Person:Peter Cline (4)

Peter Cline filed a Revolutionary War pension claim in 1832 in Montgomery County , Virginia . According to his application he was at that time a resident of Pike County , Ky and had previously resided in Berks County , Pa during the Revolution . He enlisted with Captain Henry Miller and served in the 12th Pennsylvania Regiment which was formed in September, 1776. Peter states that was engaged in the following battles against the British: the Battle of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, and Germantown.  He was probably engaged at Princeton as well.  He then marched from the Wide Marsh (White Marsh) in Pennsylvania to Germantown, Pennsylvania, then to the mouth of the Schuylkill, then up the same to Valley Forge. 

Peter left Berks County Pa between 1778 and 1786 and settled in Montgomery County Virginia for a time . The first evidence of Peter's being in Montgomery County was in 1786, when his name appears on a land transaction involving James Addair, which is in the county land records, Book D, pg 356 and Peter Cline is listed on many of the records of Montgomery County, Virginia, including court, land and tax records through 1811 .

Around 1811, Peter Cline migrated with his family to the Virginia/Kentucky border region along the Tug River, settling on a Creek known today as Peter Creek.  His son Michael, and daughter Margaret (Mounts), also migrated with their families to the region with Peter.  There is some evidence that Peter had interests in the western region of Virginia by the 1790's and early 1800's.

Excerpt from History of Logan County

Peter Cline, who was of German origin, settled about the year 1802 just below the mouth of Peter Creek on the West Virginia side of the river. It is claimed that he had settled on the Kentucky side, on Peter Creek, some eight years before that time, and that the creek took its name from him, and that he came direct from Montgomery County, Va. Be this as it may, it is well known that he lived and died at a ripe old age on Tug River, and that he was the father of four sons and one daughter, from whom has sprung the Clines and Mounts of the Tug and Guyandotte Valleys. His sons were Michael, who married a Miss Hinkle, of Kentucky; Jacob, who married a Miss Fuller, of Kentucky; William, who married a daughter of Thomas Smith, of Horsepen. This Peter Cline Jr., died on Gilbert's Creek in 1893, aged something over one hundred years. The daughter of Peter Cline, Sr., whose name was Margaret, married David Mounts, a young man who came to the Tug Valley a short time after Clines had settled there. It is not known where he came from, but it is believed from the name that he is a descendant of a Portugese family by the name of Mountz, which settled in South Carolina about 1750, some of whom served under Sumpter in the War of the Revolution. Mounts settled just above Cline, on the river, and was the father of six sons and four daughters. His sons were William, who married Mary Blankenship; Charles who married a daughter of Isaac Spratt; Peter, who married a daughter of William Cline; Michael, who married a daughter of Peter Cline; Jackson, who married a daughter of William Cline, and Alexander, who married a Miss Charles. His daughters were Nancy, who married Asbury Hurley; Patsy, who married John Steel; Elizabeth, who married Alexander Trent, and Sarah, who married Daniel Christian. ^S3

1.   Ancestor #: A202821, in Daughters of the American Revolution. Genealogical Research System.

   Service Source: NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #835; ABSTRACT NON-ISSUED PENSION MONTGOMERY CO VA OB 25, P 336
   Service Description: 1) 12 PA CL LT JOHN HENDERSON, NICHOLAS MILLER, MAJ PETERSON, COL WM COOK

2.   The Clines and Allied Families of the Tug River Region of Kentucky and West Virginia.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Ragland, Henry Clay, and Dana R Dorsey. History of Logan County, W. Va. : (genealogical section). (Logan, West Virginia: Logan County Genealogical Society (KY), 1978).
4.   Peter Cline Family of the Tug River Region of VA/WV/KY
   Children of PETER CLINE and ELIZABETH are:
   2. i. MICHAEL2 CLINE, b. Abt. 1778, Virginia; d. 1860, McDowell County, Virginia.
   3. ii. JOHN CLINE, b. Abt. 1780.
   4. iii. SARAH CLINE, b. Abt. 1785; d. 1865, Bland County, Virginia.
   5. iv. JACOB "RICH JAKE" CLINE, b. Abt. 1790, Montgomery County, Virginia; d. 1858, Logan County, Virginia.
   6. v. WILLIAM "ALUM BILLY" CLINE, b. Abt. 1792, Montgomery County, Virginia; d. 1868, Logan County, Virginia.
   7. vi. MARGARET "PEGGY" CLINE, b. Abt. 1793.
   8. vii. DAUGHTER CLINE, b. Abt. 1797.
   9. viii. PETER "HECK" CLINE, b. Abt. 1800, Montgomery County, Virginia; d. April 30, 1892, Gilbert Creek, Mingo County, West Virginia.
5.   CLINE FAMILY ASSOCIATION AN ASSOCIATION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF PETER CLINE, REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER & PIONEER OF THE TUG RIVER REGION OF VA, WV & KY
6.   PETER CLINE, Montgomery County, Virginia, Order Book 25, p. 336.
   Montgomery County, Virginia, September 3, 1832, Peter Cline, a resident of Pike County, Kentucky, age 76 years, declared that he served in 1774 with Captain Henry Miller, Lieutenant Henderson, Major Patterson, and Lieutenant Colonel Potter, Colonel Cook, and ensign Taylor, and left the service some time in September 1777. He resided in Redingtown, Berks (?) County, Pennsylvania, at the time he entered service. He was engaged in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, and Germantown. He marched from wide (White?) marsh in Pennsylvania to Germantown and back to Chestnut Hill and to the mouth of the Schuylkill and up to Valley Forge.