Brigadier General Elijah Isaacs

DAR Ancestor # A060622

• Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, COLONEL
• Birth: CIRCA 1730 SPOTSYLVANIA CO VIRGINIA
• Death: POST 9-19-1818 FRANKLIN CO GEORGIA
• Service Source: NCDAR, ROSTER OF SOLS FROM NC IN THE AM REV, PP 392, 393; CLARK, STATE RECS OF NC, VOL 15, PP, 391, 392
• Service Description: 1) GEN GATES; PRISONER AT ST AUGUSTINE

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Last Will and Testament:

In The Name of God amen

I Elija Isaacs of Pendleton County

being in perfect mind & memory but weak in body Calling to mind that its apointed once for man to Die do make this my Last will & testement first of all I commit my soole to God that Gave it & my body to the Dust to be Decently buryed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ & as to my worldly Estate to be Disposed of as follows first I leave to my youngest Son Giorge Isaacs a Negro Boy Called Isack & my sadle & a small sorrel mair the Negro to be Delivered to him when he becums & if should Die without Issue the Negro to past to to jenney & winney twenty one years of age secondly I leave to my Daughter Rebecka Isaacs her bed & furneture & a hors Creater worth one hundred Dollars thirdly I leave to my daughter Abbee one bed & furneture & a hors worth one hundred dollars & fourthly I leave to my daughter jenney one bed & furneture and a horse worth one hundred Dollars _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ & the balance of my Estate both Rail & perssenel I leave to my youngest Daughter winney Isaacs & Do apoint James Blair & Samuel Isaacs soole Exacetors of this my Last will & testement witness my hand this fourth Day of April 1799

Elijah Isaacs {Seal} Interlind before sind Sind & acknowledge in presents of us Thomas Gibson William Young Hayes Blair

During the summer of 1776, he built Fort Isaacs at the head of the Yadkin River. This fort was later called Fort Defiance, most asserting after the war. Capt. Elijah Isaacs and his company marched under Col. Martin Armstrong and Brig. Gen. Griffith Rutherford in the Cherokee Expedition of August to November of 1776 on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. On 4/25/1778, Elijah Isaacs was commissioned as a 1st Major under Col. Benjamin Cleveland in the Wilkes County Regiment of Militia, replacing Maj. William Lewis, who had recently resigned.

During the 1Q of 1779, Elijah Isaacs was commissioned as a full Colonel (some claim he was only a Lt. Colonel), alongside Col. Benjamin Cleveland in the Wilkes County Regiment of Militia.

During the Summer of 1780, not long after the battle of Colson's Mill, Col. Elijah Wilkes was given command of an "ad hoc" group of Militia companies and ordered to go help SC Col. Thomas Sumter. On 8/18/1780, Col. Elijah Isaacs was captured by the British at the battle of Fishing Creek, SC, and ultimately taken to St. Augustine, FL, where he was confined until he was exchanged in July of 1781.

After his exchange, Col. Elijah Isaac returned to active duty, and joined the also recently-exchanged Brig. Gen. Griffith Rutherford in the Wilmington Expedition to kick out the British garrison led by Maj. James H. Craig. After the British evacuated Wilmington, Col. Elijah Isaacs and his men are known to have sacked the noted Loyalist Col. David Fanning's headquarters at Cox's Mill in Randolph County on 12/10/1781.

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DAR Ancestor # A060622

   Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, COLONEL

   Birth: CIRCA 1730 SPOTSYLVANIA CO VIRGINIA

   Death: POST 9-19-1818 FRANKLIN CO GEORGIA

   Service Source: NCDAR, ROSTER OF SOLS FROM NC IN THE AM REV, PP 392, 393; CLARK, STATE RECS OF NC, VOL 15, PP, 391, 392

   Service Description: 1) GEN GATES; PRISONER AT ST AUGUSTINE

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