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Captain Thomas Abbe (Abbey), an honored descendant of a long line of military ancestors was the son of Thomas Abbe, Junior and Mary (Pease) Abbe, born in Enfield, Connecticut, April 11, 1731 and died there (of stroke) June 1, 1811. He enlisted as a Corporal in the 3rd Company, 1st Regiment, May 25 to November 22, 1758, then as a Lieutenant in the 7th Company, 1st Regiment during the French and Indian Wars under Captain Seth King, April 1 to December 1, 1761. He was commissioned Captain during the Revolutionary War under George Washington, January 1, 1777. Thomas Abbe married Penelope Terry, also Enfield born (February 5. 1729-30) on June 22, 1749. Penelope died in Enfield on December 2, 1817. The couple had 8 children, all born in Enfield: Abigale Abbey, born May 18, 1750, died June 22, 1844, married Eliphalet Collins . Obadiah Abbe, born June 15, 1752, married Jane McClester. Penelope Abbe (twin), born March 24, 1755, married Josiah Bicknell. Mary(1) Abbe (twin), born March 24, 1755, died May 16, 1759. Thomas Abbe, born March 22, 1764, married Ruth Bush. Mary(2) Abbe. born July 7, 1766, married George Prior of East Windsor. Peter Abbey, born July 20, 1769, married Hannah Alden. Simeon Abbey, Born February 3, 1772, married Tabitha Killam Captain Abbe is remembered for his many refusals of promotions in order to remain with his troops as well as his alerting of the town following the battle of Lexington. On the Thursday following that battle, after just hearing of it, Thomas obtained a drum and much to their surprise actually drummed the people out of the old church meeting house at Enfield where they had gathered for a regular weekly meeting. That event has been commemorated by a poem written by Benjamin F. Taylor published in the Atlantic Monthly, May, 1878. Captain Abbe’s memory is honored with a marble statue created by Sherry Edmundson Fry, Sculptor, who used a daguerreotype photograph of grandson Seth Alden Abbey, taken at the same age, as the model. Always a scrapper, the following is excerpted from a letter written by Seth on June 15, 1872. to his son Henry G. Abbey about his grandfather. “. . . At the breaking out of the Revolution, a volunteer company was formed in his neighborhood and he was elected their captain and they were soon ordered to join Colonel Willett’s Regiment in New York. I have heard him say, frequently, that he had chances of promotion, often, but his men would not consent to his leaving them. When a boy I saw many of his old soldiers who had served during the war; and the neighbors were as particular in addressing any of them, in giving their title, as Corporal such a one, or Sergeant such a one, as they would be in addressing a General. Thomas Abbey died in 1811, and was as anxious for a fight with old England, which was then much talked of, just before his death, as in his younger days. He died suddenly with apoplexy. . .” The War of 1812 had to be fought without him. The reference for this biography
was "Abbe -Abbey Genealogy"
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Patriot: Loving Bledsoe, North
Carolina
Loving Bledsoe, b. ca 1753. d. 1817 MO (Admin) married ca 1774 Millicent Head, b. ca 1756, d. after 29 Oct 1816 The marriage of Millicent Head, also called Mildred, Milly and Amelia in records, to Loving Bledsoe is listed in the book: The Head Family published 1963 by John Harris Watts, pp. 186/7. Loving himself never filed for a Revolutionary War pension; he died before he could, but thanks to his half brother William Stewart, we do know something of his service record. William says in part in his pension application: “A short time before the battle of Kings Mountain, the applicants brother David Stewart and half brother Loving Bledsoe were drafted to go in the army. Before the day of rendezvousing, orders came that all should go who were able, and the three of them volunteered - it being about the month of September of the year in which the Battle of Kings Mountain was fought (7 Oct 1780). They commenced their march from Holston up Doe River and crossed the Yellow Mountain at the Ball place to Kings Mountain under Colonels. Isaac Shelby and William Campbell, and Captain George Maxfield and other officers, and he recollects that at Broad River, a council was held among the officers and it was determined to steal a march upon Ferguson at Kings Mountain; accordingly the horse troops under Colonels Shelby and Campbell went on, leaving the foot company, and did steal the march on Ferguson, and the battle was fought before the foot company showed up. This applicant being one of the foot company arrived after the battle was fought and the British and Tories were all taken prisoner and were delivered to the foot company to guard. The next day we marched to Salisbury and the next night a Courts Martial was held and it condemned 31 of 32 Tory prisoners to hang and the same night we did hang 9 of them, but do not know the reason the others were not hanged.... They found Tarleton was near and as they had nearly as many prisoners as men, they had to escape so they burned two wagons of plunder, taken at the battle, and marched towards Salisbury and hung another Tory that day. They went on and near Salisbury met another Company of Carolina Troops who took the prisoners and they were discharged from that tour. Tour of duty was from the month of September till about November.” There is one more reference to Loving Bledsoe's Revolutionary War service: NC Department of Archives, Revolutionary Army Accounts, vol. 1, p. 73, folio 4 reads: “An account of Specie Certificates paid into the Comptrollers Office by John Armstrong, Entry Taker for land in NC, viz: Numer 2O11, granted by Bagge and Hunter to Loving Bledsoe 13 |August 1782 the sum of 7 pounds 8 shillings 6 pence, interest 12 shillings 9 pence to 16 Jan 1784. Total: 8-1-3.” The above two references are abstracted from the book published 1975 by Ronald Donaldson: Donaldson, Ransdell and Allied Families, American Bicentenarions. The reference used for this
biography was "The Bledsoe Family in America, Vol. III", page 187
Compiled and copyrighted by Banks McLaurin, Jr. 5843 Royal Crest Drive Dallas, TX 75230 |
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Patriot: Capt. James Farquhar,
North Carolina
James Farquhar was born in North Carolina and was married to Sarah Lockhart after the war. Together they had seven children: William Lockhart; Sarah "Sally"; James, Jr.; John; Catherine; Jean "Jane"; and Elizabeth Farquhar. As a Captain in the Militia, James served with Hezekiah Rice & Company from the State of North Carolina. He served between 1775 and 1778 with Rice's Company organized at Hillsborough, NC under Colonel Ramsey and William Moore. Captain Farquhar marched on an expedition to the western part of North Carolina at Cross Creek, for the purpose of suppressing the Indians in that quarter. James died in Person County, North Carolina in 1814. Dayle DeBry
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Patriot: Pvt. Frederick Mehl,
Pennsylvania
Johann
Friderich Mehl was born 16 November 1757 in Germantown (now a part of
Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, and was christened 27 November 1757 at St.
Michael's Lutheran Church in Germantown. His parents were
Frederick (1730-1787) and Maria Magdalena (Echternachin)(1734-1802)
Mehl, who had been married at the same church on 26 December
1752.
The father, Frederick Mehl, arrived in the United State from Germany 16 September 1751 on the ship Edinburgh along with his father and some younger siblings. He became a citizen in 1762 in Pennsylvania. He purchased a home in Germantown in January 1763, from Marcus Kuhl, for 300 pounds. This home still stands today, is listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and is known as The Mehl House. It is said that some battle of the Revolution was fought just outside, and it was also used as a hiding place by the underground railway in the Civil War. It remained in the Mehl family for over 100 years. Mr. Mehl is listed variously as a tanner, skinner, and breeches maker. According to the Germantown Historical Society he helped to found the Germantown Academy. At one time there was a Mehl Street, and a Mehl's meadow. From the Pennsylvania Archives, online, he was listed in 1777 in Capt. James Haslet's company, along with sons Frederick Jr. and Jacob. (Jacob is the only known older sibling, having been born and christened in 1755, but since he is not mentioned in his father's will, it is assumed that he died before 1787.) The son Frederick, "volunteered in a company of militia raised in said place, under Capt. James Hazlet in the year 1776 in Col. Walkers Regiment, and having done duty at said place for some time - then marched with a portion of the Regiment to Bristol, where other troops joined - and after sometime crossed the Delaware at Burlington, New Jersey: That he was in the battle of Princeton - where Gen. Mercer was killed - soon after that battle he returned with the troops and was again stationed in Germantown until the British got possession of Philadelphia - when General Washington and afterwards General Wayne came to Germantown. That he, the said Mahl, belonged to General Potters brigade and was in the battle which was soon after fought at said town; and that he retreated with the army, and afterwards when the army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, he got permission to go to Lancaster until active operations might require his services. After the British evacuated Philadelphia his services were no longer wanted, and in 1778 or 1779 he entered as a Landsman on board an armed ship called the "Fair American" commanded by Capt. Stephen Decatur; that this ship coasted for the enemy off New York and Charleston - during the trip the ship took eighteen prizes." (The above quote from his Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension which was passed in 1832.) In the early part of 1778 he went to Pittsburgh, hence down the Ohio River and joined the George Rogers Clark expedition and was present at the capture of Fort Sackville and Vincennes in February 1779. He remained at Vincennes after the capture and we find him on a list of heads of families settled at Post Vincennes on or before the 1st of August 1783, to each of whom were donated 400 acres of land in the old Donation tract. He is also listed as belonging to Capt. Pierre Gamelin's company at Post Vincennes, July 4th, 1790, and he is listed as a Sergeant. About 1784-86, he married Barbara Thorn, whose father Michael Thorn was also a Revolutionary Patriot. Their children were as follows: John F. Mahl (ca1786-ca1847) no known marriage or children Charles Mail (25 Nov 1788-6 Aug 1863) m.Elizabeth Sheppard, 2 known children Solomon Males (ca1792-17 Apr 1875) m.Susannah Spain, 6 known children Isaac Mail (21 Mar 1798-4 Jun 1845) m.Julia Springer, 9 known children Mary "Polly" Elizabeth Mail m.Elijah Mays Elizabeth Mail (ca1801-ca1845) m.Edward Staggs, m.James W. Lucas, 4 known children Frederick Mail (15 Apr 1803-8 Feb 1873) m.Louisa Harriet McGahey, 3 known children Harriet Mail (6 Sep 1806-aft 1850) no known marriage or children Sometime before 1820, Barbara Thorn Mehl died, and on 18 Jan 1820 Frederick Mahl married a widow, Polly Garwood Foster, in Knox County, Indiana. In 1832 Frederick Mahl applied for a pension, and while he had no proof of his service, he was eventually granted $40 per annum. Since he died 20 Sep 1838, he did not collect very long, and there is no evidence that his widow was granted anything after his death. In German the letter E has the sound of a long A, so that the name although originally spelled MEHL, would be pronounced MAIL. In Pennsylvania, the MEHL spelling was retained, but in Indiana, Frederick seemed inclined to use MAHL. And as you can see, his descendents used MAIL and MALES as well. Nancy Miller
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To
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Use the browser "Back" button to return to this page. Patriot: Sgt. John Moore, Virginia MOORE and MORE MOORES (Preface to the book by the author, Marilee Moore Helton)
After researching our Moore ancestors for several
years, I began writing their story to share with my Moore cousins. All
genealogy is confusing at times. Ours certainly falls into that
category since we have two separate Moore lines. Although the surnames
of our great-grandparents, Alonzo Morton Moore and Julia Jane Moore,
were both Moore, there was no relationship between their families.
Also included in this Moore family history are the stories of some of our ancestors through female lines - Morris, Wheeler, Townsend, Bourne, and Hume. I have only scratched the surface. After all, the number of our ancestors doubles with each generation. We each have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and on it goes! This Moore history is by no means complete, but is a compilation of what I have found to date. Since none of the cousins, including myself, knew anything of our ancestors, I feel it is important to share what I have discovered. Additional information can be added in the years to come. Answers to some questions seem to come by chance, almost as if my ancestors were guiding me to become acquainted with them. After tracking a great-grandfather for several decades in Missouri, where he was born, married and raised a family, they suddenly disappeared from that location. I had no idea where to look for them. One day while browsing in the Kansas section at the Ponca City Genealogy Library, I chanced upon a book of Cowley County, Kansas, Cemetery records. I leafed through the index and imagine my surprise when listed there were my great-grandparents and several of their children! The family had migrated to southern Kansas. I have found that as I researched each generation, becoming familiar with names and dates, reading the inventories of their estates, and delving into the history of the area, they became very real to me and I felt a closeness to them. I thought this strange, but have since heard others express the same sentiment, so it must be a common reaction. In this book, our direct line is followed generation by generation, with their children's names in capitals, and the grandchildren's names underlined. A great deal of time and effort has gone into researching and writing this Moore history and I sincerely hope you will find it interesting. Genealogy quickly becomes addictive. It has been a joy to work on, although frustrating at times. May you treasure this book as it introduces you to your ancestors. Marilee
Moore Helton
Tonkawa, Oklahoma 2001 We are very grateful that permission to display portions of this work on this website has been granted by the author, however any use other than viewing is prohibited by copyright laws, unless specific written permission for that user and purpose has been granted by the author. |
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