Person:George See (5)

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. 5, pg. 36, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

See, George - entered service 1774 in Greenbrier County, Virginia in Virginia company to fight in Battle of Point Pleasant; entered service 1776 again there in same company; applied for Pension abt. age 79 in Marian County, Missouri, 1835 & Pension Application Rejected, insufficient proof of service; soldier's brother John then resided at or near Flat Rock, Indiana, & served with soldier in Revolutionary War; Washington See & George See (both no kinship given) resided 1835 in Marion County, Missouri; query letter 1940 from U.S. congressman from West Virginia for F.M. Peters, Charleston, West Virginia, who was great great grandson of John See, brother of Revolutionary War soldier, who moved in 1818 to Indiana, thence to Mason County, Illinois, also brother John & soldier both were living abt. 1845. F-R9361, R2147.

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   George See
   Birth 1755
   Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
   Death 1835 (aged 79–80)
   Warren, Marion County, Missouri, USA
   Burial
   Cobb Cemetery
   Marion County, Missouri, USA
   
   Chief cornstalk and his 50 Shawnee braves came down to eat a meal with their family. After they fed the Indians their meal they let out a death cry. They hacked the males to death with their tomahawks. Then they scalped them. They took all the women and children captive and marched them from Virginia to Ohio. He was a young boy who endured the harsh life of an Indian for over a year before being rescued whe was 9 years old.
   
   This shortened oral story has been passed from one generation to another.
   
   This is known as the massacre of Muddy Creek.
   
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