Charles Sims Sr (abt. 1717 - aft. 1805)

Born about 1717 in Surry, Virginia

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Died after 1805 after about age 88 in Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Sims Sr served with 2nd Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Deed from Mary Isham Symes to her son, Charles, around the time of Charles Symes’ marriage to Esther Murray. ^[1]

To all people to whom this present writing shall come I send greetings, know ye that I the said Mary Sims as well for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which I have and bear unto my son Charles Sims for his advancement and preservement in this world as also for divers and other good causes and considerations I have given and granted and by these presents do fully clearly and absolutely give, grant and absolutely give, grant and confirm unto the said Charles Sims his heirs, executors and administrators all and singular such goods, chattels, implements of household commodities as follows,

Viz, To one featherbed and furniture, two cows and calves, To one iron pot, one pewter dish, one pewter basin and three pewter plates, one chest and a table commonly called his “Father’s Table.” To have and to hold all and singular the goods and commodities whatsoever as aforesaid to be the aforesaid Charles Sims,his heirs executors and administrators and assigns to his and their own proper use and behoof forever thereof and therewith to do use and dispose at his and theirwill and pleasure as of his and their own proper goods and chattels without anymanner of challenge claim or demand of me the said Mary Sims or any otherperson or persons for me in my name by any cause means consent or procurement and further ye know that the said Mary Sims have put the said Charles Sims in full possession of all and singular the aforesaid premises by the delivery unto him at the ensealing hereof (one piece of silver in the name of the whole.) In witness whereof I the said Mary Sims have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the first day of March one thousand seven hundred forty-three.

Witnesses: (Signature) Mary Sims

Adam Sims

David Sims

Proved 5 April 1744^[2]

Notes

April 1763: Charles Sims applied for a license for an ordinary (inn/tavern) “at the fall of the Neuse.” Both the Neuse and Tar Rivers were navigable in small craft. There was a trading post below the Falls of the Neuse as well as the ordinary. The earliest church was located on New Light Creek in 1755 upstream from the Falls.

Sources

1. ↑ The deed is recorded in Deed Book 2 of Brunswick County, Virginia, page 418:
2. ↑ Recorded in Deed Book 2, page 418 Brunswick County, Virginia

• Name: Charles Sims Gender: Male Military Date: 12 Sep 1779 Military Place: Virginia, USA State or Army Served: Virginia Regiment: Line Rank: Lieutenant Colonel; Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.
• Name: Charles Sims State: GA County: Oglethorpe County Township: No Township Year: 1800 Page: 000 Database: GA 1800 Territorial Census (Oglethorpe Co.); Georgia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GSLC-XV8
• "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G94M-47PC?cc=2068326&wc=M61K-G38%3A355093201 : 24 January 2018), 114-Virginia (jacket 341-364) > image 162 of 459; citing NARA microfilm publication M246 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1980).