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Facts and Events
Leonard Morris was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 2 - Edgar vs. Donnelly--O. S. 215; N. S. 76--Leonard Morris deposes, 1814; He was at William Mann's on Kenawha in 1776 when Archer Mathews and Andrew Donnally bought the bottom from John Prior. John Jones was present, assisting to drive cattle to Point Pleasant. John Hansford deposes; has known the land 25 years. Edmond Jones had been living in the neighborhood 23 years; son of John Jones, and is 23 years old 2d of last April. William Jones has known the bottom 26 years. Levi Morris, brother of Benj. deposes. Above four depositions taken 1813. Benj. Morris deposes 1813; Levi Morris deposes 1813; John Jenkins deposes 1813. Patent 21st March, 1792, to John Jones, assignee of Andrew Donnelly, 359 acres in Kenawha County. Certificate of settlement by John Prior in 1776. Ditto by John Hicks, 200 acres in Montgomery County, on New River by settlement in 1774.
- Vol. 2 - John Jones' Declaration, January 15th, 1833: Age 77 years, eleven months and thirteen days; in 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement, or settlement, on the Great Kanawha in Greenbrier County now Kanawha County, seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants; they were driven back in the spring of 1774 by the Indians to the settlements on Muddy Creek; volunteered in 1774 under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle to build a fort on Muddy Creek; in the fall of 1774 he volunteered under Captain Arbuckle, who raised a company to go with Lord Dunmore against the Indians; the company joined the division of the army under General Lewis; was in the whole of the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. In September, 1776, enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt. M. Arbuckle; marched to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, about 150 miles west of the inhabited country; other officers were First Lieut. Andrew Wallace, Second Lieut. William Woods, Ensign John Gallegher; they erected a fort at the mouth of the Great Kanawha (point Pleasant); here they were reinforced by Capt. McKee of Botetourt, First Lieut. William Moore, Ensign James Gilmore; Indians attacked and were repulsed and turned towards Donally's Fort in Greenbrier; in 1778 declarant was employed as an Indian spy; William and Leonard Morris, deceased, were spies with him; William Arbuckle (then of Mason County) was also in Dunmore's campaign.
References
- Find A Grave.
Leonard Morris
BIRTH 1748
Orange County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 1831 (aged 82–83)
Marmet, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Morris Cemetery
Marmet, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Early Pioneer, he was an Indian spy in Greenbrier County between 1778-1780.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162391100/leonard-morris
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