THOMAS BONNER OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Patriot Ancestor
Thomas Bonner was born in Chowan County, North Carolina, in 1744, a son of Henry Bonner and the former Sarah Luten. He married there 6 May 1767 to Miss Margaret Jones, daughter of Nathan Jones and the former Elizabeth Slaughter.
By the time of the Revolution, Thomas and Margaret had settled in the "Old Ninety-six District," on the western frontier of South Carolina. It was here that he enlisted in Colonel Benjamin Roebuck's regiment.
Although the details of his service are as yet unknown, he did receive 300 acres in military bounty land which he promptly sold to finance a move to an even more remote frontier further south.
On 13 November 1788, Thomas used the proceeds from the sale of his military bounty land to acquire 181 acres along Powell's Creek in what is now Taliferro County but was then Greene County, Georgia. At that time, it was part of the buffer zone between the Oconee and Appalachee Rivers that separated the more "civilized" American settlements from the Creek Indians.
Thomas died on his Georgia property in 1805. I descend from his son Whitmal as follows:
Thomas Bonner > Whitmal Bonner > Josiah Martin Bonner > James Whitmal Bonner > Hildagarde Bonner > Mary Ella Arnett > Alice Hilda Macy > William Swinney Morgan > WSM V.
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