Thomas Finklea

Wikitree on Thomas Finklea circa 1727-1787 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Finklea-6

DAR Ancestor # A040746

Furnished provisions during the Revolutionary War.

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Thomas Finckley (also Finkley, Finkly, Finklea)

Born in the early 1700s in Price Ann County, Virginia and died before the end 1787 at Jeffreys Creek, South Carolina

During the mid-part of the 1700's many people in Virginia began to move south into the less populated areas of the Carolinas. Thomas Finckley, a son of John Finckley, was among these settlers and on 18 October 1765, he had 400 acres of land surveyed on Ashpole Swamp old Craven County, South Carolina and on 28 August 1767, he was issued a land grant by King George III for this land. The land was located “on Ashpole Swamp and Marsh between Little Peedee River and Drowning Creek bounded on all sides by vacant land.”

In the Marion County, South Carolina Archives (Deed Book A for the period 1800 to 1805) there are records that mention land surveys for other people whose land was bounded by land either belonging or supposedly belonging to Thomas Finklea. Further, Charles Finklea, his son, was granted 300 acres on Ashpole Swamp in Blanden County, North Carolina on 16 December 1769. No record has been found to tell us how long they remained on these properties, but it appears that they may have abandoned these properties and moved further south to Jeffrey’s Creek (now Claussen, South Carolina) not long after.

Various records indicate that Thomas Finklea left a will, but it has not been found. The will is referred to in the deed of sale from John Finklea to John Porter, dated 27 December 1787, which states that the property became John Finklea's by "the last will and testament of Thomas Finkley."

In an application for membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC (National #551449, dated 16 June, 1970 and issued to Mrs. Mary Fore Stuart Osborn, 1302 North Tuscaloosa Street, Greensboro, Alabama 36744) it is recorded for the decendants of Thomas Finklea that for services in assisting in the establishment of American Independence during the war of the revolution were as follows: " Mr. Thomas Finkley received pay for rations for 40 men and forage for 30 horses for a detachment from Col. Marion with prisoners for the Continental Service."

In the South Carolina Archieves, Folder A-2235 enumeratrd many instances of supplies and provisions furnished by Thomas to the Continental Army and State Militia. One of the records shows " Peedee November 20, 1784". This indent was signed by mark, however on 29 August 1787 when it was assigned to Charles Finklea it was legibly signed Thos. Finklea. In the Charles Finklea audited accounts, AA-2392, one dated 24 February 1786 is signed Thos. Finklea, Jr., in the same handwriting as the foregoing. The Thomas, Sr. who furnished the provisions must have died before 29 August 1787, after which the younger Thomas adding the suffix Jr. after his signature.