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John Day, Sr., of Jefferson Co., TN
Facts and Events
John Day was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 2, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
- Day, John - entered service 1775 in Botetourt County, Virginia; born in Pennsylvania 6/30/1742 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania & before military service brother David & mother Susan (daughter of James Wyley) were killed by Shawnee Indians who took his sister Sally & sister Martha prisoner; granted Pension 1833 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, where moved in abt. 1785 from Botetourt County, Virginia [prior to 1770 was Augusta County]; son John born 1/1768) made affidavit in 1833; soldier's grandson William Day, applied for Bounty Land Warrant in Cass County, Missouri, 1880, but Bounty Land Warrant was rejected, no law for grandchildren to get Bounty Land Warrants; query letter in file 1914 from descendant John C.M. Day, Winchester, Kentucky, who was also descendant of soldier's son John & son of John Gibbs who was a Revolutionary War soldier from Burke County, North Carolina. F-S3252, R773.
Records in Tennessee
- 12 March 1795, Jefferson County, TN Deed: Alexander Outlaw to Simeon Eldridge, ... for the sum of fifty pounds.. a certain Tract or parcel of land...on the northeast side of the creek, the said Eldridge lives on runing thence South seventy Degrees East Down the Creek to the line of said Outlaws Bent Creek tract now John Days line to a Stake, thence North twenty Degrees West up the Creek to a stake untill a line No. Seventy Degrees East will strike the beginning, thence with that line to the beginning, Containing two hundred acres to be the same more or less...
- 10 April 1795, Jefferson County, TN Deed: Alexander Outlaw to Adam Weaver... for the sum of one hundred pounds... a Certain tract or parcele of land, & being on the East Side of Bent Creek Beginning on a ___ on the bank of the Creek oppiset [opposite] the bend of the Creek East frmo Damerens peach orchard in the bent of said Creek thence a Direct line to a marked White oak on the hill near a small spring thence to same Course to the back line of said Outlaws survey then with that line to Days line, thence with Days line to Bent Creek, thence Down the Creek to the beginning, Judged to be one hundred acres be the same more or less...
References
- Kegley, F. B. (Frederick Bittle). Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783, with Maps and Illustrations. (Roanoke, Virginia, United States: The Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938).
KEGLEY"S VIRGINIA FRONTIER
CONDITIONS ON GREEN BRIER, JOHN DAY'S DECLARATION
John Day--- Born June 30, 1742, in Bucks County, PA, removed to Botetourt County. Lived on the Greenbrier River in Botetourt County, VA, until 1785; served there in 1775-1776.
The Shawnee Indians had come into Botetourt County in the State of Virginia and killed my brother, David Day, and taken my mother and two sisters, Sally Day and Martha Day, prisoners, and had also taken some other property, and made for their towns. The first night the Indians camped on a mountain between Cape Caper River and Cedar Creek, and at that camp killed my mother, Susan Day, formerly Susan Wylie, daughter of James Wylie. Capt. Fry raised twenty men, of which I was one, and we followed, and when we came to the Indian camp aforesaid, there lay my mother dead and stripped naked, her head skinned, and we lifted her and laid her between two rocks and laid some rocks over her, and we followed on after the Indians. The second day we came in sight of them at their camp, and I raised my gun to shoot one of them and just as I was about to draw trigger I saw one of my sisters rise up right before the muzzle of my gun, between me and the Indian, and I was so alarmed at seeing my sister rise before my gun that I involuntarily hollowed, which so alarmed the Indians that they broke and run, leaving the prisoners and what they had at the camp and ran with all their might, and we got the prisoners and what property the Indians left at the camp and brought all safe to the post.
After that I volunteered under Capt. Paxton and marched to the point at the mouth of New River. I went as ensign under Capt. Paxton, and in company with Capt. Hall. Colonel Dickson and other officers not recalled. There was a large supply of beeves taken along for rations, perhaps 150, and a number of pack horses. We marched slowly until we came to the Point. Here we met with General Hand, Major McDowell, Capt. Arbuckle, and other officers not remembered. While at the Point one white man was killed and four Indians. I cannot exactly tell when we left home on this campaign, and have no papers to help my memory, but it was warm weather and suppose it to be latter part of summer or fall of 1776 and returned home towards next spring, and cannot tell the exact time we were on the expedition, but consider that it must at least be three months, and think it likely it might be more than three months. If I got my discharge I have lost it in moving from one part to another and cannot tell what became of it, and do not recall that I ever received any pay for such services.
While at the Point I recollect there was Capt. Renoes (?) (Name not clear) and Capt. Alexander Hamilton.
After I returned home the Indians were still troublesome about Ellis Fort and Days fort during the remainder of the British war and after it, and Capt. Cook appointed me to range as a spy in Botetourt CO., around the forts, to discover if there were any Indian signs in these parts, and under this appointment I acted during the remainder of the British war, and some time after it was
>over. The Indians were not at war, so as to keep the people forted all the time. The time I acted as a spy was about one year and six months but think the time if all added together would be more than that. On the waters of the Greenbrier River in VA while I was a spy John Bridges and James Bridges were killed by Indians, scalped and stripped within a mile and a half of the fort and I was near falling into the hands of the Indians while helping others to escape from them.
Four years after Cornwallis was taken he moved to then Green Co., TN now Jefferson Co., where he died in 1833.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DAY/1998-03/0890024843
- Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008.
Name John Day Senior
Probate Date 10 Mar 1834
Probate Place Jefferson, Tennessee, USA
Inferred Death Year 1834
Inferred Death Place Tennessee, USA
Item Description Will Books, 1792-1844
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