Captain Mathias Behringer

Captain Mathias was killed on the John's River near Morganton, North Carolina in late summer of 1776.

Husband of Margaret Bushart (born August 15, 1742 - passed October 5 1839 in Lincoln County North Carolina)

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via brother John Paul Barringer by SmartCopy: Dec 4 2015, 4:26:42 UTC

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Mathias Barringer Capt. Born 1730 [location unknown] Son of Wilhelm Barringer and Pauline (Decker) Barringer [sibling%28s%29 unknown] Husband of Margaret (Bushart) Barringer — married [date unknown] in Catawba co. North Carolinamap Father of Catherine (Barringer) Setzer and Mathias Barringer Jr. Died after 1763 in Catawba co.,north carolinamap

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KIA, Captain, Continental Army, Revolutionary War.

Mathias' company was sent in advance of the main army to search for Native Americans, the army would follow to push the Native American's west of the mountains. Barringer's company was ambushed, killed, and scalped, according to the lone survivor. Barringer was killed in the first round of fire and buried in an unmarked grave.

Slave owner.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41323635/mathias-barringer
Captain Mathias was killed on the John's River, in the Quaker Meadows area near Morganton, in Burke County, North Carolina during the late summer of 1776.

Husband of Margaret Bushart (born August 15, 1742 - passed October 5 1839 in Lincoln County North Carolina

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War both the English and the Americans sought Indian help and the British got help because they had defended the Indians previously and they supplied them with rifles

King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (ruled from 1760 to 1820) encouraged the Cherokee Indians to attack the settlers and burn their houses (particularly when they were considered revolutionaries working to the disadvantage of the King) as the British advertised the Americans would be unrestrained in their western expansion.  General Rutherford of the Colonies was ordered to collect all companies in his district and drive the Indians beyond the mountains to the West.  In the late summer of 1776, Captain Mathias Barringer with a small squad of soldiers was sent in advance of the army to search for the Indians.  On John’s River [near Morganton, NC] they found the Indians as they came from ambush armed as well as the Militia—all men except one [Phillip Frye] were killed.  General Rutherford ordered his men to bury the dead and no one knows of the final resting place for Captain Mathias Barringer who died at age 46.

 An Indian ambush trapped them.  Barringer was killed in the first round of fire.  Only Philip Frye escaped when he hid behind a log under 2 feet of dead leaves.  Frye said later that he did not move as the Indians scalped Barringer and the others, even when one brave stood on the log and looked right at the spot where he had hidden.

  Tradition relates that Captain Barringer's wife, who was at home with her children, Matthias and Catherine, told her friends on the day of the battle that she knew her husband was either dead or badly wounded, because she had heard him groan.

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The monument @ the Old Newton Courthouse reads...

A tribute to

Matthias Barringer,

Lipsidom Adam,

Grunot - Hass - Wilson

and another, who were

massacred on John's River in

Gen. Rutherford's

forced march against the

Cherokee in 1776 and to

Philip Fry

who is one escaped and to

Conrad Tippong,

One of Lafayette's men,

by a grateful posterity.

July 2, 1897* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41323635/mathias-barringer Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Apr 4 2022, 3:21:51 UTC''