I am looking for facts on others of my 4g & 5g grandfathers. Again, I have nothing but information found on other peoples' sites, mainly <http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/quarrybank/194/agthomas...;. Have these two men been proven?
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Captain Thomas Preston:
Birth: ca 1715 or ca 1722, England/ Suffolk, Eng
Death: 24 Sep 1798, Brunswick Co, VA
Occ: Captain Revolutionary War
Father: William PRESTON
Spouse: Mary (Molly) WALKER
Birth: ca 1726, Brunswick Co., VA
Father: George WALKER
Mother: Mary JENKINS

Children:
William (1748-)
Anna (1750-)
Martha (1752-<1804)
Thomas (1754-1836)
Weatherington (1756-)
Joshua (1758-)
James (1760-)
Mary (1762-)


Thomas Preston b.ca.1722 d.1798, will probated in 1800 and recorded in Vol. 6, follo 180, Will book of Brunswick Co., VA.

Thomas served in the Revolutionary War under Gen. John Sevier. In the Watauga Purchase of 1775, his name was mentioned with that of Gen. Sevier and was known as "Captain Thomas" Preston. (King's Mountain by White, page 218.) In the record room of the Brunswick County seat, Lawrenceville, VA., Court House, there is framed on the wall a Roster of "Revolutionary Patriots from Brunswick County", on which appears the name of Thomas Preston, he being the father of Thomas Preston Jr., who is buried in Walton County, Georgia.


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Thomas PRESTON Jr.
Birth: Sep 1754, Brunswick Co, VA
Death: 11 Apr 1836, Walton Co, GA
Burial: 1836, Preston Family Cem.
Spouse: Mary HARRISON
Birth: ca 1762
Death: 30 Oct 1843, Walton Co, GA
Burial: Preston Family Cem.near Monroe, Walton Co., GA
Marr: 1780 / 1784, Brunswick Co., VA

Children:
Gilliam (1784-1832)
Patricia (Patsy) Peobles / Pebbles (1786-)
Thomas (1788-1848)
Benjamin (1789-)
Nancy (1792-)
Archibald (1794-1882)
Polly Adeletson (1796-)
William Hulon (1802-1892)

Thomas Jr also served in the Revolutionary War in a Cavalry Co. of young men which constituted a body-guard for Gen. George Washington and was present at Yorktown at the time of the surrender of Cornwallis. (Encyclopedia of Georgia, Vol. 3) After the war he moved to Georgia and was given a land grant under John Clark as Governor. Lot 86, 250 acres in Walton Co., GA.