Robert Abernathy IV son of Robert Abernethy III of Virginia and Mary Miles Harwell of Virginia.
Captain Robert Abernathy IV would serve in the American Revolution like most of his family and later be State Representative of Tryon County at the 5th Halifax Convention, he would help to draft the first North Carolina Constitution.
Robert Abernathy IV would marry a cousin from Scotland by the name of Sarah Abernethy in 1740 Prince George County VA.
When his father Robert III sold all the Virginia holdings, moved to North Carolina with most of the family except one brother (John Abernathy) as a part of Governor Tryon (NC) giving away Granville County NC Land Grants to anyone who would settle North Carolina sometime around 1750.
Robert Abernathy IV burial location is not proven but assumed on his father's plantation beside his wife Sarah Anne.
SOURCE:
"In the Provincial Congress {5th} which met at Halifax on the 12th of November 1776, when the first State Constitution was formed, Colonel [William]Graham was one of the delegates from Lincoln County [NC], his colleagues being Joseph Hardin, ROBERT ABERNETHY, William Alston and John Barber."
Excerpt taken from:
SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL By: CL Hunter July 19, 2004
Project Gutenberg.net
e-book # 12953
ISO-8859-1
Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774
By: Mutie June Clark
Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, MD 1983
NSSAR National Society Sons of the American Revolution
SAR# 95628
BOOK: Gentleman John Perkins "Wedding of Elizabeth Abernathy and Ephraim Perkins"
William Wallace Scott
Robert Abernathy IV is mentioned as one of the guests along with General Peter Forney
Captain Robert Abernathy IV would serve in the American Revolution like most of his family and later be State Representative of Tryon County at the 5th Halifax Convention, he would help to draft the first North Carolina Constitution.
Robert Abernathy IV would marry a cousin from Scotland by the name of Sarah Abernethy in 1740 Prince George County VA.
When his father Robert III sold all the Virginia holdings, moved to North Carolina with most of the family except one brother (John Abernathy) as a part of Governor Tryon (NC) giving away Granville County NC Land Grants to anyone who would settle North Carolina sometime around 1750.
Robert Abernathy IV burial location is not proven but assumed on his father's plantation beside his wife Sarah Anne.
SOURCE:
"In the Provincial Congress {5th} which met at Halifax on the 12th of November 1776, when the first State Constitution was formed, Colonel [William]Graham was one of the delegates from Lincoln County [NC], his colleagues being Joseph Hardin, ROBERT ABERNETHY, William Alston and John Barber."
Excerpt taken from:
SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL By: CL Hunter July 19, 2004
Project Gutenberg.net
e-book # 12953
ISO-8859-1
Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774
By: Mutie June Clark
Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, MD 1983
NSSAR National Society Sons of the American Revolution
SAR# 95628
BOOK: Gentleman John Perkins "Wedding of Elizabeth Abernathy and Ephraim Perkins"
William Wallace Scott
Robert Abernathy IV is mentioned as one of the guests along with General Peter Forney
Robert Abernathy IV son of Robert Abernethy III of Virginia and Mary Miles Harwell of Virginia.
Captain Robert Abernathy IV would serve in the American Revolution like most of his family and later be State Representative of Tryon County at the 5th Halifax Convention, he would help to draft the first North Carolina Constitution.
Robert Abernathy IV would marry a cousin from Scotland by the name of Sarah Abernethy in 1740 Prince George County VA.
When his father Robert III sold all the Virginia holdings, moved to North Carolina with most of the family except one brother (John Abernathy) as a part of Governor Tryon (NC) giving away Granville County NC Land Grants to anyone who would settle North Carolina sometime around 1750.
Robert Abernathy IV burial location is not proven but assumed on his father's plantation beside his wife Sarah Anne.
SOURCE:
"In the Provincial Congress {5th} which met at Halifax on the 12th of November 1776, when the first State Constitution was formed, Colonel [William]Graham was one of the delegates from Lincoln County [NC], his colleagues being Joseph Hardin, ROBERT ABERNETHY, William Alston and John Barber."
Excerpt taken from:
SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL By: CL Hunter July 19, 2004
Project Gutenberg.net
e-book # 12953
ISO-8859-1
Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774
By: Mutie June Clark
Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, MD 1983
NSSAR National Society Sons of the American Revolution
SAR# 95628
BOOK: Gentleman John Perkins "Wedding of Elizabeth Abernathy and Ephraim Perkins"
William Wallace Scott
Robert Abernathy IV is mentioned as one of the guests along with General Peter Forney
Captain Robert Abernathy IV would serve in the American Revolution like most of his family and later be State Representative of Tryon County at the 5th Halifax Convention, he would help to draft the first North Carolina Constitution.
Robert Abernathy IV would marry a cousin from Scotland by the name of Sarah Abernethy in 1740 Prince George County VA.
When his father Robert III sold all the Virginia holdings, moved to North Carolina with most of the family except one brother (John Abernathy) as a part of Governor Tryon (NC) giving away Granville County NC Land Grants to anyone who would settle North Carolina sometime around 1750.
Robert Abernathy IV burial location is not proven but assumed on his father's plantation beside his wife Sarah Anne.
SOURCE:
"In the Provincial Congress {5th} which met at Halifax on the 12th of November 1776, when the first State Constitution was formed, Colonel [William]Graham was one of the delegates from Lincoln County [NC], his colleagues being Joseph Hardin, ROBERT ABERNETHY, William Alston and John Barber."
Excerpt taken from:
SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL By: CL Hunter July 19, 2004
Project Gutenberg.net
e-book # 12953
ISO-8859-1
Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774
By: Mutie June Clark
Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, MD 1983
NSSAR National Society Sons of the American Revolution
SAR# 95628
BOOK: Gentleman John Perkins "Wedding of Elizabeth Abernathy and Ephraim Perkins"
William Wallace Scott
Robert Abernathy IV is mentioned as one of the guests along with General Peter Forney
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