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Birth: bef 1743 / / Germany Death: bef 09 Jan 1813 Charlestown / Clark / IN
Qualifying Service Description:
Continental Line
Revolutionary War service as a Private in a company raised for Westmoreland County, (PA) militia
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Pennsylvania's Digital State Archives (ARIAS) Rev War Military Abstract Card File, Item 65, *Original Certificate recorded issued 8 Dec 1785* Cert. No. 7677, George* Huckleberry, raised for Westmoreland County (PA) militia, Records of the Comptroller General
Farm at Charlestown Powderplant possibly Baird Cemetery in Charlestown State Park
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Author: Kenneth J. Kellar
George Huckleberry Sr. is a son of Benjamin and Dorothea Batt Huckleberry. George was born in 1743 in Germany, and died 09 Jan 1813 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. George was buried in the east corner of an old orchard on his farm about 14 miles above the Ohio Falls on the eastern side where 14 mile Creek enters the Ohio River.
It has been recorded that when George was only about 6 months old his mother took sick while crossing the ocean coming to America and was buried at sea. George along with his father and siblings arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, to begin their new lives in America around 1743.
George Huckleberry enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
George was married first to Rosanna Wise on 11 April 1763 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They had ten (10) children: Jacob, Abraham, John, Daniel, Martin, Susannah, David, George Jr., Henry, and Elizabeth. Rosanna died in 1783. George married second Anna Barbara Pinkinpaw in 1798.
About 1784 a group of his family moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky, near Abbots station. Here one of his sons, Daniel, was captured by the Indians. When the Indians found that they were being pursued they killed the boy and threw his body into a small stream near Twelve-Mile Island. The stream is known today as Huckleberry Creek.
In the year 1796 he moved to Clark County, Indiana, near Charlestown Landing, where he purchased a large tract of land. The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry VI-4, page 4, gives the sale of land by Patrick Joyce to George Huckleberry for five hundred acres.
His sons performed military duty on the frontier: Martin was in Captain Wells’ Company at St. Clair’s defeat; Henry was in the battle of Tippecanoe; George Jr. was one of the volunteers that went to the relief of Fort Harrison when Major Zachary Taylor, later president Zachary Taylor, was besieged by the Indians.
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