Alexander Caldwell served as a private in the Revolutionary War under Lt. William Nesbitt's Company "Rangers on the Frontier" in the Pennsylvania Frontier, from 1778 to 1781 [another sources indicated 1783]. His service came after the birth of three children. After the end of the war, the government was giving land to Veterans in Kentucky. In 1784, Alexander Caldwell moved his family to Mason Co., Kentucky from Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. Alexander's land is said to have been near Moorefield, a part of Mason County that later became Nicholas County. Alexander died in 1821 and is buried beside his wife and daughter Martha in the Shilo cemetery. The grave was unkeep until 1928, when the government placed a marble stone on the site. Alexander Caldwell was said to have been a large man who weighed over 300 pounds. He was a cabinet maker by trade and made himself a large chair out of hickory wood. The chair was donated to a local musuem by descendants of the Porter family, but is now in the possession of Ted Caldwell, another decendant of Alexander. A card which accompanied the chair says "The chair was made in 1781 and Alexander Caldwell floated down the Ohio River in 1784 to Carlisle, Kentucky where he is buried. His grandson James Caldwell came to Indiana in 1830. James' daughter Mary married James Reason Porter." Detail from Ted Caldwell.
(History of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties of Indiana, 1895, pgs 244-245)
(History of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties of Indiana, 1895, pgs 244-245)
Alexander Caldwell served as a private in the Revolutionary War under Lt. William Nesbitt's Company "Rangers on the Frontier" in the Pennsylvania Frontier, from 1778 to 1781 [another sources indicated 1783]. His service came after the birth of three children. After the end of the war, the government was giving land to Veterans in Kentucky. In 1784, Alexander Caldwell moved his family to Mason Co., Kentucky from Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. Alexander's land is said to have been near Moorefield, a part of Mason County that later became Nicholas County. Alexander died in 1821 and is buried beside his wife and daughter Martha in the Shilo cemetery. The grave was unkeep until 1928, when the government placed a marble stone on the site. Alexander Caldwell was said to have been a large man who weighed over 300 pounds. He was a cabinet maker by trade and made himself a large chair out of hickory wood. The chair was donated to a local musuem by descendants of the Porter family, but is now in the possession of Ted Caldwell, another decendant of Alexander. A card which accompanied the chair says "The chair was made in 1781 and Alexander Caldwell floated down the Ohio River in 1784 to Carlisle, Kentucky where he is buried. His grandson James Caldwell came to Indiana in 1830. James' daughter Mary married James Reason Porter." Detail from Ted Caldwell.
(History of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties of Indiana, 1895, pgs 244-245)
(History of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties of Indiana, 1895, pgs 244-245)
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Alexander Caldwell, 1752-1821, Nesbitt's Rangers, PA. Militia, 1778-1783
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