Joshua Freeman, Sr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A042086

A Richard Kirby/Kerby lived from the early to mid-1780s until 1795 in Yadkin/Surry County, North Carolina with his family, and his presence was documented in the 1790 Federal Census, as well as in community records of his service as a juror, overseer of roads, and church member. The profile of family ages and sexes as extracted from the census is in agreement with the Kirby household who migrated to Tennessee; but that tie is confirmed by Richard and Sarah having transferred their church membership from a Methodist Episcopal church in Surry County to the church in Rockland, Blount County, Tennessee. In Surry County, the Kirby family established a close relationship to the family of Joshua Freeman, with two children of Richard and Sarah marrying two children of Joshua and Lucy (King) Freeman. (Joseph L. Kirby married Eliza Freeman; Richard Kirby Jr. married Temperance Freeman.) Joseph Kirby "came of age" during this sojourn, was a witness on a deed transaction in 1791 together with his father-in-law Joshua Freeman, and in February 1795, bought land adjacent to his father?s property on Grassy Creek.

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