He was the son of James Buchanan and Mary Allison, and is mentioned in his father's will, dated 1760 or 1761. [1]
Sometimes called "Little" John Buchanan. [2] He was living in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1747. [3] In 1755, John was referred to as a weaver. [4] In 1764, he was a school teacher. [5] In 1768 he was again working as a weaver. [6]
On 19 March 1753 John received a deed from Benjamin Borden for 370 acres on Walker's Creek in Augusta County, adjacent to the land of James Buchanan. [7] [8] He sold the land to James McCown on 10 February 1755. [9]
John married Martha Buchanan in about 1760. She was possibly the daughter of Capt. John Buchanan, jr.[10] [11] Children: John, jr., Alexander, James, Archibald, George and Patrick.
Sometime around 1772, John and Martha moved their family from Walker's Creek to Locust Cove on Locust Cove Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Holston River, near the present day border between Smyth and Tazewell Counties in Virginia. [12]
On 8 September 1774, John and Archibald Buchanan and their families narrowly escaped an attack by Native Americans. [13]
In 1776, John Buchanan served in the American Revolution as a captain in the Battle of Long Island Flats, near Kingsport, Tennessee. [14]
Three of John's descendants, Dr. John Lee Buchanan, Capt. Felix Grundy Buchanan and William Patrick Buchanan claimed that he was wounded in the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina on 15 March 1781 and that he returned to his home in Smyth County, Virginia, where he died of his wounds. [15]
He was probably buried in the Buchanan Cemetery on a knoll east of his home in Smyth County. In 1937, his gravestone was likely still standing, but it was gone by 1978. [16]
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