Display Patriot - P-188422 - John/Johannes HUNTER/JAGER

John/Johannes HUNTER/JAGER

SAR Patriot #: P-188422

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A060508

Birth: 14 May 1737 Arisdorf / Basel-Land / Switzerland
Death: 07 Jun 1823 / Washington / TN

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Served as a private in the NC militia; funished species in Dec 1781
  2. FURNISHED A SUBSTITUTE
  3. PAID FOR HORSE LOST IN PUBLIC SERVICE

Additional References:
  1. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
  2. Abercrombie and Slatten: Virginia Revolutionary 'Publick' Claims, Volume 3, pg 839
  3. Rev War Pension R5404V of John Hunter
  4. SAR RC 164278

Spouse: Barbara Bowman
Children: Henry; Alexander; Joshua; William; Nancy; George;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2005-03-11 TN 21722 David Clyde Suttles (164278) Henry   
2005-05-24 TN 22763 Robert David Suttles (164997) Henry   
2015-03-13 TN 62964 Dennis Ray Powell (194004) Henry   
2017-03-24 TN 73686 Henry Carlo Powell Jr. (201874) Henry   
2018-08-24 TN 81876 Randall Eugene Rubel (182708) Barbara   
Burial:
Cherokee Community (aka Cherokee Creek Baptist Church) Cemetery (C-0009543)
Location:
Jonesborough / Washington / TN / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
10440
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
18729649
Marker Type:
SAR Marker
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
11 SEP 2020

Comments:

Photo displayed courtesy of David Carr, TNSSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Dennis Powell
John Hunter and his parents Heinrich Jaeger and Ursula Wurtz-Jaeger, left Basel-land Switzerland on March 5th, 1740, and landed on the shores of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Sept 23rd, 1740. John Hunter lost his mother while at sea, traveling to the new world.

John Hunter was known as Johannes Jaeger or Johannes Jeager, he changed his name to the English translation in 1773 to John Hunter. John learned the trade of blacksmithing at an early age, and continued this throughout his life.
John Hunter was born in Arisdorf, Bale-land Switzerland May 14, 1737, he married Barbara Bowman in present day Washington County, Maryland about 1760.

When John Hunter decided to be of service in the militia, he made known that “there was a time to pray and a time to fight”(1). The pacifist church no longer welcomed John and his wife, so he and Barbara joined the Baptist church and were among the founding members of the Cherokee Creek Baptist Church in Washington County, TN. (2)
During the revolutionary War John Hunter served as a private in the Virginia Militia in the company commanded by Captain Abraham Lincoln (3), who was the grandfather of the president Abraham Lincoln. John lost a horse in the war and was furnished a substitute for his loss(4).

Three of the captains under Major Evans, were Joshua Haley, John Hunter, and William Martin; one of their duties assigned by the legislature was the leveling and widening of the Wilderness Road from Fort Blount Road to the Cumberland Trail, known as the Wilderness Road(5).

It was no easy task to widen the Indian trail to a wagon trail with Indian Territory and unfriendly fire and heavy watch by the Indians. There was a lot of courage required to fend off the British and Indians while working. The opening of the Cumberland Trail was September 25th, 1788. The first to pass through were sixty immigrant families moving toward Tennessee on good roads.

John Hunter was my 4th great grandfather, and is buried in Jonesborough, Washington County TN at the Cherokee Creek Baptist Church. His date of death was June 7th, 1823.


Citations:
1. Pennsylvania church and town records 1708-1985

2. Revolutionary War Pension Bounty-Land Application VA John Hunter # S15897, according to H. Ocheltree

3. Virginia Revolutionary Public Claims Volume III page 839, Janice L. Abercrombie Ga, and Richard Slatten Librarian, Publishing Company Athens, GA.
4. John Hunters Pension records R5404V and Abercrombie &Slatten, VA Revolutionary publication Vol 3 Pg 839

5. Mrs. Garrett Rhea

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