Pvt. William Allegre, who died in 1781, was one of approximately 200 men recruited by Brigadier-General George Rogers Clark and Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Crockett to form the Illinois Regiment. These soldiers who came down the Ohio with them, built a fort on Corn Island at the head of the Rapids of the Ohio near the Kentucky shore. This was the founding of Louisville, Kentucky in 1778.
From the fort on Corn Island, Clark launched his bold raid into British country, with about 175 men in February, in the dead of winter. His small army, went nearly two weeks without food or fire, wading in ice water up to their necks, but they were able to bluff the enemy into surrendering all three forts - two of them without firing a shot!
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William J. Allegre was the son of Matthew Andrew Allegre (1737-1806) and his wife Elizabeth Cox Allegre of Albemarle Co., Virginia and later Madison Co., Kentucky.
VA Soldiers of 1776, Vol. I, Burgess, p. 423
"William Allegree: Campbell Co. 14 Oct. 1788. Matthew Allegree, being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, saith that he had a son named William Allegree which in the time of the late war enlisted in Col. Joseph Crockett's Regiment, and dyed at the Falls of the OH in the service, and that my son Giles is the next eldest son of the same mother." Note, this affidavit is signed "Christopher Irvine". He was probably the Justice of Peace, before whom Matthew Allegree appeared. He was later empowered to locate military land warrants for Campbell county soldiers in Kentucky.
From the fort on Corn Island, Clark launched his bold raid into British country, with about 175 men in February, in the dead of winter. His small army, went nearly two weeks without food or fire, wading in ice water up to their necks, but they were able to bluff the enemy into surrendering all three forts - two of them without firing a shot!
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William J. Allegre was the son of Matthew Andrew Allegre (1737-1806) and his wife Elizabeth Cox Allegre of Albemarle Co., Virginia and later Madison Co., Kentucky.
VA Soldiers of 1776, Vol. I, Burgess, p. 423
"William Allegree: Campbell Co. 14 Oct. 1788. Matthew Allegree, being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, saith that he had a son named William Allegree which in the time of the late war enlisted in Col. Joseph Crockett's Regiment, and dyed at the Falls of the OH in the service, and that my son Giles is the next eldest son of the same mother." Note, this affidavit is signed "Christopher Irvine". He was probably the Justice of Peace, before whom Matthew Allegree appeared. He was later empowered to locate military land warrants for Campbell county soldiers in Kentucky.
Pvt. William Allegre, who died in 1781, was one of approximately 200 men recruited by Brigadier-General George Rogers Clark and Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Crockett to form the Illinois Regiment. These soldiers who came down the Ohio with them, built a fort on Corn Island at the head of the Rapids of the Ohio near the Kentucky shore. This was the founding of Louisville, Kentucky in 1778.
From the fort on Corn Island, Clark launched his bold raid into British country, with about 175 men in February, in the dead of winter. His small army, went nearly two weeks without food or fire, wading in ice water up to their necks, but they were able to bluff the enemy into surrendering all three forts - two of them without firing a shot!
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William J. Allegre was the son of Matthew Andrew Allegre (1737-1806) and his wife Elizabeth Cox Allegre of Albemarle Co., Virginia and later Madison Co., Kentucky.
VA Soldiers of 1776, Vol. I, Burgess, p. 423
"William Allegree: Campbell Co. 14 Oct. 1788. Matthew Allegree, being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, saith that he had a son named William Allegree which in the time of the late war enlisted in Col. Joseph Crockett's Regiment, and dyed at the Falls of the OH in the service, and that my son Giles is the next eldest son of the same mother." Note, this affidavit is signed "Christopher Irvine". He was probably the Justice of Peace, before whom Matthew Allegree appeared. He was later empowered to locate military land warrants for Campbell county soldiers in Kentucky.
From the fort on Corn Island, Clark launched his bold raid into British country, with about 175 men in February, in the dead of winter. His small army, went nearly two weeks without food or fire, wading in ice water up to their necks, but they were able to bluff the enemy into surrendering all three forts - two of them without firing a shot!
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William J. Allegre was the son of Matthew Andrew Allegre (1737-1806) and his wife Elizabeth Cox Allegre of Albemarle Co., Virginia and later Madison Co., Kentucky.
VA Soldiers of 1776, Vol. I, Burgess, p. 423
"William Allegree: Campbell Co. 14 Oct. 1788. Matthew Allegree, being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, saith that he had a son named William Allegree which in the time of the late war enlisted in Col. Joseph Crockett's Regiment, and dyed at the Falls of the OH in the service, and that my son Giles is the next eldest son of the same mother." Note, this affidavit is signed "Christopher Irvine". He was probably the Justice of Peace, before whom Matthew Allegree appeared. He was later empowered to locate military land warrants for Campbell county soldiers in Kentucky.
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