Display Patriot - P-141015 - George Henry CRESS/KRESS
George Henry CRESS/KRESS
SAR Patriot #:
P-141015
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Birth: 1739 Landkries Deggendorf / Bavaria / Germany Death: 25 Feb 1823 / Gallia / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
PA Line, Pvt in Capt Samuel Ferguson's Co, York County, PA, 4th Co Reg Colonel James Dixon under the command of Gen James Potter
NSDAR RC#699021 states CORPORAL, Captain SAMUEL FERGUSON, Colonel THOMPSON
Additional References:
Official roster: Soldiers of the American Revolution who lived in the State of Ohio. Wilbur R. Branthoover, compiler. Veterans Affairs, Ohio. Reprinted by OHSDAR. 1938
Pension papers are in the National Archives, Pension # S24983
The cemetery is located in Racoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio, and is # 4062 (Old Pine Cemetery) in “Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003”, compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The cemetery is located on the east side of Ohio State Route 325 about 0.3 miles south of its intersection with Shelton Road (Township Road 430)
Author: Lt Col Gary Owen Green
George Kress arrived at Philadelphia from the Germany. He was under the age of age 21. His father's surname is seen recorded within "A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776: with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712," by I. Daniel Rupp, Genealogical Publ., Co., Inc. reprinted at Philadelphia, 1876. Cress is a variant German spelling surname of KRESS. The Last Will and Testament of George Kress is of record at Gallia County, Ohio, Book B, Pages 291-292.
George Kress married Christiana (1738-1823) in 1764, at Pennsylvania. Their son, George Kress/Cress was born 30 November 1767 at Adams County, Pennsylvania. He married Charity Morgan, 30 December 1790, at Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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