Next, Littleton West discusses being drafted to go to Kentucky in the early 1780s, and that he couldnt go because he had gotten married by then, so he found a substitute. Left Valley Forge in May 1778 for Fort Pitt. Regt, which I Accordingly have done, Excepting those of the 13th Virga Regt and some who were sick. One Samuel H. Shute gave a statement in support of George Dixons application, which mentions that while serving as an Indian Spy for Capt. [M[y Father and my self each had a settlement right of 400 acres of land the title to which we perfected[?] 40 miles from Fort Pitt; affidavit in file age 67 in Pendleton Couinty, virginia 1813 when disabled from Revolutionary War wounds; William Marteney filed 6 vols. Moylan's Light Dragoons, 1779. The mission ended up getting canceled and repurposed. Field officers at Valley Forge were Colonel William Russell, Colonel George Gibson, Lt. About the year 1779 or 1780 as I think I volunteered under Captain Thomas Wright of Greenbrier County in the State of Virginia in which County I still lived with a body of Militia ordered out by the authority of Virginia. Travelled to a place near the Crab Orchard [in Lincoln County KY], we encamped at night. the United States, and research and development projects to bring historical records to the >"% '^' k:' * n^ >7-, %.^ ^^% ,x^^' - '^. Lieutenant Colonel Walker was promoted to colonel . Sherburne's Continental Regiment, 1778 - 1780. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to veterans from Blair County, Pennsylvania who served in: Revolutionary War; War of 1812; Mexican War; Civil War; Spanish American War; and, World War 1. This is a comprehensive list of Americans in the Revolutionary War. [H]e recollects of no other injury received by the American Army in the aforesaid skirmish. He commanded frontier garrisons on the upper Ohio river at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) and Fort Henry. His name was Capt. I believe the Brodhead expedition is mentioned in the following narrative by another member of the Greenbrier Militia, who mustered at Byrnsides Fort, in what was most assuredly 1778: The Winckleback application was known. Richard Arell's Co. Capt. Charlottesville, Va., 197679. Their Wives and Children were soon after forced to fly into Forts, to escape the danger of a savage Enemy, at a time when provisions were scarce in that part of the Country and must have suffered much since. List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia. Un concours pour mettre en avant des inventeurs africains-amricains the United States, and research and development projects to bring historical records to the The same promise had been made to the soldiers of Colonel Russell's 13th Virginia. My self with two or three others did not. General Edward Hand was originally in command of the western war department and was headquartered at Fort Pitt. Service started: Unit (s): Service ended: James O'Neall was born in 1738, the son of Hugh and Anne (Cox) O'Neall. old the 2ndday of November next in the year 1773 I settled with my Father on Muddy creek Greenbrier county and have lived there ever since. Colonel Hill was promoted to brigadier general. Drafted as aforesaid in the month of Febuary seventeen hundred seventy Eight, And marched in the month of March of the same year To Fort Chissell (Chiswell) in Virginia In the Company Commanded by Captain John Henderson under the command of Major Hamilton [probably Andrew Hamilton] stationed at Fort Chisel aforesaid. The unit sustained heavy losses at the Battle of Cedar Creek and surrendered at Appomattox Court House with 10 officers and 52 men. That in the year 1781 he again entered the service on the 1stday of Aprile and continued in service until the 1stof November following. October 24, 1776 put in the "Continental establishment" in Captain Marshall's Company in the 13th PA regiment commanded by Col. Walter Stewart. Servt, W. Russell Colo. Commr Genl Muhlenbergs Brigade. Col. John Gibson which regiment was attached to the command of Gen. Lachlan McIntosh. Born 1749. Read the email, or read online! That he entered the service of the United States, & served under the following named Officers, he was drafted for six months at the House or Station called, Burnsides Station [near present Salt Sulfur Springs in Monroe County WV], in month of February 1778, in the company commanded, by Captain John Henderson, Lieutenant John Woods. The 13th was prominent in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then it moved with Gen. Jubal Early to the Shenandoah Valley and later was involved in the Appomattox operations. [1] References The 13th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War. virginia civil war reenactments 2022. Served not less than three months upon the above named 2ndTour a private in the company aforesaid. The circumstances that brought a second tour of service, were as follows (towit) in the fall of the year 1780 I engaged in the company of Capt. Entered Valley Forge with 175 men assigned, 69 fit for duty. Washington and his western officers wanted to attack Detroit. That he moved from the Eastern part of Augusta County in the year 1774 to Turkey Creek a tributary stream of Indian Creek now in the County of Monroe then he thinks called West Augusta and better known by the name of the Greenbriar [sic: Greenbrier] Country. In a letter to Washington, Brodhead described the incident: Ten miles this side of Conewago, Lieut. 13th Virginia Regiment - Brandywine Soldiers Category: 13th Virginia Regiment "The 13th Virginia Regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 by the Continental Congress for service with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He aided in retaking eleven American prisoners from the Indians after killing two Indians in the engagement. Joseph Marechal's Co. Capt. 21 hrs Left WWI 13TH ENGINEER TRENCHART PAINTED BRODIE HELMET $110. Ans. That would have been the 1778 trip to Kentucky. This undoubtedly contained whiskey and flour. modern editorial content, are copyright The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Gen. Peter Muhlenberg: Of the eight companies in this regiment, four were raised in Pennsylvania and four from Maryland. skeith@waynesville.k12.mo.us It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.[1]. Craft's comments since in the first sentence, he refers to the "peace, security and national, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2018, The 100 Best American Revolution Books of All Time, A Choice Body of Men: The Continental Army on the Upper Ohio, Virginias Independent Frontier Companies, Part 2 of 2, Perspectives on the Ten Crucial Days of the Revolution, This Week on Dispatches: Gene Procknow on Ethan Allen and Revolutionary-Era Newspapers. It was again reorganized and redesignated as the 7th Virginia Regiment on 1 January 1781 to consist of two companies. The fortress was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Fort McIntosh on January 21, 1785. Assure yourself Sir we woud not have made this request but in consequence of the intreaties of the inhabitants here and the imminent danger to which we think these frontiers exposed, by thus drawing away the Militia. Where and in what year were you born. Benjamin' Harrison Company - 13th Virginia Regiment" of Fairfax, Virginia, USA, as well as other members of the Reed "Revolutionary War - Capt. On a second tour (1778) this said declarant was drafted from the Milletia of said County of Greenbrier in Virginia (at the station of Burnsides, in the Co of Greenbrier in the State of Virginia with his Brother Peter Dixon -detail from his statement for his brothers application) to go to Kentucky, (and there join General [George Rogers] Clark on a expedition to the Scioto now in the State of Ohio. That he entered the service of the United States about the first of March in the year 1778 as a drafted militia man in Captain Thomas Wrights Company of the County of Greenbrier State of Virginia to serve a tower [tour] of three months which tower he served, some few days after he joined the said Wrights Company the said company marched to New River in the State aforesaid where his Company was attached to Colonel James Hendersons Regiment. The National Historical Publications and That they marched on to Fort Chisel (Chiswell) where they met with Major Quirk or Kirk a Continental Officer who assumed the command over Major (Andrew) Hamilton, and thence they marched on to Kentucky to Colonel Logans Station where they remained until the three months draft expired when they were informed that the object of the draft was to go to Detroit (with George Rogers Clark) and a number of the men becoming dissatisfied deserted the next day but he remained and went on to Baughmans Station and remained until most of the men left the Station when he was permitted to return home having served five months in said tour; that he never received any pay for said Services when acting as a Spy and but $6 for his services while drafted. The 13th Regiment was formed in February 1777 at Fort Pitt. That he does not reccollect that any thing of importance took place in the immediate neighborhood of the Fort but that the Indians were constantly prowling about through the Country and committing murders and depradations on the persons and property of the frontier setters insomuch that the people were kept in constant alarm, That in the year 1778 he again entered the Service of his Country in Burnsides Fort on the 1stday of May and continued in Service until the 1stday of November following that he was commanded this year as before by the aforesaid Captain Wright. public. The nature of his Services as an Indian Spy in each of the aforesaid years was to leave Cooks Fort on Indian Creek descended said Creek to its mouth where it empties into New River and thence down New River to the mouth of Blue Stone, thence to Van-Bibbers Fort on Greenbrier River, and thence to Jarretts Fort on Wolf Creek, making a distance in going and returning of from thirty to thirty-five miles. . This is George Dixons own pension narrative, which follows: [H]e entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated That he entered the said service in the month of September AD 1777 A volenteer of the County of Greenbrier in the state of Virginia, in the Company commanded by Captain James Armstrong, marched from the said County of Greenbrier [illegible word] the Kenhaway to Point Pleasent [sic: Kanawha River to Point Pleasant] on the Ohio River Captain [Matthew] Arbuckle commanded said Garison [Fort Randolph] at Point Pleasent. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. Upon the evening of the same day, 13th of October, 1862, with my husband and a lady friend, we accompanied the detachment of his own regiment which carried his body to the grave. Went on to Fort McIntosh lay there a while and then moved on with the army to Fort Laurence (Fort Laurens). Apparently the value for this particular expedition was anticipated to be $50.00. Dixon mustered for the 1778 trip, and ended up at Logans Station in Kentucky. It is with the utmost reluctance we address ourselves to your Excellency on this occasion (at a time when the necessities of the State require the utmost exertion of its members in its defence) to request that you will Prolong the Term in which we are to furnish said recruits, till the return of o[ur] Militia from Colo. Clarke, or at least till such time as [the]y have got into the Indian Country and may have drawn their attention to his operations. (Van Bibber) agreeable to order of Colonel (William) Preston and Major James Henderson as he believes and left the Service in the month of December 1779 and that he resided in Green Brier, now Monroe County in the said State of Virginia. The regiment was disbanded at Fort Pitt on 1 January 1783. The first commander of the Twenty-first was E. L. Dudley, of Lexington, who died February 20, 1862. Clark did so, in an epic way, and now was positioned within striking distance of the British fort at Detroit. Molly Pitcher In the American Revolutionary War during the Battle of Monmouth, the Continental Army fought the British Army. The settlers who chose to make their homes in the upper Ohio in the mid to late eighteenth century faced a wide variety of, The Fifth Virginia Convention convened in Williamsburg in May 1776 with a weighty agenda before it. I would doubt that they drove beef cattle, because they would have been using a wilderness trail to reach the destination. Koquetakeghton was killed while serving as a guide for an American expedition against the British post at Fort Sandusky in November of the same year. Girty was present at the torturing and killing of William Crawford by the Wyandots in Upper Sandusky in 1782. The acquisition of Texas involved us in the Mexican War. and further this deponant saith not. (James) Graham of danger, which went unheeded, resulting in tragedy: He has heard him [George Dixon] long since relate the circumstance of King Cornstalk being kiled at Point Pleasant in virginia and his expedition to Kentucky with an Express. Wright which mustered at Byrnsides Fort, along with others discussed here. A Choice Body of Men: The Continental Army on the Upper Ohio . 13th Virginia: Brig. He was with the 13th VA. SUBMITTER INFO: I am with due respect, May it please your Excellency your Most Obed. There destroyed the Indian Towns, destroyed their (the Indians) Corn and other property. And that he this deponant perfectly recollects of hearing the said Peter Dixon, state more than thirty years since, that he the said Peter, was drafted for the term of six months in Greenbrier County Virginia, in the War of the Revolution. Virginia Independent Companies Regiment of Guards Search Virginia Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 fromThe National Archives: NARA M246. Publicado en . [T]hat he was drafted in the last of February in the year 1781 in the service of the United States and entered the service under Colonel (William) Preston, Major Quirk and Captain Andrew Hamilton of the Militia of the State of Virginia at Burnsides Station in Greenbrier County and march[ed] from there to what is now called Kentucky to join General Clark [George Rogers Clark] at the falls of the Ohio to go to New orleans [New Orleans] to assist the French agreeable to order of General Washington. Lafayette helped During this campaign, the advanced guard was attacked by a large body of Indians, and after a short engagement in which they killed ten of the Indians they succeeded in defeating and driving them from the field. Was two years & nine months in actual service I substituted as before stated for nine months. Reached home the last of August in Company with twenty-eight others who had been in the same service. One who was King Cornstalk a Shawnee Indian in despite of the Commandant officer of the Garison General Hann deeming the above named expedition inadvisable abandened the expedition. It's possible it was incorrectly annotated. Archives Division Publication date 1913 Topics Virginia. The 13th Virginia Regiment was a United States infantry regiment during the American Revolutionary War . It seems Kincaid stayed back to protect against such an attack, as well as for regular ranging duty. He was concerned, however, that doing so might set an uncomfortable precedent, and he complained to Horatio Gates on 9 Mar. . While he was there, the Shawnee attacked the Graham family. While Hull dithered and delayed at Detroit, worrying about his supply lines through Ohio and along the Lake Erie shore, he received news that the American base at Mackinac had fallen to the British on July 17. He retired September 30. 34 vols. He sided with the French after Braddocks defeat in 1755, taking part in the September 1758 victory over British and provincial troops under the command of Maj. James Grant. Left Valley Forge with 400 men assigned and 218 fit for duty. where they had been and that they had seen no signs of Indians but not thinking a family safe in such a situation advised him to leave his Cabbin and go to the Fort but he did not concent to do so and in a few hours after the Spyes left him the House was attact by a small party of Indians and some of them firing at the door which was shut the ball penetrated through the door and lodged in the boddy of Mrs. Bradshaw and wounded her so badly that she died that night and on Bradshaws firing his gun through the door from the inner side the Indians retired without doing any farther damage. GW ordered Gibson to take command of his former regiment, the 13th Virginia, in the spring of 1778 (see GW to William Russell, Sr., 28 May 1778), and before he retired from the army in January 1783 Gibson also commanded the 9th and 7th Virginia regiments. The unit was organized on 12 February 1777 at Fort Pitt in present-day western Pennsylvania to consist of nine companies of troops from the far-western Virginia counties (now parts of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania). After having served the foregoing period and performed the foregoing services, he was discharged by Captain Woods and Henderson both signing a written discharge which discharge is either lost or mislaid. They are divided up by state in alphabetical order. Sullivan for that purpose, and hope your Excellency will Give such directions as will Enable him to Return as soon as possible.5 I am with the Utmost Respect your Excellencys most Obedient humble Servt. Thomas Jefferson, as Governor of Virginia, had written a letter to the officers of the Greenbrier County Militia, ordering the to raise 137 men of the county militia, once again for the purpose of joining George Rogers Clark, but this time it would be on a prolonged expedition in the west (i.e., taking Detroit). But then it was marched to the Lead Mines (Fort Chiswell) on Holston, and then to Logans Station in Kentucky. I make no doubt Genl Hand has already Acquainted your Excellency of the Situation of Affairs in this Country and of his having gone down to Regulate the Garrisons on the Ohio.2 since he left this place nothing Material has happened. [T]hat he was generally out from three to four days in each week, and sometimes longer if the danger or the intelligence from the Indians seemed to require it and some times when they saw signs of the Indians they would fligh [sic, fly?] Keeneys Fort long pre-existed Arbuckles so that could be Arbuckles Fort. John Gibson(previously Col. William Russel). Captain George McCormick served at the Battle of Brandywine in Colonel William Crawfords Virginia Regiment. The return includes three companies of the 13th Virginia Regiment and two companies of independent Virginia troops, a total of 256 men, including 15 commissioned officers, 28 noncommissioned officers, and 213 rank and file. I was born on Wolf Creek near Greenbrier River then called West Augusta now Monroe County in the year 1753 and I have heard it frequent said that I was the first white child ever born in what is now the limits of Monroe County. The 13th Virginia Regiment was a United States infantry regiment during the American Revolutionary War. Before this it is believed he. He then served back on the Greenbrier River at John Van Bibbers Fort, at what is present day Lowell, West Virginia now Summers County. 3.Simon Girty (17411818), an Indian trader born near Harrisburg, Pa., and raised partly among Seneca Indians, had been employed as an interpreter for the Americans around Fort Pitt as early as 1759 and as a scout during Dunmores War in 1774. Graham, Dixon warned Cpt. The 13th Virginia completed its organization during the summer of 1861 with men from Winchester and Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, and Hampshire counties, and one company from Maryland. To try and prevent this tragedy, some wives . THE MEXICAN WAR. It was originally Greenbrier County, and then Monroe County, and finally Summers County. The 13th Virginia Regiment was a United States infantry regiment during the American Revolutionary War. 13th Virginia Regiment 14th Virginia Regiment 15th Virginia Regiment 1st Virginia State Regiment 2nd Virginia State Regiment Miscellaneous German Regiment Grayson's Regiment Hartley's Regiment Hazen's Regiment Malcolm's Regiment Patton's Regiment Provisional Rifle Corps (Morgan's) Spencer's Regiment George McCormicks DAR record says that he served in the Virginia 13th Regiment under Colonels Crawford and Russell. [fn p. 14: on May 11, 1848 in Harrison County Indiana, Mary Catherine Trout, 72, filed for a widow's pension under the 1848 act stating that she is the widow of Anthony D. Trout, a pensioner at the rate of $80 per annum for his services in the revolution.] Each of these expeditions ended up diverting men to stay and guard the mines, as they were constantly under threat by the local tory groups in the nearby mountains. The fort may have had either two or four iron cannon (Wikipedia). Soon after, Brodhead led an expedition to stop the threat of American Indian raids on the frontier. In 1777 when he was 40 years old, David Scott served as a captain in the 13th Regiment of Virginia Militia during the American Revolution. These expeditions aimed to protect frontier colonists from the threat of American Indians and made up a large part of Western Pennsylvanias role in the Revolutionary War. This scouting party was under the command of Lieut. It was again reorganized and redesignated as the 7th Virginia Regiment on 1 January 1781 to consist of two companies. In the State of Indiana, Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for Warren County in said County, Peter Dixon, aged fifty years, who after being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he has been well acquainted with his Uncle Peter Dixon, who is an applicant for a pension, as this deponent is informed, for services rendered the United States during the War of the Revolution. I request the favour of your Excellency to indulge Major Campbell with leave of absence, till he can wait on Congress to have the business adjusted, unless your Excellency In a strategic attempt to divert the enemys attention from these campaigns, Washington requested that Brodhead resume his expedition along the Allegheny. He was stationed in Greenbrier County but was frequently sent as a spy out of that County in pursuit of Indians. Richmond : Virginia State Library and Archives, c1989. The 13th Virginia Regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 by the Continental Congress for service with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Vance, John, entered service as sergeant major in 13th Virginia Regiment; twice wounded at Battle of Germantown/ moved to western part of Pennsylvania or Virginia near Yogohany River abt. 1 Image Add a Fact Owner: Fold3_Team Anyone can contribute Created: 10 Oct 2013 Modified: 10 Oct 2013 View Count: 32 (Recent: 1) 5.James Sullivan (c.17481815) served as a captain in the 13th Virginia Regiment from December 1776 to September 1778 and in the state regiment raised by George Rogers Clark, the so-called Illinois Regiment, that carried on a campaign against the Shawnee tribes from 1780 to 1782. Simon Girty a Messenger dispatched by General Hand to the Seneca towns on the Heads of the Allegeney, Returned here a few days a goe, he in forms us Guashota a Chief of them had Returned from War, that he had killed four people near Legonier,3 that another party Returned and Brought in a white Woman and three Scalps whilst he was in the towns, that they told him all the Nations Excepting White Eyes and a few Delawares woud strike us in the Spring. State Troops recruited men from Botetourt, Augusta, Hampshire, and Frederick counties and West Augusta District. This narrative was previously known, and has been often cited as being a good description of the details surrounding service as an Indian Spy, a militia ranger tasked with being the early warning system of an Indian attack, as well as being the quick reaction force in the event of an emergency. The regiment contained, likewise, a large number of private soldiers from Bourbon. [1] After the Revolution, the fort was the home of the First American Regiment, the oldest active unit in the United States Army. on one occasion I was out with three other men spying on Gauley River we were in this service for one month I dont know by what authority we were spying but suppose by the direction of Capt Hamilton. However, it ties in nicely with the Griffin narrative, in that they both describe being mustered to transport supplies for James Byrnside, almost certainly via packhorse, to the Fort Pitt region. Author: John Guy Vassar (1811-1888) Release Date: March 1, 2023 [eBook #70180] Language: English. I shall be 77 yrs. 13th Infantry Capt. Militia Publisher Richmond, D. Bottom, superintendent of public printing Collection library_of_congress; americana Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation Benjamin Harrison of VA. The reason for this was that some of the mountain-folk of Montgomery County were organizing for a takeover of the Lead Mines at Fort Chiswell. On 24 May 1778 the unit was assigned to the Western Department {Fort Laurens}, and on 12 May 1779 it was reorganized and redesignated as the 9th Virginia Regiment. The regiment saw action in the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, and the Battle of Monmouth. I substituted in the place of a man whose name I have forgotten for nine months he haveing been drafted for that length of time. Hble Servants. They were recruited to serve initially in the First Virginia Regiment. Publication Title: Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Publisher: NARA Short Description: NARA M246. Please add Mathias Shaner, Sargent in the 13th Virgina and a member of Captain James Sullivans Company commanded by Col. William Russel. Left Valley Forge in May 1778 for Fort Pitt. After fighting at First Manassas and in Jackson's Valley Campaign, it served in General Early's, W.Smith's, Pegram's, and J.A. Most of the regiment was captured at Charlestown, South Carolina on May 12, 1780 by the British and the regiment was formally disbanded on November 15, 1783. All rights reserved. He states that he was stationed at Byrnsides Fort for 30 days in 1779, or 1780, with 30 men.

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