Individual Details

James Gaines

(1742 - 1829/30)

Captain for the Culpeper County Virginia Minute Men. Member of the Convention of North Carolina for the Ratification of the United States Constitution; Member of the North Carolina Legislature. Commanded a company of North Carolina Volunteers, distinguishing himself in the Battle of Guilford Court House, March 1781. Also served as an officer in the Revolutionary War at the head of a company of volunteers in South Carolina under the command of General Nathaniel Greene and was in the battle of Eutah Springs, September 6, 1781. Served with his cousins, Henry and Nathaniel Pendleton, Jr., in Culpeper Minute Men. Was a nephew of Judge Edmund Pendleton Gaines, and was left part of Judge Pendleton's estate of six thousand acres of land, and 30 slaves in Greene County, Tennessee, where James Gaines moved in 1788 with his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Strother Gaines. James Gaines was the father of ten to twelve children.

Events

Birth1742Culpeper, Virginia, British America
MarriageBet 1766 and 1775Elizabeth Strother
Death1829/30Tennessee, United States

Families

SpouseElizabeth Strother (1744 - 1830)
ChildBrigadier General Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777 - 1849)
FatherWilliam Henry Gaines (1704 - 1796)
MotherIsabella Pendleton (1712 - 1790)

Endnotes

1. William Armstrong Crozier, Howard Randolph Bayne, The Buckners of Virginia: and the allied families of Strother and Ashby (New York: Genealogical Association, 1907), 230; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 21 December 2010.

2. William Armstrong Crozier, Howard Randolph Bayne, The Buckners of Virginia: and the allied families of Strother and Ashby (New York: Genealogical Association, 1907), 230; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 21 December 2010.

3. Wm E Railey, "The Strothers," Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, 16 (1918) (http://books.google.com : accessed 22 December 2010).

4. William Armstrong Crozier, Howard Randolph Bayne, The Buckners of Virginia: and the allied families of Strother and Ashby (New York: Genealogical Association, 1907), 231; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 21 December 2010.