Azariah Doss, II

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Conflicting data: Birth: c. 1745 vs. c. 1754; Birth Location: Pittsylvania, VA, USA vs. near Pigg River, Halifax Co VA; Death Date: c. 1816 vs. c. 1819.

Azariah appears in various court records, Bedford Co VA 1784-1786, Bk 8, p 11, 64, 77, 107, 145, 189; 1795-1799, Bk 11, p 144; 1808-1811, Bk 15, p 35. Madonna (Doss) McCarthy, who sent me most of my Doss data, calls him “a fighting fool.” Charged with feloniously burning John Hurt’s tobacco house, remanded for trial, 9 Mar 1809, Bk 15, p 48.

           The following information about his Revolutionary War pension was found at HeritageQuest.com: “My father Azariah Doss, a native of Virginia, served as a soldier enlisted in the Army of Gen. Washington, was promoted to a captaincy of a Whig company, to oppose the Tories in North Carolina. Was subsequently engaged in South Carolina, against the British, at the Cowpens, Camden, Eutaw Springs and elsewhere, and at the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown in Virginia. On his arrival at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, he made proposals to Cad. Churchwell and Mr. Percival, to draw his pension, but never received anything to the knowledge of my father in family. My father died in Monroe County near Tomkinsville, Kentucky, in January 1825, and my mother in Russellville, Ky, in 1831. Neither of them ever applied for or received a pension.

“So far as my knowledge extends, my brother George Washington Doss and myself are the only surviving representatives of my fathers family.

           Lydia Ann Hynes.

“P.S. This letter is intended to be sent to Mount Vernon, another of the same date and purport to be placed in the Post Office, Blairsville, Posey County, Indiana to either of which places … will be very acceptable.”
Sent to Washington, D.C. from Posey Co IN, dated December 16, 1849.[4]

           Azariah is recorded as the father at several of his children’s marriages, but as surety instead of father at Elizabeth’s, the ancestor of this writer, who was probably already of age. She was likely the oldest child. There were other Dosses in Bedford County, but by the time of Elizabeth’s marriage, he and Joel, a brother and the husband of Hannah (Ayres) Doss appear to be the only ones left. Azariah appears on an 1810 tax list, Pittsylvania Co VA: 101.

Azariah Doss served in the Revolutionary War during early 1776 to about late 1780, in the 5th and 9th Virginia Regiment. He married Lydia Ayers. Together, they captured two British soldiers and marched them to George Washington's camp. Azariah had a son, whom he named for his friend, George Washington.