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Daniel Mungle, Long Hunter of Davidson Co., TN
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About Daniel Mungle
Daniel Mungle is listed in Capt. Evan Shelby's Company of Volunteers from Fincastle in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774, indicating he was likely born in 1755 or perhaps a few years prior. He married Abigail McKinney 12 Sep 1786 in Washington County, Virginia [Virginia Marriages 1785-1940]. By 1780, he had procured land near Fort Nashboro in current Davidson County, Tennessee and is listed in Tennessee Land Warrant and Land Entry Book Records. On August 25, 1781, Daniel Mungle is listed in Washington County, Virginia records as receiving a land grant, likely for his military service, of 100 acres on "North Fork Holston River" near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. [Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800, pg. 1234].
He his likely related [possible sibling?] to Jacob Mungle who received two similar land grants on August 25, 1781 [same day as Daniel's grant] for 100 acres also on the North Fork Holston River [near Abingdon, Washington County, VA] and also on April 20, 1782 for 96 acres also on the North Fork Holston River.
Daniel and Elizabeth moved their family to that area sometime prior to 1800, where they raised two sons, Isaac and John, who were both born in Virginia.
Daniel Mungle of Fort Nashboro, Davidson County, Tennessee is said by some sources to have been killed in an Indian ambush on Barren River in abt. 1780, but other records [attached] show that he escaped and lived a few more years before his death in abt. 1803. His will was filed in Smith County, Tennessee, which was written on 27 September 1803, naming his two "under age" sons Isaac and John, but omitting his wife Elizabeth, indicating she had likely died prior to that date.
Records in Virginia
- 25 August 1781, Land Grant: Daniel Mungle, 100 acres on North Fork of Holston River, Actual Settlement: 177-. [Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800, Summers, pg. 1234].
- 4 Mar 1791, Land Grant: Daniel Mungle, 115 acres on Smiths Creek. [Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800, Summers, pg. 1236].
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References
- TNGenWeb - Tennessee Genealogy.
"Ordered that Daniel Mungle be Overseer of the road from the forks above Samuel Carothers' to Daniel Alexander's, and that the same hands work under him as worked under Richard Brittain, late overseer." We do not know that this Daniel Mungle was the same party, but one Daniel Mungle was a member of Captain Evan Shelby's company that fought in the Kenhawa which was one of the fiercest fought between the Indians and the whites. It took place in northern Kentucky on Oct. 10, 1774. Another in that company of brave pioneers was Frederick Mungle. But we have no information as to what relation they were, if any. Capt. Shelby's men were from East Tennessee. We read also that "W. Johnston and Daniel Mungle, hunting together on Barren River, the former was killed and the latter escaped by flight." This was in 1780, but we do not know that Daniel Mungle, the overseer of 1802, was the Daniel Mungle, Indian fighter, or the Daniel Mungle, who hunted on Barren River. Our guess is that all were one and the same man. Mungle's gap, near Good Will church, between the waters of upper Lick Creek and Big Goose Creek, a few miles south of Lafayette, is believed to have taken its name from Daniel Mungle, who settled on a square mile of land on the waters of Big Goose Creek, about a mile west of the Gap. The big corner stone markers put up by him on the four corners of his original farm are still to be seen. There is some doubt as to what is now called Mungle's Gap being the original Mungle's Gap, some believing that the original Mungle's Gap lay a few hundered yards futher to the south than the present Mungle's Gap, through which a black-top highway, extending from Hartsville to Cato, now runs. We hope to get this straightened out soon. We do not know exactly where Samuel Carothers lived, but it was somewhere on the waters of the present Big Goose Creek. Richard Brittain, the former overseer, we are almost certain, lived in the vicinity of the present Meadorville, four miles south of Lafayette. We do not know where Daniel Alexander lived 150 years ago.
https://www.tngenweb.org/smith/ccarticles/Nov6-AB-1952.htm
- Will Records, Vol 1-3, 7-8, 1803-1896, in Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008
pg. 1.
MUNGLE, DANIEL. 27 Sep 1803. Sons Isaac; John, not yet of age. Wit: Oliver Layson, David Williams, William Kerbey. Exc: John Carr, John Brevard, Hames H.bbitts. No probate date.
- Tennessee, United States. Early Land Registers, 1778-1927.
Name: Daniel Mungle
Register Date: 10 Dec 1784
Register Place: Tennessee, USA
Grant or Warrant Number: 632
- Fulcher, Richard C. 1770-1790 Census of the Cumberland Settlements: Davidson, Sumner and Tennessee Counties (In What is Now Tennessee). (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987).
Name: Daniel Mungle
Residence County: Davidson
Residence Date: May 1780
Note: MUNGLE, Daniel - signer of the Cumberland Compact, May, 1780" [ref. 185a]. He escaped an Indian ambush on Barren River: [ref. 185b].
- Tennessee, United States. Early Land Registers, 1778-1927.
Name: Danl Mungle
Register Place: Tennessee, USA
Grant or Warrant Number: 249
- Find A Grave.
Daniel Mongle
Birth 1765
Washington County, Virginia, USA
Death unknown
Burial
McMurray Cemetery
Trousdale County, Tennessee, USA
Mongle died before 1809 and was one of the "long hunters." He was also a signer of the Cumberland Compact. He settled on the Glasgow branch of Goose Creek and built a home. Mongle's Gap is named for him.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11013719/daniel-mongle
- Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776. (New York: Genealogical Association, 1905).
- Summers, Lewis Preston. Annals of southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. (Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1929, 1967, 1972).
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