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Edward Burgess
Edward Burgess Sr. was born about 1743 in Albemarle (later Fluvanna) Co., Virginia; in his Revolutionary War pension application, he gives his age as about 74 on 18 March 1818, 75 on 21 December 1819, and 78 on 16 September 1822. He married Anne ?Nancy? Francis about 1765, perhaps in Saint Anne?s Parish, Goochland Co., Virginia, where Garland Burgess was christened a year later. On 16 December 1771 he witnessed a deed on Little Bacon Creek in Albemarle Co. between Jesse Creasey and Rene Woodson. He served as a Private in Capt. Newell?s Company, Col. Abraham Buford?s Regiment, Revolutionary War, from 1779-81, and later received a pension for his service (#S35806). According to a deposition that he later gave in Floyd Co., Kentucky, on 18 March 1818, Edward was living in Bedford Co., Virginia in 1775/76 near Thomas Hamilton, and had been living in Floyd Co. since 1806. He or his son Edward is listed in the Montgomery Co., Virginia road orders of 7 August 1798 (as overseer of the East River Road) and 2 July 1799. He is listed in the 1810-20 censuses for Floyd Co., Kentucky. He died on 5 October 1835 in Lawrence Co., Kentucky, having had five sons:
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