Charles Fleming (abt. 1733 - 1793)

Born about 1733 in Of Cobbs, Henrico, Virginia

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Biography

Charles Fleming is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.

Capt Charles Fleming served with Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

Charles was born in 1734. He is the son of John Fleming and Mary Bolling.

Charles b. __; d. about 1793 (date of will), never married.

" At the beginning of the Revolution, Charles Fleming commanded a company of minute men raised in Cumberland County. On Feb. 5, 1776, the Committee of Safety of that county elected him captain of the company of regulars to be raised in the county, and he is stated to have been at the time of this election, captain of a minute company (Journal of Cumb. Committee). On March 4th, 1775, a return of his company was received by the general Committee of Safety, and he had leave to suspend the march of his company one week after his return from Williamsburg to Cumberland, to give him time to furnish them with arms and necessaries; at the same time warrants were issued for the pay of himself and company, described as of the 7th regiment, and it was directed that commissions should be issued to him and his subalterns, to be dated Feb. 29, 1776. A statement of his services from the records that Charles Fleming served as a captain in the 7th Virginia regiment of foot, commanded by Colonel Alexander McClenahan, and also by Lieutenant Colonel Holt Richeson, Revolutionary War. His name appears on the rolls of that regiment from June 1777, to May 1778. He is also borne as a captain on the rolls of the 3d and 7th Virginia regiments, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Heth, for the months of July and August 1778. He is reported as having been commissioned February 29, 1776

It is also shown by the records that Charles Fleming served as lieutenant-colonel of the 8th Virginia regiment, commanded by Colonel James Wood. His name appears on the rolls of that regiment to September 1779. The records shown him commissioned lieutenant-colonel June 28, 1778, and resigned December 15, 1778."

Heitman states that he was major 4th Va.; Lieutenant-Colonel 3d, Va. 28th June, 1778, and transferred to 8th Va., 14th Sept., 1778.

After he retired from the regular army Colonel Fleming was frequently in service with the Virginia militia"^[1]

In later life, he lived at Summerville, in Chesterfield County, the house of his brother, Judge William Fleming. He made a will, dated Oct 8th 1793, proved in Chesterfield County. His estates of over 54,000 acres, in Mason County, Kentucky, were divided between his brother William, his sister Mary Bernard and her children, and his nieces Mary Lewis and Susanna Lewis.

Birth

Date: 1733/40

Place: Of Cobbs, Henrico, Virginia^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Virginia Genealogies", pages 200-255.
2. ↑ Source S258

   Type: Web Site

   Author: FamilySearch.org - http://www.familysearch.org Accessed: Date: 3-28-2008

• (theusgenweb.org/al/butler/families/rolfe2.htm link is broken)

• Mentioned in the will of his father Col. John Fleming sr; also those of his brothers Thomas Fleming and John Fleming.

• Morenus, David. The Real Pocahontas website, "Pocahontas Descendants" chart, 5cd.

• "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 23 no. 4 (Oct 1915), p. 442, and Vol. 24 no. 2 (Apr 1916), p. 208. Will, p. 210.

• Robertson, Wyndham (1887), Pocahontas and her Descendants, p. 34 (gen 5).
• ( Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Sep 2020), "Record of Charles Fleming", Ancestor # A040609.

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VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 11. Charles 3 Fleming; b. — ;d. about 1793 (date of will), never married. At the beginning of the Revolution, Charles Fleming commanded a company of minute men raised in Cumberland County. On Feb. 5, 1776, the Committee of Safety of that county elected him captain of the com- pany of regulars to be raised in the county, and he is stated to have been at the time of this election, captain of a minute company {Journal of Cumb. Committee). On March 4th, 1775, a return of his company was received by the general Committee of Safety, and he had leave to sus- pend the march of his company one week after his return from Williams- burg to Cumberland, to give him time to furnish them with arms and necessaries; at the same time warrants were issued for the pay of himself and company, described as of the 7th regiment, and it was directed that commissions should be issued to him and his subalterns, to be dated Feb. 29, 1776. A statement of his services from the records of the U. S. War Department is as follows "It is shown by the records that Charles Fleming served as a captain in the 7th Virginia regiment of foot, com- manded by Colonel Alexander McClenahan, and also by Lieutenant Colonel Holt Richeson, Revolutionary War. His name appears on the rolls of that regiment from June 1777, to May 1778. He is also borne as a captain on the rolls of the 3d and 7th Virginia regiments, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Heth, for the months of July and August, 1778. He is reported as having been comissmoned February 29, 1776. It is also shown by the records that Charles Fleming served as lieuten- ant-colonel of the 8th Virginia regiment, commanded by Colonel James Wood. His name appears on the rolls of that regiment to Septem- ber 1779. The records shown hirn commissioned lieutenant-colonel June 28, 1778, and resigned December 15, 1778." Heitman states that he was major 4th Va.; Lieutenant-Colonel 3d, Va. 28th June, 1778, and transferred to 8th. Va., 14th Sept., 1778. After he retired from the regular army Colonel Fleming was frequentl