Jacob Close served as a private in Virginia infantry in the Revolutionary War.
He served as a Private in the Battle of the Wabash (also known as St. Clair's Defeat), where he was killed in Action.
Ohio, at that time, did not exist. That area was then part of the Northwest Territory. The Ohio River is part of the northern border of what became the state of Kentucky in 1792.
Jacob Close married Joanna Farrow, of Prince William County, Virginia was a daughter of John Farrow, who died when Joanna was an infant. She was raised by her paternal grandparents, William Farrow and his wife Anna, until their death's, then with her Aunt, Ann "Nancy" (Farrow) Wells, wife of Samuel Wells.
Jacob Close resided with his wife; his son, John Farrow Wells; and his step-daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells, in a part of Virginia that became Severns Valley, Nelson County, Kentucky. That area is now in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky.
In 1796, Joanna (Farrow) Close, the widow of Jacob Close, married Alexander "Alex" Dowdle (several spelling variations of Dowdle found on that same document) in Nelson County, Kentucky. They removed to Missouri, where Alex Dowdle died prior to 1805.
NOTE: His step-daughter, Sr. Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells [FAG Memorial #7649609], became a nun. She and Sr. Theresa Carrico were the two founding nuns of the "Sisters of Charity of Nazareth" in Nazareth, Kentucky. She later served as a nun at St. Catharine of Sienna and lastly became a tertiary at St. Rose Priory. She also raised the youngest daughter of James Hendrick and Mary "Polly" (Mills) Hendrick, who also became a nun.
Source:
U. S., Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 - Virginia
Ancestry.com
Volume 175; page 30
Under the following heading:
"A list of State Soldiers and Seaman who have received Certificated for the balance of their full pay. Agreeable to Act of Assembly Passed November Session 1783."
"Virginia
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.]
Jacob Close
Soldier Infantry
By whom drawn: Himself
Time: June 7, 1783
Sum: ₤41 S.9 D.2 "
Source:
Ancestry.com
Reference: "Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, sailors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):159"
Name: Jacob Close
Birth Date: 1740
Birthplace: Virginia,
Volume: 31
Page number: 36
Biographical Info: mil.
Source:
Ancestry.com
"U.S., Compiled Service Records, Post-Revolutionary War Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811 for Jacob Close #203
[Page 1]
"Jacob Close
Brock's Company
1 Reg't U. S. Levies
(Lieut. Col. Darke)
(1781-1792)
Private/Private
Card Number: 43213938
Medical cards herein -0-
Personal papers herein -0-"
[Page 2]
Jacob Close
Appears with the rank of PVT (private) on Pay Roll of Capt. Joseph Brock's Company, Maj. George M. Bedinger's Battalion, Winchester, Virginia. Traveling 1 month & 2 days.
Entered Service 23 April 1791.
Killed 4 November 1791.
Source:
"Southwest Louisiana Records CD-101"
by Rev. Donald J. Hébert:
John F. Close, born in Nelson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), gives the name of his father as "Jacob Close" and describes his father as from North Carolina in John F. Close's marriage records and in the baptismal records of his children.
He served as a Private in the Battle of the Wabash (also known as St. Clair's Defeat), where he was killed in Action.
Ohio, at that time, did not exist. That area was then part of the Northwest Territory. The Ohio River is part of the northern border of what became the state of Kentucky in 1792.
Jacob Close married Joanna Farrow, of Prince William County, Virginia was a daughter of John Farrow, who died when Joanna was an infant. She was raised by her paternal grandparents, William Farrow and his wife Anna, until their death's, then with her Aunt, Ann "Nancy" (Farrow) Wells, wife of Samuel Wells.
Jacob Close resided with his wife; his son, John Farrow Wells; and his step-daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells, in a part of Virginia that became Severns Valley, Nelson County, Kentucky. That area is now in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky.
In 1796, Joanna (Farrow) Close, the widow of Jacob Close, married Alexander "Alex" Dowdle (several spelling variations of Dowdle found on that same document) in Nelson County, Kentucky. They removed to Missouri, where Alex Dowdle died prior to 1805.
NOTE: His step-daughter, Sr. Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells [FAG Memorial #7649609], became a nun. She and Sr. Theresa Carrico were the two founding nuns of the "Sisters of Charity of Nazareth" in Nazareth, Kentucky. She later served as a nun at St. Catharine of Sienna and lastly became a tertiary at St. Rose Priory. She also raised the youngest daughter of James Hendrick and Mary "Polly" (Mills) Hendrick, who also became a nun.
Source:
U. S., Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 - Virginia
Ancestry.com
Volume 175; page 30
Under the following heading:
"A list of State Soldiers and Seaman who have received Certificated for the balance of their full pay. Agreeable to Act of Assembly Passed November Session 1783."
"Virginia
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.]
Jacob Close
Soldier Infantry
By whom drawn: Himself
Time: June 7, 1783
Sum: ₤41 S.9 D.2 "
Source:
Ancestry.com
Reference: "Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, sailors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):159"
Name: Jacob Close
Birth Date: 1740
Birthplace: Virginia,
Volume: 31
Page number: 36
Biographical Info: mil.
Source:
Ancestry.com
"U.S., Compiled Service Records, Post-Revolutionary War Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811 for Jacob Close #203
[Page 1]
"Jacob Close
Brock's Company
1 Reg't U. S. Levies
(Lieut. Col. Darke)
(1781-1792)
Private/Private
Card Number: 43213938
Medical cards herein -0-
Personal papers herein -0-"
[Page 2]
Jacob Close
Appears with the rank of PVT (private) on Pay Roll of Capt. Joseph Brock's Company, Maj. George M. Bedinger's Battalion, Winchester, Virginia. Traveling 1 month & 2 days.
Entered Service 23 April 1791.
Killed 4 November 1791.
Source:
"Southwest Louisiana Records CD-101"
by Rev. Donald J. Hébert:
John F. Close, born in Nelson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), gives the name of his father as "Jacob Close" and describes his father as from North Carolina in John F. Close's marriage records and in the baptismal records of his children.
Jacob Close served as a private in Virginia infantry in the Revolutionary War.
He served as a Private in the Battle of the Wabash (also known as St. Clair's Defeat), where he was killed in Action.
Ohio, at that time, did not exist. That area was then part of the Northwest Territory. The Ohio River is part of the northern border of what became the state of Kentucky in 1792.
Jacob Close married Joanna Farrow, of Prince William County, Virginia was a daughter of John Farrow, who died when Joanna was an infant. She was raised by her paternal grandparents, William Farrow and his wife Anna, until their death's, then with her Aunt, Ann "Nancy" (Farrow) Wells, wife of Samuel Wells.
Jacob Close resided with his wife; his son, John Farrow Wells; and his step-daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells, in a part of Virginia that became Severns Valley, Nelson County, Kentucky. That area is now in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky.
In 1796, Joanna (Farrow) Close, the widow of Jacob Close, married Alexander "Alex" Dowdle (several spelling variations of Dowdle found on that same document) in Nelson County, Kentucky. They removed to Missouri, where Alex Dowdle died prior to 1805.
NOTE: His step-daughter, Sr. Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells [FAG Memorial #7649609], became a nun. She and Sr. Theresa Carrico were the two founding nuns of the "Sisters of Charity of Nazareth" in Nazareth, Kentucky. She later served as a nun at St. Catharine of Sienna and lastly became a tertiary at St. Rose Priory. She also raised the youngest daughter of James Hendrick and Mary "Polly" (Mills) Hendrick, who also became a nun.
Source:
U. S., Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 - Virginia
Ancestry.com
Volume 175; page 30
Under the following heading:
"A list of State Soldiers and Seaman who have received Certificated for the balance of their full pay. Agreeable to Act of Assembly Passed November Session 1783."
"Virginia
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.]
Jacob Close
Soldier Infantry
By whom drawn: Himself
Time: June 7, 1783
Sum: ₤41 S.9 D.2 "
Source:
Ancestry.com
Reference: "Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, sailors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):159"
Name: Jacob Close
Birth Date: 1740
Birthplace: Virginia,
Volume: 31
Page number: 36
Biographical Info: mil.
Source:
Ancestry.com
"U.S., Compiled Service Records, Post-Revolutionary War Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811 for Jacob Close #203
[Page 1]
"Jacob Close
Brock's Company
1 Reg't U. S. Levies
(Lieut. Col. Darke)
(1781-1792)
Private/Private
Card Number: 43213938
Medical cards herein -0-
Personal papers herein -0-"
[Page 2]
Jacob Close
Appears with the rank of PVT (private) on Pay Roll of Capt. Joseph Brock's Company, Maj. George M. Bedinger's Battalion, Winchester, Virginia. Traveling 1 month & 2 days.
Entered Service 23 April 1791.
Killed 4 November 1791.
Source:
"Southwest Louisiana Records CD-101"
by Rev. Donald J. Hébert:
John F. Close, born in Nelson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), gives the name of his father as "Jacob Close" and describes his father as from North Carolina in John F. Close's marriage records and in the baptismal records of his children.
He served as a Private in the Battle of the Wabash (also known as St. Clair's Defeat), where he was killed in Action.
Ohio, at that time, did not exist. That area was then part of the Northwest Territory. The Ohio River is part of the northern border of what became the state of Kentucky in 1792.
Jacob Close married Joanna Farrow, of Prince William County, Virginia was a daughter of John Farrow, who died when Joanna was an infant. She was raised by her paternal grandparents, William Farrow and his wife Anna, until their death's, then with her Aunt, Ann "Nancy" (Farrow) Wells, wife of Samuel Wells.
Jacob Close resided with his wife; his son, John Farrow Wells; and his step-daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells, in a part of Virginia that became Severns Valley, Nelson County, Kentucky. That area is now in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky.
In 1796, Joanna (Farrow) Close, the widow of Jacob Close, married Alexander "Alex" Dowdle (several spelling variations of Dowdle found on that same document) in Nelson County, Kentucky. They removed to Missouri, where Alex Dowdle died prior to 1805.
NOTE: His step-daughter, Sr. Elizabeth "Betsy" Wells [FAG Memorial #7649609], became a nun. She and Sr. Theresa Carrico were the two founding nuns of the "Sisters of Charity of Nazareth" in Nazareth, Kentucky. She later served as a nun at St. Catharine of Sienna and lastly became a tertiary at St. Rose Priory. She also raised the youngest daughter of James Hendrick and Mary "Polly" (Mills) Hendrick, who also became a nun.
Source:
U. S., Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 - Virginia
Ancestry.com
Volume 175; page 30
Under the following heading:
"A list of State Soldiers and Seaman who have received Certificated for the balance of their full pay. Agreeable to Act of Assembly Passed November Session 1783."
"Virginia
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.]
Jacob Close
Soldier Infantry
By whom drawn: Himself
Time: June 7, 1783
Sum: ₤41 S.9 D.2 "
Source:
Ancestry.com
Reference: "Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, sailors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):159"
Name: Jacob Close
Birth Date: 1740
Birthplace: Virginia,
Volume: 31
Page number: 36
Biographical Info: mil.
Source:
Ancestry.com
"U.S., Compiled Service Records, Post-Revolutionary War Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811 for Jacob Close #203
[Page 1]
"Jacob Close
Brock's Company
1 Reg't U. S. Levies
(Lieut. Col. Darke)
(1781-1792)
Private/Private
Card Number: 43213938
Medical cards herein -0-
Personal papers herein -0-"
[Page 2]
Jacob Close
Appears with the rank of PVT (private) on Pay Roll of Capt. Joseph Brock's Company, Maj. George M. Bedinger's Battalion, Winchester, Virginia. Traveling 1 month & 2 days.
Entered Service 23 April 1791.
Killed 4 November 1791.
Source:
"Southwest Louisiana Records CD-101"
by Rev. Donald J. Hébert:
John F. Close, born in Nelson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), gives the name of his father as "Jacob Close" and describes his father as from North Carolina in John F. Close's marriage records and in the baptismal records of his children.
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