Joseph Culbertson

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Husband Joseph Culbertson ¹

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           Born: 1743 ?
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           Died: 1814 1
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         Father: Samuel Culbertson (      -1799) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Culbertson

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He remained with his father until 1802. He witnessed a deed for his father in 1779 and in 1787, residence Washington Co., N. Car. He took out a warrant in Tenn. for 120 acres on Indian Creek, Washington Co., land adjoining his father's in 1794. Also 100 acres (1797) on north side of Flat Creek on Bald Mt. Road, Buncombe Co., N. Car., near Tenn. land. I have not been able to ascertain whether he was married or single. The census 1790, 1800, 1810, for Tenn. was destroyed 1812 when the British sacked Washington. Joseph sold all of his land in Washington Co., N. Car., in 1802, and then moved into Buncombe Co., N. Car. This is no doubt one reason why Samuel Culbertson, Sr., did not name him exr. of his will.
Joseph made a deed Apr. 22, 1806, and another Dec. 19, 1806, for land in Buncombe Co., N. Car. His wife did not sign-if married-he signed "Joseph Culbertson of Buncombe Co., N. Car."
These deeds were made by him a year after administrator was appointed for Joseph Culbertson of Russell and Scott Co., Va., proving that Joseph of Washington Co., Tenn., and Buncombe Co., N. Car., was a son of Samuel. County Clerk of Buncombe Co., N. Car., says that he made a number of deeds in his county and there is no will or administration of him in his county showing that he moved out of that county-I know not where. Could not ascertain if he was married.
There was an Andrew Culbertson who took out a warrant for 50 acres in Buncombe Co., N. Car., in 1817. He may have been a son of above Joseph.
Many of the Buncombe Co., N. Car., records were destroyed during the Civil War.
There was a grant to one Wm. H. Culbertson, Dec. 19, 1853, for 15 acres on French Broad River and on Pole Creek. Wm. H. Culbertson was grantee of 100 acres on west side of French Broad River, near Haywood Co., July, 1854. An attorney living in Asheville says he knew this Wm. H. Culbertson many years ago and he had a son named Hill Culbertson. Does not know what became of him.
I am inclined to think that Wm. H. was a son of Andrew. The Marriage Bond Records of Washington Co., Tenn., were examined thoroughly and the names of Joseph and Andrew Culbertson do not appear, nor do the names of any other Culbertsons appear. This proves that Joseph did not marry in Washington Co., N. Car., and must have married (if he did marry) in Buncombe Co., N. C. It also proves that Samuel, Sr., did not marry in N. Carolina.
There is no will of Joseph in Buncombe Co., and no administration. Examination of Henrico records from 1750 to 1850 do not show Joseph nor Andrew.
Census of Henrico Co., Va., and Richmond does not show Joseph or any other Culbertson for 1830. This proves that Joseph Culbertson was not living in Henrico Co. when pension was allowed. Joseph of Buncombe Co., N. Car., was not on Census 1820 or 1830 in that county, showing he had either moved away or died before 1820.
Joseph's brother, Josiah, said in his autobiography (as given in Dr. Lyman Draper's "Kings Mt. and Its Heroes), "That his father, Samuel, moved to N. Car. before 1770." Joseph's brother, Samuel, who fought against the Regulators (Sons of Liberty) in 1771, resided in Orange Co., N. Car. Orange Co. was a very large county and in 1770 extended into eastern Tenn. Josiah's statement shows that his father had left the state of Va. before 1770 and therefore Samuel, Sr., and his sons were not in Virginia during the Revolution. The state line between Va. and N. Car did not extend far enough south to take in Samuel and Joseph of N. Car. When the Va. state line was changed in 1779 a portion of Va. was thrown into N. Car. This included all or a part of what is now Sullivan Co., Tenn. I have not been able to secure a map of Va. state line prior to 1779 but the Holston river was the dividing line. Samuel, Sr. and Joseph lived probably fifteen miles south of the Holston.
Summers, in his "History of Southwestern Virginia," pages 695 and following, discusses the Tennessee-Virginia boundary line in 1777. (I find no map giving this line at that date, and it seems to have been very vaguely determined before 1779.) In the spring of 1777 the election of Anthony Bledsoe and William Cocke, delegates-elect from Washington County, Virginia, was contested on the ground that they were elected by votes of citizens living in (then) North Carolina. But they won the contest and "citizens living as far down as the Long Island of Holston were accepted as legal voters in said election." (Bristol is in Washington County.)
Previous to 1776 commissioners had extended the dividing line as far west as Steep Rock Creek (now Beaver Dam Creek). The line was supposed to be 36 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude, in conformity with the old Charles II charter. This makes it positive that Joseph, son of Samuel Culbertson of Washington Co., N. Car., was not living in Va. during or after the Revolution.

1 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 48.

2 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 45.

3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 46.