Reuben Pounds

A Patriot of the American Revolution for GEORGIA with the rank of CORPORAL. DAR Ancestor # A091894

Service Source: DAVIS, GA CITIZENS & SOLS OF THE AM REV, PP 117, 118

Service Description: 1) CAPT GEORGE HANCOCK, COL SAMUEL ELBERT, 2ND BATT

The DAR database does not indicate who the wife of Reuben Pound was; however, lists her as "xx" for unknown. More research is needed.

From Wikitree https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pounds-98

Origins

Update

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pound-1066

There is a lot of controversy over whether the John Pound who was the father of Samuel, John and Reuben Pound was the son of John Pound of Richmond County, Virginia or Samuel Pound of Richmond County, Virginia

I have settled on John Pound, son of Samuel for several reasons, all circumstantial.

Note from Lee Pound

Some researchers have made this Reuben Pound the son of John Pound Jr or Richmond County, VA, born 1715. I believe this Reuben is more closely associated with relatives of Samuel Pound, the brother of John Pound Sr. so have placed him in that family. See the note below in research notes that I wrote many years ago. Some of the material is outdated. This placement is my current thinking on this subject.

Biography

Reuben Pound, d. 1797. He served in the 2nd GA Battalion and received a bounty-grant in Washington Co., GA. He is listed in Knight's Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers, page 273, and his record of service is on file in the office of the Secretary of State, State Capitol, Atlanta, GA. as well as in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. .[1]

Reuben Pound, Corporal, 2nd Battalion Georgia Continental Line commanded by Colonel Samuel Elbert. Later certified as a Revolutionary War Soldier by Lt. Col. Joseph Pannell and received bounty land Oconee River, Washington County, Georgia.[2]

July 12, 1784, Reuben Pounds received a certificate as a soldier in the 2nd Georgia Battalion, J. Panhill, Lt. Col. Petitioner (Reuben Pounds) prays 230 acres in reserve. Warrant 186.[3]

230 acres on reserve, Washington County, Georgia. Bounded south, Oconee River, other side vacant.[4]

November 13, 1797 - Richard Pounds, Newman Pounds, Merryman Pounds, Clary (or Clara) Pounds, Peggy Pounds, Mary Pounds, Julius and Katy Sanders, James and Franky Britton, sell to Stephen Bishop, 230 acres on the south side of the Oconee River. Consideration, $1,000.00, lying in Greene County. Testified to: Frances Hough, James Hough.[5]

Reuben was with Col. Samuel Elbert's 2nd Continental Georgia Battalion in 1779. Reuben was a Revolutionary War patriot. He received a land grant on the Oconee River for his war services. He had warrant #186 on Certified List and drew 230 acres in Washington County, Georgia. He was in that county by 1784.

↑ Monroe County, Georgia - A History.

↑ DAR Patriot Index - Volume 2, page 168 - Revolutionary War Soldiers in Georgia, page 689, Washington County, Georgia #44.

↑ Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, Knight,. Page 144.

↑ Surveyor General's Book F, page 246 - October 1, 1784, Survey 487

↑ Greene County, Georgia, Deed Book B, page 227

Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 20 February 2020), "Record of Reuben Pound", Ancestor # A091894.

"United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXT-6667 : 9 March 2018), Reuban Pound, 18 Aug 1779; citing 18 Aug 1779, Georgia, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,311.

"United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXT-5Q73 : 9 March 2018), Reuban Pound, 01 Jul 1779; citing 01 Jul 1779, Georgia, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,311.

"United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXT-1ZWB : 9 March 2018), Reuban Pound, 01 May 1779; citing 01 May 1779, Georgia, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,311.

Reuben was a Continental soldier in the American Revolutionary War, who
served both as a private and a Corporal in the 2nd Georgia batilian. For the service,he received 230 acres of land in the fork of the Ockoney River, in old Washington County Georgia in 1784. After his death, the old land in Washington Co. (later became Greene Co. Georgia) was sold to Stephen Bishop for $1000.00.