Thomas Chambers
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Thomas Chambers (abt. 1777 - 1871)

Thomas Chambers
Born about in Culpepper, Virginia, USAmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and [mother unknown]
Husband of — married 1805 (to 1838) in Haywood, North Carolinamap
Husband of — married 2 Sep 1838 (to 14 Jun 1871) in Campbell, Tennessee, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 93 in Scott County, Tennessee, USAmap
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Biography

Burial : Chambers Cemetery (1), Buffalo Creek , Scott County, Tennessee, U.S.A. Find A Grave memorial #24148029 [1]

In 1810 Thomas Chambers of New River is listed in the Fourth Survey District of Tennessee as surveyed by John McClellan. At that time, the New River area was attached to Anderson County. A petition was filed with the State Legislature in 1815 asking that the area around New River be attached to Campbell County. The signers of the petition complained that they had to go to the courthouse in Anderson County by way of Jacksboro, the county seat for Campbell County. Thomas Chambers was a signer of the petition, received in the State Senate on October 17, 1815. The petition was granted and county lines redrawn in 1817.[1]

Thomas, without having moved, pays taxes in Campbell County in 1818. 1818 Tax list for Campbell County, Thomas Chambers 300 acres; 1 free poll. He is a resident of Campbell County in 1819 when the following act was enacted. "Be it hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that a precinct election is hereby authorized and established at the home of Thomas Chambers on New River in the County of Campbell."[2] In the 1830 census Thomas is in Campbell County.[3] In the 1840 census Thomas was in Campbell County, Tennessee.[4]

Thomas continues to appear in records of Campbell County, Tennessee, until the formation of Scott County in 1849. In the 1850 census Thomas (age 73) was in Scott County, Tennessee.[5] In the 1860 census Thos (age 78) was in the 6th District, Scott County, Tennessee.[6]

Thomas with wife Katie came from North Carolina and brought with them 20 Negro servants. they came over the mountains by way of Jacksboro, Tennessee to what they now call Scott County. they moved to Buffalo and settled on a 5,000-acre grant from the State of Tennessee in 1812. They had, in 1800, taken up a land grant which included all the land between the mouth of Buffalo Creek to the mouth of Paint Rock.

Thomas and the Negro servants cleared land and built houses. He bought land and owned so much that he gave each child a large farm when they married. The Chambers family and the Negroes worked together. The children attended school together in a log house near the Chambers' Cemetery at Buffalo. When the Negroes were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, some of the slaves remained on the farm until they died, and were buried in Buffalo Cemetery . . . . [author's comment, page 37] NOTE: several grave stones were found marking plots at the Chambers Cemetery at Buffalo Creek. These were crude, flat rocks, essentially, without engraving. Local anecdotes tell that these are the graves of Thomas Chambers' slaves.[7]

Thomas Chambers is shown in North Carolina and Tennessee land records, [8][9][10]

Thomas died on 14 June 1871. He was buried in the Chambers Cemetery on Smith Creek Road near Oneida, Scott County, Tennessee.[11]

Slaves

Slaves of Thomas Chambers, Tennessee

Sources

  1. Tennessee Acts of 1817, Boundaries PrivateActs, 1817, Chapter no. 20, Section1
  2. Tennessee Acts of 1819, Chapter 225, Section 1
  3. 1830 Census: "United States Census, 1830"
    citing 212, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 178; FHL microfilm 24,536.
    FamilySearch Record: XHP4-FVD (accessed 11 December 2022)
    FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YB9-4RW Image number 00422
    Thomas Chambers in Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
  4. 1840 Census: "United States Census, 1840"
    citing p. 307, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .
    FamilySearch Record: XHT1-4NX (accessed 11 December 2022)
    FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GYYF-2JZ Image number 00625
    Thomas Chambers in Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
  5. 1850 Census: "United States Census, 1850"
    citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
    FamilySearch Record: MCD1-G8D (accessed 11 December 2022)
    FamilySearch Image: S3HY-6GKC-3GB Image number 00016
    Thomas Chambers (73) in Scott, Tennessee, United States. Born in Tennessee.
  6. 1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860"
    citing Page: 23; Affiliate Publication Number: M653; Affiliate Film Number: 1271; FHL microfilm: 805271; Record number: 16712;
    FamilySearch Record: M8YQ-FL4 (accessed 11 December 2022)
    FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9BSZ-KML Image number 00439
    Thos Chambers (78) at 6th District, Scott, Tennessee, United States. Born in Virginia.
  7. COUNTY SCOTT AND ITS MOUNTAIN FOLK, Written and published by Esther Sharp Sanderson, Huntsville, TN., Printed by Blue & Gray Press, Nashville, TN. 1958
  8. Early Land Records, 1753-1931, East Tennessee Land Grants Roll 78 : Book 21 Original data: Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn.l 78: Book 21
  9. Roll 60: Book 3 Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn
  10. Index to the Conveyance of Deeds. TNGenWeb.
  11. Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
    Find A Grave: Memorial #24148029 (accessed 11 December 2022)
    Memorial page for Thomas Chambers Sr. (1777-14 Jun 1871), citing Chambers Cemetery, Oneida, Scott County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Beverly Lowrance (contributor 47304725).




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