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Obediah LANGSTON

Male Abt 1784 - Bef 1815  (~ 31 years)


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  • Name Obediah LANGSTON 
    Birth Abt 1784 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 20 Feb 1815  Maury County, TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (1) War of 1812 Service Records [database online], Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999:

      Name: Obediah Langston
      Company: 2 REG'T MOUNTED GUNMEN (WILLIAMSON'S), TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS.
      Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
      Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
      Roll Box: 121
      Roll Exct: 602

      [Note by compiler: Obediah LANGSTON and John PATTON served in the same Tennessee regiment during the War of 1812. Dorn PATTON, Sr. served in another Tennessee regiment during the War of 1812.]

      (2) Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812 <http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/military/1812reg.htm>:

      COLONEL THOMAS WILLIAMSON

      • DESIGNATION: 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen

      • DATES: September 1814 - April 1815

      • MEN MOSTLY FROM: Bedford, Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson, Giles, and Smith Counties

      • CAPTAINS: Giles Burdett, James Cook, John Crane, John Doak, John Dobbins, John Hutchings, William Martin, Anthony Metcalf, Robert Moore, James Nealy, James Pace, Thomas Porter, Thomas Scurry, Robert Steele, Richard Tate, Beverly Williams

      BRIEF HISTORY:

      Along with Colonel Robert Dyer's unit, this regiment was part of General John Coffee's brigade that fought at Pensacola and New Orleans. Marching from Fayetteville to Camp Gaines (30 miles from Fort Montgomery), they helped Jackson take the port of Pensacola from the Spanish on 7 November 1814. Williamson's men then participated in all of the engagements at New Orleans, where they were part of the left line of Jackson's breastworks. In March 1815 they returned to Tennessee via the Natchez Trace.

      (3) There were two Obediah LANGSTONs in Maury County, TN on or about 20 February 1810, one of whom died before that date, and the other of whom continued to live after that date.

      (4) Garrett, Jill K. & Lightfoot, Marise P., Maury County, Tennessee Wills and Settlements, 1807-1824 and 1820 Census, 1964:

      P. 24:

      [Wills & Settlements, Book B, p. 54:]

      Sale of Samuel Willis, deceased, 16 June 1816. Buying: . . . Obediah Langston. . . . [Note by compiler: Because this sale took place after 20 February 1815, this Obediah LANGSTON could not have been the Obediah LANGSTON who died before that date.]

      P. 30:

      [Wills & Settlements, Book B, p. 129:]

      Property of Benjamin Shipley, 19 Feb. 1815. "the service money of Benjamin Shipley for three months tour against the Creek Indians as an insighn." Accounts on . . . Obediah Lankston. . . .

      P. 37:

      [Wills & Settlements, Book B, p. 242:]

      Inventory of Obediah Langston, deceased, 20 Feb. 1815.

      P. 78:

      [Wills & Settlements, Book C-1, p. 265:]

      Sale of _____, sold 15 May 1815 by Catherine Langston. Buying: . . . Isaac Langston . . . Catherine Langston. . . . John Patton

      (5) Maury County, Tennessee, Will Book, Volume 1:

      Will Book B, Page 242

      Inventory of the Estate of OBEDIAH LANGSTON, deceased Personal property includes: Three head of horse beasts, cow and calf, two sows and pigs, shovel plough, hoe, two clevises, oven, skillet, flax wheel, pair cotton cards, drawing knife, hammer, all the rest of the household furniture, axe, smoothing irons

      Inventory was exhibited in open court at the February term of 1815.

      (6) Maury County, Tennessee, Will Book, Volume 2:

      WILL BOOK B, PAGE 53 . . .

      Sale of the Estate of SAMUEL WILLIS, deceased Buyers were: . . .

      Obediah Langston - glass beaker $.26; drawing knife $.91; hammer $.53 . . . [Note by compiler: Because this sale took place after 20 February 1815, this Obediah LANGSTON could not have been the Obediah LANGSTON who died before that date.]

      True account of all the property that was sold on the 16th day of June 1817.

      William Neal, Administrator Piety Willis, Administratrix
    Person ID I22196  Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

    Father Jacob LANGSTON, Sr.,   b. Abt 1750, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1804, Bourbon County, KY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Mother Mary Elizabeth LeMASTER,   b. Abt 1755   d. 18 Mar 1833 (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Marriage 17 Mar 1770 
    Family ID F9775  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine (LANGSTON) 
    Family ID F9774  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

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