Display Patriot - P-267850 - Edward PEDIGO/PEDIFORD

Edward PEDIGO/PEDIFORD

SAR Patriot #: P-267850

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A087986

Birth: 24 Dec 1732 / / France
Death: 26 Apr 1834 / Barren / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Furnished Supplies
  2. Pvt - Capts, Young, Fleming, Col Russell, Heth, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th Regts, VA

Additional References:
  1. VA in the Revolution, pg 613
  2. Brumbaugh: Rev War Records, Volume 1, pg 486
  3. NSDAR cites
    • NARA M881, Compiled Military Service Records, Roll #995
    • Aberbrombie and Slatten, VA Revolutionary 'Publick' Claims, Vol 2, pg 517

Spouse: Mary Hannah Elkin
Children: Joseph; Levi; Henry; Abel; Elizabeth; Bathsheba; Elijah; Lucy; John;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1992-01-08 VA 214166 Jack Bertram Coulter (138061) Lucy   
2006-09-14 KY 26292 Don Carlos Graeter (167706) Joseph   
2006-09-14 KY 26293 Drew Joseph Graeter (167707) Joseph   
2006-09-14 KY 26294 Spencer Harris Graeter (167708) Joseph   
2009-12-22 KY 37314 Jon Ellis Huffman (172987) Joseph   
2010-09-15 NM 40305 Samuel David Bradley (177962) Joseph   
2013-06-19 KY 53579 Jon Darren Huffman (187635) Joseph   
2013-06-19 KY 53580 Jeremy Matthew Huffman (187636) Joseph   
2013-06-19 KY 53581 Quinten Edward Huffman (187637) Joseph   
2013-10-03 VA 55171 Scott Daniel Aiken USMC (152900) Henry   
2014-02-25 IN 57166 Stanley Eugene Isaac (186161) Levi   
2014-03-06 SC 57194 Douglas Arnold Puckett (187272) Bathsheba   
2016-08-09 VA 70634 Lester Daryle Hurt (199541) Joseph   
2018-08-24 WA 81978 Paul Richard Clifton (196524) Bathsheba   
2018-12-21 VA 84250 Christopher Blaine Hurt (209972) Joseph   
2018-12-21 VA 84251 Timothy Blaine Hurt (209973) Joseph   
2021-01-29 OH 95493 Mark Anthony Hensler (218092) Joseph   
2021-01-29 OH 95494 Mark Anthony Hensler Jr. (218093) Joseph   
2022-07-01 TN 102484 Jeffery Paul Pedigo (222993) Joseph   
2022-09-02 IL 103470 William Wesley Clifton (223669) Bathsheba   
2022-09-02 IL 103471 Robert Yountz Clifton (223670) Bathsheba   
Burial:
Old Mulkey Church (aka Mulkey) Cemetery (C-0372650)
Location:
Tompkinsville / Monroe / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
640758
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
9476121
Marker Type:
Headstone
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Patriot contemporary stone, upright, legible, refurbished
  • Image 1, provided with permisson from Jane Grubbs, Find-a-Grave member #49245189
  • Image 2, provided with permission from Mark Bennett, Find-a-Grave member #46629798


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

From highway 163 in Tompkinsville, turn south on highway 1446 (Old Mulkey Rd) and proceed about 1.8 miles. Old Mulkey Park is on the right. The cemetery is located to the right of the Old Church



Author: Rev Douglas Arnold Puckett

Edward Pedigo (Peregoy/Pedeford) was born December 25, 1732, at Baltimore, Maryland, and died April 26, 1834, at Barren County, Kentucky.   

Edward Pedigo’s grandfather was Joseph Peregois, a French Huguenot refugee that fled to Maryland in 1685.  Pedigo and his brother, John, fled an abusive stepmother and settled at Halifax County, Virginia.  Edward Pedigo married Hannah Elkins.  Both Edward and John served during the French and Indian War in the Halifax County Militia and the Virginia Rangers under Colonel George Washington (1755-1763).  During the Revolutionary War, John Pedigo was a loyalist, but Edward Pedigo became a patriot.

Edward Pedigo was 45 years of age when he became a private in the Seventh Virginia Regiment of Foot under General George Washington, and the Continental Army beginning, December 1, 1777, at Valley Forge.  The remark “Sick [,] Present,” made on his company muster roll of the time reflect the valor of those brave men during the hardships of Valley Forge.  Edward Pedigo continued in the Army until November 1779.  This was the end of his second one-year term served.

Pedigo was in the Seventh Virginia Regiment from December 1, 1777, until November 1778.  He was reassigned to the Fifth Virginia Regiment until October 1777, when he was reassigned to the Eleventh Virginia Regiment until November 1779.  These regiments had been reorganized and reincorporated during this period.

Pedigo trained under Prussian Drill Master, Baron von Steuben, from February to May 1778.  Pedigo saw action at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, in the Seventh Virginia Regiment.  He joined the ring of Continental Army soldiers encircling British-held New York City.  He was assigned to guard various places from 1778 until 1779: Camp White Plains, New York; Newark and Pompton Plains, Middlebrook, Ramapough, New Jersey; Smiths Clove and Haverstraw, New York; and Morristown, New Jersey, during the first part of one of the coldest winters on record (1779-1780).  With a shortage of food, supplies and warm clothes and endless snow storms, Pedigo and the Fifth Virginia Regiment suffered greatly, until his term of service ended December 9, 1779.  Pedigo returned to Virginia.

By early 1780, Pedigo settled at Patrick County, Virginia.  He moved to Barren County, Kentucky, where he died in 1834.   He was buried at the family cemetery.  In the present day, all the old grave markers have been destroyed by a great oak tree that has grown up from the graves and shelters this place.

 

 




Author: Bob O’Neal
Edward Pedigo was the son of Henry Peregoy, a French Huguenot from Maryland who had fifteen children. Along with his brother Robert, Edward located in the York River valley (Virginia). The two brothers later immigrated to Patrick and Henry counties, the first settlers in those counties. Robert settled in the north side of Henry County and Edward settled on the south side of the Smith River, in Patrick County. Edward and Robert married sisters; Edward’s wife’s maiden name was Hannah Elkins. The Elkins were Austro-Hungarian Jews.

Edward Pedigo fought in the French and Indian Wars. He was with George Washington at Fort Du Quesne, the scene of General Braddock’s defeat. Edward was one of thirty Virginians who left the battlefield alive.
When the American Revolution began, Robert remained loyal to the Crown. Edward, however, served as a Private in the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 11th Virginia Regiments. During this time, he was present at the Continental Army’s Winter encampment at Valley Forge. He received a land warrant by the state land office of Virginia for three years’ service in the Army.

Edward moved to Barren County, Kentucky in 1805 and settled near Randolph. He came with his oldest son, Joseph, who had previously married Dorothy Edwards in Virginia in 1783. Edward was then an old man of about seventy-three years of age. He lived to the age of 105. He was reportedly buried in a graveyard 200-300 yards south of the Pleasant Hill church in Randolph, but the graveyard has long since been plowed up.

Other children of Edward Pedigo were: Abel, who married Susan Ross; Levi, who married Polly Newland and Polly Eden; Henry, who married Leah Cochran; Elijah; John; Elin; Lucy, who married a Clark; Nan (Nancy?), who married an Edwards; Amy, who married a Hardy; and Keziah, who married a Bell.
The present form of the name “Pedigo” was adopted by the Kentucky branch, but the Maryland family still retains one of the older forms which is “Peregoy.” There are several recognized forms of the same name: Pedego, Perego, Peregory, Peregoe, Perigo, Pedigoy, Peregory. His SAR Patriot Number is P-267850.

(Portions of information from the Glasgow Daily Times newspaper, Barren County, Kentucky, published February 18, 1943.)



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DAR NOTE: (there are potential issues) regarding this man's lineage HANNAH ELKIN, NOT MARY ELKIN, WAS THE WIFE OF THE PATRIOT & MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN. 3/2021



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