Name Info

Levi DEATON 1748-1799
Fathers:THOMAS,THOMAS,WILLIAM,WILLIAM\ROBERT,HENRY,RICHARD,THOMAS

Search.........Person
Gender.........male
PAF-ID.........09111732
Age............51y 0m 4d
Fam-Group......DEATON
Fam-ID.........DEATON
Citizenship....US born
Status.........deceased
Last-Marital...widowed

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......4
#Events........1
#Images:.......0
#Comments......2
#Siblings......5
#Children......9

Person-Type....A
Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........father
Spouse?........husband
Sibling?.......brother
Child?.........son
Twin...........no
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Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: THOMAS ELIJAH DEATON Jr., male, born:1710 Henrico county Virginia, died:1779 (69y 0m 0d) ?Anson county North Carolina, Anc:1, Dad:THOMAS ELIJAH DEATON Sr., Mom:MARY CORRINGTON, #M:1, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:4
  2. Parent: MARY GIBBS, female, born:1716-09-18 Chester (Chesterfield) Virginia, died:1800 (83y 3m 14d) , Anc:1, Dad:JOHN GIBBS, Mom:MARY WEBSTER, #M:1, #Cmnts:2, #SrcDocs:7
  3. Sibling: John DEATON, male, born:1747 Amelia county Virginia, died:1820-1837 (73y 0m 0d) Breathitt county Kentucky, Dad:THOMAS ELIJAH DEATON Jr., Mom:MARY GIBBS, #M:1, #SrcDocs:1
  4. Sibling: JOSEPH DEATON Sr., male, born:1755 Amelia county Virginia, died:1832 (77y 0m 0d) ?Montgomery county North Carolina, Anc:1, Dad:THOMAS ELIJAH DEATON Jr., Mom:MARY GIBBS, #M:1, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:3
  5. Sibling: Levi DEATON
  6. Sibling: Levi DEATON
  7. Sibling: Thomas DEATON, male, born:1761 Amelia county Virginia, died:1855 (94y 0m 0d) Independence county Arkansas, Dad:THOMAS ELIJAH DEATON Jr., Mom:MARY GIBBS, #SrcDocs:2

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1776 ?Virginia
  2. Spouse: Martha Cady Vesser, female, born:1759 ?Virginia, died:1779-1849 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:Benjamin Vesser, Mom:Rhoda Harris, #SrcDocs:2
  3. ..Child: John W. DEATON, male, born:1777-05-01 Amelia county Virginia, died:1861-04-10 (83y 11m 9d) Amelia county Virginia, Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:3
  4. ..Child: Elijah DEATON, male, born:1778-07 Amelia county Virginia, died:1858-04 (79y 9m 0d) Botetourt county Virginia, Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:2
  5. ..Child: James DEATON, male, born:1779-04-05 Amelia county Virginia, died:1854-05-23 (75y 1m 18d) Morgan county Illinois, Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:2
  6. ..Child: William DEATON, male, born:1781 Amelia county Virginia, died:1870-1871 (89y 0m 0d) , Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:3
  7. ..Child: Levi DEATON Jr., male, born:1783 Amelia county Virginia, died:1860-1873 (77y 0m 0d) , Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:3
  8. ..Child: Elizabeth DEATON, female, born:1785 Amelia county Virginia, died:1805-1875 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:1
  9. ..Child: George DEATON, male, born:1791-01-21 Botetourt county Virginia, died:1827-12-25 (36y 11m 4d) Champaign county Ohio, Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:1
  10. ..Child: Martha C. DEATON, female, born:1794 Champaign county Ohio, died:1814-1884 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:1
  11. ..Child: Nathan DEATON, male, born:1799 Virginia, died:1867-10-19 (68y 9m 18d) Botetourt county Virginia, Dad:Levi DEATON, Mom:Martha Cady Vesser, #SrcDocs:3

Events
Birth
: 1748-05-12, Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia
Married
: ?1776 , Age:51y 0m 4d, ?Virginia, Role:groom
Tax
: 1782 , Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, Role:payee, paid tax on six whites and three blacks
Tax
: 1782 , Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, Role:payee
Job
: 1784 , Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, Role:owner, he and his wife bought it and 40 acres He renamed the hotel to Deaton's Hotel. Supposedly this hotel was the basis for the name of the town of Deatonville. The town was known as Thompson's Tavern before the Revolutionary War according to Judge Southall, an elderly judge of the county. During the Civil War, Deatonville was in the route of retreating Confederate troops.
Will-written
: 1799-04-10, Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, Role:writer, his will was probated a second time on 12-26-1821.
Death
: 1799-05-16, Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, around the time of the birth of his ninth child
Physical
: ?, Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, Role:physical, walked with a limp due to a childhood accident
Job
: ?, Age:51y 0m 4d, Amelia county Virginia, Role:farmer
Military
: ?, Age:51y 0m 4d, Role:soldier, Revolutionary War, Levi supplied food and tobacco to his brothers who served in the Revolutionary War and also to others

Places In
Amelia county Virginia

General

Died in the same year as his father

Levi bought one slave named Pompeii in 1876 [? after the Civil War ?] for the price of 30 pounds. From 1782 through 1800 Levi owned from 150 to 200 acres as per the land tax records. This was in the area of Amelia county that was known as Deatonville. All that remains of the area is the town sign and the Sandy Creek Baptist Church.


Sources
Website www.deaton.org, James Ronn Deaton

family


Data Issues
AncFlags between Spouses Mismatched

Historical
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1748: Austria - Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War
1748: United States - Benjamin Franklin retires from the printing business to pursue scientific matters
1750: Europe - Peak of the Little Ice Age [first suggested in 1939, this has since been disputed after more detailed research] that lasts another one hundred years
1751: United States - Jamaes Madison born
1752: United States - Benjamin Franklin discovers electricity with his famous kite flying experiment which was done in secrecy at the time. Later that same year he invents the lightning rod, one of the most perfect inventions because it continues to do its job without maintenance. It is still being used today by every tall building in the world.
1753: United States, France, England - Major George Washington, age 21, delivers a message to the French from the English King asking the French to leave North American, the French politely refuse
1754-1763,: United States, France, England - The French and Indian War, Fought in the U.S. and Canada mostly between the French and French allies and the English and English allies, the North American chapter of the Seven Years War
1754: India - Treaty of Pondicherry ends Second Carnatic War (of three) and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic
1755-1763: Canada - The Great Upheaval, forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
1755: Portugal - The Lisbon earthquake
1756-1763: France, India - The Third Carnatic War fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India
1756-1763: globe - Seven Years War fought among European powers in various theaters around the world
1757: India - Battle of Plassey signaled the beginning of formal British rule in India after years of commercial activity under the auspices of the East India Company
1758: England - British colonel James Wolfe Issues the Wolfe Manifesto
1758: United States - James Monroe born
1759: France, England - French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and British commander James Wolfe die during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1760: England - George III became King of Britain
1760: Iran - Zand dynasty founded in Iran
1761: France, India - Battle of Panipat, France defeats Maratha Empire
1762-1796: Russia - Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia
1763: India - Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years War and Third Carnatic War
1763: Omdoa - Kingdom of Mysore conquers the Kingdom of Keladi
1765: United States, England - Stamp Act Introduced into the American colonies by the UK Parliament
1766-1799: India - Anglo-Mysore Wars
1767: Burma - Burmese conquered the Ayutthaya kingdom
1768-1774: Russia, Turkey - Russo-Turkish War (sixth of ten), Russian victory
1768: Nepal - Gurkhas conquered Nepal
1769-1770: New Zealand, Australia - James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia
1769-1773: India - The Bengal famine of 1770 killed one third of the Bengal population
1769: United States - James Watt invents the steam engine, this begins the Industrial Revolution
1769: United States - Spanish missionaries established the first of twenty one missions in California
1770-1771: Czech Republic - Famine in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands
1770: Australia, England - James Cook claims the East Coast of Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain
1770: United States - Boston Massacre occurs when British troops fire into a crowd of snowball throwers, killing five. John Adams later defends in court the British troops involved, this actually boosts John Adams' reputation because it demonstrates to the British that the Americans are fair
1771: England - Richard Arkwright and his partners build the first water-powered mill at Cromford
1771: Russia - The Plague Riot in Moscow
1772-1779: England, India - Maratha Empire fights Britain and the forces of Raghunathrao during the First Anglo-Maratha War
1772-1795: Poland - The Partitions of Poland ended the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and erased Poland from the map for 123 years
1772: Denmark - Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee executed in Denmark
1772: Poland - Partitions of Poland marks the end of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1772: Sweden - Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d etat, becoming almost an absolute monarch
1773-1775: Russia - Pugachev Rebellion was the largest peasant revolt in the history of Russia
1773: India, China - East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle Opium into China
1775-1783: United States, England - American Revolutionary War
1775: United States - Daniel Boone begins to clear the Wilderness Road to Kentucky
1775: globe - John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 Marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his Second voyage (1772-1775)
1776: Germany - Order of Illuminati founded by German philosopher Adam Weishaupt
1776: United States - United States Declaration of Independence is written by Thomas Jefferson and others then is adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia
1778: United States - James Cook becomes first European on the Hawaiian Islands
1778: Vietnam - Tây So-n Dynasty established in Vietnam
1779-1879: England, South Africa - Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers and the Xhosas in South African Republic
1780: Peru - Outbreak of Indigenous rebellion led by Túpac Amaru II in Peru
1781-1785: Austria - Serfdom abolished in the Austrian monarchy (first step, second step in 1848)
1781: United States, Spain - Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles
1783: Iceland - Famine in Iceland caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano
1783: Ukraine, Russia - Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate
1783: United States, England - The Treaty of Paris formally ends the American War of Independence
1785-1791: Russia - Imam Sheikh Mansur, a Chechen warrior and Muslim mystic, led a coalition of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout the Caucasus in a holy war against the Russian Invaders
1785-1795: United States - Northwest Indian War between the United States and Native Americans
1787-1792: Russia, Turkey - Russo-Turkish War (seventh of ten), Russian victory
1787: Japan - Kansei Reforms Instituted in Japan by Matsudaira Sadanobu
1787: Sierra Leone - Freed slaves from London founded Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone
1787: United States - United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification, the Bill of Rights ratified four years later
1788-1789: Brazil - Inconfidencia Mineira, conspiracy against the colonial authorities in Brazil
1788: Astralia - First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney, Australia is the only Western country with no Bill of Rights
1788: France - First French Quaker community established in Congenies
1788: United States - New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution as the ninth state, and by the terms of Article VII, the constitution goes into effect
1789-1799: France - The French Revolution
1789: Canada, England, Spain - Great Britain and Spain dispute the Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis
1789: Unites States - George Washington unanimously elected President of the United States, he serves two four-year terms
1790: Belgiu, - United States of Belgium proclaimed following the Brabant Revolution
1790: Poland, germany - Establishment of the Polish-Prussian Pact
1791-1795: globe - George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition
1791-1804: Haiti - The Haitian Revolution
1791: Canada - The Constitutional Act (Or Canada Act) creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in British North America
1792-1815: France - The Great French War started as the French Revolutionary Wars which lead into the Napoleonic Wars
1792: Sweden - King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen
1792: United States - New York Stock & Exchange Board founded
1793-1796: France - Revolt in the Vendee against the French Republic at the time of the Revolution
1793: Canada - Upper Canada bans slavery
1793: United States - The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history killed as many as five thosand people in Philadelphia—roughly 10% of the population
1794: Iran - Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after replacing the Zand dynasty
1794: Poland - Polish revolt
1794: United States, England - The Jay Treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States which returns to the U.S. the Western outposts in the Great Lakes, and, commerce between the two countries is regulated
1795: France - The Marseillaise officially adopted as the French national anthem
1795: Georgia - Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to the ground
1795: United States, Spain - The Pinckney Treaty between the United States and Spain granted the Mississippi Territory to the U.S.
1795: United States - Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu uanu
1796-1804: China - The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China
1796: Africa (western) - Mungo Park, backed by the African Association, is the first European to set eyes on the Niger River in Africa
1796: Ceylon, England, Naterlands - British ejected Dutch from Ceylon
1796: England - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination, smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs)
1796: France - Battle of Montenotte, engagement in the War of the First Coalition, first victory of Napoleon Bonaparte as an army commander
1797: France - Napoleon Invades and partitions the Republic of Venice ending over a thousand years of Independence for the Serene Republic
1797: United States - John Adams is elected to succeed George Washington as President of the United States, he serves one four-year term and his son, John Quincy Adams, will serve one term as President 24 years later
1798-1800: United States, France - Quasi-War between the United States and France
1798: Ireland - The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland
1799: France - Napoleon staged a coup d etat and became dictator of France
1799: India - Dutch East India Company is dissolved
1799: Tonga - The assassination of the 14th Tu I Kanokupolu, Tuku aho, plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war