Lt. & Capt. in NC Militia, Revolutionary War DAR Ancestor # A076834

Sign Reads: "1B-65 Colonel Robert McFarland 1759-1837 Then Homesite and grave of Revolutionary War officer, Colonel Robert McFarland, is located two miles North at Springvale. Born in 1759 in Orange County, North Carolina, he served in the Virginia Militia from 1776 to 1781. In 1783, McFarland moved from Washington County, Virginia to Greene County, North Carolina, Now Greene County, Tennessee. He became the first sheriff of Jefferson County, part of which is now Hamblen County, Tennessee."

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from http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM55K8_Colonel_Robert_McFarland_...

COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND WAS A BOY OF SEVENTEEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND RODE BY HIS FATHER'S SIDE TO THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN. HE WAS BORN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY IN VIRGINIA, MARCH 15TH, 1759 AND DIED FEBRUARY 5TH, 1837.
HE MARRIED MARGARET MCNUTT, THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN SOUTH OF THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER.
HIS FATHER WAS AN OFFICER IN THE COLONIAL ARMY AND FATHER AND SON WERE PIONEERS IN THE WATAUGA SETTLEMENT.
HE WAS THE FATHER OF COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND THE THIRD, WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE WAR OF 1812.
HIS GRANDSON, COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND THE FOURTH, SERVED WITH THE CONFEDERATE ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR AND WAS AFTERWARD JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AND LIVED IN MORRISTOWN.
SIR JOHN MCFARLAND, OF ARROUQUAH, SCOTLAND, BORN THERE IN 1708 AND WHO CAME TO VIRGINIA IN 1746, WAS THE AMERICAN HEAD OF THIS FAMILY AND THE GRANDFATHER OF ROBERT MCFARLAND, THE SECOND. WILLIAM CALLOWAY'S LIST OF LOYAL AMERICANS GIVES HIS NAME AND OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO VIRGINIA. THE OLD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN WHICH SR. JOHN WAS AN ELDER, IS STANDING TODAY.

THIS HISTORY IS GIVEN AS THE REASON WHY THIS CHAPTER IS NAMED THE
ROBERT MCFARLAND CHAPTER, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.

TAKEN FROM THE MINUTE BOOK OF ROBERT MCFARLAND CHAPTER.

COPIED DECEMBER 29,1936 - ADA RUTH NOE

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Mary Helen Haines notes: As far as I can tell, there are many errors in the above statement. If you read his actual sworn words given in 1832 to receive his Revolutionary War pension it states he was born in Orange County North Carolina. At age 8, he moved to Bedford Co. VA, and then in 1771 moved to Botetourt Co. where he stayed for 10 years. This area is today Wythe Co., and his father lived where the courthouse presently is in Wytheville. He joined the military in Nov. 1776. While living there he married, and shortly after moved to Washington County in 1781 and appears on the tax list at that time. When the war ended, 1783, he moved to what became Greene Co. (Jefferson Co., later Hamblen Co.) Tennessee, where he remained.

• Revolutionary War Pension Application For Robert McFarland State of Tennessee Jefferson County August 25th 1832
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=3040621&i...

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Born in 1759 in Orange County, North Carolina, he served in the Virginia Militia from 1776 to 1781. In 1783, McFarland moved from Washington County, Virginia to Greene County, North Carolina, Now Greene County, Tennessee. He became the first sheriff of Jefferson County, part of which is now Hamblen County, Tennessee." COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND WAS A BOY OF SEVENTEEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND RODE BY HIS FATHER'S SIDE TO THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN. HE WAS BORN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY IN VIRGINIA, MARCH 15TH, 1759 AND DIED FEBRUARY 5TH, 1837.
Husband of Margaret McNutt. Sheriff Lt. Col. of local militia

Please check this link for Robert's ancestry and biography.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/bios/mcfarland_cemeta...

County Clerk lists DOD as 10 February 1837. (Suggestion submitted by John Sweeney, Member # 48243422.)∼"Buried in this grave yard is Col. Robert McFarland, the only known officer of the Revolutionary War buried in Hamblen County, and for whom the Robert McFarland Chapter Sons of the American Revolution is named. His grave is unmarked except by a marker from a local funeral home which has recently been placed; decendants of his living in Morristown knowing the location of his grave. Copied by Margaret H. Richardson, October 31, 1936" WPA project, tombstone records, Hamblen County.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 10 2020, 22:08:00 UTC