Display Patriot - P-309717 - Jacob VANMETER/VAN METER/VAN METRE

Jacob VANMETER/VAN METER/VAN METRE

SAR Patriot #: P-309717

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State of Service: PA/VA      Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A118444

Birth: Mar 1723 Somerville / Somerset / NJ
Death: 16 Nov 1798 Elizabethtown / Hardin / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Member of Committee of Observation, Washington County, PA, 16 May 1775
  2. Served under General George Rogers Clark in Kaskaskia Co in 1778
    • commanded a company in Clark's expedition against the Indians under Girty in 1782
    • was on the Cashocton campaing in Captain Crawford's Company under command of Colonel David Shepherd
  3. SIGNED WEST OF LAUREL HILL PETITION, JANUARY 1783

Additional References:
  1. PA Archives, 6th Series, Vol 2, pg 3
  2. NARA, M247, PAPERS OF CONT CONGRESS, 1774-1789, ROLL #62, ITEM 48, pg 251

Spouse: Letitia Stroud/Strode
Children: Abraham; Jacob; Mary/Polly; Rebecca; John; Isaac; Margaret; Susannah; Alcinda/Alsey; Elizabeth; William; Eleanor;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1964-03-24 KY Unassigned Norman Russell Fischer (89154) John   
1965-10-28 KY Unassigned Harold R Cannon (93452) Mary   
1967-04-28 DC Unassigned Sam W McKinstry PhD (94896) Abraham   
1967-10-31 KY Unassigned Joseph Henry Mayfield (96050) John   
1967-10-31 KY Unassigned Joseph MacDonald Mayfield (96326) John   
1968-03-29 FL Unassigned Dow Gary Beck (96743) Jacob   
1969-11-19 FL Unassigned William Hugh Haycraft (99268) Jacob   
1971-12-29 AR Unassigned William Claude Gibson (100186) Margaret   
1972-01-25 FL Unassigned James Edgar Stanley Jr (102658) Jacob   
1974-02-19 NJ Unassigned Maximilliam H Mesner (105946) Mary   
1976-04-26 WI Unassigned Donald Eugene Gradeless Ph.D. (106377) William   
1976-08-06 IL Unassigned Maurice A Garland (111410) Jacob   
1989-05-22 TX 220860 Matthew J Kavanagh III (132998) Mary   
1989-05-22 TX 220861 Matthew J Kavanagh IV (132999) Mary   
1995-02-22 TN 206852 Lee Wescoat McKinstry (144106) Abraham   
1999-08-03 OK 4158 Howard Wynn Holmes (152230) Mary   
2000-07-19 IL 7093 Paul David (Dave) Keller JD (154210) Mary   
2002-07-31 KS 13326 Samuel Douglas Brady (136311) Alcinda/Alsey   
2003-03-13 IL 15291 Joshua Whitfield Keller (159779) Mary   
2003-07-14 CA 16642 Michael Robert Rogers (160675) Mary/Polly   
2005-12-13 VA 24404 Lance Michael Lyngar (166243) Jacob   
2005-12-23 IN 24607 Leroy Vernon Swanson (166351) John   
2006-02-14 IL 24823 Steven Robert Feld (166568) Mary   
2007-08-09 WY 28931 Sean Frederick Jones (169652) Asley   
2009-08-31 NM 36430 Andrew Stephen Lyngar USMC (175027) Jacob   
2009-10-16 KS 36537 Bryan Dewayne Brady (138448) Alcinda   
2012-02-03 KY 46283 Charles Dewain Van Meter (182315) John   
2021-07-23 KY 98262 George Victor Dodson (219895) Rebecca   
2024-04-05 WA 108580 Norman Paul Eberly (213301) Margaret   
Burial:
Elizabethtown City Cemetery (C-0072290)
Location:
Elizabethtown / Hardin / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
295377
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.689170 / -85.854480
Find A Grave Memorial #:
8757511
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

vertical stone



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Sam W. McKinstry, PhD
JACOB VAN METER (METRE) SENIOR

Jacob Van Meter (Metre) Sr. was born March 16, 1723, in Somerset County, New Jersey, son of John Van Metre. Jacob married Letitia Strode July 30, 1725, in Frederick County, VA. Letitia was the daughter of James Strode of VA and together Jacob and Letitia had twelve children. During the French and Indian War, Van Meter served as Ensign in the 12th Virginia Regiment commanded by Capt. Richard Morgan from Mecklenburg in VA.

During the American Revolution, Van Meter served on the Committee of Observation at Pittsburgh and commanded a Company in General George Rogers Clark's Kaskaskia Campaign in 1778 to take the Northwest Territory. In 1779-80, Jacob Van Meter led a band of 100 people from Virginia to Kentucky, traveling down the Ohio River on 27 flatboats to Severns Valley, now part of Hardin County. Once in Kentucky, Van Meter built one of the first forts - Van Meter's Fort - and helped establish the first permanent settlement between the Falls of the Ohio and Green Rivers at Elizabethtown.

In 1782 Van Meter commanded a company in General Clark's expedition against the Indian Renegade under Gut and was on the Casbastin Campaign in Capt. William Crawford 's Company, under the command of his nephew Col. David Shepherd in 1796 Jacob Van Meter not only played a prominent role in founding Hardin County, KY, but was one of the organizers of the Severns Valley Baptist Church in 1781 - the oldest church west of the Allegheny Mountains. Jacob Van Meter died in Elizabethtown, KY, on November 16, 1798

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