John "Crip" Lowry, Sr.

ID: I526129187

Name: John (Crip) LOWRY

Given Name: John (Crip)

Surname: Lowry

Sex: M

Birth: Abt. 1766 in Scotland 1 2

Event: Resided Unknown Bet. 1783 - 1790 Cecil & Somerset Co, MD 3

Event: Resided Unknown Bet. 1790 - 1798 North Carolina

Event: Resided Unknown 1800 Blount Co, TN tax list

Event: Resided Unknown 1814 Guilford Co, NC

Event: Resided Unknown 1820 Warren Co, Tenn (Tax List)

Event: Military Unknown Bef. Aug 1781 Rev War vet - 7th Maryland Regiment

Event: Military Unknown Note: a John Lowry rcvd 39 lashes for damning the general and his orders.

Immigration: to VA from Ireland

Event: Property 1787 Granted 50 acres west of Fort Cumberland (Alleghany & Garrett Co)

Census: De Kalb, AL, Dist 24, pg 58/401B

Note:

Source: John & Nellie Lowry, 9654 Kessler Ave, Chatsworth, CA 91311

LowryLines@aol.com

The father of William Alexander Lowry Sr was John Lowry, a Revolutionary

War soldier who fought in the 7th Maryland Regiment, and lost a leg in

the Battle of Camden in SC. He was taken prisoner aboard ship and then

later released on the Eastern Shore. He was in Somerset Co, MD from

1783-1790.

He received a Soldier's pension from the Orphans Court from 1783 until

the US government was formed in 1789. I have found records of him at the

historic Washington Hotel in Princess Anne. We visited there a few years

ago. John was born in Scotland, and his wife was born in Maryland, but

we have no name for her. I have a bill of sale of household goods, and a

few farm items in late 1790, when we assume that he moved west. He did

have a grant of land west of Fort Cumberland, but I have not been able to

find that he ever settled on this land.

His sons William Alexander and Levi Jasper appear to have left Guilford

Co, NC in 1815 after William was released from service in the War of

1812, and went to TN.

Sources:

Note: TEXT Somerset Co, MD Register of Wills (Orphans Court Proceedings)

p. 74A