William Cloyd : Short Biography

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William Cloyd , our ancestor, was an immigrant, of Scotch origin, who was born in 1751 in Ulster, Ireland. He landed in Philadelphia in 1774 or 1775, from Ballymony County, Antrim, Duchy Ulster, Ireland. It is said that he was a son of James Cloyd who married a Reed. He served as a private in the Pennsylvania line during the Revolutionary War and was pensioned in 1833. He also served as a private in the Virginia Army in the company of Captain Benjamin Biggs at Fort Pitt and was at the Battle of Brandywine.

William Cloyd Private, Pennsylvania Line, $45.55 Annual Allowance $136.65 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William married Jeannette Barr, daughter of James Barr, a man of wealth, whose wife was a Caldwell. She was a niece of Lady Jane Barr, a woman of considerable prominence in Ireland . Jeanette followed William to the colonies against the wishes of her parents, and kept him waiting for two years before she married him. She was nine weeks in crossing the water. When he learned of her arrival in Philadelphia, he walked 54 miles, and reached Philadelphia, to be refused admission to the house of her cousin, Charles Stewart, with whom she was living. She met him at the gate and promised to marry him in two years if he proved worthy, and he evidently did as they were married at the appointed time.
The information listed above is a copy of the record in an old Bible in the possession of J. Bruce Cloyd, Mosheim, Tennessee, except the marriages are not included and the name is spelled Cloid. The Bible is reputed to have been brought from Ireland.
Washington County, Tennessee, where the Cloyds, Clingans, Pattons, Clicks and Campbells settled, is located in extreme eastern Tennessee. Washington County is one of the state's three "grand divisions." The county was formed in 1796 from portions of Washington County, North Carolina.

William Cloyd died and is buried in Washington County, Tennessee.