Mike Peters wrote:
Am seeking information on the following veterans of the Revolutionary War:
Francis Farley
James Ellison
Richard Blankenship
I don't know if it will help to have the place of residence in relation to one
another of these families in 1787, but here they are:
Greenbrier County
Ellison, Asa - List collected 5 May -------------- 3 horses, 6 cows
Ellison, Elizabeth - List colllected 26 Apr-------- one white male 16-21 yrs,
8 horses, 11 cows
Ellison, James, Jr. - List collected 14 Apr------- 6 horses, 9 cows
Ellison, James Sr. - List collected 4 May------ 5 horses, 12 cows
Ellison, John - List collected 4 May-------------- 1 horse
Farley, Francis - List collected 14 Apr--------- 4 horses, 15 cows
Farley, John - List collected 14 Apr ------------- 2 horses, 8 cows
Farley, Matt - List collected 14 Apr------------- 4 horses, 7 cows
Blankenship, John - List collected 13 Apr------- 7 horses, 10 cows
Blankenship, Lodowick - List collected 13 Apr--1 horse, 5 cows
There was no Richard Blankenship in Greenbrier County in 1787, but
there was one in Montgomery County. He was living in or near what is
now Pearisburg. His list was collected the same day that Mitchell &
David Clay's were. Mictchell Clay and his family lived on the frontier
at Clover Bottom on the Bluestone River in what is now Mercer County
until 1775 when half his family was killed by the Indians. He moved
back into a more settled area where he lived until his death in 1812.
Evidently Richard Blankenship moved, too. Richard Blankenship had
4 horses and 10 cattle in 1787.
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From WILLIAM PRESTON AND THE ALLEGHENY PATRIOTS. Patricia
Givens Johnson. Pulaski, Virginia, 1976. p. 139. [This is an excellent
book. Much information on the activities in SW Virginia during the
Revolutionary War period. Very well documented.]
Year: 1774.
"Major James Robertson was stationed at Woods Fort on Rich Creek
of New River keeping a lookout with James Farley and Philip Kavanaough
serving as scouts from this fort. Robertson sent Preston word that
Mitchel, Zekiel and David Clay, Richard Blankenship, James William
and others had served fifty-one days with provisions raised at their own
expense. Robertson appreciated their efforts and all "my good grinds
for assisting me in getting my company made up as I thought it was
merely impossible to do it in the time and I am sure there is not such
another company for the Quality of man."
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Netti Schreiner-Yantis
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