Lt. William Fitzpatrick, Georgia Legislator

A Patriot of the American Revolution for Georgia with the rank of LIEUTENANT. DAR Ancestor #: A040249

Includes NotesNotes for William Fitzpatrick: 1744 Born in Virginia. Goochland County. 1777 William Fitzpatrick, the father of Benjamin serves in the as a lieutenant in the third South Carolina Regiment.Because of valuable service rendered, he is presented with a sword. 1779 Was an executor of his father's will in Fluvanna County, Virginia. 1784 Was in Greene County Georgia with his brothers, sisters and mother. 1786 Greene County GA was settled, and the two clear streams, the Apalachee and Oconee Rivers constituted the boundary line between civilization and barbarism, the Creek Indians occupying the territory to the west. 1786(April 17) Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Fluvanna County VA attorney for William Fitzpatrick of the state of Georgia, to John Depp of Powhattan County: land in Fluvanna County, 400 acres on branches of Briery Creek, and branches of Cunningham Creek. (Witnesses, Robert Wright, P. Napier, Ezekial Perkins, William Barnett). (Volume II, pages 127-8. deed recorded April 6, 1786) 1795 Morgan County settled. He served 19 consecutive years in the Georgia Legislature from Greene County, according to genealogies of the family.According to State records (see below) that he served between 1785 and 1804, but with breaks.Another account states that he served in the South Carolina legislature. The records of Jasper (then Randolph) County Georgia show that a William Fitzpatrick died about 1809, with Joseph the executor, and with items being left to his wife, Anne. It would seem, then that he had moved to Randolph County before he died, and that the William Fitzpatrick mentioned in Greene County (wife Tabitha) was another person. "Biographical Directories" states that Benjamin, William's son, was born June 30, 1802 in Greene County, Georgia, and that he was left an orphan when he was seven years old, which would have been 1809. 1807 Died according to the deed book of Jasper (formerly Randolph until 1812) County, p. 17. 1823 Another William died in Greene County. His sons and daughters migrated to Alabama before it was a territory, buying land in 1816 and settled in present Montgomery County, near what is known as Pickett Springs on the lower Wetumpka Road. Their quarters were a quarter mile northwest of this spring. According to the account by Stannie Fitzpatrick, the older brothers came first to St. Stephens, the first capitol of the Alabama Territory, thence to the above location. Benjamin and Alva settled down there; Bird and his sister, Nancy, settled near Union Springs and Joseph with Celia Fitzpatrick Baldwin and Phillips Fitzpatrick in what became Fitzpatrick Alabama. This from the Georgia Department of Archives and History: According to our General Name File, William Fitzpatrick served as Clerk of Court from Washington County in 1785 and from Greene County in 1786. He served in the House of Assembly from Greene County 1787-1790, 1797, 1803-1804. He represented Greene County at the state constitutional conventions of 1789 and 1795.He was a justice of the peace from Greene County 1786-1799 and Justice of the Inferior Court of Greene County, 1789-1792, 1796-1805. His children went with their families to Alabama, and most settled in the area known as Pickett Springs on the Lower Wetumpka Road in 1816. The cabins were a quarter mile northeast of this spring. My maternal grandfather, Lieutenant William Fitzpatrick, whose name is on the roll of honor in the lineage Book, 1901 Volume 5, 1993-94, was in the Third South Carolina Regiment.He was presented with a sword for the services rendered at Savannah, where he was wounded.His wife, at great personal risk, carried over the country on horseback, valuable government papers which were delivered safely at Savannah.Information concerning the ancestors Phillips and Kimbro is more meager. There are certified copies of their receiving valuable tracts of land, as a reward for their distinguished services in the Revolutionary army.(Sarah Baldwin Bethea.) More About William Fitzpatrick and Celia Ann Phillips: Marriage: 1775, Fluvanna County, Virginia. More About William Fitzpatrick and Celia Ann Phillips: Marriage: 1775, Fluvanna County, Virginia. Children of William Fitzpatrick and Celia Ann Phillips are:

+Joseph Fitzpatrick, b. January 19, 1787, Greene County, Georgia, d. November 18, 1841, Mitchell, Bullock County, Alabama.

   +Phillips Fitzpatrick, b. November 18, 1788, Greene County, Georgia, d. October 28, 1835, Line Creek, Montgomery County, Alabama.

   +Celia Anne Fitzpatrick, b. June 22, 1791, Greene County, Georgia, d. August 5, 1839, Montgomery County, Alabama.

   +Nancy Fitzpatrick, b. May 26, 1796, Greene County, Georgia, d. June 6, 1854, Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama.

   +Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, b. 1797, d. date unknown.

   +Bird Fitzpatrick, b. 1798, Greene County, Georgia, d. July 4, 1880.

   William Fitzpatrick, b. 1799, d. December 6, 1864, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.

   +Alva Fitzpatrick, b. June 30, 1801, Greene County, Georgia, d. September 8, 1859, Inez, Victoria County, Texas.

   +Benjamin Fitzpatrick, b. June 30, 1802, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, d. November 25, 1869, Elmore, Elmore County, Alabama.

Children of William Fitzpatrick and Celia Ann Phillips are:

   +Joseph Fitzpatrick, b. January 19, 1787, Greene County, Georgia, d. November 18, 1841, Mitchell, Bullock County, Alabama.

   +Nancy Fitzpatrick, b. May 26, 1796, Greene County, Georgia, d. June 6, 1854, Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama.

   +Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, b. 1797, d. date unknown.

   William Fitzpatrick, b. 1799, d. December 6, 1864, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.

   +Alva Fitzpatrick, b. June 30, 1801, Greene County, Georgia, d. September 8, 1859, Inez, Victoria County, Texas.

   +Benjamin Fitzpatrick, b. June 30, 1802, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, d. November 25, 1869, Elmore, Elmore County, Alabama.

   +Bird Fitzpatrick, b. 1798, Greene County, Georgia, d. July 4, 1880.

   +Celia Anne Fitzpatrick, b. June 22, 1791, Greene County, Georgia, d. August 5, 1839, Montgomery County, Alabama.

   +Phillips Fitzpatrick, b. November 18, 1788, Greene County, Georgia, d. October 28, 1835, Line Creek, Montgomery County, Alabama.

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