident of Franklin County, NC to which he had moved a few years before his death. His wife, Bythe, died in Franklin County, date not given.
All of his children lived in Nash County in 1846, when son Eaton Strickland applied for a pension based on his father's alleged five months tour under Captain Collars and six month tour under Captain Carrington, both in the North Carolina Militia. Sampson was reportedly at the Battle of Stono. The pension claim was not allowed, as proof of service as required by the pension law was not furnished.
A Martha Strickland, age 76 in 1845, and then of Nash County, stated that she married into the Strickland family, and that her husband was present at the marriage of Sampson and Bythe.
STRICKLAND SCENE Vol 7, No 1 First Quarter 1986
Family/Spouse: Bythe Strickland. Bythe was born before 1753; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 2
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