Isaac K. Baldree, 1758-1836, Tattnall County

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Isaac K. Baldree, a Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner, was born in Pitt County, North Carolina, in 1758, as stated in his pension declaration. He enlisted under Captain John Inlow and served for twelve months. During this time, he was stationed for five months in Newbern and Wilmington, North Carolina, before marching to Georgetown, South Carolina, where he served under General Richard Caswell. He was later discharged at Halifax, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter, he was drafted again and sent to South Carolina and Georgia, where he saw further military action, including participation in the Battle of Briar Creek. He was discharged after serving an additional eleven months.

After the war, Baldree remained in North Carolina until 1819, when he relocated with his family to Georgia. The following year, they settled in Tattnall County, where he lived until his death on 29 Nov 1836. He left a will and appears in the Tattnall County tax rolls.

Baldree was married twice. The name of his first wife is unknown, but they had two daughters:

  1. Molsey Baldree, who married _______ Garris.
  2. Rosada Baldree, who married James Cobb.

Isaac K. Baldree’s will was dated November 25, 1836, and was probated in the Inferior Court of Tattnall County on May 1, 1837. In his will, each of these daughters received a bequest of one dollar. This usually implies that they had already received their bequest while Isaac was alive.

His second marriage took place in Tattnall County in March 1828, when he, at 70 years of age, wed 20-year-old Miss Elizabeth “Betsy” Sapp. She was the daughter of Levi and Celia (Crews) Sapp, who resided in Tattnall County at the time but later moved to Berrien County, Georgia, where he died. Isaac and Betsey had four children, whose names and birth dates are preserved in the soldier’s pension file in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

These children were:

  1. Celia Baldree, born 9 Oct 1831, nothing further known, probably died young.
  2. Isaac K. Baldree, born 11 Mar 1833, married Keziah Keen, Berrien County. (Resided 1850 in Telfair County with Benajah and Mary Pearson.) Died 13 Jan 1899 and is buried in the Wayfare Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Statenville with his wife.
  3. William Baldree, born 4 May 1834, married Lucinda Boyd in Berrien County. Died 14 Feb 1914 and is buried in Empire Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Lakeland, Georgia. Served as a private, Company E, 54th Regiment, Georgia Infantry in the Confederate Army and received an indigent pension from his service in 1904. Children.
  4. Catherine Baldree, born 1 June 1836, married 21 Oct 1858, Lovic M. Young.

In his will, Baldree left his entire estate to his second wife and their four minor children. The executors were instructed to sell the property and use the proceeds for the children’s maintenance and education. He named as executors his friends Levi Sapp, Sr., and Joseph Collins of Tattnall County, both of whom qualified for the role. The estate included 250 acres, which comprised the family’s homeplace in Tattnall County.

Following her husband’s death, Betsey Baldree moved with her children and parents to Thomas County in 1838. They relocated to Telfair County in 1841 and then to Lowndes County in 1852. When Berrien County was formed from Lowndes in 1856, the family became residents of that new county, settling in what is now Cook County. On 1 Sep 1867, Betsey moved to Lowndes County, where she lived until 1870 before relocating to Coffee County for one year. She then moved to the Stockton district of Clinch County, spending her remaining years with her son, Isaac K. Baldree, Jr., near Cow Creek Mills on the Clinch-Echols county line.

Betsey Baldree passed away around 1885 and was buried at Wayfare Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Statenville, Georgia, her marker being paced after 1951.

Isaac K. Baldree Bible Record

Originally located in his Revolutionary Pension Application dated in 1833, Tattnall Co., GA. Was returned to Isaac

Isaac K. Baldree d. 12/1/1836 Tattnall Co., Ga., b. Pitt Co., N. C. 1758, m. Elizabeth Sapp (dau. of Levi Sapp, b. 1751), 3/1828 Tattnall Co., Ga., by Joseph Collins, J. P. and had four children:

Isaac Baldree b. 3/11/1833 Tattnall Co., Ga.
Celia Baldree b. 10/9/1831 Tattnall Co., Ga.
William Baldree b. 5/4/1834 Tattnall Co., Ga.
Catherine Baldree b. 6/1/1836 Tattnall Co., Ga.

Isaac K. Baldree Revolutionary Soldier Pension

— ISAAC K. BALDREE in Tattnall Co. Ga., on April 12, 1833, made his declaration in Superior Court to obtain under the Act of 1832 a pension for his Revolutionary War service, and deposed that he was born in Pitt Co. N.C., in 1758; that he enlisted under Capt. John Inlow and served 12 months; was stationed at New-Bern, N.C., for a few months, then at Wilmington on Cape Fear River about 5 mos. The command then marched to Georgetown, S.C., and joined Gen. Richard Caswell’s army. They then marched back to N.C., and had an engagement with the Tories near Wilmington, then marched to Halifax on Roanoke River where he received a written discharge. Later, after returning home, he was drafted and served under Capt. Geo. Fautney (or Tauntem, not clear), marching to South Carolina and on to Georgia and was in the battle on Brier Creek in Georgia, under Gen. Ash. Was honorably discharged after 11 months’ service. After the war he continued living in N.C., until 14 years ago when he moved to Ga., and for last 13 years has been living in said Tattnall County.

In the file is a certificate of service and discharge, very faded and hardly legible, dated April 10, 1779, signed by George Fautney— (illegible).

On 25 Jun 1853, in Lowndes County, Georgia, Elizabeth Baldree, age 45, applied for a widow’s pension under the 1853 Act, declaring that she was the widow of Isaac K. Baldree, a Revolutionary War pensioner. She stated that she married Isaac in March 1828 in Tattnall County, Georgia, and that they lived together as husband and wife until his death on 1 Dec 1836. Four children were born to them in lawful wedlock:

  • Celia Baldree, born 9 Oct 1831, in Tattnall County
  • Isaac Baldree, born 11 Mar 1833, in Tattnall County
  • William Baldree, born 4 May 1834, in Tattnall County
  • Catherine Baldree, born 14 Jun 1836, in Tattnall County

Elizabeth stated that her maiden name was Elizabeth Sapp and that she and Isaac were married by Joseph Collins, Justice of the Peace. Following Isaac’s death, she resided in Thomas County (1838–1841), then Telfair County (until 1852), and later moved to Lowndes County, where she was living at the time of her application.

By 1856, she was residing in Clinch County; in 1868, she was in Berrien County; and by 1871, she had moved to Coffee County. Her son, Isaac Baldree, later married the mother of Jasper Harris, who lived in Stockton, Clinch County, as of 1877.

Revolutionary Pension and Widows Pension for Isaac K and Elizabeth BaldreeDownload

Conflict Resolution

Full Name of Isaac K. Baldree

Some genealogists have the full name of Isaac as Isaac Kittrell Baldree, including on his FamilySearch page (# KVKP-XCY), however, there is no evidence that his middle name was Kittrell. His son, Isaac Jr., has been given the middle name of Kethlen, but again without a corresponding record beyond the initial K. Isaac Jr., would also have a son named Isaac K. Again genealogists have used Kethren as his middle name with no evidence to back it up.

Name of Wife

Nancy Elizabeth Sapp, 1808-1885
Gravestone for Elizabeth Sapp placed after the writing of Huxford’s Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia in 1951.

Genealogists attribute the first name of Isaac’s wife as Nancy, and that is the name used on her gravestone and in Huxford’s treatise. That gravestone however was not present when Huxford wrote his book and it’s possible the book was used for the determination of her given name as Nancy. l However, I can find no record which uses the first name of Nancy. In the widow pension record is found a letter written on 5 Nov 1855 in which

Children of First Wife

Some genealogists have added a third child to this first marriage named Susannah and married her off to a _______ English. I can find no evidence of her in any of his records. It is possible she could have existed and died before Isaac wrote his will in 1836.

Children of Second Wife

Some genealogists have mistakenly identified Henry (born in Irwin County) and John (born in Telfair County)—both of whom appear living with Betsey in the 1850 census—as children of her marriage to Isaac K. Baldree. However, this is not possible, as Isaac had already passed away before either of them were born. It is more likely that the boys were related to the family in some other way and were raised in the household of the widow Betsy, or, though less likely, they may have been born to her out of wedlock.

By the 1860 census, both boys are still living with Betsey, along with another youth, Harmon N. Baldree, whom some genealogists have also incorrectly listed as her child. Harmon was born around 1836 in Irwin County, Georgia. In the 1850 census, he is found residing in Telfair County in the household of the young couple John and Mary Jane Lott.

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