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- ** See marriage notes for list of children **
- 1st wife was possibly a Gray or a Kilgore
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YOUNG, THOMAS SR Ancestor #: A130263
Service: SOUTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: CIRCA 1725
Death: ANTE 2-3-1791 UNION CO NINETY SIX DIST SOUTH CAROLINA
Service Source: SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOK C, PP 11-12, # 58
Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES
Residence
1) District: NINETY SIX DIST - State: SOUTH CAROLINA
Spouse
Number Name
1) X X
2) CATHERINE BRANDON
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Associated Applications and Supplementals
Natl Add Docs Child [Spouse #] Spouse
Num Vol.
593007 664 MARY ANN [1] ROBERT GREGORY Purchase
682749 729 THOMAS [1] X X Purchase
670404 825 LETTICE [1] JEREMIAH GREGORY Purchase
700420 967 JEAN JANE [1] WILLIAM STEEN Purchase
800770 1028 LETTICE [1] JEREMIAH GREGORY Purchase
556373 1045 MARY ANN [1] ROBERT GREGORY Purchase
829546 1078 CHRISTOPHER [1] MARY POLLY HUMPHRIES Purchase
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YOUNG, THOMAS JR Ancestor #: A130264 **** son *****
Notice: PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WITH AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUSLY VERIFIED PAPER - SEE ANCESTORS FULL RECORD (WHY?)
Service: SOUTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 1-17-1764 SOUTH CAROLINA
Death: 11-7-1848 UNION DIST SOUTH CAROLINA
Pension Number: *S10309 **** pension
Service Source: *S10309
Service Description: 1) CAPTS BENJAMIN JOLLY, HUGHS; COL THOMAS BRANDON
Comments
(Overview)
1) EL - NO DAU MARGARET IS NAMED IN THE PATRIOT'S PROBATE RECORD.
Residence
1) District: NINETY SIX DIST - State: SOUTH CAROLINA
Spouse
Number Name
1) X X
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Associated Applications and Supplementals
Natl Add Docs Child [Spouse #] Spouse
Num Vol.
78018 42 EL MARGARET [1] GEORGE LEAKE Purchase
82988 EL MARGARET [1] GEORGE LEAKE Purchase
122415 EL MARGARET [1] GEORGE LEAKE Purchase
136032 EL MARGARET [1] GEORGE LEAKE Purchase
384153 GEORGE [1] AGNES HUMPHREYS Purchase
395846 GEORGE [1] AGNES HUMPHREYS Purchase
395846 GEORGE [1] AGNES HUMPHREYS Purchase
408676 GEORGE [1] AGNES HUMPHREYS Purchase
456837 THOMAS [1] AMELIA ANN RAIL CALHOUN Purchase
473308 THOMAS [1] AMELIA A RAIL CALHOUN Purchase
549282 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
582600 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
582601 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
582602 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
619333 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
633413 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
652217 615 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
663148 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
653472 594 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
682748 THOMAS [1] AMELIA A RAIL CALHOUN Purchase
682749 THOMAS [1] AMELIA A RAIL CALHOUN Purchase
743162 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
743163 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
743164 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
746806 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
755657 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
755658 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
812713 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
890106 S CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
937836 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
968047 CATHERINE [1] MILES BUFORD Purchase
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Thomas B. Young
Birth: 1720
Death: 1791 (aged 7071)
Burial: Old Union CemeteryUnion County, South Carolina, USA
Memorial #: 13029985
Bio:
Thomas Young, Esquire, is sometimes mistaken for his son, Major Thomas Young, in some genealogies. Thomas Young senior played no role in the Revolutionary War, other than supplying provisions to the militia and Continental forces; he describes himself in his own will, dated 1778, as "...sick in body...". He does appear on the Anson County militia list, in 1759, serving, however, as a private, under Captain Edward Musgrove (Anson County is part of North Carolina, but at the time extended into what today is much of northwestern South Carolina).
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Thomas B. Young, Esquire, was born about 1720 in Pennsylvania. He was raised an Anglican, becoming an Episcopalian when that church was established about 1787 (his son Major Thomas Young identifies him as an Episcopalian in his memoirs). Some histories claim that his was descended from the Scottish Lamont clan, and that his family came to America via Scotland, but the error that story was based on was discovered, and the story disproved, decades ago.
Thomas' Anglican religion (and the Tory sympathies of his brother William's family during the Revolution - see below) confirms that he was English, not Scotch-Irish (Presbyterian) as were many of his neighbors, nor Irish (Catholic). Based on a family history related by Thomas's son William Young to his (William's) grandson the Rev Capt William Young, and then written down by the Rev Capt William Young's son William, the family had to flee England "to avoid Cromwell's axe" (which also confirms that the family were originally Anglican, and Royalist). Because of their Royalist/Anglican sympathies, they certainly would have faced persecution under the Parliamentary government of Oliver Cromwell, including perhaps being dispossessed of hereditary lands, if not worse. During the period following the execution of King Charles I, from 1650 to about 1670, a large migration of dispossessed Anglicans to Virginia occurred, mostly from strongly Royalist Southwestern England. Virginia was friendly to Royalists, in contrast to the colonies of New England which were strongly Puritan. Pennsylvania, which was later established as a haven for Puritans, didn't exist at the time (it was established in 1681).
According to the history, three brothers, William, George and Thomas, joined this migration to Virginia. The brothers may have come over as children with their parents, but this isn't recorded in the history. The family must have come from a background of some standing, wealth, and education, evidenced later by Thomas Young appearing in the records as Thomas Young "Esq" or "Gent," and his brother William rising to the rank of Colonel with a Loyalist (Tory) regiment. The family may have originally landed, and established an estate, in Barbados, as many emigres found there way to America via a stay in Barbados, and Thomas' brother William owned an estate there.
Brother George remained in Virginia, Thomas went to North Carolina, while William would later emigrate from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Thomas Young, Esq, was either the son, or perhaps more likely a grandson, of this William Young. Thomas had known brothers William, Christopher, and Jesse, all born in Pennsylvania; there were probably other siblings.
Thomas's first known son, William, was born to him and his (first) unknown wife in 1744, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (William noted in his application for his soldier's pension that he was born in York County, Pennsylvania, but York was not formed (from Lancaster County) until 4 years after William was born). There are some clues that Thomas's first wife may have been a Gray or Kilgore. They also had at least one daughter, Jane, who is believed to have married a Kilgore. Nothing more is known of this Jane. Thomas and his 2nd wife, Catharine Brandon, would also have a daughter they would name Jane, born 1759, so possibly this first Jane had died by then.
Sometime about 1754 Thomas emigrated from Pennsylvania to what then was the Royal Colony of South Carolina. He settled in 96 District, in the area that would later become Laurens County. He may already have been married to his 2nd wife Catharine Brandon; the Brandon family emigrated from Pennsylvania to the 96 district at about the same time, along with many other allied families: Kennedys, McJunkins, Hughes, Steens, and others. Thomas and Catherine's first son, George Young Sr., was born in South Carolina in 1755. In 1764 Thomas moved to the part of 96 which became Union County in 1798 (named after the first Church that was erected there - named "Union Church" because at least 3 faiths worshipped there: Presbyterian, Anglican [later Episcopalean], and Quaker).
There is also another story that appears in some histories that the Young family originally settled in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, leaving for South Carolina after a massacre of the settlers there by Indians. That story, however, is easily disproved - the famous Wyoming massacre occurred in 1778, when the Revolution was underway, and more than 20 years after the Youngs had emigrated to South Carolina from Pennsylvania.
Thomas served as a private in the militia in South Carolina; he appears on the Anson County militia list, in 1759, serving as a private under Captain Edward Musgrove (Anson County is part of North Carolina, but at the time extended into what today is much of northwestern South Carolina). Also listed are Christopher, John, James and William Brandon along with Thomas Young. He did not serve during the Revolutionary War (he describes himself in his own will, dated 19 May 1777, as "...sick in body..."). He was, however, a regular supplier of provisions to both the militia and the Continental army during the war. Many records of such transactions exist, and it is in these records that we find references to him as "Thomas Young Esq" and "Thomas Young Gent", as well as the reference to his middle initial "B".
There are some trees that show Thomas B Young, Esq., as "Major" Thomas Young, but Major Thomas Young was actually Thomas B. Young's son, well-known Revolutionary War patriot, born 1764; Major Young served gallantly during the war, but did not become a Major until after the Revolution, when he was Major, and then Colonel, of the local militia.
Thomas B. Young's brother William was Colonel William Young of the Loyalist Tory South Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War. Several of Colonel William's sons also fought for the British; one, Nathaniel, was killed, and another, William Jr., with has company of Tories, faced off against his cousin Major Thomas Young (the son of Thomas B. Young, Esq. mentioned above), in a confrontation across a creek - Young was with his company of patriot militia - that ended when one of Major Young's companions put a bullet into the nose of William's horse. Major Young described the incident in his memoirs.
Thomas's wife, Catherine Brandon, was the daughter of George Brandon, and sister of Colonel Thomas Brandon who participated in many well documented battles in the Carolinas against the British in the early 1780's. Catherine died in Union County after 6 January 1815, when she put her "X" on the estate papers of her husband in Union County. Thomas also died in (then) Union District. His will, written 19 May 1777 and recorded 3 February 1791 in Union District, is the oldest will on file in the county; Thomas must have died early in 1791. Witnesses to the will were Thomas Brandon, John Brandon, and William Kennedy.
Thomas and his brother-in-law Colonel Thomas Brandon were among the first settlers of the Union County area of South Carolina; Thomas and his family lived about four miles south of the Union courthouse. He was granted 550 acres on Buffalo Creek in January 1785, which he later sold to Colonel Brandon. Thomas also owned land along Fairforest Creek and at the forks of the Broad and Saluda Rivers.
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A petition to Gov. Arthur Dobbs exists from the inhabitants "on ye frunteers of Anson County" asking for a scout to be appointed and a fort built between the Enoree River and the headwaters of Thickety Creek. It lists George, Christopher and James Brandon, as well as a Wm. Kenedy and Thos. Young. Among the men on the 1759 militia list of Capt. Edward Musgrove, we find a Christopher, John, James and William Brandon along with Thomas Young. Thomas "McClary" is listed as a deserter.
"Union Co. Heritage - SC" Will in Union Co., SC Land grant Jan 1785, 550 acres on Buffalo Creek, later sold to brother-in-law, Thomas Brandon
Family Members
Spouse
Catherine Brandon Young 1731-1814
Children
William * Young 1744-1834
George Young 1755-1833
John Young 1760-1780
Thomas Young 1764-1848
Christopher C. Young 1772-1849
Maintained by: Kenwg (47774038)
Originally Created by: Drifter & Hammer (46628037)
Added: 15 Jan 2006
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13029985/thomas-b_-young
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 July 2019), memorial page for Thomas B. Young (17201791), Find A Grave Memorial no. 13029985, citing Old Union Cemetery, Union County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Kenwg (contributor 47774038) .
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