Capt. Moses Grier

• DAR Ancestor #: A048070
• SAR Membership Number: 87566. Moses Greer Sr. was born on 2 Jun 1744 in Gunpowder River, Baltimore County, Maryland. He died on 10 May 1834 in Franklin County, Virginia. "A letter from the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., dated April 9, 1938, gives a great deal of information and it is quoted: "Pension Claim File S-8609, Certificate # 2896 issued December 8, 1832; rate $ 460.00 per annum; commenced March 4, 1831; Virginia Agency. Moses Greer was born in the state of Maryland, June 2, 1744. While residing in Bedford County (that part later called Franklin County), Moses Greer was Captain of Militia, and in 1779, served six months under Colonel James Callaway, stationed at the lead mines in Grayson County, VA. He was commissioned, October 28, 1780, Lieutenant in Virginia troops; served two tours of three months each. Also other tours in Colonel Charles Lynch's and Colonel William Leftwich's Virginia Regiments and was on the march to Yorktown when the British surrendered. His entire service amounted to two years. He was allowed a pension on Application September 12, 1832; then a resident of Franklin County and was referred to as Moses Greer, Sr. (Copy of this pension application in ROYAL HERITAGE OF THE GREERS by Carolyn Beal, pages 137 - 138, which gives Moses age as 88 years in 1832.)

1799 - "Moses Greer was a surveyor, farmer and business man. In politics, he was a Jeffersonian Republican, and as such was elected a delegate from Franklin County to the Convention of the Legislature of Virginia which met in Richmond, before the 1800 election. (GREAR - GREER - GREERE - GRIER by Robert M. Torrence, pages 24 - 25.)

Sources

1. Information about the family and descendants of Moses Greer has been recorded in PIONEER FAMILIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1935 by Marshall Wingfield, page 86; DAR Abstracts (369.1 D26L), Vol. 119, page 28; DAR Records #68406; and research notes of L. L. McNees of Ebenezer, Mississippi; GREER KINSMEN by J. B. Bell; and notes of Mrs. Cabel Smith, Rocky Mount, Virginia and Edna Greer Hatfield. (Lois Temple FGS 959.)

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