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Facts and Events
John Kincaid was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Disambiguation
Not to be confused with another likely unrelated John Kincaid (1745-1836) that married Martha Hill that lived in Pennsylvania and Mahoning County, Ohio, please consult records and not erroneous trees on the internet.
- 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. :
Kincaid, John - born 3/10/1760 in Amherst County, Virginia; entered service 1781 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, where resided; granted Pension 1834 in Fayette County, Virginia having previously resided in Kanawha County, Virginia. F-S19367, R1485.
References
- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- Find A Grave.
John Kincaid
BIRTH 10 Mar 1760
Amherst County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 21 Apr 1834 (aged 74)
Gauley Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Gauley Bridge Cemetery
Gauley Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65078232/john-kincaid
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.).
REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION: NARA; Kincaid, John. VA S. 19367
1. Deposition 17 Feb 1834 Fayette Co., VA
On the 17th day of Febuary 1834 personally appeared in open court before the court of the county of Fayette now sitting the same being a court of record John Kincaid a resident of said Fayette County and State of Virginia aged 73 years to the best of his knowledge on the 10th day of March last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of the Congress of the United States passed June 7 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers & Served as herein stated, that he was drafted in the month of Febuary in the year 1781 under Capt. John Henderson and Lieut. John Woods and Major Andrew Hamilton had the command. He then lived in Greenbrier County Va. He started to the place of rendezvous on or about the 14th day of Febuary and met at James Byrnsides the place of rendezvous on the 15 day of that month 1781. He was drafted as a private in said company but if there were any stated time for the termination of his services he does not now recollect. He served more than six months perhaps seven. But he thinks he did not leave so much as seven by a very few days. He does not know what day he was discharged. He served his whole time in Western Virginia. The company was assembled in Greenbrier County Va they were then marched to Fort ÙSChesselÙT then in Montgomery County Va. After remaining there some six or eight weeks he was marched back to Woodses fort near New River in Greenbrier Co. and was kept employed in Guarding Indians and Tories. He was here under Capt. Archibald Woods. He aided in retaking eleven American prisoners from the Indians after killing two Indians in the engagement. After having served the foregoing period and performed the foregoing services he was discharged by Captains Wood and Henderson both signing a written discharge - which discharge is either lost or mislaid.
In the spring of 1782
he was again drafted under Capt Archibald Woods. He does not know in what month. They was in Greenbrier County Va. He served to the best of his recollection under this draft three months. He was stationed in Greenbrier Co. but was frequently sent as a spy out of the County in pursuit of Indians. From this service he was discharged but not in writing.
In the Summer of 1783 the month he does not recollect he was again called into the services as a drafted militia man under the same Capt A. Woods and served three months guarding the County from the depradations of the Indians. This was generally in Greenbrier Co. after which time he was verbally discharged by his captain. He served his whole time as a private and never served a commission. He has no documentary evidence of his services but he believes he can prove his services by a living witness. He was born on the 10th day of March 1760 to the best of his knowledge. He has no record of his age. He was born in the County of Amherst in the State of Virginia. He has generally lived in the County of Greenbrier and Kanawha until the formation of Fayette County in which he now lives. Major Andrew Hamilton was the highest officer in command under whom he served. There is no clergyman in his neighborhood But he is known to Joseph Skaggs and James Likens of his neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and the General belief of his services as a soldier in the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Kincaid (signature)
- Johnston, Ross B. West Virginians in the American Revolution. (Parkersburg, West Virginia: West Augusta Historical and Genealogical Society, 1959).
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