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~ John A. Fowlkes ~
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"JOHN A FOWLKES" was born in 1722 @ Hanover Co., VA.
He died in 1799 @ 77 @ Nottoway Co., VA. (This was known as Nottoway Parish, a district of Amelia Co. until 1788 when it became Nottoway Co. according to nottoway.org.)

HIS PARENTS were: "Gabriel Fowlkes I & Elizabeth Fowlkes".

* Data from "Just Plain Fowlkes-Our Lineage from Gabriel I, 2nd Edition, 2006, by Stephen Fowlkes.

"John's plantation was called ‘Hyde Park'; it had sheltered five generations of Fowlkes, one of the few to survive The Civil War." *
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* * REV. WAR * *
~"John Fowlkes" sighted for Patriot Service during the war.
SAR (Sons of American Revolution) #P-161266.
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JOHN MARRIED "SARAH JENNINGS" in 1743 @ Hanover Co., VA. He was 21; she was 13.
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SARAH JENNINGS was born in 1730 @ Hanover Co., VA.
She died in 1782 @ Nottoway Parish, a district of Amelia Co., VA ( which became Nottoway Co. in 1788 according to nottoway.org).

SARAH's FATHER was: "Col. William Henry Jennings" (1676-1775) who was born in England.
Some books say that he was the youngest son of 'Humphrey & Mary Milward Jennens' & was a British officer who came to Virginia to assist in the fight against the Indians. Others think this is inaccurate.

SARAH's MOTHER was: "Mary Jane 'Polly' Pulliam Jennings" (1704-1774) who was born @ Hanover Co., VA to 'James & Mary Pulliam'.

"Mary Jane 'Polly' Pulliam" was thought to have "perhaps" been Col. William Henry Jennings' 2nd. wife because of the 28-year-age-difference between them. They married on 1-24-1724 @ Hanover Co., VA.

They had 10 Children.
Here are SARAH's SIBLINGS:

1. William Jennings, Jr. (1726-1793) m: 1750 Agnes Dickerson.
*** During The Revolutionary War, he supplied material aid to the war effort according to DAR #A-062454. ***
2. Agnes Jennings (1727--); m: Henry Dickerson.
3. Elizabeth Jennings (1729-1799) m: 1746 George Walton.
4. SARAH JENNINGS (1730-1782) m: 1743 JOHN A. FOWLKES (1722-1799).
** She & her sister below married Fowlkes Brothers! ***
5. Mary Jennings (1732-1822) m: Joseph Fowlkes.
6. Robert Jennings (1733-1798) m: Elizabeth Childs.
7. John Jennings (1735-1784) m: Temperance Thompson.
8. Anne Jennings (1736-1795) m: Samuel Thompson, Jr.
9. James Jennings (1737-1795) m: Philadelphia Bruce; m: Martisha Crenshaw.
10. Joseph Jennings (1739-1804) m: 1767 Ann Billups.
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JOHN A. FOWLKES & SARAH JENNINGS FOWLKES married in 1743 @ Hanover Co., VA & had 10 children.

THEIR 10 CHILDREN:

*** This son was a Lt. under his Uncle Gabriel Fowlkes, Jr. who was a Col. during The Rev. War; he was in the Amelia Co., VA Militia. ***
~JOHN FIELD FOWLKES (1745-1824)
m: Dicey Hall
m: Edith 'Edy' Jeffress

*** The Rev. War listed by the SAR has him as a Patriot = P # 161265. ***
~JENNINGS E. FOWLKES (1746-1802)
m: Joyce Clark Motley

~JERUSHA FOWLKES (1747-1789)
m: 1765 DAVID ELLINGTON, JR. *** This son-in-law = Patriotic Service, VA according to "Soldiers & Patriots of GA" website. ***

*** This son served in the Amelia Co., VA Militia during "The Revolutionary War" as a Lieutenant & the SAR listed him as a Patriot = P #334624. ***
~HENRY BASS FOWLKES, SR. (1750-1808)
m: Tabitha Bass

*** This son was a Sgt. & Lt. under 2 Gabriel Fowlkes during The Rev. War; he served in North Carolina & was @ The Battle of Guilford. ***
~WILLIAM 'Quality Bill' FOWLKES (1752-1835)
m: Martha Bass
m: Mary 'Polly' Clark
m: Sarah 'Sally' Cralle

~SARAH FOWLKES (1755-1828)
m: David Thompson

~MARY 'Molly' FOWLKES (1757-?)
m: Robert Thompson
m: Elijah Hudson

*** The Rev. War listed him by the SAR as a Patriot = P #161264. ***
~JAMES FOWLKES (1760-1833)
m: Sally Foster

~NANCY FOWLKES (1763-1804)
m: Spencer Betts (1759-1837). *** This son-in-law was a Revolutionary War Soldier from VA. ***

~ELIZABETH 'Betsy' FOWLKES (1764-1823)
m: Charles Price, I *** This son-in-law was a Capt. under the Thomas Watkins Troop of Dragoons, VA during The Rev. War ***
m: Benjamin Lewis Van Amburgh.
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JOHN A. FOWLKES had 2 MARRIAGES.

All of his children were by his 1st. wife, "Sarah Jennings Fowlkes", who died in 1782. She was buried @ the Fowlkes Family Cemetery @ Hyde Park. (During The Civil War, many of the headstones were dumped into a deep well there according to the 2014 caretaker of the plantation/home.)

His 2nd. marriage was to "Judith Penick" (1747-1823).
They married in Aug. 1787 when Judith was 40; no children from this marriage.
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JOHN A. FOWLKES died in 1799 @ Nottoway Co., VA. He left behind many descendants & apparently a plantation that survived The Civil War & 5 generations of Fowlkes!

"HYDE PARK was first called "Old Field" in John & Sarah's lifetime. It is a tobacco plantation of old Nottoway Parish, a district of Amelia Co., VA dating to the 1700's whose property's main residence still stands in 2014."

According to The National Register of Historic Places:
"The core of the main house at HYDE PARK is a three-bay, three-story, vernacular interpreted Federal-style, central passage building with exterior gable-end chimneys. The earliest portion of the house, likely built between 1762-1782 by JOHN FOWLKES, exists solely in the Flemish bond portions of the first story & English bond portions of the cellar brick walls."
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~ Lynda, 5-great's-granddaughter to JOHN A. FOWLKES through his daughter, Jerusha Fowlkes Ellington.
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