Thomas Stafford Graham

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Ancestor #: A046795 , 	CREEL, SELECTED VA REV WAR RECS, VOL 2, P 86

*Stafford Graham served in the Anson County Regiment during the American Revolution

• Service started: 1776
• Unit(s): Anson and Bladen County Regiments
• Service ended: 1781
• Stafford Graham's (Pickens District, SC 1830) Revolutionary War Pension Record.Stafford Graham was born in Richmond County, NC 1757
• Lived in Richmond County then called Cumberland.
• Served under Genl Arrington. He received a written discharge at Cross Creek from Capt Hoy (1st), (2nd) at Rockingham from Capt Hathorn, (3rd) Rockingham from Capt Speede. Stafford died 20 Sept 1833.
• Elizabeth, Stafford's widow - born 12 Dec 1753
• Married Stafford Nov 1778 in Richmond County, NC by John Bounds, Esq.

   They had 10 children, raised 8. 

• Two children named: Perry (1st) dec'd in 1848
• Elizabeth (2nd) born March 1781, and living in Alabama.
• The daughter with whom she lived (my ggg grandmother Cinthia Graham Albertson) was her seventh child, was 56 years old.
• Samuel Albertson was born 27 Jun 1781.

   The Stafford Graham family had also lived in Randolph County, NC 

• Found images of the originals at http://www.footnote.com
• Name: Stafford Graham
• Pension Year: 1849
• Application State: South Carolina
• Applicant Designation: Widow's Pension Application File
• Second Applicant Name: Elizabeth Graham
• Second Applicant Pension Year: 1833
• Second Applicant Application State: South Carolina
  

Revolutionary War Service Record: Anson County Regiment Start Date: 1776 End Dste: 1781 1776, a Private under Capt. William Hoye and Lt. Col. David Love. 1779, in Richmond County. 1781, a Private under Capt. John Hawthorne and Col. Thomas Owen (Bladen County Regiment). 1781, also a Private under Capt. John Speed and Col. Thomas Crawford. 1781, a Private again under Capt. John Hawthorne and Col. Thomas Owen (Bladen County Regiment). Born in 1757 in Anson (what became Richmond) County, NC.[1] Sources

1. J. D. LEWIS, http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_patriot_military_privates_...
2. Revolutionary War Pension Application for Stafford Graham, W8872
3. "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGS-DN2 : accessed 11 December 2016), Stafford Graham, Guilford, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 84, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 85; FHL microfilm 162,801.
4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3C9V-RD3 : accessed 2016-12-11), entry for Thomas Stafford /Graham/.
5. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.