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Franklin, Jesse

Male 1760 - 1823  (63 years)


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  • Name Franklin, Jesse 
    Birth 24 Mar 1760  Orange, Virginia, British America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Elected 1795 
    a U.S. Representative 
    Death 31 Aug 1823  Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • He died of dropsy.
    Reinterred 1906  Guilford Courthouse, Guilford, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1579  Pioneers of the Appalachian Highlands
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2022 

    Father Franklin, Bernard\Barnard,   b. 26 May 1731, Albemarle, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jan 1828, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years) 
    Mother Cleveland, Mary,   b. 1729, Culpeper, Virginia, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1752  Orange, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F598  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Perkins, Maacah Maria,   b. Abt 1765, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Feb 1834, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage 1781  Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Franklin, Elizabeth (or Eliza),   b. 1784, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Sep 1863, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    +2. Franklin, Sarah Panil,   b. 1786, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jan 1845, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    +3. Franklin, Mary Cleveland,   b. 24 Feb 1792, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1858 (Age 65 years)
    +4. Franklin, James Mason,   b. 19 Jan 1794, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1837, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
    +5. Franklin, Anna P.,   b. 1795, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1874, Caswell, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    +6. Franklin, Hardin Perkins,   b. 17 May 1797, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1851, Marshall, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    +7. Franklin, Bernard II,   b. 11 Mar 1799, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Feb 1873, Early Grove, Marshall, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    +8. Franklin, Matilda Carolina,   b. 20 Mar 1799, Surry, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1835 (Age 36 years)
    Family ID F610  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Mar 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 24 Mar 1760 - Orange, Virginia, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1781 - Surry, North Carolina, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 31 Aug 1823 - Surry, North Carolina, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsReinterred - 1906 - Guilford Courthouse, Guilford, North Carolina, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • According to the book "King's Mountain and Its Heroes", by Lyman C. Draper, LL.D., (Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, Publr., 1881), Jesse Franklin was a Captain and Adjutant in the regiment of his uncle, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, at the Battle of King's Mountain. He later fought at Guilford, and rose to the rank of Major by the end of the Revolutionary War.
      Jesse Franklin later served in Congress and the Senate, as well as the state houses of North Carolina. He was appointed in 1816 as a Commissioner to hold treaty talks with the Chickasaw Indians. In 1820, he was elected Governor of North Carolina.