Abraham Thomas Sr.

DAR Ancestor #: A114128

Birth1756

Culpepper, , Virginia, USA  

Marriage to Susannah Smith1770

— Age: 14

Culpepper, , Virginia, USA  

Death1843

13 Apr

— Age: 87

, Miami, Ohio, USA  

Pension papers #W11622

Abraham Thomas was born in Virginia in 1756. He served in the campaigns of Dunmore and Cusup previous to the Revolution. He lived in the western part of Pennsylvania on the waters of the Monongahela River about 30 or 40 miles above where the city of Pittsburgh now stands, at the time he was drafted in the Revolution. Summer 1776, he served 2 months under Lieut. Joseph Tumbleson being drafted with about 30 other men from his Militia Co. and were quartered at Grove Creek Fort or Station in Western Virginia. Fall of 1776, drafted and served one month under an officer named Phillip Vernell with 15 or 20 men at a station called Fort Wheeling in Virginia. In the spring of 1780, he moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and was a volunteer under Col. Harrod. The troops marched to the mouth of the Licking on the Ohio River and crossed about the last of July. The army consisted of about a thousand men commanded by Gen. George R. Clark. The Indian town of Chillicothy on the waters of the little Miami was destroyed. At the Indian town of Piqua, a severe battle was fought and the town taken and burned and the cornfields destroyed; after this the army returned to Licking and home; he was out on this expedition about two months. August 1782, the Indians invaded the country and he volunteered under Co. Benj. Logan and was out about 15 days. He again volunteered in Sept. of 1782, under Col. Logan and was under the general command of Gen. George R. Clark with about a thousand mounted troops with rifles and again went down the Ohio to Cincinnati and destroyed Indian villages at Chilicoth, Wilstown, and Piqua on the Great Miami and took a French store on Loramies Creek. He was gone about two months. He lived in Kentucky until about 1804, when he moved to Miami Co., Ohio. 6 May 1833, he applied for a pension under the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832, at the age of 76. 19 July 1855, Polly Thomas of Concord Township, Miami Co., Ohio, applied for widow's pension. Polly (Mary) Swailes married Abraham Thomas 5 July 1821.

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Michael Thomas by SmartCopy: Apr 22 2015, 5:38:25 UTC
• Residence: Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio
• Military service: Revolutionary War
  • Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: Apr 22 2015, 6:07:25 UTC

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• Residence: Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio
• Military service: Revolutionary War
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Nov 29 2018, 0:38:36 UTC