George Doherty Jr (1777)

Born 1777 in Augusta, Virginia, United States

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According to Armstrong, George DOHERTY "...was the son of Major George DOHERTY and Elizabeth WILLIAMS Doherty whose brother was George WILLIAMS. He was a member of the first county court of Greene County, Tennessee, in 1783; he was a leader in the State of Franklin movement. He was Colonel of a regiment of militia in Caswell County, State of Franklin. In 1785 he moved to a site west of the present Dandridge, Tenessee and was a member of the Jefferson County Court. He was a member of the North Carolina Convention of 1789. He was Lieutenant Commandant for Jefferson County. He was a member of the first Territorial Assembly in Tennessee and the first Constitutional Convention in Tennessee. He was a member of the first Tennessee Senate and served in the Assembly several terms. He served in the Expedition to Natchez in 1803. In the Creek War he was a Brigadier General of an East Tennessee brigade. He was in the battle of the Horseshoe. He was given a grant of 2,000 acres by North Carolina for service in the Revolution. He married twice first Priscilla GOFORTH and second Sally RANDAL, December 3, 1823. His will in Jefferson County signed January 15, 1833, mentions his wife, Sally; his sons, George, William and James Tennessee; and his daughters Jenny, Dorcas INMAN, Prescilla MORROW, Rachel LEATH: his granddaughter Sally, daughter of his son George; his grandson George, son of James T.; his grandson George, son of George; The children mentioned were all by his first wife. George married Nancy MCDOWELL, Dorcas married Benjamin [INMAN], Priscilla married David MORROW, Rachel married Joseph LEATH."

Sources

Armstrong, Zella, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, compiled from Pension Statements, Originally Published in Five Pamphlets in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1933, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1975)

White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, 1990

The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, J.G.M Ramsey, Walker and Jones, Charleston, SC, 1853, reprinted by the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967.