REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS who came to the Cape Girardeau District Upper Louisiana Territory
(from plaque at Cape Girardeau City Hall, prepared by DAR Nancy Hunter Chapter, July 3, 1976)
John Abernathie
Robert Brevard
Uriah Brock
Thomas Bull
Capt. Amos Byrd
Robert Chase
James Camster
John Cochran
John Deck
Col. John Edwards
Mitchell Fleming
Robert Green
Christian Hahn
John Harbison
Col. Christopher Hays
Thomas Hill
Ishimer Hubble
John Hitt
James Hutchinson
Alexander McLane
David McLane
Stephen Mayfield
Joseph O'Bannon
Simon Poe
Lt. Col. Stephen Ranney
Andrew Ramsey
Peter Seitz
Pvt. Michael Schell
John Smith
Benjamin Taylor
Solomon Thorn
James Verden
John Walker
Maj. Thomas W. Waters
Capt. Henry Whitener
Thomas Wrightington
Jacob Yount
JOHN ABERNETHIE PENSION NUMBER R 10. NORTH CAROLINA State of Missouri, County of Cape Gerdideau, December 22- 1832 personally appeared in county court; John Abernethie a resident of Capt Gerardeau township said county age about 78- states he entered service February 1781 Wake County, North Carolina, volunteered as militiaman on the roll of Thomas Wootten, Colonel of the militia of said county of Wake, under orders of Brigadier General Butler, commander of Hillsborough, District of North Carolina, subject to the orders of Major General Caswell, commanding the militia of the state for the purpose of joining Major General Green, - they assembled at Grandville County and having been previously appointed at said Wake County, said Col. Wootton Deputy Commissary of Wake County. - - the said Colonel ordered the said applicant as such deputy to proceed with said troops from hills borough to Gen. Green's army when Col. returned - That said applicant according to the said order marched with said troops to the high Rockford on the Haw River and joined the army of General Green. At which place, Col. Davie the Commissary of Gen. Greens army ordered said Abernethie to return again to the public store in Wake county to have Five hundred bushels of corn ground for public use, and have as much bacon collected at that place as possible, that he did so- and loaded the waggons, ground and forwarded the meal and what bacon could be collected to the army; that said applicant continued in as such deputy commissary under Col. Wootton in collecting and issuing supplies until July 1781----This soldier WAS BORN IN THE VILLAGE OF EDMUND (OR EDMON) IN NORTH BRITION IN THE YEAR SEVENTEEN HUNDRED FIFIY FOUR (1754) on the 2nd day of September, and LANDED IN VIRGINIA OCTOBER 1772 and went from there to said WAKE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA IN THE SAME MONTH OF OCTOBER.
URIAH BROCK - According to a speech delivered in Old Lorimier Cemetery on Sept. 26, 1927, by the late Stephen B. Hunter, Uriah Brock is the only soldier of the American Revolution, that we have any knowledge of, buried in this cemetery. "Uriah Brock was born in Virginia about 1759; when a youth of sixteen he volunteered his service in the American cause. Small for his age--he was too small to carry a musket. Having some musical talent he was given a fife in a military band. He was in the Battle of Monmouth, Guilford Court House, Uetaw Springs and Camden. He was in General Green's army. He died here Nov. 15, 1845, aged 86."
THOMAS BULL PENSION NUMBER S 32~153 Virginia. State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau -23 Aug. 1832, resident of township Byrd, said county, age 79 states he enlisted in the fall of 1776 and served in the 12th, regiment, Virginia line - he resided about 40 miles of Pittsburgh, near the Monongahela in the Red Stone settlement, state of Va. and was in several battles, Brandywine,9-11-1777, Peola, 28 mi. from Phila. Germantown and had charge of the General's waggon and did not engage in one battle. - states that his papers - "my discharge and others papers relative to my services in the Revolution were burned by the Indians at the burning of Squire Boone's Fort, on Brashear's creek, in KENTUCKY in the fall season of 1781 - knows of no one who knows of his services except Jacob Wheet, who resides about 60 miles off, and from my advanced age am unable to travel to procure his testimony- - -witnesses to his character state he had been a deacon of the Baptist Church for many years. - the witnesses were Hy Sanford and John Hays- U.S. Senator Alexander Buckner, testified to his character. - Rev. James Hendricks, a regular ordained minister of the Baptist Church, in Cape Girardeau Co. Mo. certify that he is well acquainted with the soldier and believes his statements are true.----State of Illinois, Washington County,-Moses Jackson, J.P. in whose presence Thomas Bull appeared states he is the identical person mentioned in the following certificate War Department, Revolutionary Claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the U.S. 6-7-1832, Thomas Bull of Missouri is entitled to receive $8 per annum during life, commencing 1831, 3-4- signed by Lewis Cass, Secy of War. - and it is shown that he had resided in Ill Washington County six months past, and that prior to that resided in Cape Girardeau Co., MO. and his reason for leaving Missouri was to be with his relations in Washington, County Illinois. signed 1838.---witnesses in Washington Co., Ill 1838 were Samuel K. Parker, Moses Jackson, JP William Boyd Clerk.
ROBERT BREVARD Evidence of his having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War: A. In Book D., page 331 of records of County Court of Cape Girardeau Co. Mo. 1832, is the application of Robert Brevard for a pension, in which he states under oath that he - served in that war. His testimony and application were approved by two witnesses, resident of the county, one being a minister of the Gospel and by the County Court. B. On a bronze tablet in the Capital Building in Jefferson City, Mo., is found the following: "In memory of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Missouri. They offered their lives that their country might be free." The name of Robert Brevard is on the above list. C. The Pension Department of Washington, D.C., states that Robert Brevard was born in Rowan County, N.C., belonged to militia of that county, enlisted in 1779,1780, and 1781; he later lived in Iredell County, N.C. ,after it was formed from Rowan and in 1827 moved to Cape Girardeau County, Mo., with his family. He was granted a pension in December, 1832 when he was a resident of Randles Township, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. In "Historical Sketches of North Carolina", by John H. Wheeler, he says, "The first one of the name of whom anything is known was a French Huguenot. He went to the northern part of Ireland after 1685. In company with McKnitts, Scotch-Irish; he came to America and married into the McKnitt Family and settled on the Elk River in Maryland. Five sons and a daughter were the issue of this marriage: John, Robert, Zevulon; Benjamin, Adam, and Elizabeth. The three elder with their sister came to North Carolina between 1740 and 1750. Joh, before leaving Maryland, had married Miss McWhorter, whose brother was a Presbyterian minister, and settled in Iredell County, N.C. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, his family consisted of eight sons and four daughters: Mary, Ephraim, John, Hugh, Adam, Alexander, Robert, Benjamin, Nancy, Joseph, Jane, and Rebecca. "As a Whig he had instilled his principles into his children, and they bore the proper fruit. As a penalty for it, his dwelling and every building on the premises were burned. The British Army, under Lord Cornwallis came to his house, found no-one there except his wife, an old woman, an officer drew paper from his pocket, said the house must be burned; - every thing was lost. The officer gave his reason for his conduct, "Hersons were all d__d rebels, she had eight sons then in the rebel army". Mary, the eldest daughter of John, married John Davidson, both were killed by the Indians. Jane married Ephriam Davidson, brother of John; Rebecca married a Jones and moved to Tennessee. Ephraim, eldest son, after graduating from Princeton, turned his attention to the medical profession.