Display Patriot - P-126428 - Samuel BUTCHER Jr

Samuel BUTCHER Jr

SAR Patriot #: P-126428

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
DAR #: A017576

Birth: 28 Mar 1756 Lancaster / / PA
Death: 03 May 1847 / Wood / VA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. DAR NOTE - SOLDIER DID NOT SERVE SIX MONTHS. PENSION CLAIM DEEMED INVALID
  2. NSDAR cites Lt - RECOMMENDED MAY 1778, LOUDOUN CO MILITIA

Additional References:
  1. Gwathmey, Historical Register of the Virginians in the Revolution, pg 116
  2. Genealogical & Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, pg 1122
  3. Virginia Soldiers of 1776, pg 1254
  4. Pension: R1540V - Invalid
  5. McAllister, VA Military in the Rev War, pg 213
  6. Pension Number S6111 - David W Sleeth

Spouse: Hannah Drake
Children: Baylis/Bailiss Grisby; Uree/Urah; Eli; Hannah Drake; Thomas; Peyton; Deborah; Susannah;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1971-07-21 WV Unassigned George Gerald Dawson (101926) Urah   
1971-07-21 WV Unassigned William Monroe Dawson (100550) Urah   
1972-08-15 WV Unassigned George Robert Dawson (101944) Urah   
1978-01-30 VA Unassigned Jack K Robinson USAF (114082) Urah   
1979-03-12 WV Unassigned Robert Shirley Dawson (114909) Urah   
1980-08-26 FL Unassigned Abraham Lincoln Robinson (117378) Urah   
1984-07-30 MD Unassigned Barrett L. McKown (115519) Susannah   
1990-10-16 TX 217542 Jack Kermit Robinson Jr (135799) Urah   
1992-03-05 TX 213738 Thomas Holt Murray Jr (138510) Bailiss   
1996-06-24 CA 203362 Robert Rowland Nowell (146651) Uree   
2010-12-14 TX 40601 Thomas Holt Murray III (178487) Baylis/Bailiss   
2021-06-11 TX 94907 Rodney Harold Ashford (206473) Ely   
2022-04-08 WV 99189 Donald Louis Brown (185932) Urah   
Burial:
Kincheloe-Vandiver Cemetery (C-0075991)
Location:
Cedar Grove / Wood / WV / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2132955
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
10332770
Marker Type:
SAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
11 Nov 2019

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Technology Dr,on the campus of WVU Parkersburg



Author: Michael Wayne Barrett // Barrett L McKown
Born Loudoun Co., Virginia, March 28, 1756, s/o Samuel Butcher Sr (1730-1778) & Susannah (Lewis) (c1730-1801). Spent very early years in Loudoun Co., Virginia, and later childhood years in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, with his parents.

During Revolutionary War, Samuel Butcher, Jr., enlisted Loudoun Co., Virginia, as Lieutenant in the Loudoun County Militia, May 1778. (McAllister's "Virginia Militia in the Revolution," pg 218) While a resident of Loudoun County, he volunteered on October 1, 1780, in Capt. John Davis' Virginia Company and served for 4-5 days as a First Lieutenant. He volunteered again April, 1781, and served as First Lieutenant under Capt. Thomas Shores & Capt. Samuel Nolen. On July 22, 1781, he received furlough. Having served 3 months as required by Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied for pension but did not accept any land bounty grant as his possessions were over $5,000. (Revolutionary Pension # R1540V)

Samuel Butcher, Jr., married Hannah (Drake) probably in Loudoun Co., Virginia, on October 14, 1778. After marriage, Samuel Jr. & Hannah lived in Loudoun Co., Virginia, through 1799.

Samuel Butcher, Jr., owned land at Harper's Ferry, (W.) Virginia, after the Revolution. On September 23, 1799, William Cleaver deeded 175 acres land in Randolph County, (W.) Virginia, part of 1000 acres survey by military warrant granted to James Walker, to Samuel Butcher, being on west side of Tygart's Valley River near mouth of Leading Creek with houses, buildings, and orchard.

By 1800, Samuel Jr., Hannah, and family moved from Loudoun Co., Virginia, to Randolph Co., (W.) Virginia. The present town of Beverly, Randolph Co., W. Va., was almost entirely owned by him. A few miles north, near Elkins, Randolph Co., (W.) Virginia, was the plantation of Samuel Butcher, Jr., and his mill was built upon Grimes Farm.
Samuel Butcher listed on the 1810 Randolph Co., (W.) Virginia, census with his family.

About 1815, Samuel Jr., Hannah, and his younger children moved to large tract of land in the bend of the Little Kanawha River, opposite the mouth of Walker's Creek, in Wood Co., (W.) Virginia. Their farm became known as Butcher's Bend. Land purchased from Thomason Leach, and built a log cabin, and later frame house. He also had a ferry right over the Little Kanawha River, and he was a pioneer farmer, hunter, and slaveholder with about a dozen slaves.
Samuel Butcher is listed on the Wood County, (W.) Virginia, tax lists for multiple years including 1817, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1824, 1828, 1832.

Samuel Butcher is also listed on the 1820, 1830, & 1840 Wood Co., (W.) Virginia, censuses with his family:
Samuel Butcher, Jr., died at home of his son-in-law, Atwell D. Vaughan, at Stillwell, Wood Co., (W.) Virginia, on February 2, 1844, at the age of 87 years and is buried in the Kincheloe-Vandiver graveyard at Cedar Grove, Wood Co., W. Va., near his wife.

Samuel Butcher (Jr)'s WILL is recorded in Wood Co., (W.) Virginia. (Wood County WB 4, pg 250)

Additonal Biography by Barrett L McKown, John Paul Jones Chapter, MDSSAR, 115519

Born 28 March 1756 - Loudoun County, VA, Died 2 February 1844 - Wood County, VA - Will recorded Wood County, WV, Wilt Book 4, page 250

Parents - Samuel Butcher, Sr., ca. 1731 to 1776, son of John Butcher, Loudoun Co., VA and Susannah Lewis, ca. 1735 to 1601, daughter of Abraham and Rebecca Lewis

Buried Kincheloe-Vandiver Cemetery, Cedar Grove, Wood County, WV

Spouse - Married - 14 October 1776, probably Loudoun Co., Hannah Drake, daughter of Thomas Drake and Eurah Humphreys, born 16Aug 1761, died 2 February 1844

11 Child: Eli, Uree Reed, Thomas, Peyton, Tasy Peadre Hamer, John Bailiss, Susannah, Vaughan, Anna Pribble Vaughan, Deborah Pribble, and Hannah Kincheloe

By 1800 his family had moved from Loudoun County to Randolph County where he is listed on the 1810 Virginia census. About 1815 he and his family moved to a large tract of land in the bend 01 the Little Kanawha River opposite the mouth of Walker's Creek in Wood Co., VA Their farm became know as Butcher's Bend. He also had a ferry right over the Ultle Kanawha River and was a pioneer farmer and hunter. His family remained in Wood County where he died in 1844.

Rev War Service from his pension application R 1540V: Commissioned as LT by the Governor of Virginia in 1778. In 1760 he volunteered in the Virginia Loudoun County Militia and served 3 months under CAPT Jotn David, MAJ Jacob Reed and COL John Alexander. In April 1761 he volunteered and was transferred to COL Charles Dabney's command. They marched to the Rapidan River from Fredericksburg in pursuit of Cornwallis who retreated. His term having expired, he returned to Loudoun County and was discharged by CAPT Samuel Noland.
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Additional Information:
  • NSDAR cites: WHITE'S PENSION ABSTRACTS, REFERENCING PATRIOT'S WILL
    • NAMES SUSAN WHO MARR ATWELL VAUGHAN AS AN ADOPTED DAU
    • HIS ACTUAL WILL DOES NOT REFER TO HER AS ADOPTED
  • Pension R1540 cites
    • The following report is by Washington G. Singleton, US District Attorney, who investigated numerous pension applicants in what is now West Virginia. For details see my appendix in the pension application S6111 of David W. Sleeth. Singleton concluded that Butcher was not entitled to a pension because he did not serve at least six months as required under the 1832 act.]
    • Samuel Butcher R1540 Wood Co., By Mitchell. “Not entitled.” Declaration claimed nine months; Applicant told Singleton three


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