FOURTH GENERATION

69. James Kirkpatrick was born in 1761 in South Carolina. He Fact1 Enlisted as Private in 3d SC Line in Feb 1779. He Fact2 POW @ Fall of Charleston, SC to British in May 1780. He Fact3 Escaped from POW confinement in Feb 1781. He Fact4 Awarded Rev War Pension on 23 Dec 1818. He died in 1828 in Chester Co., South Carolina. James, the oldest son of Francis Kirkpatrick, was born abt. 1761 in Sou th Carolina and died in 1828 in Chester County, SC. His wife was named J ennet but we don't have her surname. Captain Day Jewell speculates tha t she may have been Jennet Hill, daughter of Josiah Hill. It has also b een suggested that her maiden name may have been Love.
James served in the American Revolution as a private in Captain Felix W arley's Company of Colonel William Thompson's 3d South Carolina Line, C ontinental Establishment*. He was a prisoner of war after the fall of C harleston, May 1780, and escaped after about nine months. He was award ed a pension by the U.S. Government for his Revolutionary War service. F ile number in the National Archives is S38897. The papers state that K irkpatrick enlisted Feb. 1779 and was in the Battle of Stono and the Si ege of Savannah. Additionally, one Robert Wilson swore that he knew Ja mes Kirkpatrick in 1779. Wilson was an enlisted man who served sixteen m onths in the 3d Regiment, including the time when Charleston was taken b y the British. A pension was awarded to Kirkpatrick 23 December 1818, w hile he was a resident of Chester County, South Carolina.
Kirkpatrick died intestate. His death citation was read 14 July 1828.
This man is the one most often confused with James Kirkpatrick, son of J ames, the presumed immigrant. A number of genealogies start in error w ith this son of Francis but the death dates clearly distinguish between t he two. This James Kirkpatrick was NOT shot and killed by a group of T ories in 1781, but rather died of natural causes in 1828.

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*(SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol 5, Jan 1904, " Pay Roll of the 3d Regt., Aug., Sept. and Oct. 1779, Capt. Felix Warley 's Company." This payroll is in the library of Yale University--see foo tnote in magazine, page 144.)

James Kirkpatrick and Jennet ??? had the following children:

+156 i. Jane Jennet Kirkpatrick.
+157 ii. Mary Kirkpatrick.
+158 iii. James Franklin Kirkpatrick.
+159 iv. Francis Kirkpatrick.
+160 v. Samuel Kirkpatrick.
+161 vi. Joseph Burrows Kirkpatrick.