Moses Strahan Sr (abt. 1765 - abt. 1833)

Born about 1765 in Bladen, North Carolina [uncertain]

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Died about 1833 at about age 68 in Copiah, Mississippi, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

DAR Record: STRAWN, MOSES SR Ancestor #: A111245 Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 1760 ORANGE CO NORTH CAROLINA Death: 10-14-1833 COPIAH CO MISSISSIPPI Service Source: NC REV ARMY ACCTS, VOL #VI, P 57, FOLIO 1, ROLL # 57.2 Service Description: 1) PAID FOR SERVICES RENDERED _____________________________________________________________________________ Public Sale

Will be sold to the highest bidder at the residence of the late Moses Strahan, Esq. on the head of Copiah Creek on Saturday the 30th days of December next, a valuable tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres. On this place there is about forty acres cleared; also, at the same time and place a valuable tract of land lying and situated in Hancock County containing 640 acres with some open land.

Terms will be a credit of twelve months with bond and approved security.

Asa Strahan (This property was not Moses Sr property it was according to BLM..Moses Jr's. Note that the letters of Luther Preston Strahan State.. That Moses Strahan Jr had more property than any of the others. ) Administrator of the estate of Moses Strahan, deceased. November 11, 1837 Published in the Southern Star in Copiah County, MS.

Buried in Gallman, Copiah County, Mississippi.^[1]

Research Notes

Name CONFLICT-

• Rachael Howard married Richard Strawn/Straughn who was born about 1760 in North Carolina and died in Mississippi on 14 Oct 1833. He served in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War.^[2] I believe this may be this Richard Strawn.

Sources

1. ↑ Profile page for Moses Strahan at FindAGrave. NOTE: No tombstone photograph, therefore information is considered heresay.
2. ↑ Drake, Dr. Betty S. Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots Who Resided in Mississippi: A Compilation of Documents on Soldiers, Sailors, and their widows from all the Original Colonies who Moved Westward to the Mississippi Territory and the state of Mississippi. Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 2004. Entry #608 (book pages are unnumbered by people in the book are numbered in consecutive order).