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Descendants of Andrew Balfour III

Generation No. 1

1. COL. ANDREW⁸ BALFOUR III (ANDREW⁷, JOHN⁶ ANDREW, GEORGE JOHN⁵ BALFOUR, HERSCHEL ANDREW⁴, BALFOUR³, ANDREW OF STRATHER AND² MUQHANNY, POSS SIR¹ MICHAEL) was born February 23, 1736/37 in Braidwood, Parish of Temple, Midlothian, Scotland, and died March 10, 1782 in Randolph County, North Carolina. He married (1) JANET MACKORMICK April 14, 1769 in Parish of Temple, Midlothian, Scotland, daughter of REV. JOHN MACKORMICK. She was born 1750 in Scotland, and died June 17, 1773 in Prestonpans, Lothian, Scotland. He married (2) ELIZABETH TODD DAYTON May 01, 1774 in Newport, Rhode Island, daughter of ISAAC DAYTON and MARY HEATON. She was born May 01, 1744 in Newport, Rhode Island, and died 1818 in North Carolina.

Notes for COL. ANDREW BALFOUR III:
He was a colonel in the Revolutionary War in North Carolina.
http://andrewbalfour.com

Andrew was born at Braidwood Estate. The area of Braidwood, today, is in the new county of Midlothian which is the same as the old county of Edinburgh, Scotland. The records of the General Register Office for Scotland list both the birth and the christening of Andrew, both on the 23rd of February, 1737. The abstract number 19563 listed under the parish of Temple is an identical photocopied paper as abstract number 19564 listed under the parish of St. Cuthbert.

from abstract number 19562:

"26th February 1737

Andrew Balfour of Braidwood Forn with Margaret Robertson

Jr. A Son Andrew born 23d Inst: wit: Peter Malcolm Stabler

in Bristo and James Fleming his servant"

from abstract numbers19563 and 19564 (see above):

"Register of Baptisms 1744.

February 23d, 1737

Mr. Andrew Balfour of Braidwood & Margaret Robertson his spouse had a son called Andrew, baptized".

Andrew sailed from Grenoch, Scotland, May 20, 1772, on the "Snow George" which landed in Boston on the 18th of July.

On Monday, the 8th of March, 1779, men from all parts of the county (Randolph, North Carolina) gathered at the home of Abraham Reece for the first court session of the formation of Randolph County (February 26, 1779). "After the Justices were qualified, they elected Absalom Tatom, Clerk of Court, William Milikan, Register, and William Bell, Sheriff. At the same term Commissions from the Governor appointing officers for the North Carolina Militia were presented to Lieutenant Colonel John Collier and First Major Jacob Sheppard. At the June Term of Court Enoch Davis was appointed First Major and Andrew Balfour Second Major."

SEE: The Old North State in 1776 by Rev. Eli W. Carruthers (1854)

David Fanning's Narrative

Ancestors of Colonel Andrew Balfour

Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 1 -

Balfour, Andrew - Fam bur gr, Randolph Co, NC 49

(from www.brinet.com/~rputnam/ Histories of the chapters of the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Organized June 7, 1948. Registered October 20, 1948. The Colonel Andrew Balfour Chapter is located in Asheboro, North Carolina, District 5.) "Andrew Balfour was intimately associated with the early history of Randolph County. He came to the United States from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1772. In 1779, he came to
Randolph County and settled in Cedar Grove Township building a small log cabin in which he and his family lived. He was commissioned a Justice of the Peace in 1779, became a Colonel of the Militia and a member of the Legislature in 1780. At his rustic home, on a Sabbath morning, March 10, 1782, in the presence of his little daughter and his sister Margaret, he was brutally murdered by Colonel David Fanning and a band of his Tory raiders. He was buried on the hill beside his home, and his wife, Elizabeth Dayton Balfour, moved to Salisbury and was soon appointed by George Washington as the first Post Mistress of the United States. From ' 75 Years of Service' pg. 91."

On a Sunday morning, March 10,1782, in Randolph County, North Carolina, Colonel Andrew Balfour was murdered by the infamous David Fanning and his band of Tories, at his home, in the presence of his sister, Margaret, and his little daughter, Tibbie (Isabella). His second wife, Elizabeth Dayton, and his two other children, Margaret and Andrew IV, were still in Rhode Island at the time.

He married Elizabeth Todd Dayton May 01, 1774 in Newport, Rhode Island, daughter of Isaac Dayton and Mary Heaton. She was born May 01, 1744 in Newport, Rhode Island, and died 1818 in North Carolina.

More About COL. ANDREW BALFOUR III:
Burial: 1782, Balfour Family Cemetary, Randolph County, North Carolina

Marriage Notes for ANDREW BALFOUR and JANET MACKORMICK:
From the General Register Office for Scotland (abstract number19567):

"Register of Proclamations

Proclamations in this Parish

April 9th, 1769

Initiation of a purpose of marriage between

Mr. Andrew Balfour Junior merchant in Edinburgh

and Mistress Janet Mackormick (daughter of the late

Rev. Mr. John Mackormick Minister of the Gospel

at St. Andrews) now residing in this parish was this

day published before these wittnesses

Alexander Tweedie Schoolmaster in this place and

Andrew Begbie Servant to the (?) Doctor Joseph Mackormick

Minister of the Gospel Ditto

April 14, 1769

The above Mr. Andrew Balfour Junior and

Mistress Janet Mackormick were married wittnesses

John Mitchelson of Middleton and Robert Hepburn

of Clerkington Esqrs."

SEE: The Old North State in 1776 by Rev. Eli W. Caruthers (1854)

Possibly, Janet went to live with her brother, at Prestonpans, Scotland, and died there of the fever.

More About ANDREW BALFOUR and JANET MACKORMICK:
Marriage: April 14, 1769, Parish of Temple, Midlothian, Scotland

More About ELIZABETH TODD DAYTON:
Burial: Balfour Family Cemetary, Randolph County, North Carolina

More About ANDREW BALFOUR and ELIZABETH DAYTON:
Marriage: May 01, 1774, Newport, Rhode Island

Child of ANDREW BALFOUR and JANET MACKORMICK is:

ISABELLA⁹ BALFOUR, b. 1771, Edinburgh, Scotland; d. February 22, 1837, Randolph County, North Carolina.

Children of ANDREW BALFOUR and ELIZABETH DAYTON are:

3.	ii.		MARGARET ROBERTSON⁹ BALFOUR, b. 1775, Newport, Rhode Island; d. 1820, Randolph County, North Carolina.
4.	iii.		ANDREW BALFOUR IV, b. October 22, 1776, Newport, Rhode Island; d. December 31, 1825, Randolph County, North Carolina.

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