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Template:Wp-Joseph Ogle
References
- Perkins, James Handasyd. Annals of the West.
Of the forty-two men who had been in the fort [Fort Henry], twenty-five were killed, all outside of the walls; of the savages, probably one hundred perished.*
[The Zanes, and a number of other families, came from the South branch of the Potomac, and located themselves on the site of Wheeling, in 1769. Of the number were Capt. Joseph Ogle and his brother Jacob Ogle. The latter was mortally wounded in the siege of Fort Henry, and the former, with twelve men, went out to the rescue of Captain Mason, who had been dispatched with fourteen men, by Colonel Shepherd, to drive the Indians from the corn-field, where they were secreted.
The self-devoted band under Captain Ogle, in their eagerness to relieve their fellow-soldiers under Mason, fell into an ambuscade, and two-thirds of their number were slain on the spot. The fort now contained but thirteen men and boys, with a large number of women and children, when Girty and his four hundred Indians entered the village and called on them to surrender. Captain Ogle escaped in the brush wood, ran to the nearest settlement, rallied Major McColloch, and the men of Short Creek, and accompanied them next morning to the fort. In this manner the garrison was saved.
Captain Ogle, in 1785, emigrated to the Illinois country, where he was one of its bravest defenders, and has left a numerous posterity.
As Simon Girty will figure in the Annals as a leader in the marauding enterprises of the Indians, and as a partisan-of the British, it will be interesting to the reader to have some particulars of his history and that of his family and associates. We copy from the life of Boone, in the Library of American Biography, vol. xxiii.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Captain Joseph Ogle was born 17 June 1737 in Owens Creek, Frederick, Maryland. He served in the Revolutionary War. He settled in Monroe County, IL, in 1785. In 1802 he moved outside of Belleville, near O'Fallon and Shiloh, in St. C;air Co. He helped found the Shiloh Methodist Chruch and had the reputation of being the earliest convert to Methodism in IL. He was selected by his neighbors to lead them in their skirmishes with the Indians, perhaps because of his military background. Ogle County, IL was named after him, although. he never resided there. He died at home in Ridge Prairie, St. Claire Co., IL on 24 Feb 1821. According to his grandson, he was buried in the Shiloh Methodist Church yard, although, no tombstone exists today.
According to the "Combined History of Randolph, Monroe, and Perry Counties, Illinois," (1883), p. 330, "Captain Joseph Ogle was one of the pioneers of New Design. He was born in Virginia (which was Maryland before that).............He commanded a company of Virginia troops during the Revolutionary War, holding a commission as captain from Patrick Henry, then governor of Virginia. He came to Illinois from the neighborhood of Wheeling, VA, in 1785. He was a man of untiring energy, and strong will power, in his honor one of the counties of the state received his name. He professed religion under the preaching of the Reverend James Smith, at New Design in 1787, and was appointed leader, by Reverend Joseph Lillard, in 1793, of the first Methodist class ever formed in Illinois. Members of the Ogle family removed from New Design, and in 1796 made a settlement in the American Bottom, near where the road from Bellefontaine to Cahokia descended the bluff."
"In 1802 Captain Ogle made one of the pioneer locations in the Ridge Prairie, the present town of O'Fallon, in St. Claire County, where he resided until his death..His descendants reside in St. Claire County."
According to the "Pioneers of Old Monocacy," Joseph and Prudence, his wife, settled on Buffalo Creek in what is today Brooke County, West Virginia. their land was next to that of Silas and Joseph Hedges. Order Book 1:2, January 7, 1777, maintained in the court house of Wheeling, West Virginia, contains the order from Patrick Henry making Joseph a captain.
Joseph's ancestry has been traced by other researchers back to John Ogle, who came over from England in 1664 with Col Nicholl's expedition to free New Amsterdam from the Dutch. for his efforts, John Ogle, was awarded 800 acres on White Clay Creek near New Castle, Delaware. John, in turn is descended from a long line of English ancestors, and is related to the family who built the extant Ogle Castle in Northumbria, England.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/u/r/Nedra-K-Burton-OK/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0051.html
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