John Brannon (1745 - 1804)

Born 1745 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 14 Sep 1804 at about age 59 in Gerrardstown, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

Private John Brannon served with Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

John Brannon is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A013776.

John Brannon was born in Ireland 1745. He received a land grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia on June 26, 1789 for 552 acres near Back Creek. He lived in Winchester and Frederick counties and fathered twelve children.^[1] He passed away in 1804 in Berkeley, Virginia and is buried at Brannon Cemetery in Glengary, Berkeley County, West Virginia. Brannon Cemetery is located on private land he once owned near Back Creek in Old Frederick County.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Frederick County, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005. Original data: Cartmell, T. K.. Shenandoah Valley pioneers and their descendants. a history of Frederick County, Virginia c1909, Chapter LXVII. Biographical sketches.
2. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158681003 : accessed 20 March 2018), memorial page for John Brannon (1745–1804), Find A Grave Memorial no. 158681003, citing Brannon Cemetery, Glengary, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Dona Hutchinson Snyder (contributor 47024354).