John Pound

• Son of Thomas Pound and Audrey Drake
• The name of Pound is of English Origin, and the names of John and Thomas Pound were common in England, as shown on the records during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Death: 14 Apr 1789 at the age of 54 in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States.
• Indiana Genealogy, Family Histories, Journals & Biographies, page 309
• Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Harrison Chapter, lineage records of members.
• New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, May 1, 1758 for John’s father Thomas Pound Volume XXXII
• Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Harrison Chapter, lineage records of members John Pond.

Married

• Married: Rhoda Cox in 1759 in New Jersey, United States
• Married: Sarah Martin in 1764 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.

Children with his first wife Rhoda Cox

• 1. Hvzekiah Pound, born July 3, 1761, died April 23, 1839, married Esther Morris. For his record see Part II.

Children with his second wife Sarah Martin

• 2. Eunice Pound, born about 1765, died about 1815, married William Kester. For her record see Part III.
• 3. Thomas Pound, born July 28, 1767, died February 2, married Sarah Kester in 1848. For his record see Part IV.
• 4. Joseph Pound, born November 23, 1770, died April 2. 1850, married Elizabeth Stark. For his record see Part V.
• 5. Sarah Pound, born October 4, 1773, died October 14, married in 1849, John Kester. For her record see Part VI.
• 6. Rebecca Pound, born about 1776, died about 1820, mar- ried James Stark. For her record see Part VII.
• 7. Elisabeth Pound, born September 8, 1780, died January 15, 1856, married Moses Drake. For her record see Part VIII.

John Pound Served in American Revolution

John Pound (Thomas3, John2, John1) was born Abt. 1735 in Piscataway, Middlesex Co., New Jersey, and died Abt. 1790. He married (1) Rhoda Cox Abt. 1759. He married (2) Sarah Martin in. 1764.

'''Notes for John Pound:'''

John Pound was born about 1735 in Piscataway, New Jersey. As the eldest son of Thomas Pound, he inherited the 100-acre family farm when his father died in 1758 and lived there for about 15 years. He was granted the earmark to identify his livestock, which had been used by his father on February 23, 1764. He lived in Piscataway until at least July 12, 1770, when he sold his farm to Isaac Smalley. His earmark was later entered to Benjamin Molleson on May 19, 1774. John left New Jersey some time after he sold his property and went to Maryland, where he served in the Sixth Maryland Regiment in the Revolutionary War. According to family tradition he was in Maryland at least by October 1773. Following the Revolution and the opening of the Kentucky territory he moved with his family west to Nelson County, Kentucky about 1788 and settled there. He died in Kentucky some time between 1790 and 1800. His first wife, whom he married about 1759, was Rhoda Cox. About 1764 he married Sarah Martin, She survived him and by 1800 was married to a man named Stigler. She later married William Kester at an advanced age. The date of her death is not known.

History of John Pound, a son of Thomas Pound and Audrey, his Wife

THE POUND AND KESTER FAMILIES, John E Hunt, Chicago, Regan Printing House, 1904 page 11- 12:

John Pound, a son of Thomas Pound and Audrey, his wife, was born at Piscataway, Middlesex County, N. J., about 1735. He was married about 1759 to Rhoda Cox, by whom he had one son, and was married again about 1764 to Sarah Martin, by whom he had six children, two sons and four daughters. In 1758 his father died, leaving him the home plantation (sub- ject to a life estate in the mother and legacies to the sisters, as mentioned in the will), and on July 12, 1770, John and his wife, Sarah, conveyed this plantation by a deed to Andrew Smalley, wherein it is recited that the grantor, John Pound, received the land by will from his father, Thomas Pound, who in turn re- the land by deed, dated March 24, 1736-37, from the grandfather, John Pound, who came by it as sole son and heir of his mother, Winnifred, wife of the great-grandfather, John Pound, the original Pound and early settler in Piscataway.

It is not known whether John Pound moved from Piscata- way immediately after making this conveyance in 1770. Possibly he may have located for a while in the adjoining county of Somerset, as others of the Pound family are known to have been living there about that time, and the records show that his son, Hezekiah, served from that county in the Revolution during the years 1776 and 1777. He later migrated to Mary- land, at what date is not known, but probably about the time of the Revolution, as some of his younger children are said to have been born in that State. Nor is it definitely known in what part of Maryland he resided, though subsequent to the Revolution part of his family is known to have been living near Cumberland, as his son, Hezekiah, took a grant of land there as a settler in 1788, and his son, Thomas, and daughter, Eunice, moved from that locality to Kentucky in 1786. The date of his death is unknown, but he probably died prior to 1800, perhaps as early as 1790. His second wiie, Sarah, survived him and married a man named Stiglar, and later, about the year 1813, married William"Kester, the common ancestor of the Kester family, found in this volume.

Links

• http://www.leepound.com/JohnPoundPiscNJ.htm
• https://www.myfamilyonline.com/histories/The%20Story%20of%20the%20P...

Sources

• The Pound and Kester families : containing an account of the ancestry of John Pound -https://archive.org/stream/poundkesterfamil1904hunt#page/11/mode/1up
• DAR Ancestor # A091889 "FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE".
• Compiled by Ambrose M. Shotwell, Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants: or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Posterity, Who, Where, When and What Have They Been? And What Have They Done or UndergoneThat Might be of Interest to Their Relatives In Time to Come: Embracing A genealogical and Biographical register of Nine Gnerations--about two hundred particular families--of the Shotwell family in America, arranged, alphabetically by households; together with the pedigree and near kindred of the author's parents, nathan and Phebe B. (Gardner) Shotwell, of Jackson County, MIchigan, in Various paternal and maternal lines of descent, including not less than forty distinct patronymics, chiefly seventeeth-century families of New Jersey, Long Island, Rhode Island, many of whom were members of the religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers (Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith & Co., Printers and Binders, 1895–7), p. 6.
• DAR Application, Application of Jane Seymour Briggs DAR #279907 of the Ft. Harrison Chapter, on John Pound.
• Compiled by Jeanette Cogar Rhodes, Thomas Pound, 1635 Immigrant to Plymouth Colony; (165 Black Oak Drive, Grants Pass, Oregon 97527-8727; Feb 1996.: n.p., February 1996).
• US and International Marriage Records 1560-1900.
• Roy E. Hardin, Early Starks in Vernon Twn, Washington Co., Indiana: Stark Family Assn. Yearbooks, 1942-44. (N.p.: Lyme Public Library, Rt. 156, Lyme, Conn. 06371, 1952).
• U. S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2007. Provo, UT. image 217 of 587, linr 6, Maryland, 3rd Regiment, 1778 (Folders 18-19) Roll of Capt Joshua Miles Co.