Roll of Members and Records of Revolution Admitted ary Ancestors. 1904 ALLEN, JOHN ROWAN, Lexington, Ky. Accession No. Third in descent from David Allen (1737-1784), Second Lieutenant Fifth Virginia, May 10, 1778; transferred to Third Virginia, September 14, 1778; First Lieutenant 19th June, 1779; taken prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged July, 1781; served to close of the war. REFERENCE: Heitman's Historical Register, page 60. 1903 ALLMOND, ANGUS RUCKER, Pittsburg, Pa. (Transferred 25th Nov., 1909, to District of Columbia Third in descent from Angus Rucker (1752-1836), First REFERENCES: Official certificate from Record and Pension Office, Washington, D. C., April 28, 1903. House Document No. 6; Report of John H. Smith, Commissioner of Revolutionary Claims, December 10, 1835; certified copy from D. Z. Eggleston, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1904 BARRON, WILLIAM EVEN, Lexington, Ky. Third in descent from John Barron (1749-1841), Private in Virginia troops. Enlisted four times from Montgomery County, Virginia, viz.: (1) June, 1776, under Captain John Montgomery, Colonel Christie, of Virginia, served six months. (2) Fall of 1777, for one month under Captain Daniel Trigg, Colonel Robinson, of Virginia. (3) March, 1778, for one month under Captain John Draper, of Virginia. (4) December, 1780, for one month under Captain Ezekiel Smith, Colonel Sevier, of Virginia and North Carolina. Was in several skirmishes with Indians. REFERENCES: Application for Pension, dated June 16, 1834, on file in Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., and Certif. of E. F. Moore, Com'r. dated 27th February 1904. 41 34 40 Admitted 1896 BASSETT, JAMES EDWARD, Lexington, Ky. Accession No. Fifth in descent from Philip Clayton (---------), Ensign REFERENCES: Heitman's Historical Register, page 127. Saffell's Records of the Revolutionary War, pages 414, 500. Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. 1905 BELL, JAMES FRANKLIN, Manila, P. I. (Major-General U. S. A.) Fourth in descent from David Bell (1722-1780), Captain of one of the Militia Companies of Augusta County, Virginia, at the outbreak of the Revolution. Served on frontier military expeditions and contributed military supplies. REFERENCES: Journ. Cont. Cong., Vol. IX, pages 898899. Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, page 159, and page 167 (first edition). Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. VI, page 283, and Vol. VII, page 147. Waddell's Annals of Augusta County (2d Ed.), pages 247, 257. Mills v. Bell, Ex'or., etc., 3 Call (Va.), page *320(277). Inv. & Appr. David Bell's Estate, Will Book 8, page 97. Sale Bill of same, Will Book 8, page 101. (Augusta Co., Va., Records.) County Court Judgments of Augusta County, Va., pages 144, 175; Order Book, Augusta Co. Court, Vol. XVI, page 222, and Vol. XVII, page 241. Chalkley's Abstracts from the Records of Augusta County, Virginia. (For service in French and Indian War, see Hening's Statutes at Large of Va., Vol. 7, page 187.) Fourth in descent from John Cowan (1748-1823), Captain of Militia of Lincoln County, Virginia (now Lincoln County, Kentucky), in 1780, Commissioned by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia. Rendered valiant and valuable service in military on the Kentucky frontier. Later he became County-Lieutenant of Lincoln County, Virginia, and after Kentucky became a State, was a Colonel of the State Militia. He came to Kentucky from old Virginia in 1773, was one of the ablest, best educated and most enterprising of the early pioneers. Appointed Surveyor of Lincoln County, Virginia, in January, 1781. Member of first County Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer for Lincoln County, appointed January 16, 1781. Third Sheriff of Lincoln County, appointed February, 1785. REFERENCES: See Collins' Hist. of Ky., Vol. 2, pages 475, 476, 517, 518, 519, 615, and "John Filson," Filson 21 40 |