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- Family Data Collection - Births
Name: John Polk
Father: William Polk
Mother: Margaret Taylor
Birth Date: 1739
City: Carlise
County: Cumberland
State: PA
Country: USA
Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Name: John Polk I Polk
Spouse: Eleanor Shelby
Parents: William Polk, Margaret Taylor
Birth Place: Cumberland Co, PA
Birth Date: 1739
Marriage Date: 2 Oct 1758
Death Place: NC
Death Date: 1785
Capt. John Polk came with his parents to Mecklenburg Co., NC about
1750, and in a deed of 1763, on file at Charlotte, he is called "a
planter". Ellinora (Elloner) signed a deed with him in Mecklenburg
Co. in 1764. His name is given as the author of a petition in 1765 to
the Governor and Council, complaining, with his neighbors, of the acts
of the chief agent of the large Selwyn grant, on which they lived.
June 7, 1766 he is listed as a member of the Clear Creek Company of
militia which was commanded by Capt. Adam Alexander, in which Charles,
his older brother, was a lieutenant. He was an officer in Col.
Francis Locke's regiment which was raised to resist the Loyalists. He
participated in the Battle of Ramseur's Mills. At various times he
served as captain of the militia of that region, when his Committee of
Safety called it out. By acts of the General Assembly of the Province
in 1766, 1771 and 1773, he was made a member of commissions charged
with laying out roads to connect the western counties of North
Carolina with Wilmington and Brunswick County, NC. He died most
probably in early 1785, as on 9 September of that year the Assembly of
NC issued Land Warrant #2149 to "the heirs of John Polk for 1000 acres
of land within the limits of the land reserved by law for the officers
and soldiers of the Continental line of this state".
An affidavit in the Revolutionary War pension, filed by his brother,
Charles, contains a declaration that John Polk was appointed Indian
Agent for the Catawba Indians, whose lands lay across the state line
in South Carolina. John was living with his family in York Co, SC, by
1800 as he is shown on the 1800 Census for that Co. It is not yet
known when he moved from NC to SC. His Will, on file in York Co., SC,
bequeaths to his wife, Eleanor, all of his personal estate and is
signed with his mark, indicating he could not write.
The 1790 Census for York Co., SC lists John Polk with one free white
male under 16 (Taylor), and one white female (wife, Elinor/Eleanor).
The majority of the members of the Polk family in that area left for
TN around 1806.
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Abt 1739 - 1785 (~ 46 years)