Col. Isaac Gregory

Col Isaac Gregory BIRTH 1772 Bath County, Virginia, USA DEATH Aug 1852 (aged 79–80) BURIAL B.F. Gregory Cemetery Webster Springs, Webster County, West Virginia

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Colonel Isaac Gregory was an early settler of Webster County, Virginia (now WV).

Webster County's European Pioneers and Settlers

from http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Webster/webhistory.html

"Peter and Adam Stroud, German immigrants, were the first European settlers in present-day Webster County. They settled near present day Camden-on-Gauley in 1769. Peter unintentionally built his cabin near a branch of the Shawnee Indians' hunting trail. In 1772 or 1773 (most accounts indicate June 1772) a band of Shawnee Indians came across his cabin while he was away, killed his wife and seven children. The Indians then set the cabin on fire. Adam Stroud saw the smoke from his brother's burning cabin rising across the Gauley River and, with his eldest son, investigated. The trail left by the murderers led in the general direction of Bulltown, home of Captain Bull, a Delaware Indian Chief, and other Indian families, located in present-day Braxton County. Adam Stroud recruited several other settlers to join him in an attack on the Indian settlement, leading to the famous Bulltown Massacre (see Braxton County history). News of Captain Bull's death spread across the western frontier and set off a series of serious incidents between the Indians and the English settlers. As hostilities increased, Adam Stroud moved to Hampshire County. It was another twenty years before anyone else tried to settle in the county.

"In 1797, Arthur McClure moved to Upper Glade. He was followed by William E. Dodrill, known as "English Bill." He settled along the Birch River in 1799. Colonel Isaac Gregory was one of the earliest and most prominent settlers in the county. He built a two-story log cabin just above Beaver Run on a hill overlooking the Gauley River in 1800. He later served two terms as the Nicholas County Sheriff and served in the American Army during the War of 1812. Isaac Duifield arrived in the county around 1803 and was followed by several families who arrived around 1810, including the families of Tunice Muckelwain (or McElwain), James Dyer, William, Benjamin, and David Hamrick, and John Miller."

According to Harold Carpenter (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/r/Harold-M-Carpenter...):

[Isaac Gregory] killed the last buffalo known to have been killed in Webster Co. , just before the war of 1812. It was killed on the mountain between Elk and Back Fork rivers, and the place has since been called Buffalo Bull Knob. In 1813, Col. Gregory was elected Justice of the Peace of Randolph Co. In 1814, he raised a company of soldiers and went to Norfolk to fight the British. (Taken from The Hamrick and other Families-Indian Lore by Mayme H. Hamrick, pg. 115)

Researchers may want to look at Nettie Robinson Gregory's genealogy book, "The Colonel's Legacy: Isaac Gregory's Descendants" published in 2006 [http://www.amazon.com/The-Colonels-Legacy-Gregorys-Descendants/dp/1...] or visit the Gregory Genealogy Page at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gregory/.

1850 census, Nicholas county, part of, Nicholas, Virginia

Household Gender Age Birthplace 

* Benjamin Hamrick M 67 Virginia

• Agnes Hamrick F 57 Virginia
• Hannah Hamrick F 19 Virginia
• Jane Hamrick F 27 Virginia
• Addison Hamrick M 19 Virginia
• Margaret Hamrick F 18 Virginia
• Isaac Gregory M 78 Virginia

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Col Isaac Gregory BIRTH 1772 Bath County, Virginia, USA DEATH Aug 1852 (aged 79–80) BURIAL B.F. Gregory Cemetery Webster Springs, Webster County, West Virginia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48916608/isaac-gregory

Children Photo Mary Hannah Gregory Lynch 1790–1877

Nancy Agnes Gregory Hamrick 1792–1873

Photo Jeanette Jane Gregory Hamrick 1796–1873

Isabel Gregory Lynch 1798–1870

Photo Adam Given Gregory 1802–1877

Photo William Given Gregory 1804–1871

Joseph Gregory 1807–1863

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48916608/isaac-gregory

Children Photo Mary Hannah Gregory Lynch 1790–1877

Nancy Agnes Gregory Hamrick 1792–1873

Photo Jeanette Jane Gregory Hamrick 1796–1873

Isabel Gregory Lynch 1798–1870

Photo Adam Given Gregory 1802–1877

Photo William Given Gregory 1804–1871

Joseph Gregory 1807–1863

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gregory-3623

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gregory/