West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: #1 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre] #2 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre] #3 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre] #4 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre] #5 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: County Tax As [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:01:35 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net> Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - 1902 - H-L Surnames YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 64-69 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. HAINES, PETER. Peter Haines served as a private in Capt. Abraham Shepard's Company, of Rawling's Regiment of Con- tinental troops. His name appears on a pay abstract for the period from July 1, 1776, to Jan. 1, 1779, with! remarks: "Enlisted July 10, 1776;" "made prisoner Nov. 16, 1776;" "date how long pay is charged, 29 months 20 days." This Company was raised by Capt. Hugh Stevenson and Henry Bedinger as ensign, and Sam'1 Findley as 2nd Lieut. Capt. Hugh Stevenson marched the Company from Morgan's Grove, near Charles Town, W. Va., July 17th, 1775. It served as an independent Company for one year and became part of Continental troops July 10th, 1776, at Bergin, N. J. See pay abstracts on file in Record and Pension Office at Washington, D. C. Avis, Braxton Davenport, Jr. HALSTED, JOHN. (1729-1813.) A "Canadian Refugee," living in Quebec at the out- break of the Revolution, left his estate and joined the American army under Montgomery and Arnold in 1775; served as a guide in the expedition against Que- bec; Commissary for the army before Quebec, Feb. 17, 1776; private, First Battalion, Second Establisb- ment, New Jersey Continental Line; served during the war; was granted 333 acres of land by the State of New York, Jan. 22, 1790, and 640 acres of land in Ohio by Act of Congress, Feb. 18, 1801, to reim- burse him for his losses in Canada. U. S. Statutes at large, Vol. II., p. 100. Records Adj. Gen'l Office, N. J. Hist. Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 206. Brockunier, Samuel Hugh. HANSON, SAMUEL. Commissioned by Maryland Convention as Lieutenant Colonel in the "Upper Battalion of Charles County." Brother of John Hanson, President of the Continental Congress. Father of Thomas Hanson, who was Cap- tain in the 3rd Maryland Battalion of the "Flying Camp." "A Biographical Encyclopaedia of Maryland and District of Columbia." History of Old Kent." Peterkin, William Gardner. HART, JOHN. (1711-1779.) Member of the Colonial Assembly of New Jersey, 1761 to 1772; member of the Provisional Congress in 1774, which met at New Brunswick, N. J., and in 1776 de- posed Governor Franklin, the Royal Governor, and established a new State Government; member of the Committee of Safety; member of the Continental Congress from New Jersey; voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence; Speaker of the Legisla- ture of New Jersey from July, 1776, until his death in 1779. The State of New Jersey erected a monu- ment to his memory in the church yard at Hopewell, which ground he had presented to the Baptists. "Lives of the Signers" Lossing and Sanderson. Hart, Charles Matthew. Hart, John Battelle. Batcher, Bernhard Lee. HENDERSON, JOHN. (1741-1787.) Was first a private in the troops of his brother-in-law, Gen. Andrew Lewis, in the battle of Point Plesant, Oct. 10th, 1774. Corporal in Company No. 12, Capt. John Gregory, in Col. Daniel Morgan's llth and 15th Virginia Regiments. Hardesty's Geographical and Historical Encyclo- paedia. Saffell's Revolutionary Records, pages 267 and 256. Chancellor, Edmund Pendleton, Jr. HERRICK, NATHANIEL. (1736-1807.) First Lieutenant in Captain John Davis' Company of Massachusetts Minute men, Colonel Fry's regiment, and marched with them on first alarm of April 17th, 1775, the day of the battle of Lexington. Is reported in the "Lexington Alarm Roll" of Captain Davis' Com- pany, as having enlisted in the Minute Men in Febru- ary 14th, 1775. Served with his regiment during op- erations about Boston. Appear as Lieutenants on returns dated "Camp at Cambridge" May 17th, 1775, and October 5th, 1775. Massachusetts Revolutionary War Archives in Of- fice of Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, Vol. 12, page 39; Vol. 56, page 5; Vol. 146, page 67. Kingsley, Edwin B. HILL, JAMES. (1758-1831.) Enlisted from Va. as private for three years' service Jan. 1777, Capt. Thos. Ewell's Company, Col. Geo. Geo. Gibson's Regiment; was engaged in battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and attack on Stony Point, July 15, 1779; re-enlisted as Corporal of Infantry Va. State Line; was in Va. Campaign of 1781; received £17 19s 1d balance of pay from State of Va, April 16, 1784; pensioner under act of Congress in 1818. Burdette, Frank Lee. HITCHCOCK, SAMUEL. (1757-1841.) Private in Capt. Joel Clark's Co., 8th Reg., Col. Jedi- diah Huntington, Conn. Discharged December 8th same year. Private in Capt. Samuel Maddock's Co. Enlisted May 9, 1777, for three years. Discharged May 9, 1780. Private in Capt. Gad Stanley's Co. June 24, 1776. In Col. Fisher Galfs Sec. Bat. raised to re- inforce Washington at New York. Served at the Brooklyn front in the battle of Long Island, August 27th in the retreat to New York, August 29th and 30th in retreat from New York City, September 15th with main army at White Plains. Time expired De- cember 25, 1776. Pensioner of Connecticut Connecticut men in the Revolution, pages 86, 235, 396, 652, 679. Merriman, John Donlon. HAYMOND, WILLIAM. (1740-1821.) Captain Monongalia County Militia, commissioned by Gov. Patrick Henry, March 13, 1776; commis- sioned Major of Militia by Gov. Benjamin Harrison, Nov. 12, 1781; in command of Pickett's Fort on the Monongahela river in 1777, with a detachment at Scott's Mills, and served from 1776 nntil the close of the war; selected May, 1777, as one of the officials to administer an oath to the male inhabitants of Monon- galia County, over the age of 16, renouncing alle- giance to King George III., and swearing allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia; Sheriff of Mononga- lia County in 1783. Va. State Doc. Watson, Sylvanus L. Watson, George Thomas. Watson, James Otis, Jr. Watson, Clarence W. Watson, Arthur Thurman. Watson, James Fay. Lewis, William Hay. Fleming, George Watson. Haymond, William O. Arnett, Thomaa Watson. Haymond, Henry. HICKMAN, SOTHA. (1749-1834.) Private, Virginia Troops, Revolutionary War; part of time in Capt. William Lowther's Company. Comm. of Pensions. Hickman, Charles Lewis. HOLLIDAY, JAMES. (1754-1834.) Private, Captain Abraham Smith's Company of the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. William Irvine; en- listed Feb. 3, 1776. Pennsylvania in the Revolution, Vol. 1, Page 172. Hunter, Paul Stuart. HUPP, JOHN. (1747-1782.) Was a private in Capt. Eleazear Williamson's Co. of Rangers on the Frontiers 1778-1782. Penna. Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. XXIII, Page 310. Hupp, Frank LeMoyne. HUSTON, JOSEPH. ( -1830.) Private, Captain John Biggs' Company, and served with him on Col. Crawford's expedition to Sandusky in 1782, as is shown by the records in the State Li- brary of Pennsylvania. Pa. Archives. Moreland, Joseph. Hunter, Paul Stuart. IRISH, NATHANIEL. (1720-1790.) Commissioned Feb. 7th, 1777, Captain in the Corps of Artillery Artificers; was in service April, 1782 and remained until 1783, when he was retired. Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. XI.., pp. 250, 254. His name appears on the roll of the original mem- bers of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Second volume of Penna. Archives, app. Richards, Howard Campbell. JENIFER, JR., DR. DANIEL. (1756-1809.) Surgeon, Continental Line, August 26, 1776; served until 1782; rank recorded as "Surgeon to the Gen- eral Hospital." Was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland. Hanson's "Old Kent." Hayden's Virginia Genealogies. Barton, Daniel Jenifer. LAMB, RICHARD. (1736-1786.) Quartermaster General; in Jefferson's complete works, published by order of Congress, and edited by Henry A. Washington, Vol. 1, pp. 264-269, Gov. Jeffer- son, in letters to Gen. Gates, refers to him; he collect- ed the grain tax for the Government for the support of the Continental army. Robertson, Zachary F. LEE, RICHARD HENRY. (1732-1794.) Member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of American Independence. Peterkin, William Gardner. LILLARD, THOMAS. (1742-1825.) Sergeant, Captain Philip Slaughter's Company, Vir- ginia Infantry, Continental Line. Was in the Amer- ican army at the siege of Yorktown, and surrender of Lord Cornwallis in 1781. Served till close of war. Virginia State Doc. No. 44, 1834. Virginia Historical Society, and other papers. Burdette, Frank Lee. [to be continued] ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:18:12 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net> Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - 1902 - M Surnames YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 70-75 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. MARTIN, ABSALOM. ( ) Paymaster 4th Regiment New Jersey Infantry, Nov. 28, 1776; Regimental Paymaster from Feb. 1, 1779, to June, 1783; Captain, Jan. 6, 1783, and served to the end of the war. Raum's Hist. N. J., p. 113. Martin, Luther Philip. MARTIN, CHARLES. ( ) Charles Martin, a Minute Man, was. in command of a Fort on Crooked Run, Monongalia County, W. Va., not far from Morgantown, from 1773 to 1783. This fort was built as a defense for the people of Monon- galia County against the Indians, but when the Declarations of Independence was declared, was used as a defense against both British and Indians, and was attacked June, 1779, and ten whites killed and captured. Charles Martin was granted 400 acres of land in Monongalia County, 1769. References—Wiley's History Monongalia County, pages 63, 696, 38. Rhodes, Oliver Thompson. Oglebay, Franklin Martin. MARTIN, EPHRAIM. ( ) Colonel of a New Jersey Regiment of Militia June 14, 1776; wounded in Battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776; commissioned Colonel Nov. 28, 1776, 4th Regi- ment N. J., Continental Army, but did not join his regiment. Heitman—Reg. Off. Cont. Army, p. 285. Martin, Luther Philip. MEIGS, RETURN JONATHAN. (1740-1823.) Recruited a company at the beginning of the war and marched to Cambridge; Major of the Continental Line, accompanying Arnold to Quebec, and with Montgomery in the attack on the Citadel; captured December 31, 1775; exchanged in 1776; Colonel of the Sixth Connecticut, 1776; received a vote of thanks and was presented with a sword by the Conti- nental Congress for his brilliant services at Sag Har- bor, May 22, 1777; with Gen. Wayne at the capture of Stony Point, July 15, 1779; served until the close of the war. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War. Gittings, John George Duncan, George Lee. MILLER, PETER. (1737-1794.) Private, Captain Andrew Burkhart's Company, 3d Battalion of Philadelphia Associators, Col. J. H. Mor- gan; active service in 1777 and 1778. Pa. Archives. DuBois, Joseph D. Norton, Samuel P. Wilson, Henry Tyson. Updegraff, Alexander. Norton, George Worthington. MILLER, PETER. (1759-1838.) Served as private for five months (1776) in Capt. Blauvett's Company, Col. Drake's Regiment, from New Jersey; served as private for three or fonr months in Capt. Parson's Company from New Jer- sey; served as a private for three or four months in the summer of 1777, Captain Marion's Company, from New Jersey; engaged in the Battle of White Plains. Residence at time of enlistment, Tippon, N. J. Residence at time of application for pension, Monongalia Co. Va. Nichols, Francis Edward. Hartley, Harry John. Hartley, Edwin Forrest. Jackson, Samuel Newton. Hartley, Joseph Milton. MILLER, CHRISTIAN. (1744-1836.) Sergeant in the Virginia Troops under Captain Jacob Rinker, from August, 1780, to May, 1781. In Septem- ber, 1832, received a pension. Comm. of Pensions. Chancellor, Jr., Edmund Pendleton. MIX, ELISHA. (1761-1818.) Enlisted as private, May 26, 1777, Capt. Eli Catlin's Company, Colonel Philip Burr Bradley, 5th Regi- ment Conn. Line. Rendezvous, Danbury; camp at Peekskill. Sept., '77, ordered to Penn. with McDon- gal's Brigade. Battle of Germantown, October 4th, '77. Assigned to Huntington's Brigade. Wintered at Valley Forge, '77-'78; June 28, '78, at Battle of Monmouth. Wintered at Reading '78-'79. In opera- tions of '78, with Heath's wing, east side of Hudson. Wintered at Morristown Heights '79-'80; following summer in Conn. Division, Main Army, both sides of the Hudson. Wintered '80-'81 opposite West Point. Page 200, Conn. Men in the Revolution. Page 234, Capt. Titus Watson's Co., Seventh Reg't; enlisted Aug. 14, '77, for the war; corporal, July 1, 1777. Page 541, Capt. Ozier Bissell's Co., Col. Eno's Regi- ment, on the Hudson. Page 643, Conn. Pension Act of 1818. Elisha Mix, Corporal. Resided in New York. Beach, Austin. MORGAN, ZACKQUILL. (1758- ) He enlisted from Monongalia County, Virginia, and served seven months and twenty-three days a a pri- vate under Col. John Evans and Capt. James Brin- ton; pensioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. of Pensions. Morgan, Henry M. MORGAN, ZEDEKIAH. ( ) Served from Connecticut in the War of the Revolution as conductor, 1779-1781. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War, p. 628. Stalnaker, Randolph. Baker, Stark L. MORRIS, ZADOCK. (1759-1845.) Enlisted as a private in Captain Thomaa Holland's Company, Col. David Hall's Regiment, Delaware, in 1776, and served during the war. Engaged in battle of Camden. Wells, Charles Evans. MUNROE, ROBERT. (1712-1775.) Ensign, Capt. John Parker's Company of Minute Men, and was killed by the fire of the British troops at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Hudson's Hist. Lexington, 1868. Roster Col. Troops, p. 181. Roster Capt. Parker's Co., p. 379. Nicoll, Edward Larkin. McCOLLUM, DANIEL. (1754-1842.) Ensign 2d Company, 1st Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania Associators; his battalion was incorpor- ated with the force known as the "Flying Camp," in the year 1776; served in the battle of Long Island, and was present at the surrender of Fort Washing- ton, in November following. Pa. Arch. Hagans, J. Marshall. McGrew, James Heermans. Clark, George Ramsey. McGrew, William Clark. MCKINLEY, JOHN. ( -1782.) John McKinley entered United States service in 1776, as Sergeant or soldier. Was commissioned a Lieu- tenant in the 13th Virginia Regiment in December, 1776, and was afterwards made Captain of a Company in the same Regiment. He was killed by the Indians in Crawford's expedition of June, 1782. Heitman's, page 279. McKinley, Johnson Camden. Part of Congressional Record for House of Repre- sentatives, 27th Congress, 2d Session, Ang. 20th, 1842. Also, Minutes of meeting of Clan MacKinley, held in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 10th, 1894. [to be continued] ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:53:48 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net> Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - 1902 - N-R Surnames YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 75-77 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. NORRIS, JOHN. (1760-1836.) Private, Capt. James Scott's Company, Virginia Mili- tia; served three months; enlisted February, 1777; private, Captain Turner Moorehead's Company, Vir- ginia Militia; served two months; enlisted March, 1781; Sergeant, Captain Thomas Helm's Company, Virginia Militia, served two months; enlisted Septem- ber, 1781; served at the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis; pen- sioner under act of Congress in 1832. Comm. Pensions. Bassel, John. PAULL, JAMES. (1760-1841.) Guarded stores at Brownsville, Pa., 1778; First Lieu- tenant under Capt. Whaley and Col. Crocket; com- missioned by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Vir- ginia; private in Crawford's Campaign of 1782; pen- sioner under act of Congress, 1832. Comm. Pensions. Pa. Archives. Paull, Archibald W. Paull, Joseph F. Paull, Alfred. Paull, Jr., Archibald Woods. PETERSON, DANIEL. ( ) Member of the Regimental Staff of the New Hamp- shire Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Stick- ney, in Gen. John Stark's Brigade, July, 1777. Army Roll N. H., Fol. 18, Vol. I, "D." Peterson, William F. Peterson, B. Walker. PEASE, ABIEL. ( ) First Lieutenant, Eighth Connecticut, July 6 to Dec. 16, 1775; subsequently served at Captain and Major Connecticut Militia. Heitman's Register of the Officers of the Continen- tal Army, page 322. Dwight, Edward Neill. PUTNAM, ISRAEL. (1718-1790.) Major-General; served in the Continental Army from Bunker Hill until 1779, when he was stricken by paralysis and retired from active field service, served in the French-Indian War, and was Lieutenant-Col- onel at the capture of Montreal in 1760, and at the capture of Havana, Cuba, in 1762. Archer, Richard Mather. REED, WILLIAM. ( -1830.) Ensign of a company of foot in the Fourth Battalion of Militia, in the County of York, in the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania. Reed, Robert Jeffery. ROBERDEAU, DANIEL. (1727-1795.) Brigadier General, Penn. Militia, 4 July, 1776, to March, 1777. Member Continental Congress 1777-8-9. Signer of Articles of Confederation between the Col- onies. Pa. Archives. Hietman's His. Register Officers of Continental Army. Americans of Royal Descent. Annan, William Dent Roberdeau. RUFFIN, FRANCIS. ( ) Francis Ruffin was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety from Mecklenbery County, Vir- ginia, and was chosen May 8th, 1775. William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. V., page 245, taken from the Virginia Gazette. Dixon & Hunter, June 3rd, 1775. Also History of the Ruffin family in The Critic, Vol. V., No. 6, Virginia State Library, at Richmond. Also, Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. 11, page 526. Butler, Arthur Bates. [to be continued] ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:55:13 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net> Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: WV SOC. SAR - 1902 - S-Z Surnames YEARBOOK - 1902 Society of Sons of the Revolution In the State of West Virginia. pages 77-82 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. SMITH, JAMES. ( -1837.) Private, Delaware Line, Revolutionary Army. Pen- sioned under act of Congress in 1818. Comm. Pensions. Stalnaker, Randolph. STREIGHT, REV. CHRISTIAN. (1749-1812.) Chaplain, 8th Virginia Regiment, (Col. Muhlenbnrg) 1st of August, 1776, to July, 1777. Heitman's Historical Register, Officers of the Con- tinental Army, 1775-1783, page 387. Also see Ker- cheval's History of the Valley. Avis, Samuel Brashear. Walker, Philip George. SULLIVAN, PATRICK. (1751-1841.) Private, Captain Michael Doudel's Company, Col. William Thompson's Battalion, Pennsylvania Rifle- men; served with Gen. Daniel Morgan's Corps; en- listed June 24, 1775, and re-enlisted June 24, 1777; served until close of war. Pa. Archives. McKinney, Owen S. McKinney, Odel Payne. TALLMAN, JAMES. (1745-1810.) Private soldier from Feb., 1777, to close of war; member of Company 7, llth Regiment, Virginia Con- tinental Line; Company commanded by Capt. Peter Bryn Bruen, the Regiment commanded by the famous Col. Daniel Morgan, of rifle renown, until May 15th, 1778; afterward by Col. Abram Buford. It was in- corporated in Woodford's Brigade, and participated in all of Washington's operations in the Jerseys and about Philadelphia, subsequent to Feb., 1777; was sent south early in 1780, taking part in the Carolina campaigns under Greene; was present at Yorktown. Original Bounty Land Warrant No. 8243, issued by General Land Office, July 27, 1819, to soldiers who served to end of war. Saffel's Rec. Rev. War, p. 263. Rec. War Dep't. Topping, John A. Tallman, Wilbur H. Tallman, Albert P. THAYER, ABEL. (1741-1805.) Lieutenant Lexington Alarm Roll; Captain, Col. John Fellows' Massachusetts Regiment; commissioned June 7, 1775. Pub. Rec. Mass., Vol. 13, p. 140; Vol. 16, p. 51; Vol. 56, p. 47; Vol. 146, p. 147. Thayer, Abel H. THOMAS, SAMUEL, JR. (1748-1839.) Captain, 2d Regiment, Rhode Island Militia, March, 1776—May, 1777; served also as volunteer in expedi- tion to Tiverton; also as private in Captain Richard Updike's Rhode Island Artillery Co.; assisted in cap- ture of British vessel "Cyrus." Year Book New York Soc. Sons of the Rev., 1896, p. 477. Thomas, Nathaniel Seymour. TODD, JOHN. (1756-1829.) Was a Second Lieutenant in Capt. James Anderson's Co., 1st Battalion Bedford County Militia, May 23, 1778. Pa. Archives. Hupp, Frank LeMoyne. WAGGENER, ANDREW. (1743-1813.) Captain, 12th Virginia, June 20, 1776; transferred to 8th Virginia, Sept. 14, 1778; Major, Dec. 15, 1778; taken prisoner at Charleston, S. C., May 12, 1780; exchanged, Nov., 1780; retired, Feb. 12, 1781. Hist. Reg. Off. Cont. Army, 1775-1783, Heitman, page 413. "Life of Washington," Marshall. Doddridge, John Sehon. WHITE, PAUL. (1744-1796.) Paul White served as private in Captain Isaac Mar- tin's Company, Col. Ezra Wood's Regiment, Major- General Spencer's Brigade, for service in Rhode Isl- and. He enlisted April 17, 1777, and was discharged May 7, 1777. Roll sworn to at Boston. Paul White served in the Continental Army in Capt. Samuel Read's Company; enlisted for town of Uxbridge, March 6, 1778, and discharged Nov. 5, 1778. By re- solve of Feb. 3, 1778. Paul White also served in Captain Bezalel Tatt's Company, Col. Nathan Tyler's Regiment, in Rhode Island, on the alarm of July 27, 1780. The above facts are duly attested in certificate is- sued by Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State of Massachu- setts, dated Jan. 8, 1900. White, Albert Blakeslee. WHITE, ROBERT. (1759-1831.) Private, Capt. Hugh Stevenson's Company, Virginia Militia; marched to Boston, June 20, 1775, and join- ed Washington; made an ensign the following sum- mer; Lieutenant under Major Wm. Drake, of Vir- ginia, at battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; wound- ed and taken prisoner at Short Hill, N. J., June, 1778; exchanged in fall of 1778; commissioned Cap- tain of Cavalry in 1779; pensioned by act of Con- gress May 15, 1828, and received land warrant for services in the Revolution. Va. State Papers and Other Papers, Vol. 1, p. 543. Sketches of Virginia—Foote—p. 469. Hist. Lower Shenandoah—Norris—p. 566. Army and Navy Reg. 1776-1887—Hamersly, p. 29. White, John Baker. White, Robert. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. (1731-1811.) Member of the Committee of Correspondence and Safety in Connecticut; member of Congress in 1776, and while a member of that body signed the Declara- tion of Independence; Speaker of the Connecticut Assembly in 1775; member of Congress in 1783-84; member of the Connecticut Convention that adopted the National Constitution. "Lives of the Signers," Lossing and Sanderson. Archer, Richard Mather. Archer, Robert Lemley. WILLIAMS, NATHAN. ( -1850.) Sergeant—At the age of 19 was a Sergeant in a Com- pany of Connecticut Volunteers and served in the Revolution. Rec. Conn. Men Rev. War. Archer, Richard Mather. WOODS, ARCHIBALD. (1764-1846.) Sergeant, Capt. John Cartwell's Company, Virginia Riflemen, attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Otho H. Williams, in North Carolina, under General Nathaniel Greene; enlisted in 1781; served on the Haw and Alamee rivers; marched with the troops to Virginia, serving there under Gen. Anthony Wayne, in the army commanded by La Favette; participated in the action of Jamestown Ford. July 6, 1781. Va. State Doc. Paull, Archibald W. Paull, Alfred. Paull, Joseph F. Woods, Joseph J. Paull, Jr., Archibald Woods. ZANE, JONATHAN. (1749-1824.) Was a soldier and guide in Gen. Daniel Broadhead's expedition up the Allegheny River against the Munsie and Seneca Indians in 1779, in which campaign he was wounded; guide in the campaign of Col. Win. Crawford to Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1782; partici- pated in the defense of Fort Henry (Wheeling), Sep- tember 1, 1777, and Sept. 11, 1782. Washington-Irvine Cor., p. 122, by C. W. Butter- field. Border Warfare—Withers. Crawford's expedition against Sandusky. Hildreth, Eugenius A. ZANE, EBENEZER. (1747-1812.) Colonel, Virginia Militia; participated in the defense of Fort Henry, (Wheeling), Sept. 1, 1777, against a large force of Indians and others, which was the first attempt of the British and their savage allies against the Western Frontier after the Revolutionary War be- gan; in command at Fort Henry, (Wheeling), Sept. 11, 1782, when a company of British Regulars under Capt. Pratt, and a large body of Indians, laid siege to the fort; member of the Virginia Convention of 1788 that adopted the Constitution of the United States; made the first settlement at Wheeling in 1769. Washington-Irvine Corr., pp. 397, 398. Border Warfare—Withers—pp. 160-165, 262-266. Brockunier, C. W. Lamb, Gibson. Brockunier, Wilbur C. Zane, Platoff. Brockunier, Sam'l Hugh Martin, Luther Philip. [end of submission] ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:12:03 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net> Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] HIST: County Tax Assessors 1917-1921 COUNTY ASSESSORS FOR THE YEARS 1917-1921 Seventh Biennial Report of the State Tax Commissioner of West Virginia For the Fiscal Years of 1917 and 1918 Walter S. Hallahan, State Tax Commissioner Charleston, Tribune Printing Company, 1918 pg. 578 COUNTY NAME ADDRESS Barbour.............. W. Scott Simon............... Philippi, West Va. Berkeley............. John W. Dodd................. Martinsburg Boone................ John K. Myers................ Madison Braston.............. George O. Baker.............. Sutton Brooke............... H. R. Elson.................. Wellsburg, R. 2 Cabell............... C. C. Leep................... Huntington Calhoun.............. W. E. Stump.................. Grantsville Clay................. W. B. Young.................. Clay Doddridge............ J. Benton Swiger............. West Union Fayette.............. S. J. Jasper................. Fayetteville Gilmer............... H. J. Woodford............... Glenville Grant................ Geo. E. Ours................. Petersburg Greenbrier........... E. B. Miller................. Alderson Hampshire............ E. H. Blue................... Romney Hancock.............. Charles Jackson.............. New Cumberland Hardy................ Wm. S. Marshall.............. Moorefield Harrison............. Ira L. Swiger................ Clarksburg Jackson.............. N. F. McBride................ Ravenswood, R. Jefferson............ Floyd L. Watson.............. Charles Town Kanawha.............. Henry Walker ................ Charleston Lewis................ Thomas L. Straley............ Weston Lincoln.............. M. F. Adkins................. Hamlin Logan................ J. W. Beckett................ Logan Marion............... James W. Davis............... Fairmont Marshall............. F. A. McNinch................ Moundsville Mason................ J. F. Beale.................. Pt. Pleasant Mercer............... Giles Hamrbick............... Princeton Mineral.............. A. H. Metcalfe............... Keyser Mingo................ Lewis Chafin................. Williamson Monongalia........... James E. Gaskins............. Morgantown Monroe............... O. L. Miller................. Union Morgan............... E. B. Blake.................. Berkeley Springs McDowelL............. W. J. Hatfield............... Welch Nicholas............. C. L. Evans.................. Summersville Ohio................. W. A. Hankey................. Wheeling Pendleton............ C. L. Vandwender............. Franklin Pleasants............ G. A. Reed................... St. Marys Pocahontas........... J. H. Buzzard................ Marlinton Preston.............. J. A. Everly................. Kingwood Putnam............... H. E. Thacker................ Winfield Raleigh.............. G. H. Mellen................. Beckley Randolph............. Otto C. Coberly.............. Elkins Ritchie.............. J. H. McGinnis............... Harrisville Roane................ B. S. Ray.................... Spencer Summers.............. G. A. Meador ................ Hinton Taylor............... Frank Bennett................ Grafton Tucker............... J. T. Darkey................. Parsons Tyler................ C. H. Watson................. Middlebourne Upshur............... J. D. Hinkle................. Buckhannon Wayne................ Tim Perry.................... Wayne Webster.............. H. F. Given.................. Webster Springs Wetzel............... Cleveland W. Dulaney......... Mew Martinsville Wirt................. F. W. Parsons................ Elizabeth Wood................. J. D. Silcott................ Parkersburg Wyoming.............. Spurlock Walls............... 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