Person:John Kercheval (1)

Records of John Kercheval in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - Kercheval vs. Robertson--O. S. 26; N. S. 9--Frederick. John and Samuel Kercheval were brothers, 1795.

Information on John Kercheval

John Kercheval, the eldest son of John and Frances (Gholson) Kercheval, was born in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, Sept. 12, 1762. Several years later the family moved to Frederick County and it was there that he enlisted at the age of fourteen in a company raised by the Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston in December, 1776. After six months’ service in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with Washington’s Army he was discharged and shortly afterward joined the Company of his future father-in-law, Capt. Thomas Berry of the 8th Virginia Regt., with which he continued to serve until the fall of 1778, when he returned home. In 1780 he enlisted under General Lafayette and was at the siege of Yorktown, after which he returned to Winchester in charge of a company of prisoners. In 1784 he states that he made a trip to Kentucky. Shortly after his return he married Jane Berry (Jan. 23, 1785). In 1798 he removed with his family, his mother, and his younger brother, James, to Mason County, Kentucky. Part of the journey was by flatboat down the Ohio, the party landing at the mouth of Limestone Creek. They moved about seven miles to the interior and land was cleared and a log cabin built on the high ground about a half mile above the North Fork of Licking River.

John Kercheval was elected to the State Legislature in 1802 and represented Mason County until 1808. In 1812 he raised a company for service in the War of 1812, calling two of his sons home from Virginia. For his services in the Revolutionary War he was pensioned on April 29th, 1834. He died Oct. 1, 1839, at Orangeburg, Ky., and is buried in the family burying ground a mile east of the bride over the North Fork of the Licking River, on the Maysville-Lexington Pike, in Mason County. His wife, Jane, survived him eleven years. The land upon which John Kercheval settled in 1798 had been purchased for Capt. Thomas Berry by his friend Edward Dobyns, and earlier settler, from Col. John Grant, ‘being part of Bartlett’s preemption.’ Capt. Berry, in his will, devises his extensive properties in Mason and Fleming Counties to his children and grandchildren.

[Source: "Something About the Kercheval Family", by Buerdon Groves Parry and Lee Kerchval Carr].

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