Isaac Dehaven

DAR Ancestor # A031373

Information from Lloyd D. Ellis:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dubart&id...

ID: I919

Name: Isaac DEHAVEN

RFN: 919

Change Date: 26 SEP 2006

Sex: M

Birth: 16 FEB 1749/1750 in Philadelphia County,, PA

(Ben notes: The date is in the old British style. This means not only is it Julian - about 11 days different from Gregorian in this century, but also the New Year was considered to have started on March 25, or Lady Day, each year, roughly coinciding with the start of spring. This changed to the current calendar with the Calendar Act of 1750, which imposed a shortened year in 1751, causing the official next calendar year to start on January 1, 1752. Also, Parliament declared that the day after September 2, 1752 would be for that year September 14. This is said to have stirred protests across the United Kingdom, but probably none quite as dramatic as depicted in the William Hogarth painting "Give us our Eleven Days". Dates in British Old Style between January 1 and March 25 typically are written like 1749/1750, meaning that officially it's 1749, but the rest of the world outside of the United Kingdom recognizes it as 1750. Where such a convention hasn't been used, it can be seen as something of a challenge to historians, making it easy to mis-date events that take place early in a given year.)

Note: From DAR records.

Event: war 1776 Pennsylvania, Virginia

Note:

Robert Ellis Cavalry in Rev. War. nbll (War Dept.) Name appears on Army register but had not received bounty land. It is believed that Robert served (along with Isaac Dehaven*) in the 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons formed in 1778 and captained by Maj. Henry Lee, better known as "Light Horse Harry Lee" ** (the father of Robert E. Lee, commanding General of the CSA). The regiment was also called "Lees Legion" and "Lees Partisan Corp".

• * Light Dragoons & Partisan Corps

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/lineage/mounted.htm

2d PARTISAN CORPS (Lee's Legion)

LINEAGE

[Wright, Continental Army, pp. 348-349]

Authorized 8 June 1776 in the Virginia State Troops as the 5th Troop of Light Horse

Redesignated 25 June 1776 as the 5th Troop, Virginia Light Horse

Organized in summer 1776 at Williamsburg with recruits from northern Virginia

(Virginia Light Horse adopted 25 November 1776 into the Continental Army, assigned to the Main Army, and redesignated as the 1st Continental Light Dragoon Regiment)

Withdrawn 7 April 1778 from the 1st Continental Light Dragoon Regiment and expanded to form Lee's Corps of Partisan Light Dragoons, an element of the Main Army, to consist of two troops recruited at large

Expanded 28 May 1778 to consist of three troops

(Captain Allen McLane's Company [see Annex] assigned 13 July 1779 as the 4th Troop)

Expanded and redesignated 14 February 1780 as Lee's Legionary Corps, to consist of three mounted and three dismounted troops

Relieved 31 October 1780 from the Main Army and assigned to the Southern Department

Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1781 as the 2d Partisan Corps, to consist of three mounted and three dismounted troops

Disbanded 15 November 1783 at Winchester, Virginia

ANNEX

Authorized 13 January 1777 as Captain Allen McLane's Company, Patton's Additional Continental Regiment, an element of the Main Army

Organized 14 February-23 April 1777 at Dover, Delaware, with recruits from Delaware

(Patton's Additional Continental Regiment assigned 22 May 1777 to the 4th Virginia Brigade, an element of the Main Army; relieved 22 July 1778 from the 4th Virginia Brigade and assigned to the Highlands Department)

Withdrawn 16 December 1778 from Patton's Additional Continental Regiment and aligned to the Delaware Regiment, an element of the 3d Virginia Brigade of the Main Army

Withdrawn 13 July 1779 from the Delaware Regiment and assigned to Lee's Corps of Partisan Light Dragoons as the 4th (Dismounted) Troop

ENGAGEMENTS

[Wright, Continental Army, p. 349]

Northern New Jersey

Defense of Philadelphia

Philadelphia-Monmouth

New York 1779

New Jersey 1779

New Jersey 1780

Defense of the Carolinas

Greene's Campaign

Captain McLane's Company additionally served in:

Iroquois 1779

Will: 15 APR 1833 Franklin Co VA

Note:

Will written April 15, 1833 and Proved June 1833.

Wifes name not given but she gets use of property until deceased or remarried. His exec. Isaac, Jr. gets 165 acres. Then, 1/3 land to Dau. Lynny Ellis* and her children; Nancy, Warren, Hannah & John O. Ellis.

1/3 to Dau. Nancy Dehaven.

1/3 to Dau. Hannah Dehaven.

And, plus what they already have:

Abraham Dehaven $5.

Jesse $5.

Dau. Milly B...yon (Bingham?) $5.**

Dau. Peggy Richard (Ryherd) $5.

• Sometimes written Linney (probably from Linda) who married Zachariah Ellis (not my line).

Hugh Barns was born abt. 1772 in Pennsylvania or Kentucky and died January 09, 1841 in Indianapolis, Marion County , Indiana. He married Elizabeth DeHaven December 23, 1793 in Scott County, Kentucky, daughter of Abrahm DeHaven and Ann (Luken). She was born October 23, 1771 in Kentucky, and died November 05, 1851 in Owen co., Indiana.

• *Milly Dehaven b, 1784 married Job Binion. Bond dated Jamuary 23. 1904 in Franklin Co., VA, signed by her brother Abraham.

Death: 11 MAY 1833 in Franklin Co VA

Note: From DAR records.

Note:

Subj: Re: Dehaven/Ellis

Date: 02/07/2000 4:31:28 PM Central Standard Time

From: LEllis148

To: crgreen@risecom.net

Hi Carolyn !

The Franklin Co. map just arrived and I will mail copies tomorrow.

Dont send me anything ($) except your intelligent input. Im sending $10 to the Bassett Library. You may wish to send a token gift ?

Now, the good news ! One Adam Ryherds land is shown to the n.n.e of Isaacs in Franklin Co., VA.

The original owner of Adam Ryherds land, James Standefer, (shown purchased in 1756) is shown as is Isaacs.

To the e.s.e., and probably bordering Isaacs property is the land of Robert Ellis and wife Sarah (now, Im even more convinced that she was Sarah Dehaven).

Robert purchased the 304 acres of land from Philemon Sutherland for £ 35 about 1790 (Philemon's date of purchase Feb. 1,1779). It is on the Grassy Creek of Bull Run and Jacks Creek. Deed book 3, pp 97-99 and "sold" this land to Mary Jones on April 6, 1796 for £ 35 (deed book 3, pp. 249-250. Mary Jones then sells this property to Isaac Dehaven on Nov. 4, 1806. Deed Book 5, pp. 298-299. Isaac Dehaven's will 15 April 1833 written and probated June 1833 Franklin Co., Va. Nancy was still living when Isaac died in 1833 in Franklin Co,Va.

You will note that the Salem Meeting House (Not Quaker) appears to be on Isaacs property. These properties lie some 10 miles n.n.e of Rocky Mount which is shown on most modern maps.

Father: Abraham DEHAVEN b: ABT 1715 in Philadelphia County,, PA

Mother: Rebecca PAWLING

Marriage 1 Nancy ELLIS b: EST 1749 in Caernarvon twp

Married: EST 1774 in Loudoun Co.,, VA

Note:

This marriage is based upon circumstantial evidence.

One William Jones and wife Mary from PA to Loudoun County, VA. in 1759.

In 1772 William Jones died. His Will names 2nd wife Mary*, sons James and Joshua together with daughter Mary Griffith.

The 1775 Loudoun tithtable shows Mrs. Mary Jones together with Robert Ellis, Jr. then age 17.

• She is believed to have been the widowed (1766) wife of Robert Ellis, Sr. (and the mother of Robert Ellis, Jr. and Elizabeth Ann "Nancy" Ellis). She remarried Wm. Jones in Loudoun sometime after 1766.

For more evidence on the Jones, Dehaven, Ellis relationship see Wm. and Mary Jones and their sons, property sales etc.