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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Maj. William Haymond |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
4 Jan 1740 |
Montgomery, Maryland, United States |
| Marriage |
Abt 1770 |
Maryland, United Statesto Cassandra Clelland |
| Death[1] |
12 Nov 1821 |
Quiet Dell, Harrison, West Virginia, United States |
| Burial[3] |
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Haymond Cemetery, Quiet Dell, Harrison, West Virginia, United States |
| Reference Number? |
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Q6738313? |
William Haymond at Wikipedia
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William Haymond (January 4, 1740 – November 12, 1821) was a military officer and surveyor. Haymond served in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Prior to the Revolution, he served in George Washington's Virginia Regiment. In 1781, during the Revolution, Haymond was commissioned to major by Benjamin Harrison V. After the Revolution, he served as an official surveyor in what is now West Virginia.
Research Notes
In The History of Harrison County, West Virginia, there are a series of letters written by Major Haymond's son which provide an interesting, first-hand account of life during those times.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Major William Haymond, in Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910).
p 369 - Major William Haymond.
William Haymond, son of John, who came from England prior to
1734, was born in the colony of Maryland, January 4, 1740 (OS) and died
at his residence near Quiet Dell, November 12, 1821.
According to family tradition he accompanied the army of General
Edward Braddock on its march to capture Fort Duquesne, now Pitts-
burg, from the French, and which met with a disastrous defeat on the
Monongahela River on the 9th. of July, 1755.
At this time he was only fifteen years of age, and it is not known in
what capacity he was employed but likely in the quarter-master's de-
partment.
In the year 1758 he was a soldier in the expedition commanded by
General Forbes against the same position, which was successful and the
name was changed to Fort Pitt after the English Prime Minister
In February, 1759, he enlisted in the Virginia Regiment commanded
by Col. George Washington, which had been detailed to garrison the
country captured from the French. He served along the Monongahela
and Allegheny Rivers and as far north as "Presque Isle," now Erie, on
the lake of that name. When the regiment was withdrawn from the West
it was marched up the Shenandoah Valley and on to the Holstein river to
suppress an outbreak among the Cherokee Indians.
When the Cherokees were quieted the regiment returned to the
valley and was discharged. William's discharge is dated at Fort Lewis,
near Staunton, Va., Feb. 24th. 1762, and states that he has "Duly served
three years and behaved as a good soldier and faithful subject."
After he returned home from the wars, he, in the following year,
April 19th. 1763,- was married to Cassandra Clelland and settled down to
the life of a planter.
In May, 1773, he sold his farm near Rockville, Maryland, to James
Sutter for the sum of two hundred and twelve pounds and ten shillings
current money of the province, and moved with his family, consisting
of his wife, four children and a number of negroes, to the District of
West Augusta, Virginia, and located on the Monongahela river near
where Morgantown now stands.
The country was a howling wilderness, but thinly settled and the
few inhabitants for twenty years were destined to endure not only the
privations incident to a frontier life, but the horrors of a savage war-
fare.
Upon the formation of Monongalia County in 1776, he served in
various important positions, such as justice of the Peace, Deputy Surveyor,
Coroner and Sheriff.
At the commencement of the Revolution he at once warmly advo-
cated the cause of the colonies and was appointed a captain of Militia,
and was frequently in active service against the hostile Indians.
In 1777 he was in command of Prickett's Fort with a detachment
at Scott's Mills. In 1781 he was promoted to Major and performed the
duties of an officer of Militia during the whole of the Revolutionary War.
He was making preparations to go east of the mountains and join
the army there when news of peace was received.
He was one of the officials selected to administer the oath of allegiance
to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all male inhabitants over the age
of sixteen years and requiring them to renounce and refuse all allegiance
to George the Third, King of Great Britain.
He was one of the commissioners appointed for adjusting the claims
to unpatented lands in the counties of Monongalia, Yohosrania and Ohio.
Upon the creation of Harrison County in 1784 Major Haymond
was appointed the principal surveyor of the new County. He traveled
on horseback across the mountains to Williamsburg in order to be exam-
ined by the professors of William and Mary's college as to his qualifica-
tion for the position. He passed a successful examination and was duly
commissioned Surveyor by the Governor of Virginia.
This appointment required another change of residence to Clarksburg
about forty miles west of Morgantown. So in the fall of that year he
moved to that place, purchased a few acres of land near town, built an
office and entered upon the discharge of his duties. At that time Harri-
son Coitnty extended from the Allegheny mountains to the Ohio and the
duties of the office were of a most important character, affecting the
titles to the homes of the settlers who came pouring in rapidly after the
close of the war of the Eevolution.
He was a member of the commission to build two courthouses in
Harrison County in 1787 and 1812, and as a surveyor assisted in mark-
ing out a state road from the Valley River to the Ohio, near Marietta and
was always prominent in public affairs.
In 1791 he purchased a tract of land containing 194>^ acres on Elk
Creek, six miles from Clarksburg, and moved on it in the Fall of that
year. The house in which he lived and built is still standing and is
still used as a residence. The farm is now (1909) owned by Sidney
Haymond the grandson of William, and has descended from father to son
by will, no deed having been made for it since its purchase as above
stated.
He was a skilled mechanic, a mathematician of rare ability, a
thoroughly competent surveyor and was widely respected for his sterling
integrity.
Major Haymond held the position of principal surveyor for thirty-
seven years and died at his home on November 12th. 1821 and was buried
in the Haymond graveyard in sight of his former residence.
- Major William Haymond, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Maj William Haymond, Sr, in Find A Grave.
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