{"id":36,"date":"2009-08-23T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2009-08-23T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T03:48:10","slug":"captain-michael-koonce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/military\/captain-michael-koonce","title":{"rendered":"Captain Michael Koonce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributed by Claude T. Hardison, Jr.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Information submitted October 24, 2007 by:<\/p>\n

Claude Thomas Hardison, Jr., President
\nCol. Benjamin Cleveland Chapter, Cleveland, TN
\nTennessee Society, Sons of the American Revolution<\/p>\n

Johann Koonce (1675-1711), his wife Alice, a young daughter, and two sons, George and\u00a0Michael, were Palatines who came to the Colony of North Carolina from Germany. \u00a0They\u00a0were with a group of Palatines and Swiss who settled near Core Creek, NC. On September\u00a022 \/ 23, 1711 the Tuscarora Indians attacked the settlers and killed or captured many of them. \u00a0Johann, his wife, his oldest son and daughter were all killed. George was seven years old when\u00a0taken prisoner and was later freed by a contingent of militia from South Carolina in 1712 that\u00a0raided the Tuscarora camps and freed the Colonist who had been captured.<\/p>\n

George Koonce (1704-1778) an orphan and assigned by the Courts to be raised by\u00a0Esquire Jacob Miller. George obtained a sound family life structure and education living with\u00a0Jacob Miller, (Muller in German). In 1720 George is shown on the tax list in Carven Co. NC in the\u00a0household of Jacob Sheets, (Shultz in German), husband of Catherine Miller, daughter of Jacob\u00a0Miller. About 1725 George Koonce married, became a large landholder, planter and raised a\u00a0family of seven sons, one of which was Michael Koonce.<\/p>\n

Captain Michael Koonce (1730-1782) was born in Craven Co. NC. Like his father and brothers, he\u00a0lived in the vicinity of Great Chinquapin Creek, on the north side of the Trent River, in what was\u00a0later Jones County, NC. He was a Planter, Public Official, Captain in the Jones County Militia, and\u00a0he amassed a personal fortune in land and slaves, possessing some 4,000 acres at the time of his\u00a0death.<\/p>\n

As a young man, he served as Constable and as an Assessor of Property in Craven Co. and when\u00a0Jones Co. was formed from Craven in 1778, he became one of the first Justices of the Court of\u00a0Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Both Michael Koonce and his brother John Koonce held the rank of\u00a0Captain in the Jones Co. Militia during the Revolutionary War. Their names are included at an\u00a0earlier date, along with those of George and Tobias Koonce, in a muster of the Carven Co. Militia\u00a0for the years 1754-1756. The military rank of Captain Michael Koonce is recorded in a grant of land\u00a0in 1779 and records pertaining to the Revolutionary War service of Captain Michael Koonce are\u00a0found in the Revolution War Accounts of the Comptroller\u2019s Office at Kinston, NC, 1776-1780\u00a0(Book A.P.45, State Archives.) \u201c The United States of America to the State of North Carolina,\u00a0Virginia, and South Carolina, as allowed by a Committee of Claims, dated April 1780\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201dVoucher #275 to Michael Koonce, for a gun\u201d \u2026\u201dVoucher $285, to Michael Koonce, for a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Elizabeth Koonce, wife of Michael, was also allowed compensation for supplies furnished\u00a0the Patriot Cause. (Book D. pp 197, 310.) \u00a0Captain Michael Koonce, Planter, Public Official, and Revolutionary War Patriot died at the age of\u00a052. Captain Michael Koonce and his wives (1) Elizabeth Simmons, (2) Elizabeth Jarman had 7\u00a0children, one of which was Rev. Elijah Koonce. \u00a0Elijah Koonce (1780-1840), the youngest son of Michael, became a Reverend and lived on his land\u00a0near Joshua\u2019s Creek. He married twice. His first wife was Temperance Blackshear, daughter of\u00a0Elisha Stout Blackshear. All of Elijah\u2019s children were with Temperance. One of his sons was\u00a0James Wiley Benjamin Koonce. \u00a0James Wiley Benjamin Koonce (1814-1855) was a Planter in Jones Co. NC and whose son was\u00a0Richard H. Koonce. (1844-1855) who served in the Confederate Army and was wounded twice,\u00a0prisoner of war, and who returned home to marry Eliza King and have several children, one of\u00a0which was my Grandmother, Addie Berth Koonce (1879-1964) who married Edward Henry\u00a0Hardison and they had a son Claude Thomas Hardison (1903-1970) who married Ila Mae Neese,\u00a0who were my parents.<\/p>\n

It was through the Revolutionary War Patriot, Captain Michael Koonce, that I was able to become\u00a0a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. This year I was elected President of the Col.\u00a0Benjamin Cleveland Chapter, Cleveland, TN, Tennessee Society, SAR. This linage has also\u00a0enabled my two sons, Claude Thomas Hardison, III and Paul Michael Hardison to become SAR\u00a0members, as well as my Grandson, Trent Thomas Hardison, to become a member of the\u00a0Children of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

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Claude Thomas Hardison, Jr with sons Paul Michael Hardison (left) and Claude Thomas Hardison, III (right) holding Grandson Trent Thomas Hardison, Son of Claude Thomas Hardison, III <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contributed by Claude T. Hardison, Jr. Information submitted October 24, 2007 by: Claude Thomas Hardison, Jr., President Col. Benjamin Cleveland Chapter, Cleveland, TN Tennessee Society, Sons of the American Revolution Johann Koonce (1675-1711), his wife Alice, a young daughter, and two sons, George and\u00a0Michael, were Palatines who came to the Colony of North Carolina from … Continue reading “Captain Michael Koonce”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}