Col. Thomas Polk

1732 - 1794  (62 years)

• Name	Thomas Polk
  Prefix	Col.
  Born	1732	Accomac County, Virginia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Jun 1794	Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina   [2]
  Buried	Aft 26 Jun 1794	Presbyterian Church - Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina   [2]
  Person ID	I8541	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	William Ezekiel Robert Polk,   b. Abt 1690, Somerset County, Maryland ,   d. Abt 1753, Anson County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Margaret Taylor,   b. Abt 1690,   d. Aft 1765, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Family ID	F341	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susan Spratt,   b. Pennsylvania ,   d. Unknown
  Children	1. Sarah Polk,   d. Unknown   2. Susan Polk,   d. Unknown   3. Maj. Gen. William Polk,   b. Abt 1759, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ,   d. 8 Feb 1834, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 75 years)   4. Mary Polk,   b. 1740, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ,   d. 8 Sep 1814, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina  (Age 74 years)   5. Martha Polk,   b. Abt 1744, North Carolina ,   d. 1780  (Age ~ 36 years)   6. Charles Polk,   b. Abt 1767, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ,   d. Unknown   7. Jean Polk,   b. Abt 1730,   d. Aft 1801  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Last Modified	4 May 2006
  Family ID	F1500	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 26 Jun 1794 - Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  Letter from Alney McLean to cousin Samuel Stockard This letter had been transcribed and posted on the Tennkin.com site and was saved in 2009 and supplied to me by Kenneth Rickett in October 2018. This site no longer seems to be extant. This letter provides many valuable insights on the McLean and Davidson families but it has several provable errors. None the less, it is a useful testimony to the early history of these families.

  
  

• Notes

  Dr. Ephraim Bevard was the author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence which was so enthusiatically ratified by the Convention assembled at Charlotte in May 1775. The Convention then and there (assembled) appointed what they called a Committee of Safety, a kind of Legislature, which held regular monthly meetings at Salisburg in Rowan County. Ephraim McLean was a member of that committee. At the meeting of the committee, October 1775, it was ordered that three additional brigades should be raised. Thomas POlk was appointed Colonel, Charles McLean, Major of one of those brigades. _________ Thomas Polk served in the Provincial Congress and was commissary of Provisions for the Continental troops when the army was in great need, 1780.  In 1781, he was appointed brigadier general to succeed Gen. William Lee Davidson, who fell at Cowan's Ford.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] DAR Records, ID# 32318.  See also, 530, 3482, 12193, 21349, 23265, 28287. (Reliability: 3). [S5] DAR Records, ID# 32318 (Reliability: 3).