Revolutionary War Veteran
John Jones' Declaration, January 15th, 1833: Age 77 years, eleven months and thirteen days; in 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement, or settlement, on the Great Kanawha in Greenbrier County now Kanawha County, seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants; they were driven back in the spring of 1774 by the Indians to the settlements on Muddy Creek; volunteered in 1774 under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle to build a fort on Muddy Creek; in the fall of 1774 he volunteered under Captain Arbuckle, who raised a company to go with Lord Dunmore against the Indians; the company joined the division of the army under General Lewis; was in the whole of the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. In September, 1776, enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt. M. Arbuckle; marched to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, about 150 miles west of the inhabited country; other officers were First Lieut. Andrew Wallace, Second Lieut. William Woods, Ensign John Gallegher; they erected a fort at the mouth of the Great Kanawha (point Pleasant); here they were reinforced by Capt. McKee of Botetourt, First Lieut. William Moore, Ensign James Gilmore; Indians attacked and were repulsed and turned towards Donally's Fort in Greenbrier; in 1778 declarant was employed as an Indian spy; William and Leonard Morris, deceased, were spies with him; William Arbuckle (then of Mason County) was also in Dunmore's campaign.
John Jones' Declaration, January 15th, 1833: Age 77 years, eleven months and thirteen days; in 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement, or settlement, on the Great Kanawha in Greenbrier County now Kanawha County, seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants; they were driven back in the spring of 1774 by the Indians to the settlements on Muddy Creek; volunteered in 1774 under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle to build a fort on Muddy Creek; in the fall of 1774 he volunteered under Captain Arbuckle, who raised a company to go with Lord Dunmore against the Indians; the company joined the division of the army under General Lewis; was in the whole of the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. In September, 1776, enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt. M. Arbuckle; marched to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, about 150 miles west of the inhabited country; other officers were First Lieut. Andrew Wallace, Second Lieut. William Woods, Ensign John Gallegher; they erected a fort at the mouth of the Great Kanawha (point Pleasant); here they were reinforced by Capt. McKee of Botetourt, First Lieut. William Moore, Ensign James Gilmore; Indians attacked and were repulsed and turned towards Donally's Fort in Greenbrier; in 1778 declarant was employed as an Indian spy; William and Leonard Morris, deceased, were spies with him; William Arbuckle (then of Mason County) was also in Dunmore's campaign.
Revolutionary War Veteran
John Jones' Declaration, January 15th, 1833: Age 77 years, eleven months and thirteen days; in 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement, or settlement, on the Great Kanawha in Greenbrier County now Kanawha County, seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants; they were driven back in the spring of 1774 by the Indians to the settlements on Muddy Creek; volunteered in 1774 under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle to build a fort on Muddy Creek; in the fall of 1774 he volunteered under Captain Arbuckle, who raised a company to go with Lord Dunmore against the Indians; the company joined the division of the army under General Lewis; was in the whole of the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. In September, 1776, enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt. M. Arbuckle; marched to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, about 150 miles west of the inhabited country; other officers were First Lieut. Andrew Wallace, Second Lieut. William Woods, Ensign John Gallegher; they erected a fort at the mouth of the Great Kanawha (point Pleasant); here they were reinforced by Capt. McKee of Botetourt, First Lieut. William Moore, Ensign James Gilmore; Indians attacked and were repulsed and turned towards Donally's Fort in Greenbrier; in 1778 declarant was employed as an Indian spy; William and Leonard Morris, deceased, were spies with him; William Arbuckle (then of Mason County) was also in Dunmore's campaign.
John Jones' Declaration, January 15th, 1833: Age 77 years, eleven months and thirteen days; in 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement, or settlement, on the Great Kanawha in Greenbrier County now Kanawha County, seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants; they were driven back in the spring of 1774 by the Indians to the settlements on Muddy Creek; volunteered in 1774 under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle to build a fort on Muddy Creek; in the fall of 1774 he volunteered under Captain Arbuckle, who raised a company to go with Lord Dunmore against the Indians; the company joined the division of the army under General Lewis; was in the whole of the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. In September, 1776, enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt. M. Arbuckle; marched to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, about 150 miles west of the inhabited country; other officers were First Lieut. Andrew Wallace, Second Lieut. William Woods, Ensign John Gallegher; they erected a fort at the mouth of the Great Kanawha (point Pleasant); here they were reinforced by Capt. McKee of Botetourt, First Lieut. William Moore, Ensign James Gilmore; Indians attacked and were repulsed and turned towards Donally's Fort in Greenbrier; in 1778 declarant was employed as an Indian spy; William and Leonard Morris, deceased, were spies with him; William Arbuckle (then of Mason County) was also in Dunmore's campaign.
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Gabriel 1776- ;William 1778-1826 Tippecanoe Co, IN; Nancy 1780-1865; Thomas 1782-1835, VA; John 1780-1864; Frances J. 1794-1833 Kanawha Co, WV; Benjamin 1796-?, Lewisburg, Greenbriar Co, WV; Cynthia 1800-1836, Cabell Co, WV.
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