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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant Colonel / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
NOTE: The Montgomery family cemetery is located in a field approximately .75 miles behind the Fort Chiswell Mansion
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Author: William C Schrader
Meanwhile, John Montgomery, son of James and Anne and brother of the elder Robert, was making quite a reputation for himself. John was born about 1725 in Ireland, and moved to America with his family about 1733. With the family, he moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, where he married Agnes Crockett on 28 November 1753. John Montgomery served as justice of the peace in Botetourt County, and was a Captain of militia in the French and Indian War under Maj. Andrew Lewis, and served in Lord Dunmore’s War. From 1774 to 1776 he served on the Fincastle County Committee of Public Safety. In 1775 he was one of the signers of the Fincastle Resolutions, addressed to the Virginia delegation to the Continental Congress, which was the first public statement urging armed resistence to British infringements on American liberties. In 1776 John Montgomery enlisted in the fourth Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army. He also served as sheriff of Fincastle County and, when it was divided into Kentucky, Botetourt, Montgomery, and Washington counties in 1777, he later became sheriff of Montgomery County in 1778. He served in the Virginia legislature as a representative of Montgomery County in 1777. In 1780 he proved that he was entitled to 3,000 acres under the terms of the Proclamation of 1763 for his services in the French and Indian War. John Montgomery made his will on 4 July 1798, which was probated on 14 August 1805. Agnes Crockett, wife of John Montgomery, is also of interest. Born 4 February 1755, she was a daughter of Samuel Crockett and Esther Thompson. Her grandfather, Rev. John Thompson (about 1690 to 1753), was an influential Presbyterian minister very much involved in the controversies around the Great Awakening. The Crocketts were a Huguenot family who came to America by way of Bantry Bay, Ireland. Samuel Crockett was first cousin to William Crockett, the great-grandfather of the frontiersman David Crockett, who died at the Alamo on 6 March 1836.
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