Display Patriot - P-172040 - John HACKER

John HACKER

SAR Patriot #: P-172040

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A048859

Birth: 02 Jan 1743 / Stafford / VA
Death: 20 Apr 1824 / Lewis / WV

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Pvt, Matross, Captain Robert George, VA Militia
  2. DAR cites PVT, Captain JAMES BOOTH, 1777

Additional References:
  1. West Virginians in the Rev, pg 114
  2. John Hacker's Petition to the General Assembly of VA, VA Arch, Box 138, Folder 12
  3. DAR cites HACKER'S CREEK JOURNAL, Volume 2, ISSUE 2, pg 26-33
  4. Gwathmey, VA In The Rev, pg 335
  5. James, George Rogers Clark Papers, Vo. 4, pg 421

Spouse: Margaret Sleeth
Children: Jonathan; Margaret; John; Alexander; Sarah; William; Mary Ann; Elizabeth; Absalom; Thomas;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1961-03-30 DC Unassigned Henderson Larue Smith (87107) Sarah   
1983-11-10 WV Unassigned Hiram Wilson Lynch IV (118798) Sarah   
1995-08-22 CA 210300 Jerry Ray Sayre PP (141394) Margaret   
2010-05-11 TN 38815 Mark Gregory Berner (176970) Jonathon   
2015-08-11 IL 65592 Richard Glenn Barber (195913) Margaret   
2023-03-31 WV 106161 Ian Wyatt Wyckoff (225851) Jonathan   
Burial:
Morrison Cemetery (C-0371409)
Location:
Berlin / Lewis / WV / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2139621
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
10676414
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Upright Stone - Photo by permission: Jerry Sayre, California Society SAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

The cemetery is located on a farm and is fenced in. To gain access you need to go through the pasture fence on the north side of the road about 50 feet west of the Historical marker to the John Hacker Settlement. About 500 feet north of the gate is the cemetery



Author: Jerry Ray Sayre
John Hacker was born New Years Day, 1 Jan 1743 in Overwharton Parish, Stafford County. VA. He was the 2nd son of William and Ann (Turner) Hacker. John was the great grandson of Col. Francis Hacker who was one of Cromwell’s lieutenants, who led Charles the first to the scaffold in 1649 in the English Civil War.

John grew to manhood in Virginia and there he met and married Margaret Sleeth, the eldest of 6 children and daughter of John Alexander (P- 291082) and Mary Ann (Wallace) Sleeth. (source: Hacker’s Creek Descendants Assoc., Hacker Genealogies by J. W. Smith 1956)

When the War came, John served as a matross (cannoneer’s assistant) in Capt. Robert George's Company of Virginia Militia, Illinois Regiment under General George Rogers Clark.

He was one of 175 Men with Gen. Clark during the Campaign against Kaskaskia and Vincennes. He served at Fort Massac at the southern end of the Illinois Country in what is now a State Park in Metropolis, IL

He later represented Harrison County, VA in negotiations with the Indians in making the treaty of Fort Greenfield, Ohio in 1795. He was Sheriff of Harrison County, 1799-1801. As the 1st white settler on Hacker's Creek, Lewis County, (W)VA, the area is named in his honor.

After the Revolution, John Hacker settled down in the Hacker’s Creek area of what is now West Virginia, and finally passed from this life on 20 April 1824 in Weston, Lewis County, (W)VA. I have photos of his headstones.


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