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Notes for Moses Kirkland, Sr.:
Prior to the Revolution, he was a Lt. Col. of the Provinvial Militia in the lower fork of Board River & Saluda River. He was elected by Provincial Congress as Captain in the Regiment of Rangers raised by the revolutionists of South Carolina and served one month, taking part with his company in the capture of Fort Charlotte. Two weeks later, he resigned and immediately went over to the British. He fled from South Carolina and went to Ebenezer, Georgia about 25 miles from Savannah.
WILL:::
Named his wife, Catherine, his son, Richard Bruce Kirkland, his wife's sister, Ann Bruce, & John Bruce was one of the executors of his will. Papers from Catherine state that she married her late husband in Jamaica in 1783, and he had a 22 year old son by a previous marriage and that she had a son by Moses named Richard Bruce Kirkland about three years old. She stated that Moses was lost at sea on his way to London to have his claims examined.
"Naturally acquistive & hard driving, Kirkland was not above selling rum to the Indians & dealing in fraudulent land warrents, he soon accumulated numerous tracts of land in the interior, built a sawmill, ran a ferry on the lower Saluda until he had accumulated the labor of enough slaves to develope a large tract on the tributary of Stevens Creek, a branch of the Savannah."
SOURCE: Ancestry World Tree Project ::: Doris Ross Johnson's "Our Texas Family"
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