Mar 11, 2023 [Daguerreotype] Jenny Lind, Unpublished $400. 3.Simon Girty (17411818), an Indian trader born near Harrisburg, Pa., and raised partly among Seneca Indians, had been employed as an interpreter for the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. That in the early part of the Indian War there was a Fort or Garrison erected on a plantation belonging to James Burnsides two miles north west from where he lived which was called Burnsides Fort. Scott Keith Fort McIntosh was an early American log frontier fort situated near the confluence of the Ohio River and the Beaver River in what is now Beaver, Pennsylvania. Girty was present at the torturing and killing of William Crawford by the Wyandots in Upper Sandusky in 1782. On the first of May seventeen hundred seventy nine engaged in the company commanded by Captain Graham under the command of Colonel Brown of Greenbrier County Virginia a spy to spy out and reconoiter the enroads and excursions of the Indians on the Kenhaway, and the Country thereabout, Served from the 1stof May seventeen hundred seventy nine to the first of November seventeen hundred Eighty one at the rate of five shillings per day in Contennental money were bound to find myself amunition and other aequipage together with necessary provision. Served the above six months a private as above. Servt, W. Russell Colo. Commr Genl Muhlenbergs Brigade. Hill Monument completed in 1843 commemorating the first battle, or at least one of the first battles, of the American Revolutionary War? [M[y Father and my self each had a settlement right of 400 acres of land the title to which we perfected[?] Moylan's Light Dragoons, 1779. Log palisades connected the bastions, and a 15 foot wide ditch protected three sides of the fort, with the 130 foot slope to the Ohio River protecting the other side. That he served in this year from the 1stof August until the 1stof November following, nothing of importance occured during this year. The 13th Virginia Regiment was a United States infantry regiment during the American Revolutionary War . That he was afterwards drafted in the month of January 1781 into service as a soldier of the Revolution from the County of Augusta and marched in a company commanded by Captain Thomas Hicklin Lieutenant Joseph Gwin and Ensign Thomas Wright and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Sampson Mathews; [T]hat he lived at the time he was drafted in the County of Augusta and State of Virginia. Clay, was raised principally in Paris and the surrounding community. He served to the best of his recollection under this draft three months. Special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1912 by Virginia State Library. I am happy to be informd by Major Campbell, that your Excellency intends shortly to have the divided and disagreeable situation of the 13th Virginia Regiment laid before Congress; that thereby that part of the Regiment here, and those over the Mountain at Fort Pitt may be joind together, and act accordingly at such place as your Excellency and Congress may think propper to direct.1, That the Soldiers of that Regiment had assurances by the Officers who enlisted them to be continued on that side of the Mountain, is a fact, perhaps unknown to your Excellency, but true it is such engagements drew in many married Men to enlist, who have since been forced down here, leaving their helpless Families in a most miserable condition. We arrived to late to join said troops. It's possible it was incorrectly annotated. That he was marched accross the Blue Ridge of Mountains at Rockfish gap, thence directly to the City of Richmond, thence down the James River to Sandy Point where he with the company to which he belonged crossed the River and thence to Camp Carson an encampment in what was called the dismal Swamp near a place called Portsmouth in the State of Virginia, where he was stationed the greater part of the winter, and from thence he was marched with the Army in the spring to Murdoughs Mills [possibly Murdocks Mill] still nearer to Portsmouth where he remained untill the 9thof April 1781 when he was discharged having served a tour of three months; that during said three months Tour of service he was in one engagement or skirmish under the command of the aforesaid officers at or in sight of Portsmouth; that Captain Cunningham from Rockbridge County, Virginia was wounded in the groin; that the Captain received his wound a few paces in his front there was also one soldier wounded in the leg & was placed on a carriage and bourn off the field or ground of the engagement. 13th Virginia: Brig. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since Revolutionary War: and where do you now live. Reprint (1st work). All rights reserved. Second Regiment of Connecticut Light Horse Militia, 1777. GW visited Kiashutas camp in the fall of 1770 while on his journey to find bounty lands in the Ohio country, and in October 1774 Kiashuta visited GW at Philadelphia (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. Our work has been featured by the New York Times, TIME magazine, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, NPR, and more. 13th Virginia Regiment Frontier, Native Americans, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) May 11, 2021 May 12, 2021. They are divided up by state in alphabetical order. To try and prevent this tragedy, some wives . [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It was again reorganized and redesignated as the 7th Virginia Regiment on 1 January 1781 to consist of two companies. 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. Left Valley Forge in May 1778 for Fort Pitt. . 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. The competing officers would engage in a power struggle in a letter writing campaign against one another to Gen. Washington. . Gen. Peter Muhlenberg: Of the eight companies in this regiment, four were raised in Pennsylvania and four from Maryland. In the summer of 1783 [could be 1782] the month he does not recollect he was again called into the service as a drafted militia man under the same Captain A. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-13-02-0559, From Washington to Russell [30 March 1778], All correspondence between Washington and Russell, National Historical Publications and That was 1778, so he confused his dates. The first commander of the Twenty-first was E. L. Dudley, of Lexington, who died February 20, 1862. Heres the narrative portion: Gordon Griffin states that he was a Continental soldier in the revolutionary war, in the service of the United Colonies that he enlisted in Greenbrier County Virginia, he thinks about the middle of August 1777 that he belonged to a company commanded by Capt James Burnside (Byrnside) which was attatched to the thirteenth regiment of the Line from Virginia on continental establishment Commanded by Col. Daniel Brodhead and Lieut. 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. >"% '^' k:' * n^ >7-, %.^ ^^% ,x^^' - '^. I have a record of my age in a very old family Bible now in my possession. Title: Twenty years around the world. 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). Richmond : Virginia State Library and Archives, c1989. Mar 11, 2023 1790 Early Slave Bill of Sale (Virginia) $500. [2] The original Companies B and E enlisted only for 6 months, the others for one year. He was confronted with the same issues that previous generals had faced before him: shortages of supplies, food, and men. July 23. Rockingham County Virginia to secure the marriage of Daniel Trout to Catharine Grub b.] Thanks. Research genealogy for James Reed "Revolutionary War - Capt. The National Historical Publications and John Gibson(previously Col. William Russel). 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. Michael Swopes father was perhaps the first permanant settler in what is now Monroe County, West Virginia, and was likely the first white child born in Monroe County, in 1753 the second probably being John Byrnside in 1763. Girty deserted the American cause in March 1778, and thereafter he served as an interpreter for the British at Detroit, taking part in Indian raids on western settlers. He retired September 30. 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. Subscribe now and get each blog post by email. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Publication Title: Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Publisher: NARA Short Description: NARA M246. First settler of Wood County VA/WV, Parkersburg area. This narrative doesnt expressly mention Byrnsides Fort, but its apparent from the wording that he was in the same militia unit in 1778 formed by Capt. It appears that Kincaid (who was a neighbor of James Byrnside) was part of the contingent who remained in western Virginia, rather than going on to Kentucky. He commanded frontier garrisons on the upper Ohio river at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) and Fort Henry. Ligonier, a town and township about thirty miles southeast of Fort Pitt in Westmoreland County, Pa., was the site of a British fort between 1758 and 1765. Home Battles 1775 to 1783 Campaigns Continental Army Continental Navy British Army Flags of the Revolution War Facts War Leaders Patriot Leaders British Leaders I shall be 77 yrs. While at Fort Pitt he was sent out on a campaign under the command of Col Gibson and Crawford. The fortress was constructed in 1778 under the direction of Lt. Col. Cambray-Digny, a French engineer, and named in honor of General Lachlan McIntosh. He was right. In response, the said Greenbrier Militia officers, Andrew Donnally, Samuel Brown, and Andrew Hamilton, penned the following response to Jefferson: A Letter from your Excellency of the 24th of December directing that 137 Men of the Militia of this County shoud forthwith be raised and sent to the County of Kentucky to join Colo. Clarke, and serve under him this ensueing Summer on an Expedition against the Indians in Consequence of which We have given orders to Draft that Number together with Proper Officers to Command them, amounting to 146 effective Men; so large a number out of a Militia scarcely 550 strong lying in a County exposed to the daily inroads of the Indians, fill[s] us with much uneasiness about the dangers we are like[ly] to suffer from this weakening of our Militia, especially at a time when we cannot expect to be reinforced from any of the interiour Counties, shoud any such danger arise. C. 11 , on the 13th and 14th days of August, 1856. la Thu Convention root at 11 o'clock on Wed ova- pi day, the 14th Inst., in the Papot Building.