The Alba & Handle Family Tree:Information about John Franklin Sr.
John Franklin Sr. (b. June 02, 1729, d. 1813)
Notes for John Franklin Sr.:
From "Audrey Annable Franklin" June 14, 2001:
I have notes like these for John Sr. Audrey:
He fought in Revolutionary War in the Battle of Kings's Mountain. Pension application R3756.Dar microfilm.Record of wills 1813 Burke City signed June 4, 1813, executed January 1819 Morganton, North Carolina.In Burke City, North Carolina archives "This is to certify that Mr. John Franklin has made an oath he was born June 3, 1727 to the best of his information"....dated Oct. 23, 1788
One story is that John (this one) went seafaring and never returned.He was believed lost at sea.Avery County thinks he had a falling out with his father and did not go back to Boston.Rather he went to VA and then into N.C.A second tale is that this John was in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Kings' Mountain and that after that he went north to N.C. and lived near Morganton.They then say Samuel, John's son crossed the mountains into Linville Falls and stayed there.No proof foreither tale according to some historians.
One researcher says he was born in VA.He may have been born in 1730 and died in 1818.He left land to his sons, his household goods and stock to his wife, and $2.50 each to his six daughters!He appointed Jonathan his executor.Perhaps he too was living with them as was his daughter Polly.
An account that Isaac Franklin, His grandson, gave to W.C. Franklin in April 1891 in Altamont NC states John was a sailor for seven years and then joined George Washington's army in 1774.He settled in Burke County, Johns River, NC and is buried at Connelly Springs.His father was a tallow maker in Boston, a postmaster, too.When he died his wife, Mary Gooch succeeded him making her the first postmistress in America.John and his father had a bitter disagreement on politics and religion.He left home, joined the navy, and never returned so he was assumed to be dead.He served in the navy, enlisting in the army at Richard VA in February 1754 at the age of 24.A description: "from the New England Counties, he was 5 feet 6 inches, well built, brown straight hair, and large eyes brows, musically inclined (served as a fife major).He deserted for several months, but reappeared on the rolls of Capt. Thomas Waggener in July 1754, remaining with him until 1758.He is found in the KY land grants given to soldiers who fought in the Rev.Warrant 3901.0.He assigned his right to William Reynolds for 200 acres.He was a soldier in the Virginia Continental Lines and award was on June 21, 1785.He fought in the French and Indian War, and also in Dunmore War.A disposition paper exists addressed to Col. Thomas Buffington, Sr.,High Court of Chancery, Stanton, VA., in regard to John's right of lands in the "Great Canawha", Cabell City, VA, allotted to officers and men who served under Gen. George Washington in the campaign of 1754.
In 2000, no tombstones were found near Connelly Springs for either of this pair.
His service in the Revolutionary War is not clear as it has been mixed with is son, John's.But it is known he fought at King's Mountain.
He went to Burke City, North Carolina in 1764 according to his son, John.Various members of his family are found in TN, OH, KY, WV, VA and NC.
Several families who served under George Washington with John are found in early Burke City, censuses: Waggener, McDowell, Erwin and McCoy.Three of his children married into these families: John Jr. married Polly Erwin, Phoebe married John McDowell and Jemima, Daniel McCoy.
His will, written in Burke City, North Carolina on June 4, 1813, left all household furniture except on feather bed, cattle, on sheep, some hogs and one horse to his wife.To his son, John, a tract of two hundred acres with one hundred to David.To Moses on hundred acres and to Jonathan, two hundred twenty one acres being part of two grants originally granted to me from the state.The latter was evidently where he and Phoebe lived because he called for a life estate for them.He also left Jonathan his farming tools and the residue of his estate.To his son, Samuel, he left one hundred acres.To his granddaughter, Polly (daughter of Jonathan), he left the feather bed and bedroom furniture to be taken out of the furniture for his wife.He left daughters, Phebe, Jamima, Anna, Lyddia, Mary and Rachel each $2.50.His son, Jonathan was his executor.His will was proved in January 1819 by Marcus D.S.F. Erwin, a neighbor.
In the Revolutionary War, he housed and cared for a wounded soldier named Hugh McCoy.His daughter, Jemima, married a Daniel McCoy.The Vance family says he came to NC from New England to help drive the British from the south.
John Franklin found in the 1790 Surry City, North Carolina census showed 1 male over 16 and 1 under plus 4 white females.In the 1800 Burke City, NC census is John Franklin
p. 746 line 4 and another John p. 746 line 15.Should be him and his son, John.
WILL OF JOHN FRANKLIN:
Will of John Franklin, Senior, Burke County, North Carolina 1813.In the name of Good, Amen- I John Franklin Senior of the County of Burke and State of North Carolina being perfect health, and of sound disposing mind and memory (thanks be to God his mercies) do make and ordain this to be my last will and Testament and doe Herby disallow, disannul and revoke all other and former wills and testaments by me made heretofore.After recommending my soul to God through Jesus Christ His Son and my Savior, my will is, and I do Herby direct my body to be buried in a decent orderly and Christian like manner as my executor hereafter to be named may think proper and fit.
My will is and I do Herby devise and bequeath unto my well beloved wife, Phebe Franklin all my household furniture entire (one feather bed and furniture excepted) my stock of cattle, one sheep, some hogs, one horse creature to her heirs forever.
My will is and I do devise and bequeath unto my son John Franklin a tact of two hundred acres of land heretofore conveyed to him by deed, this being intense to confirm to him and his heirs forever the said land.
My will is and I do devise unto my son David Franklin one hundred acres of land being the same I purchased of my son John Franklin, let the same be more or less to him my son and his heirs forever.
My will is and I do devise a bequeath unto my son Moses Franklin one hundred acres of land to the same I purchased to Tindall Sutherland lying on lower creek to him and his heirs forever.
My will is and I do devise and bequeath unto my son Jonathan Franklin, a tract of land containing two hundred and twenty one acres being part of two grants originally granted to me from the state and by me conveyed to the said Jonathan on the first day of the present month to be the same more or less this bequest being intended to confirm the said deed of conveyance and everything therefrom the life state in the said land which was conveyed by the said Jonathan to my wife, Phebe Franklin and myself on the second day of this present month.
I do devise and bequeath unto my said son Jonathan Franklin all my farming tools and the residue of my estate which may or shall not be willed to him and his heirs forever.
My will and I do devise and bequeath unto my son Samuel Franklin one hundred acres off the west side of the three hundred and twenty acre tract on which I reside and which was on the first day of this month surveyed and laid off by William W. Erwin.Beginning on a hickory the southwest corner of the tract and joining said Erwin's line and running east 108 poles to a white oak on the side of a hill then north 150 poles to two sour woods close by the roadside going to James Kincaid, then west 108 poles to a pine the northwest corner of the old survey, thence to the beginning to be the same more or less to him and Hiers forever.
My will is and I do devise and bequeath unto my daughters, Jemima, Phebe, Ann, Lydia, Mary and Rachel tow dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) each to be paid to them and each to them and their heirs forever.
My will is and I do devise that my executor pay all my just debts the expenses of my burial and legacies which are to be paid in money to the legates and out of any monies that may be upon hand debts due and owing to me and to be made out of property not willed that he pay the balance of any out of the Chattel estate willed to him.
My will is and I do hereby nominate and appoint Jonathan Franklin sole executor of this my last will and testament.
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed my meal this the fourth day of June Anno Domini 1813.
John Franklin
Seal
January 1819
Executed
Children of John Franklin Sr. and Phebe (Parker) Burns are:
- +Samuel Joseph Franklin, b. 1780, Burke, North Carolina, d. 1857, Linville Falls, Burke, North Carolina.
- +John Franklin Jr., b. 1760, Fort Stump, Virginia, d. September 30, 1837, Connelly Springs, North Carolina.
- Sarah Franklin, d. date unknown.
- +David Franklin, b. 1762, Fort Stump, Virginia, d. Aft. 1820, DeKalb, Georgia.
- +Moses Franklin Sr., b. 1765, Rowan County, North Carolina, d. 1830, Franklin County, Tennessee.
- Jonathan Franklin, b. 1774, d. 1870, Spencer, Owen County, Indiana.
- Jemima Franklin, b. October 1767, Burke, North Carolina, d. June 07, 1854, Winchester, Franklin County,Tennessee.
- Samuel Joseph Franklin, b. 1780, d. date unknown.
- Phebe Franklin, d. date unknown.
- Anna Franklin, b. 1777, d. date unknown.
- Mary Franklin, d. date unknown.
- Rachel Franklin, b. February 04, 1790, Burke, North Carolina, d. date unknown.
- Thomas C. Franklin, d. date unknown.
- Lydida Franklin, b. 1787, d. date unknown.