Rev John Mitchell
BIRTH 1 May 1763
England
DEATH 27 Apr 1840 (aged 76)
Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Mitchell Cemetery
Jane Lew, Lewis County, West Virginia, USA
John Mitchell died at Jane Lew, Lewis County, Virginia before the state was divided into two states after the Civil War. (Virginia and West Virginia.)
John Mitchell was the son of Thomas and Jane Hetherington Michell. He was born in Dawston, Lancashire County, England.
John came to the United States as an eleven year old boy, bound to a sailor. On the second trip to the US he jumped ship and hid out until the ship left without him. He was in the Revulationary War twice.
He married first, Catherine Margaret Teter in Rockingham County, Virginia. Sometime after she died in 1803 he married Susannah Washburn, 3 Dec 1804 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia.
John Mitchell was a Methodist minister, farmer.
In 1834, in connection with claims of wide spread frauds in western Virginia, an investigation was carried on of all the pension records from that region. John Mitchell's claim and record were found to be correct and his pension continued. W. G. Singleton who was in charge of this investigation, wrote on the record of John Mitchell; "This is a man of character and intelligence. I am satisfied he is fully entitled to all he draws".
The tract of land on Jesse's Run became the Rev. John Mitchell's home farm, and in the private graveyard on part of it he is buried.
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