JAMES GILMOUR was born in Lancaster County in the colony of Pennsylvania on 17 January 1745. His parents were JAMES and ANN GILMOUR and they moved the family to the "Beverly Patent", Augusta County, Virginia near Staunton in 1748 where JAMES GILMOUR Jr. "continued to live "until grown". This is documented in his Revolutionary War pension application #S30432 for military service in the Virginia and Indian Wars submitted under oath in Christian County, Kentucky on 3 September 1832 when he was 87 years of age. It is also documented in a letter to OTTIE GREINER from the the United States Dept. of Interior Bureau of Pensions on 21 April 1926.
[PLEASE NOTE: The father of this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the JAMES GILMORE who was married to MARTHA ANN DENNISON and who settled well south of Staunton in what became Rockbridge County, Virginia and who are buried near Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia; please see biography of JAMES GILMOUR SR (1722- 1785)]. Also, this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the Capt. JAMES GILMORE from "The Gilmore Rifles" who also fought in the Revolutionary War.
According to JAMES GILMOUR's sworn statement "the first military service he ever performed in this country was before he was of age to be involved (when) he substituted and served a tour at Fort Ferment on the head of the Bull Pasture River in Augusta County, Virginia". This was most likely in the year 1762, when he was 17 years old and according to the United States Dept of Interior, Bureau of Pensions was "for a two month period as a private on the frontier of Augusta County, Virginia. This was the time of the Seven years War between England and France which was known in the North American colonies as the "French - Indian War". The War was finally concluded with the Treaty of Paris on 10 Feb. 1763 and one of the stipulations was that France was "to give up all of its territory west of the Appalachian Mountains extending west to the Mississippi River. The Treaty, however, did not end the hostilities between the Indian tribes and the English colonists and in 1763, this proved disastrous for the British garrisons west of the Appalachian Mountains. In May and June 1763, several British garrisons were destroyed by rebellious Indian forces under Chief Pontiac. On 29 July 1763, new troops were dispatched to replace these garrisons and it was in this period that JAMES GILMOUR served.
"In March 1764...JAMES GILMOUR was sent to Fort Dickerson on the Cow Pasture River in Augusta County where he served a tour of six months under Samuel Clark.
"From the Fall of 1764 for three months he joined a volunteer company as a private in Captain C. Lewis' Company under the command of Colonel Al McNeill [and] marched to Pittsburgh where he joined Col. Bogart, crossed the river there and marched down the river 130 miles & held a treaty with the Indians [on 17 November 1764]. JAMES GILMOUR continued to reside on the frontiers of Virginia until the Spring of 1775 when he comes [sic] to Kentucky and planted corn the same summer at Boonsborough..."
It was at Boonsborough that JAMES GILMOUR befriended DANIEL BOONE. In 1776, JAMES GILMOUR again enlisted in the military and served as an "Indian Spy" and sergeant under the command of Colonel Christy on the Holston River in southwestern Virginia and it was there that they mounted a major campaign to subdue the Cherokees. In his own words, "Col. Christy chose me as a spy for his army and I continued in that service until he marched to their towns and held a treaty with them and returned in November...and that ended my spying service".
1780, JAMES GILMOUR moved to Montgomery County, Virginia and was drafted and served under the command of Colonel Preston for two months where "we marched to North Carolina where we had a skirmish with the British Army on the Haw River about eight days before the Battle of Guilford Courthouse".
JAMES GILMOUR then stated in his pension that "I moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1782 and settled in Lincoln County where I resided until the year 1815 and then removed to Christian County" where he resided until he died.
In 1777 and 1779, Virginia enacted legislation which granted four hundred acres of land in Kentucky for those who had settled there prior to 1 January 1776 plus an additional one thousand acres for those who actually made improvements to their land. Because JAMES GILMOUR had both settled at Boonsborough and "planted corn" there prior to this time he qualified and for large tracts of land in Lincoln County on the Hanging Fork of the Dix (Dicks) River near present day Stanford. He eventually sold most of this land to TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH who was married to his daughter JENNIE GILMOUR.
After he moved to Christian County, Kentucky in 1815, JAMES GILMOUR, according to William H. Perrin's "Historical and Biographical Sketches of Christian County, Kentucky" was "probably the first Presbyterian who settled in Southern Kentucky". He was a founder and ruling elder of the first Presbyterian Church formed in that County in about 1817. It was known as the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church and was located on land near where JAMES GILMOUR lived in the Lafayette Precinct of Christian County south of Hopkinsville. His son GEORGE GILMOUR and son - in - law, TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH were also members of this church. JAMES GILMOUR died at home in Christian County on 18 November 1834, and was probably buried in a Gilmour family Plot on his land, but the burial location is unknown.
JAMES GILMOUR was married to an ELEANOR [last name probably CALLISON] and they were the parents of at least six children. It was previously thought that she died in 1789, but new evidence from land transactions indicates that she was still living at least until 1815 according to land deed transactions. This negates the possibility that JAMES GILMOUR was ever married to a LOSEY [or Susy] LODDEN since it appears that she was married to another unrelated JAMES GILMORE who was also in Lincoln County, Kentucky at that time who had land in the area of that county which soon became Boyle County.
JAMES GILMOUR's Last Will & Testament of 25 September 1829 can be found in Christian County, Kentucky Will Book H on pages 335 - 337:
"I JAMES GILMOUR of Christian County, Kentucky being old, weak & inform of body, but of sound and disposing mind, and knowing also, that men must die, have thought it best by will to make a disposition of such property as I own to take effect upon my death, I desire then that my body, after death, be properly interred and that my Executor hereinafter named pay all & every one of the debts I owe. I further will that my Executor so soon after my death as convenient may sell my tract of land in Christian County and on the Little River upon such reasonable credit as shall ensure the best price for it, and that the money arising from this sale, thereof be equally divided between my three sons, JAMES GILMOUR, GEORGE GILMOUR and ALEXANDER GILMOUR.
For the purpose of collecting a debt which has long been owing to me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I have not long since caused an Execution to be issued from the Clerk's Office of the Christian Circuit Court against his estate by virtue of which the tract of land on which he now resides, was sold and other property. The land is bounded as follows -- It is part of a certain tract decided by JOHN CATES to JAMES & GEORGE GILMOUR containing two hundred and thirty two & 1/2 acres lying on the western side of the Little River and beginning at three Black Jacks, thence South 223 Poles to a stake, passing at 215 Poles two Black Jacks 7 at Post Oak, thence West 167 & 3/4 Poles to a stake & three hickories and a black jack pointer, thence North 89 & 1/2 degrees East 167 & 3/4 Poles to the beginning. This land I purchased under at Sheriffs's sale from JOHN BUCKNER, Deputy Sheriff will show. I also purchased under the same execution the following property: 5 horses, 5 yoke of steers, one waggon {sic}, three cows, four feather beds & furniture, nine sheep, one bureau, four ploughs {sic}, 3 sets of gear, 15 head of hogs, the crop of corn & eight common chairs - the whole of which land, agreeable to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property together with a negro girl named MATILDAY, purchased also under the same execution, I give & bequeath to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, THOMAS ELLIOTT GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR, the children of the said GEORGE GILMOUR, to them and their heirs forever - and if any of them shall die without issue living at the time of their death, their portion of said property to continue & go to the survivor or survivors, in exactly equal shares.
The balance of the debt due me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I also give to my grandchildren to be by them collected, if after they shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, they shall choose to do so.
I appoint my son GEORGE GILMOUR executor of this my Last Will & Testament and require of him that he carry the same into full effect hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 25th day of Sept. 1829.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR {seal}
Signed, sealed, acknowledge & published in our presents {sic}
R. WEBBER JACOB SHERRILL
CODICIL (dated 25 May 1832)
I JAMES GILMOUR Sr. of Christian County and State of Kentucky being old and inform of body but of sound and disposing mind think proper to change my Will of 25 Sept 1829 owing to the change in my son GEORGE GILMOUR situation.
I give by this supplement Will and bequeath to my son GEORGE GILMOUR, all the property that I have devised to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR in my above mentioned Will including the land with chattels with the exception of the negro girl MALTILDA, which I sold, and including the balance of the execution named in my former Will, to him and his heirs forever hereby revoking that part of my Will of the above date that relates to my above named grandchildren. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 day of May 1832.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR
JACOB SHERRILL and NATHAN ADAMS"
Will and Codicil proved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky & County of Christian, signed by ABRAHAM STITES on 2 December 1834.
[PLEASE NOTE: The father of this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the JAMES GILMORE who was married to MARTHA ANN DENNISON and who settled well south of Staunton in what became Rockbridge County, Virginia and who are buried near Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia; please see biography of JAMES GILMOUR SR (1722- 1785)]. Also, this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the Capt. JAMES GILMORE from "The Gilmore Rifles" who also fought in the Revolutionary War.
According to JAMES GILMOUR's sworn statement "the first military service he ever performed in this country was before he was of age to be involved (when) he substituted and served a tour at Fort Ferment on the head of the Bull Pasture River in Augusta County, Virginia". This was most likely in the year 1762, when he was 17 years old and according to the United States Dept of Interior, Bureau of Pensions was "for a two month period as a private on the frontier of Augusta County, Virginia. This was the time of the Seven years War between England and France which was known in the North American colonies as the "French - Indian War". The War was finally concluded with the Treaty of Paris on 10 Feb. 1763 and one of the stipulations was that France was "to give up all of its territory west of the Appalachian Mountains extending west to the Mississippi River. The Treaty, however, did not end the hostilities between the Indian tribes and the English colonists and in 1763, this proved disastrous for the British garrisons west of the Appalachian Mountains. In May and June 1763, several British garrisons were destroyed by rebellious Indian forces under Chief Pontiac. On 29 July 1763, new troops were dispatched to replace these garrisons and it was in this period that JAMES GILMOUR served.
"In March 1764...JAMES GILMOUR was sent to Fort Dickerson on the Cow Pasture River in Augusta County where he served a tour of six months under Samuel Clark.
"From the Fall of 1764 for three months he joined a volunteer company as a private in Captain C. Lewis' Company under the command of Colonel Al McNeill [and] marched to Pittsburgh where he joined Col. Bogart, crossed the river there and marched down the river 130 miles & held a treaty with the Indians [on 17 November 1764]. JAMES GILMOUR continued to reside on the frontiers of Virginia until the Spring of 1775 when he comes [sic] to Kentucky and planted corn the same summer at Boonsborough..."
It was at Boonsborough that JAMES GILMOUR befriended DANIEL BOONE. In 1776, JAMES GILMOUR again enlisted in the military and served as an "Indian Spy" and sergeant under the command of Colonel Christy on the Holston River in southwestern Virginia and it was there that they mounted a major campaign to subdue the Cherokees. In his own words, "Col. Christy chose me as a spy for his army and I continued in that service until he marched to their towns and held a treaty with them and returned in November...and that ended my spying service".
1780, JAMES GILMOUR moved to Montgomery County, Virginia and was drafted and served under the command of Colonel Preston for two months where "we marched to North Carolina where we had a skirmish with the British Army on the Haw River about eight days before the Battle of Guilford Courthouse".
JAMES GILMOUR then stated in his pension that "I moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1782 and settled in Lincoln County where I resided until the year 1815 and then removed to Christian County" where he resided until he died.
In 1777 and 1779, Virginia enacted legislation which granted four hundred acres of land in Kentucky for those who had settled there prior to 1 January 1776 plus an additional one thousand acres for those who actually made improvements to their land. Because JAMES GILMOUR had both settled at Boonsborough and "planted corn" there prior to this time he qualified and for large tracts of land in Lincoln County on the Hanging Fork of the Dix (Dicks) River near present day Stanford. He eventually sold most of this land to TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH who was married to his daughter JENNIE GILMOUR.
After he moved to Christian County, Kentucky in 1815, JAMES GILMOUR, according to William H. Perrin's "Historical and Biographical Sketches of Christian County, Kentucky" was "probably the first Presbyterian who settled in Southern Kentucky". He was a founder and ruling elder of the first Presbyterian Church formed in that County in about 1817. It was known as the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church and was located on land near where JAMES GILMOUR lived in the Lafayette Precinct of Christian County south of Hopkinsville. His son GEORGE GILMOUR and son - in - law, TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH were also members of this church. JAMES GILMOUR died at home in Christian County on 18 November 1834, and was probably buried in a Gilmour family Plot on his land, but the burial location is unknown.
JAMES GILMOUR was married to an ELEANOR [last name probably CALLISON] and they were the parents of at least six children. It was previously thought that she died in 1789, but new evidence from land transactions indicates that she was still living at least until 1815 according to land deed transactions. This negates the possibility that JAMES GILMOUR was ever married to a LOSEY [or Susy] LODDEN since it appears that she was married to another unrelated JAMES GILMORE who was also in Lincoln County, Kentucky at that time who had land in the area of that county which soon became Boyle County.
JAMES GILMOUR's Last Will & Testament of 25 September 1829 can be found in Christian County, Kentucky Will Book H on pages 335 - 337:
"I JAMES GILMOUR of Christian County, Kentucky being old, weak & inform of body, but of sound and disposing mind, and knowing also, that men must die, have thought it best by will to make a disposition of such property as I own to take effect upon my death, I desire then that my body, after death, be properly interred and that my Executor hereinafter named pay all & every one of the debts I owe. I further will that my Executor so soon after my death as convenient may sell my tract of land in Christian County and on the Little River upon such reasonable credit as shall ensure the best price for it, and that the money arising from this sale, thereof be equally divided between my three sons, JAMES GILMOUR, GEORGE GILMOUR and ALEXANDER GILMOUR.
For the purpose of collecting a debt which has long been owing to me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I have not long since caused an Execution to be issued from the Clerk's Office of the Christian Circuit Court against his estate by virtue of which the tract of land on which he now resides, was sold and other property. The land is bounded as follows -- It is part of a certain tract decided by JOHN CATES to JAMES & GEORGE GILMOUR containing two hundred and thirty two & 1/2 acres lying on the western side of the Little River and beginning at three Black Jacks, thence South 223 Poles to a stake, passing at 215 Poles two Black Jacks 7 at Post Oak, thence West 167 & 3/4 Poles to a stake & three hickories and a black jack pointer, thence North 89 & 1/2 degrees East 167 & 3/4 Poles to the beginning. This land I purchased under at Sheriffs's sale from JOHN BUCKNER, Deputy Sheriff will show. I also purchased under the same execution the following property: 5 horses, 5 yoke of steers, one waggon {sic}, three cows, four feather beds & furniture, nine sheep, one bureau, four ploughs {sic}, 3 sets of gear, 15 head of hogs, the crop of corn & eight common chairs - the whole of which land, agreeable to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property together with a negro girl named MATILDAY, purchased also under the same execution, I give & bequeath to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, THOMAS ELLIOTT GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR, the children of the said GEORGE GILMOUR, to them and their heirs forever - and if any of them shall die without issue living at the time of their death, their portion of said property to continue & go to the survivor or survivors, in exactly equal shares.
The balance of the debt due me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I also give to my grandchildren to be by them collected, if after they shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, they shall choose to do so.
I appoint my son GEORGE GILMOUR executor of this my Last Will & Testament and require of him that he carry the same into full effect hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 25th day of Sept. 1829.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR {seal}
Signed, sealed, acknowledge & published in our presents {sic}
R. WEBBER JACOB SHERRILL
CODICIL (dated 25 May 1832)
I JAMES GILMOUR Sr. of Christian County and State of Kentucky being old and inform of body but of sound and disposing mind think proper to change my Will of 25 Sept 1829 owing to the change in my son GEORGE GILMOUR situation.
I give by this supplement Will and bequeath to my son GEORGE GILMOUR, all the property that I have devised to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR in my above mentioned Will including the land with chattels with the exception of the negro girl MALTILDA, which I sold, and including the balance of the execution named in my former Will, to him and his heirs forever hereby revoking that part of my Will of the above date that relates to my above named grandchildren. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 day of May 1832.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR
JACOB SHERRILL and NATHAN ADAMS"
Will and Codicil proved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky & County of Christian, signed by ABRAHAM STITES on 2 December 1834.
JAMES GILMOUR was born in Lancaster County in the colony of Pennsylvania on 17 January 1745. His parents were JAMES and ANN GILMOUR and they moved the family to the "Beverly Patent", Augusta County, Virginia near Staunton in 1748 where JAMES GILMOUR Jr. "continued to live "until grown". This is documented in his Revolutionary War pension application #S30432 for military service in the Virginia and Indian Wars submitted under oath in Christian County, Kentucky on 3 September 1832 when he was 87 years of age. It is also documented in a letter to OTTIE GREINER from the the United States Dept. of Interior Bureau of Pensions on 21 April 1926.
[PLEASE NOTE: The father of this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the JAMES GILMORE who was married to MARTHA ANN DENNISON and who settled well south of Staunton in what became Rockbridge County, Virginia and who are buried near Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia; please see biography of JAMES GILMOUR SR (1722- 1785)]. Also, this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the Capt. JAMES GILMORE from "The Gilmore Rifles" who also fought in the Revolutionary War.
According to JAMES GILMOUR's sworn statement "the first military service he ever performed in this country was before he was of age to be involved (when) he substituted and served a tour at Fort Ferment on the head of the Bull Pasture River in Augusta County, Virginia". This was most likely in the year 1762, when he was 17 years old and according to the United States Dept of Interior, Bureau of Pensions was "for a two month period as a private on the frontier of Augusta County, Virginia. This was the time of the Seven years War between England and France which was known in the North American colonies as the "French - Indian War". The War was finally concluded with the Treaty of Paris on 10 Feb. 1763 and one of the stipulations was that France was "to give up all of its territory west of the Appalachian Mountains extending west to the Mississippi River. The Treaty, however, did not end the hostilities between the Indian tribes and the English colonists and in 1763, this proved disastrous for the British garrisons west of the Appalachian Mountains. In May and June 1763, several British garrisons were destroyed by rebellious Indian forces under Chief Pontiac. On 29 July 1763, new troops were dispatched to replace these garrisons and it was in this period that JAMES GILMOUR served.
"In March 1764...JAMES GILMOUR was sent to Fort Dickerson on the Cow Pasture River in Augusta County where he served a tour of six months under Samuel Clark.
"From the Fall of 1764 for three months he joined a volunteer company as a private in Captain C. Lewis' Company under the command of Colonel Al McNeill [and] marched to Pittsburgh where he joined Col. Bogart, crossed the river there and marched down the river 130 miles & held a treaty with the Indians [on 17 November 1764]. JAMES GILMOUR continued to reside on the frontiers of Virginia until the Spring of 1775 when he comes [sic] to Kentucky and planted corn the same summer at Boonsborough..."
It was at Boonsborough that JAMES GILMOUR befriended DANIEL BOONE. In 1776, JAMES GILMOUR again enlisted in the military and served as an "Indian Spy" and sergeant under the command of Colonel Christy on the Holston River in southwestern Virginia and it was there that they mounted a major campaign to subdue the Cherokees. In his own words, "Col. Christy chose me as a spy for his army and I continued in that service until he marched to their towns and held a treaty with them and returned in November...and that ended my spying service".
1780, JAMES GILMOUR moved to Montgomery County, Virginia and was drafted and served under the command of Colonel Preston for two months where "we marched to North Carolina where we had a skirmish with the British Army on the Haw River about eight days before the Battle of Guilford Courthouse".
JAMES GILMOUR then stated in his pension that "I moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1782 and settled in Lincoln County where I resided until the year 1815 and then removed to Christian County" where he resided until he died.
In 1777 and 1779, Virginia enacted legislation which granted four hundred acres of land in Kentucky for those who had settled there prior to 1 January 1776 plus an additional one thousand acres for those who actually made improvements to their land. Because JAMES GILMOUR had both settled at Boonsborough and "planted corn" there prior to this time he qualified and for large tracts of land in Lincoln County on the Hanging Fork of the Dix (Dicks) River near present day Stanford. He eventually sold most of this land to TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH who was married to his daughter JENNIE GILMOUR.
After he moved to Christian County, Kentucky in 1815, JAMES GILMOUR, according to William H. Perrin's "Historical and Biographical Sketches of Christian County, Kentucky" was "probably the first Presbyterian who settled in Southern Kentucky". He was a founder and ruling elder of the first Presbyterian Church formed in that County in about 1817. It was known as the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church and was located on land near where JAMES GILMOUR lived in the Lafayette Precinct of Christian County south of Hopkinsville. His son GEORGE GILMOUR and son - in - law, TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH were also members of this church. JAMES GILMOUR died at home in Christian County on 18 November 1834, and was probably buried in a Gilmour family Plot on his land, but the burial location is unknown.
JAMES GILMOUR was married to an ELEANOR [last name probably CALLISON] and they were the parents of at least six children. It was previously thought that she died in 1789, but new evidence from land transactions indicates that she was still living at least until 1815 according to land deed transactions. This negates the possibility that JAMES GILMOUR was ever married to a LOSEY [or Susy] LODDEN since it appears that she was married to another unrelated JAMES GILMORE who was also in Lincoln County, Kentucky at that time who had land in the area of that county which soon became Boyle County.
JAMES GILMOUR's Last Will & Testament of 25 September 1829 can be found in Christian County, Kentucky Will Book H on pages 335 - 337:
"I JAMES GILMOUR of Christian County, Kentucky being old, weak & inform of body, but of sound and disposing mind, and knowing also, that men must die, have thought it best by will to make a disposition of such property as I own to take effect upon my death, I desire then that my body, after death, be properly interred and that my Executor hereinafter named pay all & every one of the debts I owe. I further will that my Executor so soon after my death as convenient may sell my tract of land in Christian County and on the Little River upon such reasonable credit as shall ensure the best price for it, and that the money arising from this sale, thereof be equally divided between my three sons, JAMES GILMOUR, GEORGE GILMOUR and ALEXANDER GILMOUR.
For the purpose of collecting a debt which has long been owing to me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I have not long since caused an Execution to be issued from the Clerk's Office of the Christian Circuit Court against his estate by virtue of which the tract of land on which he now resides, was sold and other property. The land is bounded as follows -- It is part of a certain tract decided by JOHN CATES to JAMES & GEORGE GILMOUR containing two hundred and thirty two & 1/2 acres lying on the western side of the Little River and beginning at three Black Jacks, thence South 223 Poles to a stake, passing at 215 Poles two Black Jacks 7 at Post Oak, thence West 167 & 3/4 Poles to a stake & three hickories and a black jack pointer, thence North 89 & 1/2 degrees East 167 & 3/4 Poles to the beginning. This land I purchased under at Sheriffs's sale from JOHN BUCKNER, Deputy Sheriff will show. I also purchased under the same execution the following property: 5 horses, 5 yoke of steers, one waggon {sic}, three cows, four feather beds & furniture, nine sheep, one bureau, four ploughs {sic}, 3 sets of gear, 15 head of hogs, the crop of corn & eight common chairs - the whole of which land, agreeable to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property together with a negro girl named MATILDAY, purchased also under the same execution, I give & bequeath to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, THOMAS ELLIOTT GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR, the children of the said GEORGE GILMOUR, to them and their heirs forever - and if any of them shall die without issue living at the time of their death, their portion of said property to continue & go to the survivor or survivors, in exactly equal shares.
The balance of the debt due me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I also give to my grandchildren to be by them collected, if after they shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, they shall choose to do so.
I appoint my son GEORGE GILMOUR executor of this my Last Will & Testament and require of him that he carry the same into full effect hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 25th day of Sept. 1829.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR {seal}
Signed, sealed, acknowledge & published in our presents {sic}
R. WEBBER JACOB SHERRILL
CODICIL (dated 25 May 1832)
I JAMES GILMOUR Sr. of Christian County and State of Kentucky being old and inform of body but of sound and disposing mind think proper to change my Will of 25 Sept 1829 owing to the change in my son GEORGE GILMOUR situation.
I give by this supplement Will and bequeath to my son GEORGE GILMOUR, all the property that I have devised to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR in my above mentioned Will including the land with chattels with the exception of the negro girl MALTILDA, which I sold, and including the balance of the execution named in my former Will, to him and his heirs forever hereby revoking that part of my Will of the above date that relates to my above named grandchildren. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 day of May 1832.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR
JACOB SHERRILL and NATHAN ADAMS"
Will and Codicil proved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky & County of Christian, signed by ABRAHAM STITES on 2 December 1834.
[PLEASE NOTE: The father of this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the JAMES GILMORE who was married to MARTHA ANN DENNISON and who settled well south of Staunton in what became Rockbridge County, Virginia and who are buried near Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia; please see biography of JAMES GILMOUR SR (1722- 1785)]. Also, this JAMES GILMOUR was NOT the Capt. JAMES GILMORE from "The Gilmore Rifles" who also fought in the Revolutionary War.
According to JAMES GILMOUR's sworn statement "the first military service he ever performed in this country was before he was of age to be involved (when) he substituted and served a tour at Fort Ferment on the head of the Bull Pasture River in Augusta County, Virginia". This was most likely in the year 1762, when he was 17 years old and according to the United States Dept of Interior, Bureau of Pensions was "for a two month period as a private on the frontier of Augusta County, Virginia. This was the time of the Seven years War between England and France which was known in the North American colonies as the "French - Indian War". The War was finally concluded with the Treaty of Paris on 10 Feb. 1763 and one of the stipulations was that France was "to give up all of its territory west of the Appalachian Mountains extending west to the Mississippi River. The Treaty, however, did not end the hostilities between the Indian tribes and the English colonists and in 1763, this proved disastrous for the British garrisons west of the Appalachian Mountains. In May and June 1763, several British garrisons were destroyed by rebellious Indian forces under Chief Pontiac. On 29 July 1763, new troops were dispatched to replace these garrisons and it was in this period that JAMES GILMOUR served.
"In March 1764...JAMES GILMOUR was sent to Fort Dickerson on the Cow Pasture River in Augusta County where he served a tour of six months under Samuel Clark.
"From the Fall of 1764 for three months he joined a volunteer company as a private in Captain C. Lewis' Company under the command of Colonel Al McNeill [and] marched to Pittsburgh where he joined Col. Bogart, crossed the river there and marched down the river 130 miles & held a treaty with the Indians [on 17 November 1764]. JAMES GILMOUR continued to reside on the frontiers of Virginia until the Spring of 1775 when he comes [sic] to Kentucky and planted corn the same summer at Boonsborough..."
It was at Boonsborough that JAMES GILMOUR befriended DANIEL BOONE. In 1776, JAMES GILMOUR again enlisted in the military and served as an "Indian Spy" and sergeant under the command of Colonel Christy on the Holston River in southwestern Virginia and it was there that they mounted a major campaign to subdue the Cherokees. In his own words, "Col. Christy chose me as a spy for his army and I continued in that service until he marched to their towns and held a treaty with them and returned in November...and that ended my spying service".
1780, JAMES GILMOUR moved to Montgomery County, Virginia and was drafted and served under the command of Colonel Preston for two months where "we marched to North Carolina where we had a skirmish with the British Army on the Haw River about eight days before the Battle of Guilford Courthouse".
JAMES GILMOUR then stated in his pension that "I moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1782 and settled in Lincoln County where I resided until the year 1815 and then removed to Christian County" where he resided until he died.
In 1777 and 1779, Virginia enacted legislation which granted four hundred acres of land in Kentucky for those who had settled there prior to 1 January 1776 plus an additional one thousand acres for those who actually made improvements to their land. Because JAMES GILMOUR had both settled at Boonsborough and "planted corn" there prior to this time he qualified and for large tracts of land in Lincoln County on the Hanging Fork of the Dix (Dicks) River near present day Stanford. He eventually sold most of this land to TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH who was married to his daughter JENNIE GILMOUR.
After he moved to Christian County, Kentucky in 1815, JAMES GILMOUR, according to William H. Perrin's "Historical and Biographical Sketches of Christian County, Kentucky" was "probably the first Presbyterian who settled in Southern Kentucky". He was a founder and ruling elder of the first Presbyterian Church formed in that County in about 1817. It was known as the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church and was located on land near where JAMES GILMOUR lived in the Lafayette Precinct of Christian County south of Hopkinsville. His son GEORGE GILMOUR and son - in - law, TALIAFERRO BRONAUGH were also members of this church. JAMES GILMOUR died at home in Christian County on 18 November 1834, and was probably buried in a Gilmour family Plot on his land, but the burial location is unknown.
JAMES GILMOUR was married to an ELEANOR [last name probably CALLISON] and they were the parents of at least six children. It was previously thought that she died in 1789, but new evidence from land transactions indicates that she was still living at least until 1815 according to land deed transactions. This negates the possibility that JAMES GILMOUR was ever married to a LOSEY [or Susy] LODDEN since it appears that she was married to another unrelated JAMES GILMORE who was also in Lincoln County, Kentucky at that time who had land in the area of that county which soon became Boyle County.
JAMES GILMOUR's Last Will & Testament of 25 September 1829 can be found in Christian County, Kentucky Will Book H on pages 335 - 337:
"I JAMES GILMOUR of Christian County, Kentucky being old, weak & inform of body, but of sound and disposing mind, and knowing also, that men must die, have thought it best by will to make a disposition of such property as I own to take effect upon my death, I desire then that my body, after death, be properly interred and that my Executor hereinafter named pay all & every one of the debts I owe. I further will that my Executor so soon after my death as convenient may sell my tract of land in Christian County and on the Little River upon such reasonable credit as shall ensure the best price for it, and that the money arising from this sale, thereof be equally divided between my three sons, JAMES GILMOUR, GEORGE GILMOUR and ALEXANDER GILMOUR.
For the purpose of collecting a debt which has long been owing to me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I have not long since caused an Execution to be issued from the Clerk's Office of the Christian Circuit Court against his estate by virtue of which the tract of land on which he now resides, was sold and other property. The land is bounded as follows -- It is part of a certain tract decided by JOHN CATES to JAMES & GEORGE GILMOUR containing two hundred and thirty two & 1/2 acres lying on the western side of the Little River and beginning at three Black Jacks, thence South 223 Poles to a stake, passing at 215 Poles two Black Jacks 7 at Post Oak, thence West 167 & 3/4 Poles to a stake & three hickories and a black jack pointer, thence North 89 & 1/2 degrees East 167 & 3/4 Poles to the beginning. This land I purchased under at Sheriffs's sale from JOHN BUCKNER, Deputy Sheriff will show. I also purchased under the same execution the following property: 5 horses, 5 yoke of steers, one waggon {sic}, three cows, four feather beds & furniture, nine sheep, one bureau, four ploughs {sic}, 3 sets of gear, 15 head of hogs, the crop of corn & eight common chairs - the whole of which land, agreeable to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property to the boundaries herein specified and the whole of which articles of personal property together with a negro girl named MATILDAY, purchased also under the same execution, I give & bequeath to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, THOMAS ELLIOTT GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR, the children of the said GEORGE GILMOUR, to them and their heirs forever - and if any of them shall die without issue living at the time of their death, their portion of said property to continue & go to the survivor or survivors, in exactly equal shares.
The balance of the debt due me by my son GEORGE GILMOUR, I also give to my grandchildren to be by them collected, if after they shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, they shall choose to do so.
I appoint my son GEORGE GILMOUR executor of this my Last Will & Testament and require of him that he carry the same into full effect hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 25th day of Sept. 1829.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR {seal}
Signed, sealed, acknowledge & published in our presents {sic}
R. WEBBER JACOB SHERRILL
CODICIL (dated 25 May 1832)
I JAMES GILMOUR Sr. of Christian County and State of Kentucky being old and inform of body but of sound and disposing mind think proper to change my Will of 25 Sept 1829 owing to the change in my son GEORGE GILMOUR situation.
I give by this supplement Will and bequeath to my son GEORGE GILMOUR, all the property that I have devised to my grandchildren, JAMES LEWIS GILMOUR, JOHN WILSON GILMOUR, ALEXANDER MARSHALL GILMOUR, ROBERT BRONAUGH GILMOUR, ELEANOR JANE GILMOUR, MARY FRANCES GILMOUR in my above mentioned Will including the land with chattels with the exception of the negro girl MALTILDA, which I sold, and including the balance of the execution named in my former Will, to him and his heirs forever hereby revoking that part of my Will of the above date that relates to my above named grandchildren. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 day of May 1832.
Signature: JAMES GILMOUR
JACOB SHERRILL and NATHAN ADAMS"
Will and Codicil proved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky & County of Christian, signed by ABRAHAM STITES on 2 December 1834.
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