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87. Absalom RUTHERFORD Sr.24,28 was born in 1763 in Albemarle Co., VA. He signed a will on 6 February 1831 in Knox Co., TN.29 The will lists his wife, Mary and gives her the plantation, all the stock, household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils and Negroes... suring her widowhood. If she remarries she only gets one third of the land and the house where she now lives. Absalom,Jr. got the land and building where he now lives. Sons James and Absalom got all the land. He left a negro girl (6 year old Mary) to his daughter Nancy Kearns. If the wife dies or remarries the Negroes are to be given to daughters Ann Graves, Mary Peterson, Sary Clapp, and Ceny Underwood. If they cannot reach a satisfactory divide they were to be sold except for the Negro serserved for his wife. He also said to give his son-in-law, Christopher Shipley, one dollar out of my estate when he calls for it. He also lists three grandchildren James, Ann and William Peterson who were living with George Graves and the children of my daughter Esther Peterson, wife of WIlliam Peterson fifty dollars each at the time they come of age. Mary, his wife, was appointed executor and witnessed by John Bayless, William Sawyers and A. E. McHaffie.
He died on 28 June 1841 in Knox Co., TN.24 Will proven for name at place on date. Absalom declared under oath 22 Sep 1832 that he was born in Albemarle Co., Va., in 1763. He enlisted in the militia in Wythe Co., Va., for a term of service of eighteen months under the command of Capt. William Bentley. He participated in the battles of Guilford Courthouse, Camden (wounded here - broke right leg below the knee), Ninety-Six, and Eutaw Springs. Absalom was allowed a pension and after his death his wife Mary made application for a pension 18 May 1844 and made application for bounty land 24 Mar 1855. Land records in Wythe Co., Va. show that Julius Rutherford and his wife Rhoda conveyed 200 acres of land on Mine Mill Creek 23 Nov 1790 to Absalom. Absalom received his discharge at Yorktown, VA. and there met the girl who became his wife. Absalom followed her family to TN; stole her away near Knoxville; married, and settled near House Mountain on a tract of 600 acres of land. --Information from page 210 of Rutherford book. The 600 acre grant is the land the Corryton was built on.
Pension Records, Group A., No. 15 A, R9113, General Services Administration, Washington, DC.
Absalom RUTHERFORD Sr. and Mary MCBRIDE were married in February 1790 in Grainger Co., TN.24 Near Blaine.
Mary MCBRIDE was born in 1771 in NC. Absalom RUTHERFORD Sr. and Mary MCBRIDE had the following children: |