John Bird

BIRD, JOHN

• DAR Ancestor # A131921
• Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PRIVATE
• Birth: CIRCA 1759 VIRGINIA
• Death: 11-8-1829 FAYETTE CO INDIANA
• Pension Number: *S35807
• Service Source: *S35807
• Service Description: 1) CAPT JONATHAN CLARK, COL MUGHLENBURGH, 8TH REGT
• Spouse: Elinor X

Children listed at DAR:

JOHN M [1] SUSANNAH BIVENS

John made a deposition 8 Feb 1819 to be read in a suit in Chancery: He came to Kentucky in 1779, settled at Ruddell's Station, and remained in Station until June 1780 when it was captured: that in February 1780 he went from said Station in company with Isaac Rudell and William Marshall and came to a cabin and remained all night; that Ruddell had a warrant to lay on same for the father of the deponent...". Evidently John Bird was in the militia company at Ruddell's Station and was taken prisoner. John Byrd enlisted, 9 Mar 1776, and served as a private in Capt. Jonathan Clark’s company, Col. Muhlenberg Virginia regiment, was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. He was allowed pension on his application executed, 30 Mar 1819, at which time he was aged about sixty years. He resided then in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Sometime before March 1823, the soldier moved from Kentucky to Fayette County, Indiana where he died about the year 1829 or 1830. This John Byrd married in 1780, Elinor ---. Her age in 1823 was given as 57 years. In 1823, the soldier and his wife had only one child, aged twenty years, living at home with them; the name of said child was not stated, nor the names of any other children given. A daughter of the soldier had married after the family moved to Indiana, date of her marriage and the name of her husband were not shown; however, the marriage took place before Oct 1823. In 1840, Elinor Byrd, the soldier's widow was living in Indiana.

National Archives Pension File S35807.

Wife: Catherine Frey married 19 Feb 1778 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.