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FA1: BET. 1790 - 1799 Came from NC to Pulaski Co., KY in the 1790's. Military Service: Revolutionary War Veteran Note: James Purvis born ca 1763 in what is now Martin County, NC, veteran of Revolutionary War, and wife Rhodea Roberts moved to TN and on to Pulaski County, KY. They had about 12children including my gg grandfather Calvin. James had two brothers Lewis and William for whom he served substitute enlistments. No information has been found on their parents. -- Calvin E. Purvis

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Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army
P
Fifteenth Virginia
page 455
[p.455] Purvis, James (Va). Sergeant 1st Virginia, September, 1775; Ensign, — April, 1777; resigned — February, 1778; Lieutenant Virginia Convention Guards, January, 1779; Captain, 8th October, 1779, and served to June, 1781.

VIRGINIA MILITIA IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
PART I
Virginia's Share in the Military Movements of the Revolution
page 28
1778. Capt. James Purvis' Company guarding prisoners at Albemarle Barracks, 249, 148.

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Revolutionary War Records -- Virginia, p.110
Purvis, JamesCaptainCont'l.4000Dec. 8, 1784 3 years

Revolutionary War Records -- Virginia, p.135
197.Purvis, JamesEnsignCont'l.Received, as captain,4,000 acres of land.

Revolutionary War Records -- Virginia, p.487
3563Purvis, James (resolution of Assembly)Capt.

Came from NC to Pulaski Co., KY in the 1790's.
Death: 1840/1850 at Pulaski Co., KY

James PURVIS
Sex: M

Event(s):
Born: 1765
Johnston', 'North Carolina

Parents:
Father: Jesse PURVIS
Mother:

James Purvis born ca 1763 in what is now Martin County, NC, veteran of Revolutionary War, and wife Rhodea Roberts moved to TN and on to Pulaski County, KY. They had about 12
children including my gg grandfather Calvin.
James had two brothers Lewis and William for
whom he served substitute enlistments.
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Jefferson,Co.,KY
A Bond between James Patten, Ben Pope, WM. ROBERTS, & James Purvis to
Wilkinson Armstrong Dunn & Co. for the conveyance of 7500 Acres of Land,
acknowledged and ordered to be recorded. (Marginal Notation: P'd). 1784

James Patten, Benjamin Pope, WILLIAM ROBERTS, & James Purvis, give bond,
February 11, 1784, for L4000 Virginia money to convey within one year good title
to Wilkinson, Armstrong, Dunn & Co. for 3000 acres of first-class land and 4500
acres of second-rate land as well watered and timbered as lands commonly are in
the county within thirty miles of the Ohio Falls and within two miles of Ohio
River or else on the waters of Brashears Creek.
Wit: Wm. Orr, Josh Blake
Recorded April Court 1784, Book 1, page 7

James Purvis born, about 1763, married Rhodea Roberts 1786.
James was a Revolutionary War veteran 1781 to 1784. He enlisted
in Pitt, County, NC. Need information on his parents.

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James Purvis born ca 1763 in what is now Martin County, NC, veteran of Revolutionary War, and wife Rhodea Roberts moved to TN and on to Pulaski County, KY. They had about 12children including my gg grandfather Calvin. James had two brothers Lewis and William for whom he served substitute enlistments. No information has been found on their parents. -- Calvin E. Purvis

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National Archives and Records Service
JAMES PURVIS
Revolutionary War
R8529
State of Kentucky Pulaski County

On this 20th day of November 1832 personally appeared before the worshipful Justices of the County Court in Pulaski County, State of Kentucky, now sitting as a court in open court. James Purvis aged about sixty nine years. A resident of Pulaski County,State of Kentucky, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in Pitt County, North Carolina, where in his sixteenth year as well as he now recollects, with Captain Joseph Gray for the term of one year and served in the Regiment of Col. John Heritage. John Allen, Major, in the North Carolina state line, in the 4th Regiment was during the period. stationed sometime at Fort Tazwell below Newburn. North Carolina. and when not at the station was marched to different places for the purpose of keeping down the Tories and such other duties as the situation of the country might require. Was some times on Cape Fear River, sometimes on Peedee and on Drowning Creek and the expiration of the twelve months was regularly discharged at a town called Kingston in North Carolina and received a discharge signed by the said Major Allen which has long since been lost, mislaid or destroyed. Afterwards the time not known in the County of Martin, State of North Carolina he undertook as a substitute for brother William Purvis to perform a three month tour in the Militia of the State of North Carolina and served in the Company of Captain Williams in the Regiment of Col. Ascurn. Was rendezvoused at Kingston and marched to the army under the Command of General Gates and was engaged in the Battle that resulted in the defeat of General Gates after the Defeat the army was scattered and he returned home after having served two months. Afterwards in Martin County, North Carolina, the time not known, he became again a substitute for his brother Lewis Pervis for a three month tour and he rendezvoused at a town called Halifax, North Carolina and the day after the rendezvous he was ordered with a detachment in all 300 to be placed under the command of Capt. Coats and Capt Coalman signing officers under them he was marched along on New River and was awhile stationed at a place called New River Chapel and at that place was discharged and received a discharge signed by Capt. Coalman which has long since been lost, mislaid or destroyed. He further states that in addition to the above Militia Service he served two other small tours. Afterwards while a resident of Pitt County. North Carolina the time not now recollected, he enlisted for the period of eighteen months in the regular army on continental establishment as he understood under Capt Benjamin Coalman in the Regiment of Archibald Lyth, Robert Blont Major. as marched to Charleston? South Carolina and joined thearmy of General Green and continued with the army until after the peace was made and concluded. He was engaged in the service under this last enlistment about one year after the proclamation of peace. He received a writing from the orderly Sergeant, signed by the Captain as he was on loan , authorizing his return home. He was not in the Battle fought with the British by General Green near Camden. being on guard that day to protect the baggage wagon. He was born in Martin County, NorthCarolina. He does not know the date. There is no record of his age that he knows of and all he is enabled to state as to age is from what his parents told him when a boy. He is himself entirely illiterate,being unable to read or write. He continued in North Carolina after the war until he removed to the State of Tennessee residing there about years and about twenty since he removed from Tennessee to Pulaski County,Kentucky, where he now resides. He has no documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove it. unless he can prove some portion of it circumstantially by Francis Aldridge of Pulaski County, who was in the same army with the applicant under the last enlistment, but he has no positive recollection of the service rendered by the applicant, not being the same company. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension ar an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
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James Purvis
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State of Kentucky Pulaski County
The affidavit of Francis Aldridge aged between sixty seven and sixty eight years. a resident of Pulaski County, made in open court, before the Pulaski County Court, on this day of November 1832, he states thet he was in the Regiment of Archibald Lyth, Major Blount was also an officer, as mentioned in the the within Declaration of James Purvis, and was marched to Ashley Hill South Carolina. and joined the main Army under General Greene and he upon oath states that he recollects to have then heard that a man by the name of Purvis belonged to the army and he well knew that Capt. Coalman belonged to the regiment as stated by the said Purvis in his declaration and the said Francis Aldridge further states that between eighteen and twenty years anterior to this he met with the said James Purvis and after conversing about the last war and hearing the name of Purvis, he thought he recollected the name of Purvis of having been engaged in the service under General Greene as stated by Purvis and mentioned his recollection to Purvis and this affiant and Purvis then talked over and conversed about the events and transactions of the service under Gen. Greene and he has no doubt that James Purvis was in the Regiment of Lythe as stated by him under Gen. Greene and served as he states.
Sworn and subscribed to in open Court this day affirmed.

We James Cooper, a clergyman and Francis Aldridge and John Newby in theCounty of Pulaski State of Kentucky and in the vicinity fo the applicant James Purvis hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Purvis who has subscribed and Sworn to the above and foregoing Declaration. that we believe him to be of the age he states. That we heard him talking and conversing about and relate the events and transactions mentioned by him in his Declaration upwards of ten years anterior to this and that he is reputable and belived in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldIer of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion and believe he served as he states.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above.
James Cooper Stephen Hail
John Newby Francis Aldridge