Display Patriot - P-273605 - Moses PRESTON

Moses PRESTON

SAR Patriot #: P-273605

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A092923

Birth: 1762 / Bedford / VA
Death: 18 Apr 1842 / Lawrence / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private in Virginia Line of Infantry under Major Hill; CAPT Boyer; Colonel Buford 7th and COL Campbell 14th VA Regiment
  2. Fought in Battle of Guilford Court House; Camden; Claps Mill, Sawyers Mill and at Ninety-Six

Additional References:
  1. Pension S*W.8533
  2. Historical Registry of Virginians in the Revolution, Gwathmey, Vol 2, pg 637
  3. Halls History of Johnson County, KY, pg 378
  4. Department of Archives
    • Book A, pg 172
    • War 4, pg 308
  5. History of VA for Revolutionary Soldiers, pg 358

Spouse: Frances/Fanny Arthur
Children: Arthur; Elizabeth/Betty; Henry; Isaac; Jane/Jenny; Lynchie/Lynchia; Mary/Polly; Moses Coby; Stephen;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1972-02-08 CA Unassigned Ernest Ray Preston (100630) Moses   
1973-10-19 KY Unassigned John David Preston (105752) Moses   
1974-05-23 CA Unassigned William Moses Preston (106470) Moses   
1979-09-21 KY Unassigned Stephen Ray Brackett (116073) Moses   
1984-05-22 KY Unassigned Robert Marshall Daniels (123683) Moses/Coby   
1984-12-13 TX Unassigned Michael Robert Perusich (125022) Moses/Coby   
1985-04-28 IL 230018 Ward Madison Cook (125706) Moses   
1989-10-26 FL 221692 James Byron Young (132006) Polly   
1994-02-25 WV 226253 Richard Anthony Bromley (128408) Jane   
2001-12-17 TX 11519 Stevenson Hickham Price (157185) Lynchia   
2005-03-10 CA 21967 Preston Edward Cook (164259) Moses   
2007-09-24 WA 29314 Allan Ray Wenzel Ph.D. (164881) Moses   
2009-08-31 FL 36375 Franklin Delano Flannery (174983) Moses/Colby   
2011-05-20 OH 42457 John Wesley Preston (179608) Moses   
2012-01-17 KY 45972 Douglas William Pugh (182066) Lynchie   
2012-02-15 OH 45677 Jeffrey C. Carithers (179878) Stephen   
2012-07-12 FL 48692 Steven Preston Frost (184151) Moses   
2012-07-12 FL 48693 Steven Jason Frost (184152) Moses   
2016-02-02 VA 67630 William Meade Haskins Jr. (194726) Issac   
2016-08-23 KY 70925 William Mark Preston (199683) Isaac   
2021-08-13 KY 98544 Jason Stephen VanHoose (220175) Lynchie   
2021-08-13 KY 98545 Justin Scott VanHoose (220176) Lynchie   
2021-10-15 KY 99318 John S. VanHoose II (220700) Lynchie   
2021-10-15 KY 99319 John Samuel VanHoose III (220701) Lynchie   
2021-10-22 VA 99405 Aubrey Van Adams (220836) Mary/Polly   
2021-10-22 VA 99406 James Henry Adams (220837) Mary   
2024-02-09 KY 108179 David L. Louden (219630) Moses   
Burial:
Moses Preston Cemetery (C-0372623)
Location:
Ulysses / Lawrence / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
1967766
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.966908 / -82.636878
Find A Grave Memorial #:
16728120
Marker Type:
military
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

South on Rt 23 turn left onto Rt 581. Stop at Box 1917 and the cemetery is down the grass lane leading towards the river



Author: Allan Ray Wenzel Ph.D.

Moses Preston was born in 1762, in Bedford County, Virginia, a son of Philip Preston and Betty Richardson.

Moses enlisted when 17 years of age, in 1779, in Halifax County, Virginia, for 18 months of service, in Major Hill’s Company, Colonel Abraham Buford’s Bedford County Infantry Regiment. He marched to the Carolinas, where he remained for nine months, at his base camp in Hillsborough, North Carolina. In the spring of 1780, Moses enlisted in Captain Boyer/Bowyer’s (later Captain Newell’s) Company, Colonel Campbell’s Bedford County Infantry Regiment, which was re-designated the 7th Virginia Regiment, under the command of General Horatio Gates.

Moses took part in the battles and skirmishes of Camden (South Carolina on 16 August 1780), Clapp’s Mills (Alamance County, North Carolina on 2 March 1781), Sawyers Mill (?) (North Carolina), Guilford Courthouse (Guilford County, North Carolina on 15 March 1781), and the Siege of Ninety-Six (Greenwood County, South Carolina on 22 May-9 June 1781).

Moses returned home to Bedford County, Virginia, for a short period. During which he married on 9 July 1783 to Fanny Arthur and then returned to South Carolina, where he was discharged in November 1783.

In 1802 he moved his family into Floyd County (an area that later became Lawrence County), Kentucky, where he remained until his death on 18 April 1842. He is buried in the Moses Preston Family Cemetery, located near Ulysses, Lawrence County, Kentucky. He has a United States Military headstone.

 


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