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Author: James Edward Mitchell
Samuel McCall was born 1750 in Maryland and died February 1795 at age 45, Licking River, Kentucky (KY). Samuel married Rebecca Sherry, who was born in Ireland. They had a son, Montgomery, born 1786 in KY, who married Charlotte McCain in 1824 at Wayne Co., Indiana. Montgomery McCall died in 1855 and buried at Dalander Cem., Madrid, Boone Co., Iowa.
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-83 for Samuel McCall (online, Fold3) apart of the Virginia 12th Rgt., 1777-78 (Folders 302-307); as a (3rd) Sergeant with Sgt.s Joseph VanMeter & Edward Williams in Capt. Wm. Vance’s company, (12th) VA Continental Rgt; Col. James Wood; 4th VA Bgde, BrigGen Charles Scott; 2nd Div. MajGen. *Adam Stephen; American Continental army Commander-in-Chief Gen. George Washington, source, pg. 24, Philadelphia 1777 Taking the capital first publ. in Great Britain in 2007 by Osprey Publ., Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 0PH, UK and 443 Park Ave. South, N.Y., N.Y. 10016, USA
[The regt. reformed and was designated as the (8th) VA Cont. Rgt. on Sep 14, 1780]; source, appl. for NSSAR Nat’l. # 148137 approved Apr 8, 1997. The (8th) VA Cont. Rgt. or German regt. was authorized in early, 1776 and formed 10 companies raised from (VA) militia in Augusta, Berkley, Culpeper, Dunmore, Fincastle, Frederick and Hampshire Counties. It’s 1st commander was Col. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, a Lutheran (Reformed Church) minister educated at the Academy of Philadelphia, now, the Univ. of Pennsylvania; and, Col. James Wood who commanded the (8th) VA Cont. Rgt. during 1781-2.
Samuel McCall re-settled from Virginia following the Revolutionary War’s closing in 1783. A son, Montgomery was born in 1786 at KY logically, near a station settlement where Samuel held a Commonwealth of Virginia Land-Office Military Warrant, No. 717 for 200 acres due unto him in consideration of Samuel’s (VA) military services for 3 years as a Sergeant. His printed Land-Office Military Warrant, above, appears inscribed with ink writing, “Samuel McCall his Heirs or Assigns; the Quantity of two hundred Acres of Land,” dated 3 Jun 1783. Samuel drowned in the Licking River during the severe winter months of 1795, while traveling. Source: “Register of Kentucky State Historical Society”, Vol. XXI, pg 362. The whereabouts of his remains are not known, today.
Remarks: Samuel logically drowned mapped, Licking River ford near the mouth of Cedar Creek from Kentontown Road i.e., Hwy 62 and Kentucky Route 617 off Adkins Road approx.10 miles southwest of Mount Olivet the county seat of Robertson County, Latitude: 38.476929 and Longitude: -84.122893
Osprey Publ., footnote- *MajGen. Adam Stephen (1718-1791) served as a LieutCol under Washington in the VA Provincial Rgt., during the French & Indian War; and, he was promoted on 9 Feb 1777 to MajGen a rank he held until he was court-martialed on Nov 20th. He was charged with unofficer-like conduct while marching his division in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In the battle of Germantown, American BrigGen Wayne’s and MajGen Stephen’s commands mistook each other’s forces in the heavy morning fog (and smoke of war) and exchanged several volleys!?
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