Thomas Franklin

1760-1808 · South Carolina

Born 1760, Chester County, South Carolina

Died 1808

Children include Ailcy

Thomas Franklin was born in South Carolina about 1760, by his memorial. In the records of his own time he is plain Thomas Franklin. His daughter Ailcy's granite gravestone, set in Texas long after her death, names him Thomas Barton Franklin. His memorial calls him Thomas Baker Franklin.

About 1785 he married Jemima Morris. Over the next twenty-two years they had about eleven children. Their names are given as Henry, 1786; Elizabeth, called Betsy, 1787; Thomas H., 1788; Elnora, 1790; Frances, called Franky, 1792; Mary, called Polly, 1795; Ralph, 1798; Alice, 1800; Allen, 1803; Ailcy, 1806; and James Benjamin, 1807.

A Thomas Franklin, written Frankland in some of the papers, claimed pay on 2 January 1784 for one hundred days of militia duty in 1782: fifty days at Orangeburg under Capt. William Robertson, twenty days at Four Holes under Lt. Wimpey and thirty days at Four Holes under Lt. Mitchell. He signed with his mark. His memorial counts this service as his. A family account says he fought in the 1781 campaign around Charleston under Col. Thomas Taylor.

By 1802 he was living in Richland District, the district around Columbia. On 4 October 1802 a plat of 843 acres on Crane Creek, a stream that runs into the Broad River above Columbia, was surveyed for Thomas Franklin by Alexander Kennedy.

He died in 1808, without a will. On 18 June 1808 Jemima Franklin and her eldest son Henry applied for letters of administration on the estate of "Thomas Franklin late of the District aforesaid deceased." The ordinary, James S. Guignard, granted them on 2 July 1808, and Jemima, Henry and Robert Duke gave bond as administrators. Robert Duke, John Thornton, James Phillips, Samuel Wadkins and Aaron Wooton appraised the goods. Henry kept the account, which shows articles taken by his mother, and in October 1809 the two of them laid their expenditures before the court. Among the debts paid was one to Christian Lightner, for a note of 1807 and for thirty bushels of corn.

In 1810 Jemima headed a household of thirteen in Richland District. Within a few years the family went west to Louisiana, where Henry's daughter Jemima was born in 1814, and by 1830 most of them were in Rankin County, Mississippi.

Children

Ailcy Franklin 1806-1892

Sources

Richland District, South Carolina, wills 1806 to 1816, page 256, citation, letters of administration and bond, estate of Thomas Franklin, 1808

Richland District, South Carolina, wills and administrations 1806 to 1816, page 256 (letters and bond, 1808); Chester County, South Carolina, deeds 1793 to 1799; Find a Grave memorials 275105841 and 275105894 (family sketch and service abstract), and 69877229 (gravestone of Ailcy Franklin Cryer)

Richland District, South Carolina, wills and administrations 1806 to 1816, page 256 (letters and bond, 1808); Richland County estate papers, 1808 and 1809, and the 1802 plat and 1810 census, as abstracted in franklinsandwomacks.blogspot.com, posts on the estate of Thomas Franklin, Richland County, 1808 (2020), South Carolina plats (2020), and Mary Franklin Spring (2018); Chester District, South Carolina, deed book 1806 to 1811, pages 96 to 97, Thomas Baker Franklin to Beggus Mobley, with dower release of Ann Franklin, 30 March 1807 (FamilySearch full text); Clark County, Arkansas, estate bond book 1827 to 1838, administration of the estate of Thomas B. Franklin, 1829 (FamilySearch full text); Find a Grave memorials 275105841 and 275105894 (family sketch and service abstract), and 69877229 (gravestone of Ailcy Franklin Cryer)

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Cite: Heirology, "Thomas Franklin (1760-1808)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/thomas-baker-franklin-1760-1808-ef249e.