Chatham-Orange County NcArchives Biographies.....Banks, Drury 1754 - 1834
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Sara Overstreet sjoverstreet@bellsouth.net June 13, 2014, 2:37 pm

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Author: Sara Jane Overstreet

Drury Banks fought for Liberty while living with his young family in Chatham Co 
NC. He was born in 1754 in Brunswick Co VA, and moved to NC with his parents. 
When he was 18, Drury Banks served in Capt. John Montgomery’s Colonial NC 
Militia (Sept 1772). In 1780, he volunteered for 3 months with Capt. William 
Gage’s horse troop in the American Revolution (pension app R475). On 31 Oct 
1783, he received pay for his services in the NC Continental Line (Hillsboro 
auditor’s office, Voucher 5711).  He relocated to SC, where his brother had 
been  established before the War, and was registered in Abbeville Co for the 
first census of the new nation in 1790.  Before 1800, Drury Banks was trading 
in the real estate of Warren Co GA. In a 1826 Land Lottery, he gained property 
in Henry Co GA, later Fayette Co GA after county lines were re-drawn. By 1832, 
Drury Banks granted two adult sons his holdings in Fayette Co, as he moved to 
Coweta Co GA with other adult children. An infirmed  Drury Banks began his 
Revolutionary War pension application under the Act of 1832 as a citizen of 
Coweta Co GA. He gave a deposition on 3 May 1834, and died soon thereafter. The 
application gave his account of his service only in 1780, along with additional 
demographic information and supportive testimony. The application was rejected 
after Drury’s death because it mentioned less than 6 months of service in 1780, 
and not because of a lack of documented military engagement. The veteran was 
deceased, and could not appeal by providing proof of military activities in 
other years. Drury Banks was buried at White Oak Associate Reformed 
Presbyterian Church (Coweta Co GA) beside his wife, the property in 1834 
belonging to a Methodist congregation.

By Sara Jane Overstreet, 4th Great Granddaughter


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