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About Colonel Thomas LeNoir, II
Thomas Lenoir Sr.
- BIRTH 11 Aug 1741 Brunswick County, Virginia, USA
- BAPTISED 18 Oct 1741, d. Jun 1816 in Sumter Co., GA.
- DEATH 18 Oct 1816 (aged 75)
- BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
- MEMORIAL ID 73640598 Contributor: Lyneva Mitchell Grauberger
Thomas Lenoir was a soldier in the Revolution in S.C. he came to S.C. about 1767 and settled 7 miles below Camden on a plantation now owned by Mr. William Boykin. He came to the Camden area with the Boykins, Whitakers and Perrys and with his father-in-law, Jas. Atkinson, Sr. In later years after the Rev., he and his step-son, Absalom Blanchard, owned and operated a chair factory in Camden. Absalom Blanchard later moved to Pearl River, Miss. (later called Columbia) to be with his daughter Mary Blanchard who married William Thomas Lenoir, son of Hope Lenoir. After his 3rd marriage, Thomas moved to Wilkes Co., N.C.
Also in bible record--Two children from a previous marriage of Sarah Ransome Gwyn (who married Thomas Lenoir) married children of Thomas Lenoir and Martha Atkinson.
Served the Revolutionary cause as a Patriot, furnishing supplies, and boarding and nursing sick soldiers.
.... The tempo of the war was rising in William Lenoir's part of the country. Having failed to destroy Washington's army in the north, the British decided to start from the other end and 'roll up the war from the south.' Charleston fell - disastrously; more than 5,000 men, including 815 North Carolina Continental soldiers and officers and about 600 North Carolina militia, were taken prisoner. Beaufort, Georgetown and Savannah were in British hands. One after another, Camden was tragedy for the Ninety-Six and Camden.....The Battle of Camden was tragedy for the Patriots, 800 killed and 1,000 captured, half the dead, North Carolinians. and of those captured, one WAS William Lenoir's brother, Thomas.
Thomas Lenoir's twelve-year-old daughter, Martha, learning that her father was in prison, wounded and suffering for food and attention, gathered together what provisions she could, and taking with her an elderly slave, rode horseback twenty miles through an uneasy countryside to the prison at Camden. That she managed to secure an audience with the British commanding general seems no less than miraculous, but so she did. The story goes that General Cornwallis, impressed with her bravery and her appealing story, the mother dead, the children alone on the plantation with only the servants, listened patiently and 'placing his hand kindly on her head, said, 'My little Miss, your father shall not only have this food which you bring, but he shall accompany you home.' Thomas Lenoir, as a token of appreciation, had a pair of gold earrings made for her by the blacksmith (no jewelers on the frontier). Some years ago they were on display, on loan from a descendant, at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, but their whereabouts now, unfortunately, cannot be learned." [5]
Of the six sons of Thomas and Mourning, one died unmarried; the remaining five married and raised families. Robert, the eldest, remained in Brunswick county, Virginia; Thomas Jr., Isaac and John settled in South Carolina, in the valley of the Wateree River below Camden; while William, the youngest, remained in North Carolina, where he had a distinguished public career and founded the Fort Defiance branch of the family. [4]
Parents
Thomas Lenoir 1700–1765
Mourning Crawley Lenoir 1709–1794
Spouse
Martha Blanche Atkinson Lenoir 1/17/1746–12/23/1780 m. 20 Sep 1761 in Edgecombe Co., NC
Mary _____ Blanchard d. 2 Nov 1788- m. 3/3/1783 in Edgecomb Co., NC
Sarah Ransome d. 1807- m. aft 1788
Siblings
Ann Nancy Lenoir Westmoreland 1731–1825
Robert Crawley Lenoir 1733–1793
Mary Lenoir Perry 1739–1774
Isaac Lenoir 1743–1808
Lewis Lenoir 1745–1765
William Lenoir 1751–1839
Children with Martha*, Mary**, Sarah***
- Amelia Lenoir Gwyn 1765–1848
- Martha Lenoir Gwyn 1767–1829
- Thomas Lenoir, Col. b. 23 Dec 1769.
- Leonora (Lenora, Leah) Lenoir McFaddin 1772–1865
- James Lenoir
- Thadrack Lenoir
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Lenoir
- Lucy Lenoir Cunningham 1779–1832
- William Lenoir #21524 b. 16 Jun 1785.
- Hope Hull Lenoir #21675 b. 30 Jan 1786.
[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73640598/thomas-lenoir
[2] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lenoir-19
[3] freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~duggan/20675-r.doc
[4] ORIGINS OF THE LENOIR FAMILY by Allan Lenoir Poe < link >
[5] Fort Defiance and The General" by Margaret E. Harper, 1976, 2nd edition 1997:
[6] A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor #: A069231
Additional Data
Children by Martha Blanche Atkinson:
+ 43 i. Amelia Lenoir #21672 b. 16 Sep 1767.
+ 44 ii. Martha Lenoir #21673 b. c 1767.
+ 45 iii. Thomas Lenoir, COL. #24434 b. 23 Dec 1769.
+ 46 iv. Lenora (Leah) Lenoir #21674 b. 9 Oct 1772.
47 v. James Lenoir #21522.
48 vi. Thadrack Lenoir #56309.
49 vii. Elizabeth (Betsy) Lenoir #56310.
50 viii. Lucy Lenoir #56311.
Children by Mary _____ Blanchard:
+ 51 ix. William Lenoir #21524 b. 16 Jun 1785.
+ 52 x. Hope Hull Lenoir #21675 b. 30 Jan 1786.
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Colonel Thomas LeNoir, II's Timeline
| 1741 |
August 11, 1741
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Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1760
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Wilkes, North Carolina, United States
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1761
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Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States
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July 10, 1768
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Camden, S.C., United States
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1768
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Kershaw District, South Carolina
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December 23, 1769
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October 9, 1772
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Sumter District, South Carolina, Colonial America
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April 8, 1775
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May 12, 1775
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