Nathaniel hale pryor biography
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Nathaniel Pryor Biography
This biography is from a paper by George H. Yater originally presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in Louisville and subsequently published in “Nine Young Men from Kentucky,” a May 1992 supplementary publication of We Proceeded On, the official publication of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor, who officially joined the Expedition on October 20, 1803, was a first cousin of Sergeant Charles Floyd. His mother was the former Nancy Floyd, sister of Robert and Charles. She had married John Pryor in Virginia where Nathaniel Hale Pryor, the future sergeant, was born in 1772. John and Nancy Pryor had come to Jefferson County, Kentucky, by April 2, 1782, when John voted for delegates to the Virginia General Assembly. We even know for whom he voted, because the quaint custom at that time and for many, many years thereafter was to vote viva voca, by voice, and in the earliest days the vote was recorded in the Minute Book of the County Court (1).
On May 17, 1783, John Pryor was awarded 3 shillings and 3 pence for 18 days of service as a spy-spying out hostile Indians and/or British. He is shown on the Jefferson County tax list for 1789, but he died soo
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Nathaniel Wholesome Pryor (abt. 1775 - 1831)
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Son of Can A. Pryor and City (Floyd) Pryor
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History
Nathaniel Pryor served ancestry the Clash of 1812
Service started: Apr 1, 1810
Unit(s): 44th Infantry
Service ended: Jun 15, 1815
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Nathaniel Hale Pryor
Nathaniel Hale Pryor (1772–1831) was an American explorer, who served as Sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Early life and family
[edit]Nathaniel Pryor was born in Amherst County, Virginia and was a cousin of fellow expedition member Charles Floyd. A letter written by Sam Houston to President Andrew Jackson on Pryor's behalf noted that Pryor was a first cousin to John Floyd, governor of Virginia.[1] Nathaniel was the son of John Pryor and his wife Nancy Floyd. The Pryor and Floyd families moved to Kentucky when he was eleven. Both parents were deceased by 1791 when Nathaniel and his brother Robert were recorded as orphans in Jefferson County court records, and apprenticed to Obediah Newman.[2] It is interesting to note that Nathaniel, Robert, and their other Floyd cousins, were great-grandchildren (x3) of Nicketti, identified as a daughter of Powhatan and sister of Pocahontas.[3]
Nathaniel married Margaret Patton on May 17, 1798, it is believed she died young, but they were still married in October 1803 when he was recorded as the only married member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.[4] In 1821 Pryor married an Osage Indian woman, her name is not known, they had several children. Additionally, 18