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John Bankston (abt. 1754 - 1827)

John Bankston
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Biography

1776 Project
John Bankston served with Wilkes County Militia, Georgia Militia during the American Revolution.
John Bankston served for Louisiana in the War of 1812
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It has now been confirmed by Rev. Cynthia Forde-Beatty that this is the same John Bankston who was the administrator of Peter Bankston's estate and is his son and a sister to Judith.[1] He was not a son of Jacob Bankston and Elsenor Cox as previously thought.[2][3]

John married Henrietta Coates, migrated to Mississippi and then died in Louisiana. John Bankston's paternal lineage has been Y DNA tested at FTDNA Kit #148360 in Group 1 (haplogroup R-M269) in the Bankston Y DNA Project, and it is clear from the results that John Bankston is a descendant of Anders Bengston (1640, Sweden). Ydna has also confirmed that Rev. John Bankston does not match the Anders Bengston lines at all.

John Bankston was born August 11, 1754 in North Carolina or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died September 15, 1823 in Washington Parish, Louisiana,[4] and is buried in Dyson Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana. Note: Other Revoluntionary War related records have his birth as 06 Nov 1754 in Pennsylvania.[5] His tombstone reads only 1754-1827.[6]

The sister of John Bankston was Judith Bankston.[5] She married Nimrod Taylor and died in Georgia about 1803; shortly after her death Nimrod moved to the Mississippi Territory. Their daughter Judith Taylor married Robert White about 1811.[7]

John served during the Revolutionary War in the C Line of the Georgia Militia, along with John Jacques Bankston.[5][8][7][9] He received his certificate of service from Col. E. Clark on 26 Mar 1784 and was entitled to a bounty land grant, and requested 287 1/2 acres in Washington County.[10]

He moved from North Carolina to what are now Clarke and Wilkes Counties in Georgia. [11] He received from Col. Elijah Clark (#1040) issued to James Stewart land in Franklin County, Georgia and later received land in Washington, Jackson and Clarke Counties.[12][13] The (?What records) records are filed in Athens, Georgia (Hargrett Collection?), Clarke County, where he was living when he moved to that part of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, that is now Tangipahoa Parish. John Served as a Private in the Georgia Troops during the Revolutionary War and received bounty grants in Georgia received for his service.[14][15]

John appears on a reconstructed census for 1790 in Franklin County, Georgia. By 1801 he is appearing on the tax lists for Clarke County, Georgia.[16]

He lived for a time in Natchez District, Mississippi.[5]

John and sons Henry, Howell, and Levi Bankston served during the the War of 1812 and were purportedly at the Battle of New Orleans. John served as a private in the Louisiana Militia.[17] His son, Henry Bankston, who served in Captain William Bickham's company, was killed in the Battle of New Orleans on 17 Jan 1815.[18]

J. Bankson appears as head of household on the 1816 census as an inhabitant of the Mississippi Territory, other than the Natchez District, living in Wayne County, Mississippi Territory.[19]

John obtained lands when he came to Louisiana in what are now Washington, Tangipahoa, and St. Tammany Parishes. [20]

John died in 1823/7[6] and his succession is recorded in the Tangipahoa Courthouse in Amite. [21]

Children:

  1. Levi H. Bankston b. 1779 in Clarke County, Georgia
  2. Cecilia Bankston Dyson born 5 APR 1781 in Clarke County, Georgia; Death: Aug. 29, 1859 Washington Parish, Louisiana . [22]Married 1796 to William F. Dyson. He was born in Maryland. Son of Thomas Dyson and Esther Dent. [23]
  3. Henry Harrison Bankston b. 1783 in Georgia-Henry Harrison, was killed in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, [24]
  4. Rebecca Narcissus Bankston born about 1783 in Georgia. [25][26] She married Tobias Smith on 15 Oct 1805 in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.[27] Rebecca died after 29 Jan 1875 in Mississippi. [28]
  5. Leslie Cates Bankston b. 1785 in Clarke County, Georgia; Death: 1880 Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana. Spouse: Elizabeth Brewer Bankston birth 1785 married August 18 1808 Clarke County Georgia[29]
  6. John Young Bankston b. 1787 in Clarke County, Georgia[30]
  7. Young Peter Bankston Sr. b. 15 JAN 1789 in Clarke County, Georgia; Death: May 18, 1878 [31] Spouse:Tabitha Robertson Bankston (1794 - 1871)[32]
  8. Simeon Coates Bankston b. 5 JUN 1791 in Clarke County, Georgia. Death: Mar. 31, 1877 Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana. Spouse: Sarah Ann Brewer Bankston (1792 - 1875) Daughter of William Brewer and Elizabeth Holman Brewer.[33]
  9. Howell Bankston b. 1795 in Clarke County, Georgia-Battle of New Orleans. [34]
  10. John Jacques Bankston b. 3 MAR 1797 in Clarke County, Georgia; Death: 1870 Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana. Married to Pheriby (Phoebe) Carter about 1818. [35]
  11. Eliza Bankston b. 13 OCT 1800 in Clarke County, Georgia. [36]
  12. Spencer Montgomery Bankston Sr. b. 25 DEC 1802 in Butts or Clarke County, Georgia. [37]

Research

JOHN BANKSTON RESEARCH By The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde-Beatty 9/3/2023

The key to John Bankston b. ca. 1754 who married Henrietta Coates as being the same John Bankston, legatee, and son of Peter Bankston and Priscilla, is found in the Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records. There is one John Bankston from 1785 (or earlier) until ca. 1795 when a John Bankston, Jr. is found in Clarke County, Georgia. John Bankston married Henrietta Coates, and they lived in the proximity of Jacob Bankston who may have married a Coates (Don Clarke’s theory), and in proximity to various Coates brothers. In addition, John Bankston and various Coates and Jarrett men witness deeds or legal transactions for each other. The witness accounts are in John Bankston’s timeline in the records of Ronald S. Beatty and Cynthia Forde-Beatty.

Peter Bankston had a son named John according to Isaac Bankston’s affidavit to Elizabeth Morris Bankston’s pension application. We believe Peter’s son John Bankston and the John Bankston who married Henrietta Coates are one and the same. Peter’s son, John, appears in Peter’s estate settlement as a legatee, and the administrator of his estate; John hires an attorney to represent him, and he is not heard from again just at the time that John Bankston and Henrietta move to Louisiana.

The Coates (Coats) connections are highlighted in a sheriff’s sale:

6 January 1810 - The abstract reads: Sheriff's Sale, Will be sold, on the first Tuesday in June next, at the Court-house in Wilkes County... the following property viz, third para: Also, 80 acres of land in Wilkes County, on the waters of Rocky creek, adjoining Thomas Terrell, William Jones and others, the same tract whereon Asa Hoxey now lives, with the improvements thereon. The above levied on by virtue of an execution, Joseph Clay & Co. against William Coats, Nathaniel Coats, Zachariah Lamar, Howel Jarrett and John Bankston - the property pointed out by Reuben Hill, esq.

Citation: Poss, Faye, Wilkes County (Washington), Georgia Newspaper Abstracts 1810-1815, Vol. II, p. 28.

No resolution of this sale or suit was found [ed.note – Cynthia Forde]

Three Coates brothers: Lesley Coats, William Coats, Nathaniel Coats (married to Martha Lamar) Zachariah Lamar (his sister is married to Nathaniel Coats, Howell Jarrett (married to Jane Smiley Coates), John Bankston (married to Henrietta Coates) (Howell Jarrett’s sister was Rebecca Jarrett Sappington, mother-in-law of Martha Bankston, daughter of Lawrence Bankston)

Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records, 1785-1805

Volume One, page 1,

The area of Wilkes County in 1785 (including Defacto Wilkes County) included all of the area now in the counties of Lincoln, Elbert, and Wilkes; most of Oglethorpe, Madison, Taliaferro and Warren; half of Hart; and part of Clarke, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and McDuffie counties. It was over eighty miles from north to south and fifty miles from east to west at its longest and widest points.

Tax lists were started in 1785 – but the early lists (until 1797) are incomplete with duplications and misspelled names. Tax records for 1788 and 1789 are missing. The first extant complete tax record is 1797.

The list below is arranged via chronos. The first two numbers in the Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records designate the year; below, I have added a 17 or 18 to those numbers to make it easier for the reader to follow the transition of time.

John Bankston’s land grant (source) 1785 is proof that he owned property adjoining Lawrence Bankston that early date. From the sale of that property we learn that his wife’s name was Henrietter (sic). Yet, John’s name is not found in the 1785 or 1786 tax record – likely part of the incomplete tax records.

  • Bankston variant spellings: Banckston, Banksen, Bankson, Bankstone (page 1264 – Appendix A – Volume Two)
  • John Bankston (Portions of Districts J, K, M T were morphed into S
  • Utah LDS# 222012, pages 201 and 202.

This indenture made the twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five between John Bankson and his wife of the State of Georgia and County of Wilkes. It is bound on the East by Ogeechee River, on the South by Lawrance Banksons land, on the west by Peter Haglers land and on the North by Thompsons land. It is witnessed by Henry Mounger, P, Will Terrell, J. P. and Howell Jarrett. John and Henna Ritter Bankston make there marks.

  • On 5-23-l786, Howell Jarrett says he saw Henneritter Bankston, sign, seal and deliver the above. This was not recorded until 2-26-l802 or 1803, on my copy the last number is in the middle of the book and the recording was done in Hancock County. (Pat Bezet – 12-23-2007)
  • 1787J 056 (John Bankston) Captain Liphan’s Dist., p. 148
  • (created from dist. K)
  • 306 2nd cls acrs, Neighbor: Howell Jarrott,Lawrence Bankston
  • 1790M 077 (John Bankson, p. 1301, Index) Capt. Buckner *Harris’ Dist., p. 204
  • Acreage incomplete; Neighbors: William Dyson, Peter Strozier, *John Weaver, Laurence Bankston, James Roan, Jacob Autry, *Jonathan Lea, William Lea, Thomas Lea.
  • 1791II 122 (John Bankson, p. 1302, Index) Collier’s Dist., p, 323
  • 1791T 017 (John Bankston)
  • 1792T 071 (John Bankston)
  • 1793T 041 (John Bankson, p. 1302, Index)
  • 1794M 083A (John Bankson, p. 1302, Index)
  • 1794T 011 (John Bankston)
  • 1795S 035 (John Bankston)
  • 1797S 039&A (John Bankson, p. 1302, Index) John Fenning’s *District
  • 1797S 038 (200 acres 1 SL Wilkes Dry Fork adm. Samuel *Henderson and Joseph Staton. Neighbors: Richard Sappington)
  • 1799S 084&A (John Bankston)
  • 1802SS 096&B (John Bankson, p. 1302, Index)

From JOHN BANKSTON RESEARCH FILE by The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde-Beatty 9/3/2023

Sources

  1. ↑ http://cynthia-genealogyjournal.blogspot.com/2007/10/peter-bankston-1729-1803-and-priscilla.html
  2. ↑ Gormley, Myra Vanderpool Pass the Sorting Hat. 06 Jan 2019. 2019-No.2.
  3. ↑ WikiTree Profile of Jacob Bankston.
  4. ↑ "Ancestor Search for John Bankston." DAR Genealogical Research Databases. Accessed December 28, 2017. http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A005746.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Drake, Dr. Betty S. Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots Who Resided in Mississippi: A Compilation of Documents on Soldiers, Sailors, and their widows from all the Original Colonies who Moved Westward to the Mississippi Territory and the state of Mississippi. Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 2004. Entry #28 (book pages are unnumbered by people in the book are numbered in consecutive order).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Find A Grave: Memorial #31005250 Tombstone photograph for John Bankston 1754-1827 at FindAGrave.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Welch, Alice T. Family Records Mississippi Revoluntionary Soldiers. Daughtesr of the American Revolution, Mississippi Society. 1956. pp14, 349.
  8. ↑ Knight, L. L. Georgia's Roster of the Revolution. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. 1967.
  9. ↑ Davis, Robert S. Jr. Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution. Southern Historical Press Inc., Easley, South Carolina. 1979. p98.
  10. ↑ Knight, Lucian Lamar. Georgia's Roster of the Revolution. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. 1967. pp44,375.
  11. ↑ A source is needed for this information.
  12. ↑ Georgia Historical Collection Vol. 2 (Citation needs author, publication date and page please)
  13. ↑ </i>Georgia Records</i> ed. 1809 (Citation needs author & page please)
  14. ↑ I believe I have the NARA records for him, will check and add.
  15. ↑ Knight, Lucian Lamar. Georgia's Roster of the Revolution
  16. ↑ R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation. An Index to Georgia Tax Digests 1800-1802. The Reprint Company Publishers, Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1986. p5-6.
  17. ↑ A source is needed for this information.
  18. ↑ Battle of New Orleans, War of 1812 American Muster and Troop Roster List
  19. ↑ Gillis, Norman E. Early Inhabitants of the Natchez District. Southern Historical Press Inc., Greenville, South Carolina. 1999. p115.
  20. ↑ I have these land deeds and will post when I can
  21. ↑ Probate File #174, Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse, Amite, Louisiana.
  22. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  23. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  24. ↑ Rambo, Beverly J., and Ronald S. Beatty. The Rambo family tree: descendants of Peter Gunnarson Rambo. 2nd edition, 1st web version w/minor revisions ed. Vol. 3. 5 vols. Unknown, 2013. page 156
  25. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LF-TD6 : accessed 14 March 2016), Rebecca Smith in household of Tobias Smith, Smith county, Smith, Mississippi, United States; citing family 489, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  26. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSR-CWV : accessed 14 March 2016), Rebecca Smith in household of Wm L Smith, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 3, family 15, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,248.
  27. ↑ NARA, Widow's Pension Record - Marriage to Tobias Smith, War of 1812
  28. ↑ NARA. Widow's Pension Record Statement of Disability.War of 1812
  29. ↑ Hunting For Bears, comp. Georgia Marriages, 1699-1944. n.p: Online publication - Provo, UT, United States: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Georgia marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or, n.d.
  30. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  31. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #33964787 Tombstone
  32. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  33. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  34. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  35. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  36. ↑ A source for this information is needed
  37. ↑ A source for this information is needed




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Gresham-1033 Mary Gresham
Link to the Bankston DNA Results https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/bankston/dna-results
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Gresham-1033 Mary Gresham
“ According to Cynthia Forde-Beatty, the genealogist for the Swedish Colonial Society, and the FTDNA Group Administrator for the Bankston Project and the Swedish Colonial Society YDNA Forefather Project, The descendants of the Rev. John Bankiston do not match Anders Bankston. They are no longer eligible for Forefather status in The Swedish Colonial Society.

The descendants of John Bankston b. 1754 who married Henrietta Coates do match Anders Bankston. Updated documentation for this John Bankston will be forthcoming in the revision of The Rambo Family Tree, vol. 3 by Ronald Beatty.”

posted by Mary Gresham
Gresham-1033 Mary Gresham
A correction to Find a Grave has been requested to remove Jacob Bankston as his father and add Peter Bankston and Priscilla as his parents.

I have added the entire research file on John Bankston by Cynthia Forde that she approved to be published today. The profile managers will need to edit it.

Mary

posted by Mary Gresham
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Gresham-1033 Mary Gresham
I am showing Judith Bankston m. Nimrod Taylor is possibly a twin, but definitely a sister to John Bankston m. Henrietta Choates and both are children of Peter Bankston.

Note: Peter Bankston, born by estimation in 1729, died intestate in Clarke County, Georgia, in 1803. Administration of his estate was granted to his widow Priscilla. Probate records show that he was survived by four sons (John, Lawrence (also called Lary, which some have misread as Levy), William and Andrew) and four daughters, Judith, married to Nimrod Taylor; Rhoda, married to Shadrack Carpenter; another daughter married to Thomas Davis, and another married to William Browning.

Per email from Cynthia Forde 3/8/2023, this John Bankston (married Henrietta Coates) is the son of Peter Bankston and was the administrator of his father's estate in Clarke County, Georgia.

Per Cynthia Forde. Ydna has confirmed that the Rev. John Bankston in the Georgia area at the same time is not descended from the Bankston line at all

Thanks, Mary

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Cynthia (Vold) Forde
Correction: Peter Bankston died testate in Clarke County, GA; his will and probate records date from 1803-1804.
posted by Cynthia (Vold) Forde
Cynthia (Vold) Forde
Thanks to Myra for her research before she passed away. John Bankston was not born in Philadelphia. After researching all of Georgia tax records until 1800, there was only one John Bankston, and he was the son of Peter Bankston and his wife Priscilla, legatee and administrator of Peters will, Clarke County, GA 1804. Cynthia Forde, Swedish Colonial Society genealogist
posted by Cynthia (Vold) Forde
edited by Cynthia (Vold) Forde

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