Isaac Garrison (abt. 1766 - 1816)

Born about 1766 in Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina

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Died 30 Jan 1816 at about age 50 in Fort Mill Township, York, South Carolina, United States

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Pvt Isaac Garrison served with Polk's Regiment of Light Dragoons, South Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Biography

Isaac was born about 1766. He was the son of Arthur Garrison and Margaret Pierce. He died in 1816.

Marriage

Isaac married Martha Patsey (Spratt) Garrison (1765-1835) before 1786. Together, they had nine children:

1. Jane B (Garrison) McCorkle (1786-1855)
2. Elizabeth (Garrison) Wilson (1788-bef.1847)
3. Margaret T (Garrison) Fisher (1790-bef.1833)
4. Lucinda Lucy (Garrison) Stamps (1795-abt.1860)
5. Elias Garrison (abt.1798-aft.1834)
6. Thomas Spratt Garrison (abt.1798-aft.1850)
7. Martha (Garrison) Roach (abt.1800-abt.1846)
8. Arthur Reese Garrison (1801-1883)
9. Susannah (Garrison) Fisher (abt.1805-aft.1834)

Revolutionary War service

Isaac Garrison does not appear to be a registered ancestor with either the SAR or the DAR. He is not to be confused with another Isaac Garrison in NC at that time who was a RW patriot in NC: Isaac Garrison Jr (1732-1836).

According to the Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, "our" Isaac Garrison served in the light dragoons under Captain Samuel Martin, LtCol Polk, and General Sumter. ^[1]

A quick explanation of service: Pvt Isaac Garrison enlisted in Captain Samuel Martin's Company of Regimental Light Dragoons under LtCol William Polk, General Sumter's Brigade, in April of 1781. He served 10 months, likely mustering out February of 1782; however, his pay received in 1784 places his muster out in April of 1782. For this service, he was awarded an enslaved person as a bounty, which he sold to Charles Polk in 1784.

From Salley and Wates' Documents relating to the history of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War:

A Pay-Roll of Captain Samuel Martin's Company, Polk's Regiment.

A Pay-Roll of Capt Samuel Martin's troop in the Regt Light Dragoons, Gen. Sumter's Brigade.

Name: Isaac Garrison

Commitment of Service: April 1781.

Rank: Private.

Time of Service: 10 months.

Remarks: Time completed.

Bounty Negroes: 1.^[2]

From Account Audited (File No. 2699) Of Claims Growing Out Of The American Revolution. Date: 1776 C. or later:

Isaac Garrison to Charles Polk

Charlotte, January 12(?), 1784

I hereby testify that I have bargained and sold unto Charles Polk all my rights and title claim and demand whatsoever I may have (?) of a Negro in my services properly performed (?) certificate under the command of LtCol William Polk his Regiment of Light Dragoons in General Sumter's Brigade. The excerpt whereof is hereby acknowledged, witnessed, and dated as above. Isaac Garrison. ^[3]

From Salley and Wates' STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS ISSUED IN PAYMENT OF CLAIMS AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA Growing Out of the Revolution Books L-N:

No: 559 Lib: M

Issued the first October 1784 to Mr. Isaac Garrison late Private in S: Martins Troop Polks regt: Sumpters Brigade State Troops for ninety four pounds Sterling amount pay and bounty due him for Services in that Troop with Interest thereon from the first April 1782 to date hereof Agreeable to resolution of Gen Assembly of Eleventh March last- £86:10:8: Principal £94.. 0..0 Interest 6.. 11. 7^[4]

Arthur Garrison (1735-1822) Revolutionary War Patriot Part 2 by Thomas M. Garrison

Isaac Garrison, was born in 1765, Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg County, and died February 12, 1816. He is buried in the old Spratt Graveyard, Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. He married Martha Spratt (b. 1765), daughter of Thomas Spratt and Elizabeth Bigger, about 1785.

They had eight children: Jane B. (1786-1855) married Joseph W. McCorkle; Elizabeth (b. 1791, d. aft. 1835) married George G. Wilson; Martha Spratt (1796-1841) married Nathaniel Roach; Thomas Spratt (1797-1856) married Rosannah Cunningham; Margaret (b. 1799) married George W. Fisher; Arthur Reese (1801-83) married Caroline Grigsby; Patsy Susannah (b.~1803) married John Fisher; and Elias (b. 1804). Apparently, there was a fatal disease prevailing in the Fort Mill area in 1816, called the "Cold Plague" (the flu). "There was a sad case of one family, the family of Isaac Garrison. He married in 1790 and had seven children. When he died, it was said there were no children or relatives around to bury him because they had either moved to Tennessee or had been attacked by the fatal disease....."

Almost all of Isaac's siblings, and parents, lived west of the Catawba River, in the Indian Land or Ebenezer Community. His widow, Martha, was on the 1820 Census, York County, South Carolina, living with five of her children. Jane, Elizabeth, and Martha, Ir. already were married, and presumably living in the same community. Apparently, the above quote must have been nothing more than a rumor. Isaac's estate was settled February 12, 1818.

Martha, Sr., along with her children, moved to Alabama around 1822. Her son, Thomas, married Rosannah in Madison County, January 27, 1823. On December 19, 1826, Martha received some land from her son-in-law and daughter, George G. and Elizabeth Wilson, in Madison County, Alabama. She died in Limestone County, Alabama, July 24, 1834.^[5]

Biography of Thomas Dryden Spratt, Recollections of my Family

I come now to my grandfather, Thomas (Kanawha) the 8th and last of his children and his only son. He married Elizabeth Bigger and settled on the portion of his father's plantation east of Charlotte now owned by the heirs of Maj. Ben Morrow. The date of his marriage is not on record that I know and can only be approximately ascertained from the ages of his eldest children and other circumstances.

The number of children, the issue of this marriage was nine, which I will name in order of their birth: Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, Jane, Anne, Thomas, James, Susan, and Rachel... ^[6]

Martha married Isaac Garrison and had issue -- Betsy, Elias,Margaret, Thomas, Martha, Reece, and Susan. I infer from the ages of the oldest children, and other circumstances, that this marriage dates about 1790 or perhaps a year or so previous. The eldest Elizabeth, or cousin Betsy as we called her, married George Wilson, a tailor from some part of York District S. C. I believe. I can just remember the time of the ceremony, but cannot identify the exact date of it. They had but one child named Lamar while they remained in this state. In 1820, Wilson moved to some point near Huntsville, Ala. and afterwards to Madison Co. Tennessee and they were blessed with several more children the names and number of which I never heard, or forgotten. ---

Elias Garrison was of imbecile intellect but capable of doing turns about the house, sometimes worked in the field. He went with his mother at the time of their removal to Tenn. in 1821.

I omitted to state in the order of events the death of the father, Isaac Garrison. It occurred in 1816 and he was buried in the old Unity cemetery with none of his children or relatives around him.

Aunt Mattie, as we called her, lived on the place where the widow of Capt. Robt. Fulwood now resides, a portion of land given off to Isaac Garrison by my grandfather. She died in Madison Co. Tenn. in 1836 as I have been informed. She was a woman of extraordinary high spirit. The flash of her eye and unconquerable high spirit was impressed upon the youthful imagination of the writer. Peggy and Susan both accompanied their mother to Tenn. and married brothers by the name of ____ name I do not remember.

Thomas Spratt Garrison married in Tennessee, the name of his wife I do not know. He settled in Fayette Co. He died in 1844. He was a man of fine intellect and studious habits. --- Patsy married Nathaniel Roach and moved with the family of his mother, or soon after, to Tenn. She had no children when she left York District --- Reese married in Madison Co .. A.la. a lady by the name of Grigsby and had a large family, all red headed as I have been told - a hue which they very naturally inherited as their father and mother's both had red hair.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Roster of South Carolina Patriots cites A.A.2699; M559; Salley, Doc., p 90
2. ↑ Salley. Documents relating to the history of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. p 90.
3. ↑ SC Archives ID: Series: S108092 Reel: 0051 Frame: 00342 ignore: 000
4. ↑ SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BK L-N, p 224
5. ↑ York County Genealogical & Historical Society, Sept 2001 issue, p. 19
6. ↑ Thomas Dryden Spratt's Recollections of his family, p 16
7. ↑ Thomas Dryden Spratt's Recollections of his family, p 16-17

• Find A Grave: Memorial #11648389

• Spratt, Thomas Dryden. Recollections of his family. 1875. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/296512?availability=Family%20History%20Library

• York County Genealogical and Historical Society (Rock Hill, South Carolina). The Quarterly (York County Genealogical and Historical Society). Sept and Dec 2001 issues for Garrison articles; currently unavailable online. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/769579

• Moss B. G. (1983). Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. Genealogical Pub. p. 345. [1]

• Garrison, Isaac, Account Audited (File No. 2699) Of Claims Growing Out Of The American Revolution. Date: 1776 C. or later. (SC) Archives ID: Series: S108092 Reel: 0051 Frame: 00342 ignore: 000. https://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/

• Salley, A.S. Stub entries to indents issued in payment of claims against South Carolina growing out of the Revolution. Book L-N, Liber M, No 559. p. 65. [2]

• Salley, A.S. Documents relating to the history of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. p. 90. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2480060

• "United States Census, 1790", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-4YD : Fri Oct 06 00:56:21 UTC 2023), Entry for Isaac Garrison, 1790.

• "United States Census, 1800", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5R-X5M : Fri Oct 06 04:39:49 UTC 2023), Entry for Isaac Garrison, 1800.

• "United States Census, 1810", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2Y-2V6 : Thu Oct 05 12:13:55 UTC 2023), Entry for Isaac Garrison, 1810.