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Facts and Events
Military Service
- 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. :
King, Cornelius - born 11/24/1753 in New Castle County, Delaware, entered service 1774 in Tygart's Valley, Randolph County, [West] Virginia, where he resided; moved in 1779 to Western Virginia [area later became Kentucky], where he entered service in 1779 against Shawnee Indians; moved after Revolutionary War to Nelson County, Kentucky, thence to Orange County, Indiana, then to Morgan County, Indiana, where granted Pension in 1832; surviving children mentioned but not named in 1840; query letter in file in 1928 from great great grandson H.A. Davee of Seviersville, Tennessee, states soldier died in Morgan County, Indiana. F-S17527, R1486.
Records
Cornelius King provided the following declaration in support of his brother-in-law, Jacob Westfall:
- fn p. 47]
- The State of Indiana Morgan County: SS
- Personally appeared before me the Subscriber an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County Cornelius King of about seventy-eight years of age who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is and has been well acquainted with Jacob Westfall who is an applicant to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832, prior to the year 1780, in Tigers Valley then Monongahela County and State of Virginia, in the forepart of the year 1781 this deponent was absent in Kentucky and when he returned home the said Jacob Westfall had gone as first Lieutenant in Captain George Jackson's Company of Volunteers on a six months tour of duty under General Clark as this deponent was informed and believes and this deponent well recollects said Jacob Westfall's returning home from said Campaign and has frequently heard said Westfall and others who served in the same Company with him relating circumstances and transactions that took days while on the Campaign above mentioned, and further this deponent sayeth not.
- S/ Cornelius King
Records in Nelson County, KY
- Pg. 7-15 Apr. 1789- Cornelius King, wife Sarah, to William Cleaver, Sr. , 100 pounds, 191 ac. on cedar Creek, north side of Beech Fork. [Source: Abstracts if Nelson Co Deeds - Book 3]
- Pg. 97- 1795 Peter King and Cornelius King to Joseph Reed. John Sutherland and George Robison, trustees for the Presbyterian Congregation in Poplar Neck, 5 sh, 2 1/2 ac. on which the Poplar Neck Meeting House now stands. [Abstracts of Nelson County, KY DEEDS- Book 5]
- Pg. 639- 2 Dec. 1800- Cornelius King to Peter King, 17 3/4 av. south side of Beech Fork, east side of Cornelius' survey near the trace from Goodwins to Pottinger Station. [Abstracts of Nelson County, KY DEEDS- Book Five]
- Will of George Abell dated 12 Sep 1802 prob. 9 Sep 1804
- Farm to wife Elizabeth and at her death to be divided between children Elizabeth, Catharine, Judith, Enoch, Francis, Ann and Pollard.
- Wit: Cornelius King, John Houston & William Cleaver.
- Exec. wife Elizabeth and son William.
- [Source: Nelson County, KY p 740 Will Book A]
- Pg. 339- 26 May 1805- Cornelius King to Peter King, 20 pounds, 10 1/2 acres, being part of a tract where Cornelius King now lives adj. Sugar Camp Run. [Abstracts of Nelson County, KY DEEDS- Book 6]
References
- Find A Grave.
Cornelius King
Birth 7 Nov 1753
New Castle County, Delaware, USA
Death 26 Aug 1839 (aged 85)
Morgan County, Indiana, USA
Burial: Williams Cemetery
Morgan County, Indiana, USA
SERGEANT
VIRGININA TROOPS
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Cornelius King
b 21 Nov 1753-New Castle Co DE.
d 26 Aug 1839 Morgan Co IN
Served VA-Sgt. First entered service Tygart's Valley VA 1774. --DAR Pat Ind. Lou
Pero Doc 678. Lived Randolph Co VA at time enlistment.
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CORNELIUS KING. He was paid £3 12sh (at 135) for 48 days of service. He was born in New Castle County, Delaware in 1753, and he and his wife Sarah followed the Cleavers to Nelson County, Kentucky, by 1785.8 His father Peter King and his sister Mary (wife of Jacob Westfall, Jr., 1755-1835) are first noticed on the Nelson County tax list of 1789. Cornelius King lived later in Orange County, Indiana, but died on 26 August 1839 in Morgan County, Indiana.9 Peter King, the father, was probably nearly related to the Cleavers in Delaware, but the particulars have not been sorted out.----CAPTAIN JONAS FRIEND AND HIS COMPANY AT BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT ON 10 OCTOBER 1774--service of Jonas Friend and his company of 20 men, during Dunmore's War.
Cornelius King served in a company raised by Jacob Friend during Dunmore's War. This was a prelude to the Revolutionary War fought in 1774. Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, raised troops from Virginia to combat uprisings amongst the Shawnee and Mingo Indians along the Ohio River. The Shawnee did not recognize a treaty signed with the Iroquois in 1768, ceding the land south of the Ohio River to the American colonies, and was trying to stop settlers from coming west.
The only large battle of the conflict was fought at Point Pleasant in what is now West Virginia. The Americans had 1100 troops present to combat 300-500 Indians. Greatly outnumbered, the Indians lost the battle but killed 75 Americans while wounding 150. The Indians had 33 casualties.
Jacob Friend's company had 20 survivors of the battle, including Cornelius King. A payroll form after the battle documents the surviving members of the company. Sergeant King earned 3 pounds and 12 shillings for 48 days of service.
Cornelius King saw action against the British later in the actual Revolutionary War , and he was granted a veteran's pension after the war.
By 1785 he was living in Kentucky, eventually moving to Orange County Indiana and then on to Morgan County Indiana, where he died in 1839.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27216529
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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