John Netherland

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• Reference Number: 10387

John married Sarah Hankins Abt 1712. Sarah (daughter of John Hankins) was born 1685, New Kent, Virginia, USA; died , Goochland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 10386

John married Mary Ann Mosby 1 Feb 1750, Cumberland, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Mosby and Mary Poindexter) was born 1736, Goochland, Virginia, USA; died 1803, Henrico, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 49024

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• Reference Number: 49025

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• Reference Number: 49026

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• Find-A-Grave: 100820920
• Occupation: Postmaster
• Reference Number: 10383
• _MILT: Revolutionary War
• _MILT: Between 1835 and 1850, Kentucky, USA

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Benjamin Netherland was the son of John Netherland; the date and place of his birth and the name of his mother are no shown. In 1789, his father was living in Powhatan County, Virginia, and was referred to then as John Netherland, Senior.

Benjamin Netherland, a cadet, entered the service in Colonel Henry's 1st Virginia Regiment, was in the battle at the Long Bridge, then went to Norfolk and remained until that place was burned, and was commissioned ensign in Colonel George Mathews' Virginia Regiment; he resigned to go to Georgia where regiments were then being raised, and in 1776, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Colonel George Habersham's 1st Georgia Regiment; he was on expeditions against the Indians, to Fort Augusta and to the St. Johns River, and at the time the British invaded Georgia under the Tory Colonel Brown, he was in command of a relief company and went to a fort on the Alatamaha River, was taken prisoner and confined nineteen days in a dungeon under a light house on the island opposite Augusta, following which he was imprisoned several months, was later sent to Charleston, thence to Georgia and, on account of ill health, went to Boston where he remained until late that fall; he returned south in 1780, was brevetted a Captain was granted leave to go to Kentucky by Colonel Samual Elbert, and in 1782, was in the battle of Blue Licks.

It was stated further that in 1786 or 1787, he was appointed Major of the County, the state not designated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, at which time he resided in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. He was then seventy-seven years of age.

The soldier died October 6 [10?], 1838 in Jessamine County, Kentucky.

Benjamin Netherland married in February, 1787, in North Carolina, Theodosia, daughter of Ambrose Bramlet, of Surry County, North Carolina.

Theodosia Netherland, the solider's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed June 18 [19], 1843, at which time she resided in Jessamine County, Kentucky. She was then 'above severty-six years' of age; the date and place of her birth are not stated.
Mary Anne Netherland, the daughter of Benjamin Netherland and Theodosia, was their only child in 1789. No other names of children are shown in the papers on file in this claim.

Buried:
Netherland Cemetery

Benjamin married Theodosia Bramlett 16 Feb 1788, Surry, North Carolina, USA. Theodosia (daughter of Ambrose Bramlett and Jane Woodson) was born 10 Aug 1769, Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died 1852, Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 10382

Benjamin married Marietta Rebecca Olds 16 Dec 1824, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. Marietta was born 8 Jun 1810, Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA; died 1847. [Group Sheet]

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• Find-A-Grave: 147596454
• Reference Number: 10384

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County Jail Cemetery (Was a garden owned by Benjamin Netherland)

Betsy — Robert Peace McMurty. [Group Sheet]

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• Find-A-Grave: 147596537
• Reference Number: 10385

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Buried:
County Jail Cemetery (Was a garden owned by Benjamin Netherland)

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• Find-A-Grave: 147596658
• Reference Number: 10388

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County Jail Cemetery (Was a garden owned by Benjamin Netherland)

Mary married Joel Moss Prewitt 22 Jul 1805, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. Joel (son of Joseph Prewitt and Leah Moss) was born 1787, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA; died 18 Oct 1847, Fayette, Howard, Missouri, USA; was buried , Fayette, Howard, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Find-A-Grave: 147596358
• Reference Number: 10389

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Buried:
County Jail Cemetery (Was a garden owned by Benjamin Netherland)

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• Reference Number: 56112