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Vital Information

Life Events and Timeline

• About 1755 — Departure from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with parents to Augusta County, Virginia.
• 1774 — Military: Indian Wars; served as Sergeant under Col. Christy and C. Lewis.
• 1776 — Military: War of the American Revolution; served as Indian spy under Captain Gray and Col. Christy.
• 1777–1781 — Military: War of the American Revolution; served in Col. Preston’s Virginia Regiment; fought in Battle of Haw River, North Carolina.
• 11 February 1780 — Property: Grant of 400 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky from the state of Virginia for Revolutionary War service.
• 16 June 1780 — Property: Grant of 500 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky from the state of Virginia for Revolutionary War service.
• 1780 — Arrival in Montgomery County, Virginia from Augusta County, Virginia.
• 1781 — Arrival in Lincoln County, Kentucky from Montgomery County, Virginia.
• 7 May 1783 — Property: Grant amended to add an additional 1,040 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky from the state of Virginia for Revolutionary War service.
• 6 July 1784 — Property: Grant of 570 acres near Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky from the state of Virginia for Revolutionary War service.
• 6 July 1784 — Property: Grant of 370 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky from the state of Virginia for Revolutionary War service.
• 17 July 1784 — Property: Grant of 536 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky from the state of Virginia for Revolutionary War service.
• 20 June 1796 — Property: Sale of 165 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 17 May 1797 — Property: Sale of 164 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 16 July 1799 — Property: Sale of 80 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 28 June 1800 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 7 July 1801 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 20 June 1803 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 28 July 1804 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 24 May 1805 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 4 April 1806 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 4 August 1807 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 25 August 1808 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 21 June 1809 — Property: Sale of 82 acres on Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky to Thomas and Taliaferro Bronaugh.
• 1815 — Arrival in Christian County, Kentucky from Lincoln County.
• 1816–1834 — Attribute: Ruling Elder of First Presbyterian Church near Sinking Spring, Christian County, Kentucky.
• 1820 — Census: Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.
• 1830 — Census: Christian County, Kentucky.
• 1832 — Military: Pension granted for Revolutionary War claim #S 30432 as resident of Christian County, Kentucky.

Spouses and Children

First Wife (name unknown)

Marriage: Lincoln County, Kentucky

Children:

1. Dr. James George Gilmour, b. 3 September 1784 in Lincoln County, Kentucky
2. George Gilmour, b. 10 March 1788 in Lincoln County, Kentucky
3. Alexander Gilmour, b. 1789 in Lincoln County, Kentucky

Second Wife: Losey Lodden

Marriage: 20 February 1789 in Lincoln County, Kentucky

(No children listed in this record.)

Note: Marriage records of Lincoln County, Kentucky 1781–1792 list James Gilmore (Gilmour) married Losey Lodden on 20 February 1792. This marriage followed the death of James’s first wife.

Sources

1. Title: American Revolutionary War Pension S30432, September 1832
   Source Text: JAMES GILMOUR, Pension #S 30432 for service in Virginia and Indian Wars, applied for at Christian County, Kentucky 3 September 1832 at age 87 on 17 January 1832. SUMMARY: according to father’s family register he was born 17 January 1745 in Pennsylvania and as a child moved to Augusta County, VA where he lived until grown. In 1780 he moved to Montgomery County, Virginia; was drafted under Colonel Preston. He moved to Kentucky and settled in Lincoln County in the fall of 1782 where he lived until 1815, then moved to Christian County.
   The source includes a lengthy transcription of the original handwritten pension application (available in the Christian County History Library) describing service as a spy, service under Col. Christy, Col. Preston, and others, and land grants in Kentucky. (Full transcription appears in the original GenCircles entry; key points match the timeline above.)
   Confidence: 3
2. Title: Marriage Records of Lincoln County, Kentucky 1781–1792
   Source Text: According to this source, JAMES GILMORE [Gilmour] married LOSEY LODDEN on Feb 20, 1792. This marriage followed the death of JAMES’ first wife.
   Confidence: 3
3. Title: Old Kentucky Grant Book, Kentucky Hist. Soc. Vol. #1
   Source Text: KHS Vol. 1, Original Survey #243 (Survey Book 1; page 113), dated 3/23/1781, in Lincoln County, KY, shows JAMES GILMOUR with 1000 acres. Watercourse: Town Fk. Salt R. Grant Date is June 1, 1782. Original Book: 1 and page: 509–510. Subsequent grants were for 370 acres in Hanging Fork, Lincoln County on 7-6-1784; 536 acres in Hanging Fork, Lincoln County on 7-17-1784 and for additional 570 acres on 7-6-1784.
   Confidence: 3
4. Title: John Smith Gilmore by Bean Blossom
   Source Text: According to this source: “JAMES GILMORE was born in Lancaster Co., Pa 1/17/1745 and went with the family to Augusta Co., VA. in 1748. He served several tours of duty during the Revolution. His first tour was with the Augusta Co. militia before he came of age to be enrolled. In March 1764, he was drafted and marched to Pittsburg against the Indians. He continued to live on the frontiers of Virginia until 1775, when he went to Kentucky and planted corn the same summer at Boonesboro on the Kentucky River. In 1780, he moved to Montgomery Co., VA where he was drafted in 1781. Moved to Lincoln Co., KY in the fall of 1782 and resided there until 1815 when he moved to Christian County. He applied for a pension 9/3/1832 and on 8/21/1833, he received the sum of $25.83 per annum with back pay of $103.32. All of the above is taken from his pension application on file in Washington, D.C. It is evident from this that like his brother John, he too had left home prior to his family’s removal to Augusta Co. Lincoln Co., KY records show he owned several tracts of land presumably granted for his services in the War.”
   MY COMMENT: Although much of the Bean Blossom Document is filled with errors, this information matches family and other documented information for our JAMES GILMOUR.
   Confidence: 1
5. Title: DAR Records for Pension Dept Revolutionary War Claim
   Source Text: DAR records state that JAMES GILMOUR served “from 1774 for 3 months as Sergeant under Col. Christy & C. Lewis. From May 1776, served for 6 months, as an Indian Spy under Captain Gray and Colonel Christy, was in skirmish. Also, having moved to Montgomery County, VA, he served 2 months in 1781, as pvt. in Colonel Preston’s Regiment and was in the Battle of Haw River, NC.”
   Confidence: 2
6. Title: 1830 US Census for Christian County, KY
   Source Text: The 1830 US Census taken in Kentucky cites our JAMES GILMOUR (spelled GILMORE in the report) and family as living next to TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH in Christian County, Kentucky (Unknown Townships). JAMES GILMOUR’s grandson, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR (born 1813 and son of JAMES GILMOUR’s son, GEORGE GILMOUR and his wife, POLLY TERRELL [HICKMAN] GILMOUR) married TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH’s daughter JANE ALEXANDER BRONAUGH in 1833. The 1830 US Census for Christian County, KY is available in Ancestry.com and is located on microfilm roll M 19-35 page 25.
   Confidence: 2
7. Title: History of Christian County, Kentucky
   Page: 294 & 295
   Source Text: The book, “County of Christian, Historical and Biographical” Vol. I was edited by WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1884, Chicago and Louisville. On pages 294 and 295 there is a discussion about the first Presbyterian Church in Christian County. JAMES GILMOUR was one of its founders and a ruling elder. The text describes the settlement of families including the GILMOURS between 1814 and 1816 near Sinking Spring, the organization of the church under Rev. William E. Stuart with JAMES GILMOUR and James Stevenson as first Ruling Elders, the later Blue Water Church, and the move to Lafayette (later McKenzie’s Chapel). JAMES GILMOUR died in his ninetieth year in 1834. (Full excerpt appears in the original GenCircles entry.)
   Confidence: 3
8. Title: 1820 US Census Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY
   Source Text: JAMES GILMOUR was listed in the 1820 US Census Report as JAMES GILMORE who resided with his family in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.
   Confidence: 3
9. Title: 1835 Revolutionary War Pension Roll Christian County, KY
   Source Text: According to this source, JAMES GILMOUR was placed on the Pension Roll in Christian County, KY on August 17, 1833 (commencement of pension May 4, 1831) for service on the Virginia line. Annual allowance stated as $51.66; back pay calculated at $179.15.
   Confidence: 3
10. Title: Christian County, KY Deed Book R pg 290
    Source Text: According to Mr. James Killebrew of the Christian County Kentucky Genealogical Society in a letter to me on 13 April 1984: “JAMES GILMOUR sold to GEORGE GILMOUR and POLLY his wife for 1 dollar a tract of land 232 1/2 acres on Waters of Little River being land Joshua Gates deeded to JAMES and GEORGE GILMOUR in partnership: date 9 Jan. 1829.”
    Confidence: 3
11. Title: Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds, 1774–1785
    Source Text: According to this source, JAMES GILMOUR acquired the following land parcels in Hanging Fork, Dix River, Lincoln County, Kentucky: On 11 February 1780, 400 acres listed in Book A, page 13; On 15 June 1780, 500 acres on the Dicks River for his Military Service listed in Book A, page 133; On 7 May 1783, there is an “amended” acquisition for 1040 additional acres on Hanging Fork listed in Book 1, page 401. There are other entries for him as well.
    Confidence: 3
12. Title: Ron Stephens re: French and Indian War of 1756–1763
    Source Text: Under the terms of the proclamation of 1763, issued by England’s King George III, soldiers who served in the French and Indian War received bounty land warrants as payment for service. Because JAMES GILMOUR served in this war, beginning in 1764, he was entitled to land as stated in that proclamation and most probably claimed and received his land in Lincoln County, Kentucky for his service as an “Indian Spy” during this war.
    Confidence: 3
13. Title: Annals of Southwest Virginia
    Source Text: According to the “Annals of Southwest Virginia”, page 774, compiled by Lewis Preston Summers and published in 1929, on “4 June 1782” in the “Montgomery County [Virginia] Court, JAMES GILMORE made satisfactory proof to this Court that he obtained a preemption warrant from the register of the land office about the First of April 1780 for one thousand acres of Land by virtue of Certificate from the Commissioners for the district Kentucky & that the same together with the House he lived was Burned a few days after he recd it.”
    Confidence: 3
14. Title: History of Madison County, KY p. 519
    Source Text: According to this source in a letter from DANIEL BOONE to RICHARD HENDERSON date 1 April 1775, JAMES GILMORE [sic] was listed among those who planted corn at the site where the foundations of Boonesborough were laid that year. This was probably our JAMES GILMOUR and corroborates his statement about this in his pension application of 1832.
    Confidence: 2
15. Title: Christian County, KY Will Book H pg 335–337
    Source Text: The date of death of 18 November 1834 is cited as the day the Will & Codicil of JAMES GILMOUR Sr. was recorded by the Clerk of the County of Christian County, KY. The will (dated 25 May 1832, with codicil) includes provisions for grandchildren and was proven 2 December 1834. Note: the last name was spelled “Gilmour” throughout this Will. (Full transcription appears in the original GenCircles entry.)
    Confidence: 3