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Facts and Events
Capt. James Gay was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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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. 2, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Gay, James - entered service 1778 in Augusta County, Virginia, where he was born 8/24/1758; moved in 1783 to Kentucky, where granted Pension 1833 in Clark County when resided for abt. 40 years; died 6/22/1840; query letter in file 1929 from great great granddaughter Mrs. H.B. Nelson, San Antonio, Texas; query letter in file 1927 from great granddaughter Katie S. Gay, Washington D.C.; query letter in file 19__ from descendant Mrs. Henry M. Jones, Winchester, Kentucky. F-S2568, R1058.
Notes
From Rootsweb.com post:
GAY, James Sr., S2568, VA Line, sol was b 24 Aug 1754 [s/b 1758] in Augusta Co VA & sol lived there at enl & in the fall of 1783 he moved to KY, sol appl 26 Aug 1833 Clark Co KY where he had lived for 40 yrs, sol d 22 Jun 1840.
References
- Morton, Oren Frederic. Annals of Bath County, Virginia. (Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1917, c1918).
The Calfpasture families not only took a very prominent part in settling the valleys of Bath and Highland, and afterward those of Greenbrier and Pocahontas, but they helped to people the uplands of the Carolinas. They were also prompt in taking a share in the settling of Kentucky. In 1779, Captain James Gay and Alexander Dunlap, Jr., headed a party which settled in the blue-grass region of that state and founded Pisgah church, said to be the first Presbyterian organization in Kentucky. The school which grew up by the side of the church developed into Transylvania University.
Gay, who was but twenty-one years old when he turned westward, had served under Andrew Lockridge. His second wife was Elizabeth, a daughter of John Dunlap. He was himself a son of James Gay, who married Jean Warwick. Alexander Dunlap, Jr., married his sister, Agnes. Major Samuel Stevenson, whose mother was a daughter of John Warwick, was a third member of the emigrating party, and he also wedded a Gay. Thus the Gays, Dunlaps, and Stevensons, as well as the Hamiltons, Kinkeads, Warwicks, and other Calfpasture families, have gained both affluence and prominence in the Bluegrass State and other commonwealths of the Great West. A Warwick gave his name in a changed spelling to Warrick County, Indiana. Lieutenant-Governor Walkup, of California, was a descendant of Captain John Walkup, who came to the Calfpasture about 1760.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Find A Grave.
Capt James Gay
Birth: 1758
Death: 1840
The graveyard of Captain James Gay was located in front of Oakwood, the old home of Alpheus Lewis, near Stoner Creek. In 1907 remains of the stone wall enclosed the burial ground. In 1974 when this cemetery was recorded the stones were gone and very little evidence of the graveyard remained. James Gay inscriptions were copied from the scrapbook of Mrs. Allen Gay Jones, descendant of Capt. James Gay in 1974.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2444485&GRid=88133317&
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