Person:Return Meigs (2)

Col. Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.
  • F.  Return Meigs (add)
  • M.  Elizabeth Hamlin (add)
m. 1 Feb 1732/33
  1. Col. Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.1740 - 1823
  2. Giles Meigs1744 - 1824
  • HCol. Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.1740 - 1823
  • WJoanna Winborn - 1773
m. 14 Feb 1765
  1. Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.1764 - 1825
  2. Joanna Meigs1766 -
  3. Mary Meigs1769 - 1799
  4. John Meigs1771 - 1808
  • HCol. Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.1740 - 1823
  • WGrace Starr - 1807
m. 22 Dec 1774
  1. Elizabeth Meigs1775 - 1775
  2. Richard Montgomery Meigs1777 - 1785
  3. Timothy Meigs1782 - 1815
Facts and Events
Name Col. Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 17 Dec 1740 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 14 Feb 1765 to Joanna Winborn
Marriage 22 Dec 1774 to Grace Starr
Death[1] 28 Jan 1823 Calhoun, McMinn, Tennessee, United States
Burial[2] Garrison Cemetery, Rhea, Tennessee, United States
Reference Number? Q7317152?

Photo of Col. Meigs' tombstone on FindAGrave.com


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Return Jonathan Meigs [born December 17 (old style) or 28th (new style), 1740; died January 28, 1823], a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, was one of the settlers of the Northwest Territory in what is now the state of Ohio. He later served the federal government as an Indian agent working with the Cherokee in southeastern Tennessee.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Return J. Meigs (#90), in Meigs (Meiggs) Family History and Genealogy.
  2. Find A Grave.
  3.   Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    pp. 357-358.

    Col. Return Jonathan Meigs was brother of "Capt. Giles Meigs of Middletown (son of Return and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs)".