Job Broughton

  General Notes:

See general notes on his grand son, John Broughton, for various personal facts including service in the American Revolutionary War.

  Research Notes:

from http://bransoncook.systemaxonline.com/gedcoms/broughton/pafg05.htm#43293
Knox County Kinfolk in the Revolutionary War
Job Broughton's Pension Papers, #W8395
"Broughton Genealogy" by Mrs. Lillian B. Creech:
"The pension papers of Job Broughton, my great great grandfather, are as revealing as a visit to the past because they give such a vivid account of his entire life.
He was born October 30, 1755, at Brunswick, Virginia, and married June 26, 1774. However, Mary, his wife, stated after his death that she thought they married in 1772.
They went to Surrey County, North Carolina in the spring of 1775, where he volunteered for service in the Revolutionary War under Colonel Martin Armstrong, Captain Jabes Jarvis, and Lieutenant James Freeman. There was an uprising of the Scotch in North Carolina to aid the British, so the patriots mustered forces, marched across a shallow ford of the Yadkin, and then rendezvoused at a crossroad, later known as Randolph Courthouse. There they joined the forces of Colonel Martin Armstrong and marched 160 miles to Campbelltown on Cape Fear. News reached them that Caswell (or Lazwell) had defeated the uprising and this prevented them from going any further.
Later in the year of 1775, he volunteered several more times to go against the Tories, but each siege was of short duration. On February 24, 1777, he removed his family to Wilkes County, Georgia. Then that fall he enrolled as a minute man and took up quarters at Stephen Herd's Fort.
The troops were divided into three groups: one marching against the British, Tories, and Indians; one acting as spies; and the third guarding the Fort and protecting the women when they went out to get milk or get water at the spring.
Richard Austin was his Captain a short while, but was wounded accidentally by one of his own men. At Captain Austin's death, he was replaced by Captain Richard Herd.
Job Broughton was ordered out as a spy for 18 months, but was released from service, not duty, before the entire period terminated.
Another important service during this period was to help besiege Savannah. He served 31 days during this encounter under General Linkhorn, Colonel John Doolie, and Captain John Stewart.
This was the only large engagement he participated in, but made many skirmishes against the Indians while at Herd's Fort.
He remembers seeing General McIntosh, Count D'Estany, and Count Pulaski sitting on a log when a cannonball hit. The log split but no one was injured.
He received his discharge in the fall of 1781 and removed his family to Bute County, North Carolina, which has now been divided into Warren and Franklin Counties. Fighting was still going on at this time because he stated that he could hear guns firing as they traveled along.
He spent several years in North Carolina and then came to Kentucky 25 years prior to August 26, 1833, the date he made application for a pension, and had resided 13 of those years on Goose Creek, Knox County, Kentucky.
He stated that he could verify his age by the family Bible which was in the possession of his sister, Winny Davis, in Surry County, North Carolina.
On August 12, 1838, his widow, Mary Broughton, made a declaration that she was 82 years old, and that he had died March 27, 1837. She said that their 52-year old son, William Broughton, had been made administrator and that she was making her home with him on Stinking Creek, Knox County, Kentucky."

Job married Mary "Molly" Lewis on 20 Jun 1774 in Surry Co., NC. (Mary "Molly" Lewis was born on 10 Mar 1756 in North Carolina and died in 1845 in Knox Co., Kentucky.)