JEFFERSON COUNTY, GA - Military - Revolutionary War Veterans

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COLEMAN
John Coleman. I found his name on a Jefferson
County tax index in 1799. John Coleman of
Jefferson County is also listed I found his name
in a database of Land Grants to Georgia
Revolutionary War Veterans. The title is,
“Authentic List of All Land Lottery Grants Made
to Veterans of The Revolutionary War by The State
of Georgia”. The chapter title is, “Lottery
Grants to Revolutionary Veterans”, section C,
page 18. The listing has the name of Coleman,
John, Sr.; Residence: Jefferson County; Lottery -
1827; number - 154; District ­ 30; Lee County;
granted 7/28/1827. His name is listed as having
been in the Georgia Militia. 

We found a copy of his will that was written in
July 1836 and probated in December 1836. He was
in Jefferson County at that time living somewhere
along Rocky Comfort Creek on what had been known
as the Isaac Lefeaver tract. His will refers to
his property as a plantation. We do not know
where John Coleman is buried.



Jimmy Boland jboland@cfl.rr.com


STAPLETON

George Lawson Stapleton, b. Loudoun Co., Va 1760,
recruited into the Rev. War in Georgia at age 17.
Battles:  Savannah and Augusta, captured and was
in British prison ships until 1783. 

He married Margarett Downer in St. Augustine, Fl
and they settled in Burke Co., now Jefferson Co.,
GA, in the Scotch-Irish settlements. He and wife
and others are buried near Wrens on their
original farm land.


That is a thumbnail of George Lawson Stapleton,
Rev. War Soldier. He is listed in the DAR but
part of the birth information may be faulty. It
shows he was born in Brunswick Co., VA which by
his own statement was Loudoun County, Va.


At Stapleton, GA, named after his son Col. James
Stapleton, there should be a book in the library
by Miss Nancy Fletcher titled:  "Some Early
Settlers of State of Georgia: Beatys, Peels,
Stapletons". George's National Number is 90503.

Arthur W. Stapleton <a.stapleton@comcast.net> 



RAIFORD

John Raiford, who died in 1812 in Jefferson
Co, and is buried there in "The Old Raiford
Cemetery". His will is on file at the
Courthouse.  This Raiford line were Patriots
who served in the North Carolina Line under
Gen. Nathaniel Green, originally from Isle of
Wight, Va.

 Monty Reed <montyreed@comcast.net>