John Wilkes, Sr b. Abt 1736 , , Pennsylvania, USA d. Aft 1795 : Albemarle to Callaway, a Herring Family Journey

1736 - 1796

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Suffix Sr

Birth Abt 1736 , , Pennsylvania, USA

Gender Male

Died Aft 1795

Person ID I3283 Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri

Last Modified 31 Mar 2009

Father Francis Wilkes, b. 14 Jan 1699, St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, England , d. 1784, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA

Mother Martha Unknown, d. Yes, date unknown

Family ID F1325 Group Sheet

Family Elizabeth Mead, b. Abt 1740, , , Pennsylvania Or Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown

Married Apr 1758 , Loudoun, Virginia, USA

Children

>	1. Henry Wilkes, b. Abt 1758, d. 1794
	2. Francis Wilkes, b. Abt 1760, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA , d. Aft 1840, , Lawrence, Ohio, USA
	3. Benjamin Wilkes, b. 1762, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA , d. 1809, , Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
	4. Samuel Wilkes, b. 24 Oct 1764, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA , d. 1 Jul 1837, , Bedford, Virginia, USA
	5. Ann Wilkes, b. 1768, , , Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
	6. Sally Wilkes, b. 1774, , Bedford, Virginia, USA
	7. John Wilkes, Jr, b. 1775, , Bedford, Virginia, USA , d. 1836, , Yallabusha, Mississippi, USA
	8. Amos Wilkes, b. 1777, , , Virginia, USA , d. 1850, , Lawrence, Missouri, USA
	9. Jesse J Wilkes, b. 1779, , , Virginia, USA , d. 1830, , Lauderdale, Alabama, USA
	10. Rachel Wilkes, d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 31 Mar 2009

Family ID F1319 Group Sheet

Notes	The following notes were written by Pat Sherman McAllister ******************************* These are believed to be the parents of [Henry?] In 1755 he was a freeholder in Fairfax Co VA. In April 1758 he married Elizabeth Mead in Loudoun Co VA. In 1771 he sold his 141A in Loudoun Co, to William Homes [Recorded May 25, 1772. He moved to Bedford Co VA where the Mead relatives had settled. In 1773 he was granted 263A at Amos Creek in Bedford Co VA. In 1780 he was pardoned for being a Loyalist during the Rev War. In 1789 he lived at Gills Creek in Franklin Co VA. By 1795 he had moved to Oglethorpe Co GA with his son Benjamin. [Note:Oglethorpe Co was divided into Wilkes Co, GA] ---------------------- They were from Bucks Co, PA, Loudoun and Bedford Counties, VA --------------------------------------- John was deeded land in 1755 by his father, Francis Wilkes. In 1771 he was on the Loudoun County Tithable List with a man named Thomas Muller. He sold his land in Loudoun County in 1772 but did not purchase land in Bedford County for several years, when he moved his family to that area before the Revolution. In November 1779 John purchased 286 acres of land in the Huddleston area of Bedford County, on the north side of Goose Creek, from Col. William Mead for the sum of 150 pounds. On March 22, 1784, John and Elizabeth deeded over two hundred acres of this land to their sons, Samuel and Benjamin. John Wilkes, Sr. was a loyalist during the American Revolution. In 1780 he was named with others in southwestern Virginia who were offered a pardon for his activities by the act of taking "an oath of fidelity to this Commonwealth, and subscribing the same in the presence of the justice administering it." [Statutes at Large; Laws of Virginia, Vol. X, pp. 324, 325, by William Walter Hening.] Other records show a Paul Wilks, a Corporal John Wilks and a Corporal Thomas Wilks enlisted in the Loyalist cause. John and Thomas were in Colonel Cruger's company but have not otherwise been identified In 1782 John Wilkes, Sr. of Bedford County was a member of the Grand Jury for that county. A 1789 deed in Franklin County, next to Bedford [created 1785 from Bedford and Henry] records John and Francis Wilks on Gill's Creek, adjoining Martin and others. Francis is believed to have been John's eldest son. The Wilkes family is known to have had close dealings with the Martin family. Sometime after the Revolution John and Elizabeth emigrated to Wilkes County, Georgia, with several members of their family, including their son, Benjamin, to whom they sold some of the land they had purchased in Wilkes County. When Wilkes County was divided the family was then in Oglethorpe County. A Baldwin County grant book shows a survey of 202 1/2 acres of land for John Wilks, Sr in the Land Lottery of 1807. Fire at the court house destroyed all of the early deeds. It is not known where John and El;izabeth Wilks died, but it appears quite likely to have been in Georgia.