Author: Ronald Jones
Isaac David born May 30, 1756 in King William Parish, then Cumberland County, Virginia, now Powhatan County, Virginia. His parents were Peter David, a Quartermaster Officer in the 14th Virginia, Continental Line, and Elizabeth Morrisett. As a child, he moved to Buckingham County, Virginia where he grew to maturity and married Mildred White about 1775. She was the daughter of Henry White and Celia Page. Around 1780 Isaac and his family moved to Henry County, Virginia onto land he was granted by the state of Virginia. Late in 1787, Isaac and Milly sold the land and moved to a tract on the South Fork of the Broad River, then in Wilkes County, Georgia and now in both Madison County, Georgia and Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Milly died and on February 26, 1798 and Isaac remarried to Susannah Vaughn, widow of James Vaughn a Revolutionary Veteran who had settled in Oglethorpe County in the early 1790’s. Isaac raised to maturity ten children of his own and seven children of his second wife as well as the three children of his son Henry who died at about 30 years of age. He was active in Millstone Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, Georgia where he was chosen as a deacon of Millstone Church and ordained on March 31, 1804. He died April 17, 1840 having accumulated a substantial estate.

Isaac David is a recognized Revolutionary War Patriot having furnished 300 lbs of beef to the American Revolutionary Army according to Public Claims, Henry Co Virginia, Booklet, Reg C 5520, Virginia State Library, Richmond.

He served as a private in the Virginia Militia from Henry County under the command of Capt. Hamon Critz. They began their march from Beaver Creek on March 11, 1781, marched to the assistance of General Green at Guilford’s Court House, and took part in the battle there on March 25, 1781. This Company was later at Eutaw Springs and finally they were at the surrender at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781.

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