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About Gen. James Knox
From "Annals of Augusta County, Virginia":
A family named Knox, of Irish birth, settled in Augusta county at an early day. The first guardian's bond recorded in the county was that of James Knox, guardian of Jenny Usher, executed February n, 1746, (" New Style.") The sureties were John Brown and Andrew Pickens. On the 13th of August, 1769, Knox conveyed to Patrick Miller 160 acres of land lying on Cowpasture river, and this and other circumstances indicate that the family lived in the part of Augusta which is now embraced in Bath county. The death of James Knox occurred in 1772. In his will he mentions his wife Jean, and among his other children his son James. The younger James Knox seems to have been one of the first persons who removed from the more thickly settled part of the county to the Holston. There is a tradition that he was disappointed in a love affair, having been rejected as a suitor by Anne Montgomery, who married Benjamin Logan. As early as 1769, he went from the Holston on a hunting expedition to Kentucky. In command of a military force he went down the Holston and built a fort for the protection of the frontier, which was called "Fort Knox," and the settlement thereabout grew into the city of Knoxville. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and a member of the Kentucky Legislature from 1795 to 1800. In Kentucky he was known as General Knox. He captured his old sweetheart at last, marrying her after the death of General Logan. He survived till 1822, and she till 1825. It was he who led the party of Augusta emigrants, as just related.
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. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Knox, James - entered service 1775 in 8th Virginia Regiment; resided 1822 in Shelby County, Kentucky, when had wife Ann; niece Margaret (widow of Samuel Taggart) then had son James Knox Taggart; soldier then referred to James Knox & Joseph Winlock (sisters of Dr. Benjamin Logan), also to James Knox son of William Montgomery; soldier died in Shelby County, Kentucky, before 9/5/1831; Bounty land Warrant #1832 issued 4/6/1832 to Last Will and Testament executors Henry Crittenden, Nudegate Owsley & Mark Hardin; query letter in file says soldier's daughter Jane married 3/15/1820 to Josiah Buchanan, Washington County, Virginia, further Robert Buchanan was born in 1741 (son of Samuel), died 1832, was Virginia Revolutionary War soldier, & was father of above Josiah Buchanan; query letter in file in 1908 from descendant Mrs. Oscar Barthold, Weatherford, Texas, who was also a descendant of William Rogers of Orange County, Virginia, who served in French & Indian War in 1758; query letter in file states soldier died 12/4/1822 in Shelby County, Kentucky, married 92) Ann Montgomery, widow of General Benjamin Logan, & she died at age 76 in Shelby County, Kentucky, 10/18/1825. F-BLW1832, R1506.
References
- Daughters of the American Revolution. DAR magazine index : 1892-1997. (Washington, District of Columbia: The Society, c1998)
Vol. 55-56, pg. 109.
Knox.—Wanted, maiden name of w of Gen. James Knox, of Tenn. He gave much of the land on which Knoxville was built, but was not the Knox for whom the town was named. Gen. James Knox enlisted one company of Morgan's Rifle Corps, which served in Rev.–O. C. G. 9915.
- ↑ Rootsweb Message Boards.
Recently I posted information from the RW pension files and the will of Capt./Col./Gen. James Knox who died in 1822 in Shelby County, KY. James Knox's will mentioned his niece Margaret who was married to Samuel Taggart. Margaret Taggart was indicated to be a widow in James Knox's will, and she is shown in the 1820 Shelby County, KY census as Margaret Tagart, living two households away from John Veech and wife Mary Ann Kinkade, daughter of Robert/Mary of Hardin County, DNA #4588.
The above James Knox is shown by a number of sources on the internet to be the son of James Knox and Jane on the Calfpasture, and there is some connection to either Rev. John or to John of Bath, as indicated by the land records at the end of this message. Col. James Knox served with the 8th Virginia Regiment, according to the RW records at footnote.com. Then this James Knox would have been a brother of the Robert Nox who trespassed on Rev. John's property with William Hamilton.
A history of Highland County, Virginia
By Oren Frederic Morton
1911 - 419 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=ozctAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&...
p. 72
"James Knox, a neighbor to Black and the guardian of Ann Jane Usher, was living on the Floyd Kincaid farm. He died in 1772 and the farm passed to Patrick Miller, remaining with the Millers a long while. There is a tradition that James Jr. was jilted by Anne Montgomery, and that his hunting trip to Kentucky in 1769 was in consequence of this. As leader of a military force he built Fort Knox, which grew into the city of Knoxville, Tenn. He was a soldier of the Revolution, a member for five years of the Legislature of Kentucky, and in that state was known as General Knox. In marrying the widow of General **William Logan, he finally won the woman of his choice. He lived until 1822.
**should be Benjamin Logan
p. 176
Knox: Robert of James -- 100-- $66.67--CP--1765
Miller: Patrick of James Knox-- 160--$233.33--CP--(Floyd Kincaid place)--1769
Who was the Floyd Kincaid on the Calf Pasture?
https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/kincaid@rootsweb.com/thread/2253073/
- Find A Grave.
Col James Knox Jr.
Birth 1740
Northern Ireland
Death 24 Dec 1822 (aged 81–82)
Shelby County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Logan Family Burial Grounds
Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, USA
Born abt. 1740, son of James and Jean Knox, Scotch-Irish immigrants from the province of Ulster, in Northern Ireland. James lived his early years in Augusta Co., VA with siblings John (m. Sarah Robinson, dau. of Joseph, 1793) Robert, Abigail, Elizabeth, Jean, and Mary. His parents were also court-appointed guardians of orphan Ann Jenny Usher.
Some accounts say Revolutionary War veteran, Col. James Knox, arrived in the U.S. from Ireland at the age of 14, which would be abt. 1754; however, this is a disputed date since records of his father's guardianship of Ann Jenny Usher, the first fiduciary guardianship bond on record in Augusta Co., VA appear 11 Feb 1745. Perhaps James, Jr.'s year of immigration was actually abt 1744 (or at age 4), rather than 1754, or perhaps 14 was actually the age of his father who shared the same name when he, rather than his son, came to the United States from Ulster.
While in command of a military force of Augusta Co., VA emigrants, James went down the Holston River to Kentucky, where he built Fort Knox for the protection of the frontier, and which later became Knoxville. After many expeditions and a long military career, he was a member of the Virginia Legislature from Jefferson Co. (now KY), 1788, and of the Kentucky State Senate, from Lincoln Co., 1795-1800.
He married, 1 Jan 1805, Ann (Montgomery) Logan, widow of General Benjamin McKinley Logan, both buried in this cemetery, along with other Logan family members. James had no known children.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53451282/james-knox
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