Gabriel Fowlkes, Jr

1725 - 1793  (68 years)

• Name	Gabriel Fowlkes
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	1725
  Gender	Male
  Death	1793
  Person ID	I44951	Master
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Gabriel Fowlkes,   b. 1690, , , Wales d. 1770, , , Virginia, USA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F2258	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ursula
  Family ID	F10301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Gabriel Fowlkes Jr., the son of Gabriel Fowlkes, was born in the 1720s. When his daughter Prudence was married, he called her “my daughter, Prudence Foultz.” Gabriel lived in St. Martins Parish, Hanover County, across the North Anna River from where his father lived. He later moved to Amelia County in 1752 after buying 400 acres  there from Samuel Yarbrough [402.5] and Hezekiah Yarbrough [402.2] for £105. This land was on the Little Nottoway River in what is now Nottoway County. The Yarbroughs were from Caroline County and knew Gabriel’s father.  Gabriel’s brother, John, bought and adjacent 400 acres the same day. Both brothers, John and Joseph, later joined Gabriel. Gabriel accumulated additional land including property on the Little Nottoway River and Mallory Creek. On 24 November 1757, Gabriel bought 400 acres  in Amelia County from Peter Dupuy Jr. for £60. The deed described the land as part of Dupuy’s patent of 25 June 1747, yet no such patent was recorded. It lay on the Little Nottoway River next to land of Yarbrough, Watson, Peter Jones [3524.9.3.1.4] and Batte Jones [3524.9.3.1.10]. Gabriel was married to Ursula, whose last name may have been Thompson. She was evidently an educated woman who signed her name to deeds. The family was at least moderately prominent and contributed to the community. Gabriel became the guardian of orphans, James Foster Jr. and Robert Foster. On 26 January 1769, James acknowledged receipt of his inheritance and discharged Gabriel from guardianship.  The younger Robert released Gabriel on 26 September 1771.  Both Foster boys grew up and had families in Amelia County and in 1782, James and Robert were living near each other. Amelia County listed James Foster head of a household of two whites and seven blacks and Robert head of a household of seven whites and eight blacks. The Fowlkes evidently took on another young child to oversee. In 1771 the Nottoway Parish churchwardens turned over Benony Leaton, son of Susanna Leaton, to Gabriel. In 1782 Amelia County listed Gabriel Fowlkes Sr. as head of a household of nine whites and thirteen blacks.  He died before 5 December 1793 when his will was probated in Nottoway County court. His wife, Ursula, survived him. Children of Gabriel and Ursula (—) Fowlkes: Thompson B. Fowlkes [408.1.1] was born 2 March 1751/2 in St. Martins Parish, Hanover County, Virginia. When he was still an infant, he and his parents moved to Amelia (now Nottoway) County, Virginia. On 21 July 1774, he married Elizabeth Robertson [400.5.3], a twenty-two-year-old neighbor, the daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Robertson who lived south of Deep Creek. Shortly after their marriage, Thompson and Elizabeth Fowlkes moved to Mecklenburg County, Virginia. There they managed 492 acres of land on Otter Creek that his father had purchased in 1774 from John Murray. The Fowlkes lived on this land for the remainder of their lives and reared ten children there. The Fowlkes were members of the Bluestone Baptist Church whose pastor was Rev. William Richards. On 8 June 1778, quite a while after the Revolutionary War began, Thompson took the oath of an officer in the Mecklenburg County militia. A year later, on 11 October 1779, took the oath of lieutenant. By 1781 they had promoted him to captain and in that year, under Maj. Henry Walker and Col. Lewis Burwell, fought at the Battle of Yorktown. Yorktown is in Southeastern Virginia on the York River. It was at Yorktown that the British suffered a major defeat inducing the British commander, Lord Cornwallis, to surrender to General George Washington. After the war, Thompson Fowlkes held various county positions. In 1783 he became a justice of the court, a position he held for many years. When he paid taxes in Mecklenburg County in 1800, two sons more than sixteen were living with him: John G. and Thompson.  In 1801-02 while in his fifties, he was appointed a sheriff, a position responsible for collecting taxes, fees, levies and dues, and then requiring a $30,000 bond. Thompson and several influential men in the community put up this bond. Thompson prospered. He built a mill to grind grain on his Otter Creek land and purchased additional land on Woodpecker Creek. In 1816 at age sixty-five, Thompson Fowlkes was placed under the care of his son, Nathan. He died less than a year later, leaving no will. In 1817 his son Nathan Fowlkes bought the interest of his brothers and sisters — then living in Giles County, Tennessee, — in the 492-acre plantation on Otter Creek and sold it to Richard Russell.  Elizabeth (Robertson) Fowlkes moved with her son Nathaniel Fowlkes to Hickman County, Tennessee, about 1827. She died there after 1830. We presume she was buried in the Fowlkes’s family cemetery on Duck River near Swan Creek on land that her son Gabriel purchased in 1831. Of their ten children, only Nancy remained in Virginia. The children were the following: Nancy Fowlkes [408.1.1.1] (18 Oct. 1775 -c.1848) married first Jones Osborne (-c.1809), son of Reps Osborne [W.1.8.2], on 15 June 1797. Rev. William Richards united them in marriage at the Bluestone Baptist Church and they lived on Osborne’s plantation on Bluestone Creek a few miles to the west. Jones died when Nancy was thirty-four. She later married around 1819 William Callis and settled in Bedford County, Virginia. Gabriel Fowlkes [408.1.1.2] (24 April 1777 - 18 Dec. 1867) was deeded 160 acres on Woodpecker Creek by his father. He married Haley Jane Hyde (11 July 1792 - 28 Aug. 1855) in Williamson County, Tennessee, on 27 March 1806. “Jincy” was the daughter of Hartwell Hyde and Mary Lewis. In Tennessee Gabriel Fowlkes served as a sheriff, magistrate, and member of the state legislature. Gabriel and Jincy had thirteen children. Nathaniel Fowlkes [408.1.1.3] (22 Oct. 1778 -1839) lived in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, before moving to Hickman County, Tennessee. He married three times. He married first Anne Osborne Barnes, the daughter of Francis Barnes and Anne Osborne, on 16 October 1801. We do not know the name of his second wife. His third was Lucy Winn, the daughter of Richard Winn. They married in Mecklenburg County 4 July 1816.  After Nathaniel died, his wife left his ten children for his uncle to raise and returned to Virginia. Thompson B. Fowlkes [408.1.1.4] (6 June 1780) moved to Tennessee. He married Priscilla Hyde (5 Dec. 1786), the daughter of Hartwell Hyde and Mary Lewis, on 15 November 1806. He had thirteen children. One son had the extraordinary name of Whitman Whitefield William Wilkerson Fowlkes. Sarah Fowlkes [408.1.1.5] (8 Mar. 1782 - 28 Jan. 1854) married George Malone Jr. (- 16 Feb. 1845) at the Bluestone Baptist Church in Mecklenburg County 25 October 1804.  He was the son of George Malone Sr. of Brunswick County, Virginia. They moved to Giles County, Tennessee. John G. Fowlkes [408.1.1.6] (5 Jan. 1784) married Jean Wood. They moved to Tennessee and then on to Mississippi. Henry Fowlkes [408.1.1.7] (3 Jan. 1786) married Anne Green, the daughter of Matthew Green [G.6.9]. He must have died young for he was not mentioned in transactions selling his deceased father’s land. Joseph Fowlkes [408.1.1.8] (25 Dec. 1787 -1840) moved with his brother John to Monroe County, Mississippi. He married Elizabeth and had one son. Elizabeth Fowlkes [408.1.1.9] (7 April 1790) married Matthew {Mathias} Petty in Mecklenburg County 27 December 1814.  She joined her sister Sarah in Giles County, Tennessee. Nathan Fowlkes [408.1.1.10] (25 Feb. 1792) married Ada Ann Redman, his second wife. They left Mecklenburg County, Virginia, about 1824 and probably moved to Tennessee before settling in Monroe County, Mississippi.