Revolutionary War soldier. Son of James Isbell and Frances Tompkins Livingston Isbell.
Married in Wilkes, NC on Feb. 21, 1782 (per Notable Southern Families vol. 1, p.111). Family Bible of their son James gives the date Dec. 13 (18?), 1781, which is the date of the marriage bond recorded in Wilkes County. His first cousin Godfrey Isbell, son of Henry Isbell, Jr., was bondsman.
"1771 (1781?), Charlotte, Albermarle Co., Va.:
Godfrey Isbell, Thomas Isbell, and Pendleton Isbell posted a bond of 50,000.00 lbs for Godfrey's appearance in court...(ref., John Carlton of Orange County and Albemarle County, Virginia by George H. Caldwell)." 50,000 pounds today is about $83,575.00 in U.S. dollars and was an excessive bond for 1771-81. According to an online price-value calculator, $83,000 U.S. dollars today was worth (in 1774) at least $2.47 million.
"Thomas Isbell was known as Captain of the Lighthorse," but no proof to that effect has been found. However, his sword which he carried throughout the Revolution, and described as a very sharp, three sided spear which fitted into a cane with buck horn handle was burned when the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Caroline Tucker Johnston was destroyed in 1895." (Notable Southern Families by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1, p. 109.)
Zella Armstrong stated that the home of Thomas and Discretion Isbell stood near Grandin church but over the county line in Wilkes County.
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897. Thomas Isbell and his wife, Discretion, were members of the King's Creek Baptist Church, Wilkes County. It was burned only a few years since."
Another reference says, "The Thomas Isbell place in Wilkes Co, NC is near the Grandin Baptist Church, off highway 268. The house burned in 1897, but in 1939 Ida, Cora and Clara Greer, great-granddaughters of Thomas and Discretion, still lived on the land."
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897."
This couple was described as once Presbyterian by descendant Zella Armstrong, though buried at Grandin Baptist Church, Caldwell County, N.C., and at one time members of King's Creek Baptist Church in Wilkes County, N.C. Zella Armstrong, herself Presbyterian, also stated that they left Virginia for North Carolina when early Baptists were persecuted in Virginia.
According to Doug Land, descendant of Thomas Isbell's sister Elizabeth Land: "From Mr. Howell, who now owns the old flooded-out Grandin Mill remains and the land around it, I was told that the old Isbell homeplace was located across the creek, and west of the church, which is now part of Caldwell County. In earlier times, that part of Kings Creek was in Wilkes County.... At one time, the Isbells owned thousands of acres that ran from Grandin all the way to Route 268, west of Ferguson."
American Patriot Thomas Isbell
DAR Ancestor #: A060652
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 6-27-1753 ALBEMARLE CO VIRGINIA
Death: 10-27-1819 WILKES CO NORTH CAROLINA
Pension Number: *W7862
Service Description: 1) 9TH REGT
DAR Record: Thomas Isbell was a Revolutionary Soldier (1753-1819) enlisted, 1776, in Capt. Thomas Walker's company, 9th Virginia regiment, under Col. George Mathews.
The Thomas Isbell chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, associated with the Ocoee Chapter of the D.A.R. at Cleveland, Tennessee.
CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE (Washington, D.C.: NSCAR, September 1933), Vol. XXIII, Number 4, page 2, contains a photo with the caption: "Above picture shows the Thomas Isbell Society, Cleveland, Tenn., presenting an American Flag for the new flagpole at Arnold School. Joe Corn presented the flag, which was accepted by North Callahan, principal of the school. The flag was donated by Ocoee Chapter, D.A.R., and the Isbell Society C.A.R."
Thomas Isbell, Esquire, is mentioned throughout "County Court Records 1778-97, Wilkes County, North Carolina" (2014) by James Alan Williams.
LINEAGE:
1 John Isbell (England to Gloucester County, Virginia by 1664), presumptive father of
2 William Isbell of Isbell Spring, St. John's Parish, King William County; father of Henry, William Jr., John
+ wife unknown; next door to Enfield Plantation
3 Henry Isbell b.c1690 of Orange Co.; constable of Caroline Co., d. c1760
+ daughter of "James Cox, Gent.," d c1739 St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co. (July 25, 1733; Spots Orders, 7 Aug, p.240); sons: James (1720), William (1722), Henry Jr. (1724), Zachariah (c1726), possibly others
4 James Isbell
+Frances Tompkins Livingston
5 Thomas Isbell, Revolutionary War soldier
+Discretion Howard
Married in Wilkes, NC on Feb. 21, 1782 (per Notable Southern Families vol. 1, p.111). Family Bible of their son James gives the date Dec. 13 (18?), 1781, which is the date of the marriage bond recorded in Wilkes County. His first cousin Godfrey Isbell, son of Henry Isbell, Jr., was bondsman.
"1771 (1781?), Charlotte, Albermarle Co., Va.:
Godfrey Isbell, Thomas Isbell, and Pendleton Isbell posted a bond of 50,000.00 lbs for Godfrey's appearance in court...(ref., John Carlton of Orange County and Albemarle County, Virginia by George H. Caldwell)." 50,000 pounds today is about $83,575.00 in U.S. dollars and was an excessive bond for 1771-81. According to an online price-value calculator, $83,000 U.S. dollars today was worth (in 1774) at least $2.47 million.
"Thomas Isbell was known as Captain of the Lighthorse," but no proof to that effect has been found. However, his sword which he carried throughout the Revolution, and described as a very sharp, three sided spear which fitted into a cane with buck horn handle was burned when the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Caroline Tucker Johnston was destroyed in 1895." (Notable Southern Families by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1, p. 109.)
Zella Armstrong stated that the home of Thomas and Discretion Isbell stood near Grandin church but over the county line in Wilkes County.
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897. Thomas Isbell and his wife, Discretion, were members of the King's Creek Baptist Church, Wilkes County. It was burned only a few years since."
Another reference says, "The Thomas Isbell place in Wilkes Co, NC is near the Grandin Baptist Church, off highway 268. The house burned in 1897, but in 1939 Ida, Cora and Clara Greer, great-granddaughters of Thomas and Discretion, still lived on the land."
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897."
This couple was described as once Presbyterian by descendant Zella Armstrong, though buried at Grandin Baptist Church, Caldwell County, N.C., and at one time members of King's Creek Baptist Church in Wilkes County, N.C. Zella Armstrong, herself Presbyterian, also stated that they left Virginia for North Carolina when early Baptists were persecuted in Virginia.
According to Doug Land, descendant of Thomas Isbell's sister Elizabeth Land: "From Mr. Howell, who now owns the old flooded-out Grandin Mill remains and the land around it, I was told that the old Isbell homeplace was located across the creek, and west of the church, which is now part of Caldwell County. In earlier times, that part of Kings Creek was in Wilkes County.... At one time, the Isbells owned thousands of acres that ran from Grandin all the way to Route 268, west of Ferguson."
American Patriot Thomas Isbell
DAR Ancestor #: A060652
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 6-27-1753 ALBEMARLE CO VIRGINIA
Death: 10-27-1819 WILKES CO NORTH CAROLINA
Pension Number: *W7862
Service Description: 1) 9TH REGT
DAR Record: Thomas Isbell was a Revolutionary Soldier (1753-1819) enlisted, 1776, in Capt. Thomas Walker's company, 9th Virginia regiment, under Col. George Mathews.
The Thomas Isbell chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, associated with the Ocoee Chapter of the D.A.R. at Cleveland, Tennessee.
CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE (Washington, D.C.: NSCAR, September 1933), Vol. XXIII, Number 4, page 2, contains a photo with the caption: "Above picture shows the Thomas Isbell Society, Cleveland, Tenn., presenting an American Flag for the new flagpole at Arnold School. Joe Corn presented the flag, which was accepted by North Callahan, principal of the school. The flag was donated by Ocoee Chapter, D.A.R., and the Isbell Society C.A.R."
Thomas Isbell, Esquire, is mentioned throughout "County Court Records 1778-97, Wilkes County, North Carolina" (2014) by James Alan Williams.
LINEAGE:
1 John Isbell (England to Gloucester County, Virginia by 1664), presumptive father of
2 William Isbell of Isbell Spring, St. John's Parish, King William County; father of Henry, William Jr., John
+ wife unknown; next door to Enfield Plantation
3 Henry Isbell b.c1690 of Orange Co.; constable of Caroline Co., d. c1760
+ daughter of "James Cox, Gent.," d c1739 St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co. (July 25, 1733; Spots Orders, 7 Aug, p.240); sons: James (1720), William (1722), Henry Jr. (1724), Zachariah (c1726), possibly others
4 James Isbell
+Frances Tompkins Livingston
5 Thomas Isbell, Revolutionary War soldier
+Discretion Howard
Revolutionary War soldier. Son of James Isbell and Frances Tompkins Livingston Isbell.
Married in Wilkes, NC on Feb. 21, 1782 (per Notable Southern Families vol. 1, p.111). Family Bible of their son James gives the date Dec. 13 (18?), 1781, which is the date of the marriage bond recorded in Wilkes County. His first cousin Godfrey Isbell, son of Henry Isbell, Jr., was bondsman.
"1771 (1781?), Charlotte, Albermarle Co., Va.:
Godfrey Isbell, Thomas Isbell, and Pendleton Isbell posted a bond of 50,000.00 lbs for Godfrey's appearance in court...(ref., John Carlton of Orange County and Albemarle County, Virginia by George H. Caldwell)." 50,000 pounds today is about $83,575.00 in U.S. dollars and was an excessive bond for 1771-81. According to an online price-value calculator, $83,000 U.S. dollars today was worth (in 1774) at least $2.47 million.
"Thomas Isbell was known as Captain of the Lighthorse," but no proof to that effect has been found. However, his sword which he carried throughout the Revolution, and described as a very sharp, three sided spear which fitted into a cane with buck horn handle was burned when the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Caroline Tucker Johnston was destroyed in 1895." (Notable Southern Families by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1, p. 109.)
Zella Armstrong stated that the home of Thomas and Discretion Isbell stood near Grandin church but over the county line in Wilkes County.
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897. Thomas Isbell and his wife, Discretion, were members of the King's Creek Baptist Church, Wilkes County. It was burned only a few years since."
Another reference says, "The Thomas Isbell place in Wilkes Co, NC is near the Grandin Baptist Church, off highway 268. The house burned in 1897, but in 1939 Ida, Cora and Clara Greer, great-granddaughters of Thomas and Discretion, still lived on the land."
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897."
This couple was described as once Presbyterian by descendant Zella Armstrong, though buried at Grandin Baptist Church, Caldwell County, N.C., and at one time members of King's Creek Baptist Church in Wilkes County, N.C. Zella Armstrong, herself Presbyterian, also stated that they left Virginia for North Carolina when early Baptists were persecuted in Virginia.
According to Doug Land, descendant of Thomas Isbell's sister Elizabeth Land: "From Mr. Howell, who now owns the old flooded-out Grandin Mill remains and the land around it, I was told that the old Isbell homeplace was located across the creek, and west of the church, which is now part of Caldwell County. In earlier times, that part of Kings Creek was in Wilkes County.... At one time, the Isbells owned thousands of acres that ran from Grandin all the way to Route 268, west of Ferguson."
American Patriot Thomas Isbell
DAR Ancestor #: A060652
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 6-27-1753 ALBEMARLE CO VIRGINIA
Death: 10-27-1819 WILKES CO NORTH CAROLINA
Pension Number: *W7862
Service Description: 1) 9TH REGT
DAR Record: Thomas Isbell was a Revolutionary Soldier (1753-1819) enlisted, 1776, in Capt. Thomas Walker's company, 9th Virginia regiment, under Col. George Mathews.
The Thomas Isbell chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, associated with the Ocoee Chapter of the D.A.R. at Cleveland, Tennessee.
CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE (Washington, D.C.: NSCAR, September 1933), Vol. XXIII, Number 4, page 2, contains a photo with the caption: "Above picture shows the Thomas Isbell Society, Cleveland, Tenn., presenting an American Flag for the new flagpole at Arnold School. Joe Corn presented the flag, which was accepted by North Callahan, principal of the school. The flag was donated by Ocoee Chapter, D.A.R., and the Isbell Society C.A.R."
Thomas Isbell, Esquire, is mentioned throughout "County Court Records 1778-97, Wilkes County, North Carolina" (2014) by James Alan Williams.
LINEAGE:
1 John Isbell (England to Gloucester County, Virginia by 1664), presumptive father of
2 William Isbell of Isbell Spring, St. John's Parish, King William County; father of Henry, William Jr., John
+ wife unknown; next door to Enfield Plantation
3 Henry Isbell b.c1690 of Orange Co.; constable of Caroline Co., d. c1760
+ daughter of "James Cox, Gent.," d c1739 St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co. (July 25, 1733; Spots Orders, 7 Aug, p.240); sons: James (1720), William (1722), Henry Jr. (1724), Zachariah (c1726), possibly others
4 James Isbell
+Frances Tompkins Livingston
5 Thomas Isbell, Revolutionary War soldier
+Discretion Howard
Married in Wilkes, NC on Feb. 21, 1782 (per Notable Southern Families vol. 1, p.111). Family Bible of their son James gives the date Dec. 13 (18?), 1781, which is the date of the marriage bond recorded in Wilkes County. His first cousin Godfrey Isbell, son of Henry Isbell, Jr., was bondsman.
"1771 (1781?), Charlotte, Albermarle Co., Va.:
Godfrey Isbell, Thomas Isbell, and Pendleton Isbell posted a bond of 50,000.00 lbs for Godfrey's appearance in court...(ref., John Carlton of Orange County and Albemarle County, Virginia by George H. Caldwell)." 50,000 pounds today is about $83,575.00 in U.S. dollars and was an excessive bond for 1771-81. According to an online price-value calculator, $83,000 U.S. dollars today was worth (in 1774) at least $2.47 million.
"Thomas Isbell was known as Captain of the Lighthorse," but no proof to that effect has been found. However, his sword which he carried throughout the Revolution, and described as a very sharp, three sided spear which fitted into a cane with buck horn handle was burned when the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Caroline Tucker Johnston was destroyed in 1895." (Notable Southern Families by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1, p. 109.)
Zella Armstrong stated that the home of Thomas and Discretion Isbell stood near Grandin church but over the county line in Wilkes County.
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897. Thomas Isbell and his wife, Discretion, were members of the King's Creek Baptist Church, Wilkes County. It was burned only a few years since."
Another reference says, "The Thomas Isbell place in Wilkes Co, NC is near the Grandin Baptist Church, off highway 268. The house burned in 1897, but in 1939 Ida, Cora and Clara Greer, great-granddaughters of Thomas and Discretion, still lived on the land."
Notable Southern Families, by Zella Armstrong, vol. 1 (1918) p.111: "His homestead, built of solid walnut logs, where he died October 27, 1819, was torn down in 1897."
This couple was described as once Presbyterian by descendant Zella Armstrong, though buried at Grandin Baptist Church, Caldwell County, N.C., and at one time members of King's Creek Baptist Church in Wilkes County, N.C. Zella Armstrong, herself Presbyterian, also stated that they left Virginia for North Carolina when early Baptists were persecuted in Virginia.
According to Doug Land, descendant of Thomas Isbell's sister Elizabeth Land: "From Mr. Howell, who now owns the old flooded-out Grandin Mill remains and the land around it, I was told that the old Isbell homeplace was located across the creek, and west of the church, which is now part of Caldwell County. In earlier times, that part of Kings Creek was in Wilkes County.... At one time, the Isbells owned thousands of acres that ran from Grandin all the way to Route 268, west of Ferguson."
American Patriot Thomas Isbell
DAR Ancestor #: A060652
Service: VIRGINIA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 6-27-1753 ALBEMARLE CO VIRGINIA
Death: 10-27-1819 WILKES CO NORTH CAROLINA
Pension Number: *W7862
Service Description: 1) 9TH REGT
DAR Record: Thomas Isbell was a Revolutionary Soldier (1753-1819) enlisted, 1776, in Capt. Thomas Walker's company, 9th Virginia regiment, under Col. George Mathews.
The Thomas Isbell chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, associated with the Ocoee Chapter of the D.A.R. at Cleveland, Tennessee.
CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE (Washington, D.C.: NSCAR, September 1933), Vol. XXIII, Number 4, page 2, contains a photo with the caption: "Above picture shows the Thomas Isbell Society, Cleveland, Tenn., presenting an American Flag for the new flagpole at Arnold School. Joe Corn presented the flag, which was accepted by North Callahan, principal of the school. The flag was donated by Ocoee Chapter, D.A.R., and the Isbell Society C.A.R."
Thomas Isbell, Esquire, is mentioned throughout "County Court Records 1778-97, Wilkes County, North Carolina" (2014) by James Alan Williams.
LINEAGE:
1 John Isbell (England to Gloucester County, Virginia by 1664), presumptive father of
2 William Isbell of Isbell Spring, St. John's Parish, King William County; father of Henry, William Jr., John
+ wife unknown; next door to Enfield Plantation
3 Henry Isbell b.c1690 of Orange Co.; constable of Caroline Co., d. c1760
+ daughter of "James Cox, Gent.," d c1739 St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co. (July 25, 1733; Spots Orders, 7 Aug, p.240); sons: James (1720), William (1722), Henry Jr. (1724), Zachariah (c1726), possibly others
4 James Isbell
+Frances Tompkins Livingston
5 Thomas Isbell, Revolutionary War soldier
+Discretion Howard
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