Henry Buford (1751 - 1814)

Born 19 Sep 1751 in Culpepper County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mildred (Blackburn) Buford — married 22 Mar 1771 (to 1802) in Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia

Husband of Jane (Kent) Buford — married 17 Oct 1804 in Kentucky

Descendants

Died 31 Dec 1814 at age 63 in Bedford County, Virginia

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Biography

When Henry Buford was born on 19 September 1751 in Culpeper County, Colony of Virginia, his father John Thomas Buford, was 44, and his mother, Judith (Early) Buford, was 41. He married Mildred Blackburn, March 22, 1771.

During the American Revolutionary War, Henry Buford served as captain in the Bedford Co. Militia and served as justice of the peace in August 1777. DAR Ancestor #: A016694

Children —

1. Elizabeth, born August 8, 1773;
2. Thomas, March 11, 1776;
3. Abraham, December 13, 1778;
4. Henry. Jr., February 17, 1781; Henry Buford married, October 17, 1805, Jane Kent Quirk, widow of Major Thomas Quirk, of the Revolution. Henry Buford died at Locust Level," Bedford County, Virginia, December 31. 1814. He was allowed as captain, under date of November 6, 1777, for pa}'-, rations, etc., for his company, Bedford County, £388 IIS. id.. "Archives of the Virginia State Militia, December 23, 1776, to December 18, 1778." He was one of the presiding magistrates of Bedford County in 1782, and high sheriff from 1790 to 1795.
5. Prudence, July 23, 1783;
6. Paschal, February 14, 1791;
7. Julia Ann, April 17, 1793;
8. Mary Malinda (Polly), July 14, 1795.

Following the death of Mildred on 19 April 1802, he married Jane (Kent) Quirk on 17 October 1804. He died on 31 December 1814 in Bedford County, Virginia.

Henry was born in 1751.

Sources

• Buford, Marcus Bainbridge. The Buford Family in America. San Francisco, 1903. Page 131.

• Archives of the Virginia State Militia, December 23, 1776, to December 18, 1778.

• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Henry Buford; Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 042

• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Henry Buford; Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 118 : 1915

• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.]

• Ancestry.com profile

• Unverified Vital Information from FamilySearch

• [1] DAR Ancestor #: A016694
• Family records and a sourced tree on ancestry.com