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Facts and Events
Christopher Ammon was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land in Virginia:
- Page 24 - Stophel Amon, assignee of Boston Anstle, 38 acres, between the Peaked Mountain and Shenandoah River. January 1, 1783. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 105].
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
- Ammon, Christopher, entered service 1778 in Culpeper County, Virginia, born there in 1759; to Rockingham County, Virginia, 1779 where granted Pension in 1832; died 4/24/1842. R53.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Peter Conrod, 260 acres, both sides of Boons Run. Adjoining Peter Runkle,, Frederick Michael, Christopher Ammon. April 11, 1785. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 115].
- Vol. 2 - Ammon vs. Runkle--O. S. 243; N. S. 85--Will of Jacob Runkle of Rockingham dated 24th April, 1789. Wife, Mary. Sons and daughters. Sons, Peter, Lewis; grandson, Jacob, son of Peter; daughter, Elizabeth Cislin; daughter, Catherine Harris; daughter, Mary Amon. Recorded in Rockingham 24th October, 1791. Bill by Christopher Amon and Mary, his wife. Jacob Runkle died September, 1791, leaving widow and four children besides oratrix. Elizabeth Ammon, niece of Peter Runkle, deposes. John Haines, grandson of Jacob, deposes. Jacob Rinehart was Peter Runkle's son-in-law. Mary Ammon, granddaughter of Jacob Runkle, deposes.
References
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Pension Application of Christopher Ammon S8025
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia }
Rockingham County } SS.
On this 17 day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before Jacob Harshbarger, Robert Graton Jr. Jonathan Real & Charles C. Spears Gentlemen Justices the court of Rockingham County now sitting Christopher Ammon a resident of the County of Rockingham
in the State of Virginia aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, Doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 day of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he first entered the service of the United States some time in the year 1778 as a volunteer under Captain Robert Cravens [Robert Craven], served in Tygers Valley [sic: Tygart Valley] & at Koontz fort in Virginia [possibly also called Fort Coon or Coontie on West Fork River in present Harrison County WV]. Served six months & was regularly discharged
That he entered the service of the United States the second time sometime in the year 1779 [sic: see note below] as a substitute for Peter Conrad under Captain Robert Cravens. served at Hillsboro’ [Hillsborough NC] Salisberry [sic: Salisbury NC] & Cheraw [SC], North Carolina - South Carolina under Col [George] Stubblefield Gen’l. Green [sic: Nathanael Greene] & Stephens [sic: Edward Stevens]. served four months and was regularly discharged.
That he entered the service of the United States the third time Drafted and as an Orderly Sergent sometime in the year 1781 under Captain Michael Cowger or Cager [probably Michael Coger] served at York Town Va during the Investment & Seige [28 Sep - 19 Oct] and when Lord
Cornwallis surrendered served three months this tour and was regularly discharged. That he
does not recollect with sufficient certainty the names of the company and Regimental officers of the Regulars with whom he served, that he was born in Culpepper [sic: Culpeper] County state of Virginia in the year 1759 that he removed to the said County of Rockingham about the year 1779 where he now resides. That he has no documentary evidence, that he served as aforesaid in all thirteen months that he can prove his services as aforesaid by David Ralston & George Argubright [probably Argabrite] who he produces here in this Court for that purpose. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid
Christopher [his X mark] Ammon
NOTES:
Gen. Nathanael Greene did not begin service in the South as commander of the Southern
Division until early Dec 1780. Part of his army was at Cheraw Hills SC in Jan 1781.
Ammon’s pension certificate notes that he was paid till 24 Apr 1842, the date of his
death.
http://revwarapps.org/s8025.pdf
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