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Photo used with permission of Compatriot Michael B. Gunn, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
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The Cecil Burial Ground is located on a hilltop about half way between the towns of Cadiz and Moorefield, just off Route US 22. The site is about one-half mile to the Northeast of the intersection of Cadiz-Piedmont Road/US 22 and Slater Road (Township Road 265)
Per Find-a-Grave: Map coordinates have not been set for this cemetery
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Author: David Gerald Smith
JOSHUA Sr. was born in 1733, in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Frederick County was formed in 1748 from Prince Georges County. In 1766 a Joshua Cecil was living in Frederick county on the land of a Brice Thomas Beale Worthington and on March 12 he received, by bond, his dwelling house and the surrounding 100 acres. Maryland land Patent book BC & BG No. 50, folio 277 contains an entry recorded April 22, 1776 indicating a survey on April 18, 1775, of land in Frederick County for Joshua Cecil. The tract contained 353 acres and was called "CECIL'S DISCOVERY."
On August 3, 1776 three Companies of the Maryland Flying Corps, including that of Captain John H Lowe, were ordered to march to Philadelphia. On August 18 they had progressed to the Head of the Elk (now Elkton, Maryland). On August 30 they were in Trenton, New Jersey. They engaged in battle at Harlen Heights on September 16, 1776, and Captain Lowe was injured when about 1000 of the enemy made an attack on the line.
After the War, Joshua Cecil apparently returned to his land that was now in Montgomery County. Part of Frederick County became what is now Montgomery County on 6 September 1776. The same year he purchased 100 acres in Frederick County, Maryland, from his brother-in-law Brice Thomas Beale Worthington. He signed a land patent on 19 Jan 1779 receiving 11 acres adjacent to "Wildcat Springs," called "Little and Bad." On 9 April 1785 he sold to Mr. Worthington a parcel called "Resurvey on Wildcat Springs" (Montgomery Co. Liber C, fol. 123). This apparently was the land that he had received from Mr. Worthington in 1769. The deed was signed by both Joshua and his wife Mary.
It appears that the entire family moved as a group to Ohio sometime between 1802 and 1807. Joshua settled near the village of Deersville, in Cadiz Township, Jefferson County (now Harrison), Ohio. He purchased for $180.00 the S.W. quarter of Section 20, Township 10, Range 5, on May 5, 1807. He died there in 1814 leaving a modest estate to his wife Mary and their 11 children. He was buried on his farm, just to the west of the town of Cadiz.
n 1766 a Joshua Cecil was living in Frederick county on the land of a Brice Thomas Beale Worthington and on March 12 he received, by bond, his dwelling house and the surrounding 100 acres. Maryland land. Patent book BC & BG No. 50, folio 277 contains an entry recorded April 22, 1776 indicating a survey on April 18, 1775, of land in Frederick County for Joshua Cecil. The tract contained 353 acres and was called CECIL'S DISCOVERY.
After the War, Joshua Cecil apparently returned to his land that was now in Montgomery County. Part of Frederick County became what is now Montgomery County on 6 September 1776. The same year he purchased 100 acres in Frederick County, Maryland, from his brother-in-law Brice Thomas Beale Worthington. He signed a land patent on 19 Jan 1779 receiving 11 acres adjacent to Wildcat Springs, called Little and Bad. On 9 April 1785 he sold to Mr. Worthington a parcel called Resurvey on Wildcat Springs (Montgomery Co. Liber C, fol. 123). This apparently was the land that he had received from Mr. Worthington in 1769. The deed was signed by both Joshua and his wife Mary.
It appears that the entire family moved as a group to Ohio sometime between 1802 and 1807. Joshua settled near the village of Deersville, in Cadiz Township, Jefferson County (now Harrison), Ohio. He purchased for $180.00 the S.W. quarter of Section 20, Township 10, Range 5, on May 5, 1807. He died there in 1814 leaving a modest estate to his wife Mary and their 11 children. He was buried on his farm, just to the west of the town of Cadiz.
Author: Larry E. Ball
Details of the Cecil Family including Joshua Cecil, the Revolutionary War soldier, are recorded in the Book “The Cecil Family of Maryland with some Allied Ball Family” compiled and written by Walter V. Ball. This appears online in digital form at the website of the University of Wisconsin.
Joshua Cecil of Frederick County, Maryland was mustered on July 13, 1776, in the Maryland Flying Camp from St. George’s County, Maryland. Walter Ball describes Joshua Cecil as “a very poor man.” He was mustered on July 13, 1776, under Captain John H. Lowe and was reviewed and passed by Lt. John M. Burgess. The following was written of Lowe’s Maryland Flying Camp on October 13, 1776. “By last return I had 237 sick owing to our lying on the cold ground without straw or plank. Great numbers are badly off for clothing and some without blankets as several did not receive any and some of the first three companies lost theirs leaving New York. Soldiers, what of them are in good health, appear to be of good spirits though ragged and some without shoes.”
Author: Michael B. Gunn
Born in 1733 in Prince George’s County, Maryland, son of Philip and Elizabeth (Gittings) Cecil, Joshua Cecil served as a Private under Captain Lowe with the Maryland Flying Camp in the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783. He was in the Battle of Harlem Plains.
He married Mary Berry (__1750) in 1775 or 60; children: Ann b. 1760, Joshua b. 1762. He lived and married where he was born in Prince George’s County, Maryland. In 1766, he purchased 100 acres of land in Frederick County, Maryland from his brother-in-law Brice Thomas Beale Worthington. About 1806, he moved to then Jefferson County, Ohio in what became Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio. He died at 84 years of age on April 19, 1814.
He is buried at the Dickerson Cemetery #1, 37102 Cadiz-Piedmont Road (US 22) and Slater Road (Township Road 265), in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio. Cemetery notes and/or description: The cemetery is located on the George Dickerson farm at the intersection of Cadiz-Piedmont Road (US 22) and Slater Road (Township Road 265). His grave is marked with a bronze VA tombstone.
Reference:
Archives of Maryland Muster Rolls & Other Records 1775-1783, Vol. XVIII (Baltimore, Md: Maryland Historical Society, 1900) pp. 34, 35, 36.
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