JAMES MALCOM - REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER
PVT James Malcom (circa 1750-1829)
Biographical Sketches of James Malcom RS
and Descendants and Related Lines Who Served in the Civil War
As given in the Booklet Prepared for the April 30, 1989 DAR/UDC Memorial
Service and Dedication of Markers at the Malcom-Green Cemetery, Social Circle, Walton
County, Georgia .
This work is copyright 1989 N. Jayne Malcom and reprinted by permission of
the author.
Pvt. James Malcom (circa 1750 – 1829) Two hundred years ago on March 14, 1829
James Malcom’s obituary appeared in The Southern Recorder, Milledgeville,
Georgia as follows:
Died, in Morgan County, on the 23rd of February, James Malcom, aged 77 years.
He was a native of Virginia, but has been a citizen of Georgia for forty
years. He was a soldier during the Revolution, was in the Battle of Guilford
Court House. Twenty-five years of his life he had been an orderly and
acceptable member of the Baptist Church. He has left many relatives and
friends to mourn his death.
Today, generations later, many relatives and friends of his descendants are
gathered here to celebrate the bicentennial of this family moving into Georgia
by the placing of veteran markers in memory of him, and on the graves of
thirteen of his grandson or great-grandsons buried in this cemetery.
James, his wife Sally Ganaway, and the first seven of their ten children moved
from Virginia to Georgia in 1789 settling first in Wilkes County. He won a
head right grant and is listed in the 1791 land lottery there. By 1797 this
family was in Lincoln County where they joined the Goshen Baptist Church in
1804.
Two years later church records show he departed from the membership of that
church with his wife, Sally, and son, David. In 1807 he was one of the
founders of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Morgan County; and he was the
second individual to purchase land in that newly formed county. He acquired
other land by purchase and land lottery including 250 acres of Walton County
land in the 1821 land lottery which listed him as a Revolutionary soldier.
The children of James and Sally were: Mary Ann (Henry Conner), David C. (Nancy
Adcock), Elizabeth (John E. Adcock), Ganaway (1. Mary Polly Adcock 2. Rebecca
Hawk), John (1. Joanna Adcock 2. Nancy J. Hawk), James Malcom, Jr. (Margaret
"Peggy" Patterson), Sarah (Edmund Adcock, Jr.). The last three children were
born in Georgia and were George W. (Susannah Allen), Nancy (James Robertson),
and Anna (1. William Watson 2. Merriman Herndon).
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WILL OF JAMES MALCOM
WILL OF JAMES MALCOM Recorded in Morgan County Georgia,
Book B, page 256
In the name of God amen, I James Malcom, of the state of Georgia, and the
county of Morgan, being poorly in body, but of sound mind and memory do make
this my last will and testament. First of all, I commit my soul to God and my
body to be buried at the discretion of my friends and as touching my estate my
will and desire is that my just debts be paid.
Item First, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Mary Conner, formerly
Mary Malcom, one dollar in ready money.
Item Second, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, David Malcom, two negroes,
namely Jack and Henry.
Item Third, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter, Elizabeth Malcom, one
dollar ready money.
Item Fourth, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, Ganaway Malcom, two
negroes, namely Charles and Jake.
Item Fifth, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, John Malcom, two negroes,
namely Peter and Sam.
Item Sixth, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter, Sally Adcock, formerly
Sally Malcom, one dollar ready money.
Item Seventh, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, James Malcom, two
negroes, namely Dave and George.
Item Eighth, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, George W. Malcom, two
negroes, namely Jon and Sarah.
Item Ninth, I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Nancy Robertson,
formerly Nancy Malcom, four negroes, namely Mariah, Harriet, Reuben and
Israel; also two hundred dollars in money.
Item Tenth, I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Anna Herndon,
formerly Anna Malcom one dollar ready money.
Item Eleventh, my will and desire is that my five sons to wit, David
Malcom, Ganaway Malcom, John Malcom, James Malcom, George W. Malcom have all
my land estate to be equally divided between them. I do hereby constitute and
appoint as my executor to this my last will and testament, David Malcom and
Ganaway Malcom.
Item Twelfth, My will and desire is that my executors, above mentioned do
carry this my last will and testament into effect given under my hand and seal
the twelfth day of November 1828.
James Malcom
Witnesses James Cock, Wiley Bucks, Lorenzo D. Streight
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"Beginnings" author Jayne Malcom in 1989 had a government provided military marker added by the DAR and UDC correctly stating James Malcom's rank as Private. Some Malcoms who claim Capt. James Malcom as their ancestor, do so based on a memorial marker erected at Good Hope, Georgia in the Green Cemetery as the result of efforts by Walton Malcom in 1950. Both markers are in his memory because the actual site of his burial us unknown.
