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Col. Dorsey Pentecost, of Chartiers Creek, Washington Cty, PA
Facts and Events
Dorsey Pentecost was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise listed]
- Vol. 1 - MARCH 15, 1774.- Page (302) New Commission of Justices, viz: Silas Hart, John Dickison, Danl. Smith, John Poage, Abram Smith, George Moffett,* James Lockhart, John Christian, Archibald Alexander, Felix Gilbert, Samuel McDowel,* Sampn. Mathews, Alexr. McClenachan,* Mathew Harrison, George Mathews. Alexr. Robertson,* John Hays, James Craig, John Frogg,* William Tees, George Croghan, John Connelly,* Thos. Smallman, Wm. Bowyer,* John McClenachan,* Michael Bowyer, John Gratton,* Thos. Huggart, Elijah McClenachan, Josiah Davidson, John Skidmore, John Campbell, Edward Ward, Dawsey Penticost, John Gibson. (Those marked (*) qualified.)
- Vol. 1 - OCTOBER 18, 1774. - (16) John Campbell, Thomas Smallman and Dawsey Penticost--qualified Justices.
- Vol. 1 - JANUARY 17, 1775. - (30) New Commission from Dunmore, viz: Silas Hart, John Dickinson, James Lockhart, John Christian, Daniel Smith,* John Poage, Abraham Smith,* George Moffett,* Alexr. McClenachan,* Mathew Harrison, Michael Bowyer,* John Gratton, Thomas Hughes, Elijah McClenachan,* Josiah Davidson, John Skidmore, John Campbell, Thos. Smallman, John Gibson, John Stephenson, John Cannon, Silas Hedge, William Gee (McGee?), Archd. Alexander, Felix Gilbert,* Samuel McDowell,* Sampson Mathews,* William Bowyer,* George Mathews,* Alexr. Robertson,* John Hayes,* James Craig, John Frogg, Wm. Teas,* George Croghan, Edward Ward, Dawsey Pentecost, Wm. Crawford. John McCullough, Geo. Vallendegham and David Shepherd. (Those marked (*) qualified.)
- It will be remembered that at the session of the County Court for the District of West Augusta, held on September 18, 1776, at Augusta Town (now Washington, Pa.), Dorsey Pentecost, who then lived on the East Branch of Chartiers Creek, in what is now North Strabane Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, was appointed Clerk of Court in the stead of John Madison, and on December 23, 1776, he was reappointed, and a demand was made by the Court upon John Madison, Jr., Deputy of John Madison, to turn over to his successor the records then in his possession, which demand was refused, and process awarded to compel compliance. Vol. I of these Annals, p. 567, 568, Vol. II, pp. 79, 81. On the Organization of Washington County, Pennsylvania, Dorsey Pentecost, therefore an ardent Virginian, became an ardent Pennsylvanian and a prominent official of that jurisdiction. [The Records of Deeds for the District of West Augusta, Virginia: For the Court held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1775-1776, copied consecutively as recorded, by Boyd Crumrine, pg. 325]
- Will: Jonathan Reed of West Augusta, Colony of Virginia, dated November 4, 1776, attested by Hugh McCreedy, Noah Fleaharty, appoints Edward Cook and Dorsey Pentecost and Joseph Beckett, to settle and have adjusted all his late public accounts in regard to his vitualiing the Troops stationed on the Ohio, proved September 23, 1777. Beneficiaries, wife Sarah, sons John, Jonathan, daughters Mary, Sarah, Martha, Ruth, executors Edward Cook, wife Sarah, and Joseph Beckett. [The Records of Deeds for the District of West Augusta, Virginia: For the Court held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1775-1776, copied consecutively as recorded, by Boyd Crumrine, pg. 326]
- Vol. 2 - Robert Woods vs. Jesse Hollingsworth, John Hollingsworth, Dorsey Penticost, Robert McClure--O. S. 11; N. S. 4--Bill filed in Ohio Co. 9th June, 1796. In 1786, orator contemplated buying a tract of land in Ohio County, cor sd. Robert Woods, Cor. Ebenezer Zane, Cor. Richard Yeates, Cor. Worthington's land, then being the property of Jesse Hollingsworth of Baltimore. About 1794-5-6 Henry Purviance was a lawyer living in the town of Washington.
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At a meeting of the inhabitants of that part of Augusta County that lies on the west side of the Laurel Hill, at Pittsburgh, the 16th day of May, 1775, the following gentlemen were chosen a committee for the said district, viz.: George Croghan, John Campbell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, John Canon, John McCullough, William Goe, George Vallandigham, John Gibson, Dorsey Pentecost, Edward Cook, William Crawford, Devereux Smith, John Anderson, David Rogers, Jacob Van Meter, Henry Enoch, James Ennis, George Wilson, William Vance, David Shepherd, William Elliott, Richmond Willis, Samuel Sample, John Ormsby, Richard McMaher, John Nevill, and John Swearingen.”
The main part of the force destined for Gen. Clarke’s expedition (that is to say, nearly all except about one hundred and fifty men furnished by Westmoreland, under Col. Lochry and Capt. Benjamin Whaley, as will be mentioned hereafter) was raised in Washington County, but it appears evident from certain correspondence of that time that this was accomplished, not by the action of the Washington County military authorities, but by the officers of the so-called Virginia counties which covered the territory of Washington. That there was a bitter quarrel at that time between James Marshel, lieutenant of the newly-erected (but unorganized) county of Washington, and Dorsey Pentecost (successor of Col. Joseph Beeler in the office of county lieutenant of Yohogania, Va.) is evident from the recriminating letters written by both these gentlemen to the president of the Supreme Executive Council. Pentecost declared (and no denial of the assertion is found in Marshel's correspondence) that it was chiefly through his energy and efforts that Gen. Clarke’s main force was raised. And that force was raised by some means, and placed in camp in a short space of time after the meeting of officers at the Yohogania court-house and subsequent refusal of the people to submit to the draft there ordered, is made apparent in a letter written by Col. Pentecost to President Reed, dated “Washington County, July 27, 1781.”2 In that letter he says –
There is no doubt that in the enforcement of the draft ordered from the militia by the lieutenants of Yohogania and Monongalia Counties Gen. Clarke pursued the business with great vigor, and showed very little leniency toward those (and they were many) who were inclined to deny the jurisdiction of Virginia.1 Many bitter complaints were made against him for his stern methods of enforcing the draft, among which complaints in that particular are the charges made against him (as also against Dorsey Pentecost) in the following letter, addressed by Col. James Marshel to the president of the Council,2 viz.:
http://www.chartiers.com/crumrine/revolution.htm
- Genealogy.com.
The Mayes, Harris and Tucker families are connected to the Pentecosts.It was my understanding that the maps and many articles which would place these properties were destroyed during the Civil War period.It would be interesting to know if any of the materials survived.Our goal is to learn more about the Pentecost family in Virginia, and to place George Pentecost in England before he came to America.George lived in Prince George Co.....probably that area later became Dinwiddie Co., but I don't know if they moved or that area again changed counties and bedame Brunswick.Scarborough Pentecost is believed to be the son of George Pentecost also....though we have not found any document that directly links him. Also, Dorsey Pentecost who went to Pennsylvania from Virginia is thought to be son of George. Also Mary Pentecost who married Col. John Rees is thought to be dau. of George P. They moved to the Santee River in South Carolina. Some mention is made of the possibility of Anne having married and also moved to South Carolina, though I have never found any documentation on her. The only evidence we have for Dorsey P. is documentation that his sister was Lucy Pentecost who married Col. Joseph Beckett. They lived in Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania. William Pentecost (the only proven son of George) and Jane married Phoebe Traylor. His son William moved to Georgia.
Several of the children of George and Jane Pentecost : William, Anne, Elizabeth and Lucy are registered in the Bristol Parish Register. Then George and Scarborough (my ancestor) are on a list in the mid 1770's in St. Andrew's Parish (which followed the lines of Brunswick Co.Did that area change from Prince George to Dinwiddie then to Brunswick Co.?We have not found anything more on Elizabeth.
Scarborough P. had a son named Francis and he died young leaving at least two children: Scarborough (who moved to Madison Co. Tenn) and Nancy who married a Lewis and lived in Petersburg, Va.All but one of this Scarborough Jr.'s children moved into Mississippi.There are over 10 or more Scarborough Pentecosts scattered about who descend from Scarborough Sr.There is a list of 16 of them on Pentecost.org, but some of them are duplications.
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/pentecost/404/
- To George Washington from Dorsey Pentecost, 10 July 1789.
Dorsey Pentecost (d. 1802) was a land speculator, lawyer, and prominent man of affairs in western Pennsylvania. He held various local judicial appointments: in 1770 he served as a justice of Cumberland County; in 1771 he was a justice of Bedford County; in 1781 he was elected to the executive council for Washington County, where he owned a gristmill near his home on the east branch of Chartiers Creek. During the Revolution Pentecost served as a colonel in the Pennsylvania forces and after the war was deeply involved in land speculation in western Pennsylvania and in the settlement of western lands, in the course of which he had considerable experience in surveying. From 1783 to 1786 Pentecost served as judge of the court of common pleas for Washington County. By the mid–1780s his land speculations had brought him into considerable financial difficulties.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-03-02-0086
- ↑ When Did Dorsey Pentecost Die?, in The Raymond M. Bell Anthology.
"One of the leading citizens in southwestern Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period was Dorsey Pentecost...In the 1790 census he was living in (North) Strabane Township. On November 4-1790 the sheriff sold his farm to Levi Hollingsworth, Pentecost's land partner. When the 1793 tax list was made about December 1792, Dorsey was taxed for 1500 acres, 4 horses, 2 cows...When Thomas Scott, Methodist circuit rider, preached in July 1793 at Catherine Pentecost's, she was a widow."
from http://chartiers.com/raybell/1991-pentecost.html
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