dbo:abstract
|
- Thomas Gillespie (December 13, 1719 – December 15, 1786) was a large plantation owner in mid-to-late 18th-century North Carolina and served as commissary of the Rowan County Regiment in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution. He spent his early life in Augusta County, Virginia before migrating to Anson County, North Carolina in about 1750, where he lived most of his life on Sills Creek in the area that became Rowan County, North Carolina in 1753. He and his wife and son were the first white settlers west of the Yadkin River. He owned a plantation of over 1,000 acres on Sills Creek in Rowan County, as well as 6,000 acres in the area of western North Carolina that became part of the state of Tennessee in 1796. He was an early elder in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Rowan County, which was formed in 1753. Thomas was the great-grandfather of U.S. President James K. Polk through the lineage of his daughter Lydia, who married Captain James Knox and gave birth to Jane Gracey Knox, mother of the President. (en)
|
dbo:allegiance
| |
dbo:militaryUnit
| |
dbo:relation
| |
dbo:restingPlace
| |
dbo:thumbnail
| |
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
| |
dbo:wikiPageID
| |
dbo:wikiPageLength
|
- 34813 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
|
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
| |
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
|
- dbr:President_of_the_United_States
- dbr:Mecklenburg_County,_North_Carolina
- dbr:Mecklenburg_County_Regiment
- dbr:Salisbury_District_Brigade
- dbr:Clinch_River
- dbr:Anson_County,_North_Carolina
- dbr:Smithson–McCall_Farm
- dbr:State_of_Franklin
- dbr:Commissary
- dbr:Back_Creek_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery
- dbc:People_from_Rowan_County,_North_Carolina
- dbr:Thyatira_Presbyterian_Church,_Cemetery,_and_Manse
- dbr:Tinkling_Spring_Presbyterian_Church
- dbr:Washington_County,_Tennessee
- dbr:Williamson_County,_Tennessee
- dbr:3rd_North_Carolina_Regiment
- dbr:Adlai_Osborne
- dbr:American_Revolution
- dbr:Nolichucky_River
- dbr:North_Carolina
- dbr:Cecil_County,_Maryland
- dbr:Granville_District
- dbr:Greene_County,_Tennessee
- dbr:Griffith_Rutherford
- dbr:Haplogroup
- dbr:James_K._Polk
- dbr:James_Knox_Polk
- dbr:Samuel_Polk
- dbc:1797_deaths
- dbc:American_planters
- dbc:American_slave_owners
- dbc:1719_births
- dbc:North_Carolina_militiamen_in_the_American_Revolution
- dbc:People_from_Augusta_County,_Virginia
- dbr:Chester_County,_Pennsylvania
- dbr:Sumner_County,_Tennessee
- dbr:Augusta_County,_Virginia
- dbr:Great_Wagon_Road
- dbr:Yadkin_River
- dbr:Rowan_County,_North_Carolina
- dbr:Rowan_County_Regiment
- dbr:Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse
- dbr:New_London_Township,_Pennsylvania
- dbr:File:Kitfry-1-.jpg
- dbr:File:Map-of-tennassee-government-1796.jpg
- dbr:File:North_Carolina_1783.jpg
- dbr:File:Portion_of_Rowan_County_1833.jpg
- dbr:File:Thyatira_Presbyterian_Church,_Mill_Bridge,_Rowan_County,_North_Carolina.jpg
|
dbp:allegiance
| |
dbp:birthDate
| |
dbp:birthPlace
|
- Cecil County, Maryland or Washington County, Pennsylvania (en)
|
dbp:branch
|
- North Carolina militia (en)
|
dbp:deathDate
| |
dbp:deathPlace
|
- plantation on Sills Creek, Rowan County, North Carolina (en)
|
dbp:name
|
- Thomas Gillespie, Sr. (en)
|
dbp:placeofburial
|
- Thyatira Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Millbridge, Rowan County, North Carolina (en)
|
dbp:placeofburialLabel
| |
dbp:rank
| |
dbp:relations
|
- President James K. Polk (en)
|
dbp:signature
|
- Thomas Gillespie Signature.jpg (en)
|
dbp:spouse
|
- Naomi Thompson, m. 1745 (en)
|
dbp:unit
| |
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
dcterms:subject
| |
georss:point
| |
rdf:type
| |
rdfs:comment
|
- Thomas Gillespie (December 13, 1719 – December 15, 1786) was a large plantation owner in mid-to-late 18th-century North Carolina and served as commissary of the Rowan County Regiment in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution. He spent his early life in Augusta County, Virginia before migrating to Anson County, North Carolina in about 1750, where he lived most of his life on Sills Creek in the area that became Rowan County, North Carolina in 1753. He and his wife and son were the first white settlers west of the Yadkin River. He owned a plantation of over 1,000 acres on Sills Creek in Rowan County, as well as 6,000 acres in the area of western North Carolina that became part of the state of Tennessee in 1796. He was an early elder in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Ro (en)
|
rdfs:label
|
- Thomas Gillespie (North Carolina plantation owner) (en)
|
owl:sameAs
| |
geo:geometry
|
- POINT(-80.637100219727 35.650630950928)
|
geo:lat
| |
geo:long
| |
prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
foaf:depiction
| |
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
foaf:name
|
- Thomas Gillespie, Sr. (en)
|
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates
of | |
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects
of | |
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
of | |
is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |