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RootsWeb: Indian Raid on John Thomas Byrd Home
ID:I08471 Name: John Dean Byrd , Indian John 1 2 Sex:M ALIA:Indian /John/ Birth: 1748 in Augusta County, (Now Bath County) Virginia Colony 3 Death: 1836 in Bath County, VA, USA 4 Note: According to the American Fenealogical Biographical Index, John was born in 1740, while The Bicentennial History of Bath county, VA gives a birthdate of 1748. "The Story of John Byrd gives his age as 8 years at the time of his fasther's death in 1756, yet lists a younger sister, Sarah - born 1743.
According to Robert Parsons McClintic, John died Apr 1837 intead of 1836.
- ** Story of "Indian John" Byrd
The first surveys of Bath Co VA were made on September 26, 1745 with the first white settlement in this area occurring at that time. John Byrd purchased on Jackson’s River in 1754 in what is now Bath Co. VA. Frequent raids were made by the Shawnee Indians through the section guarded by Ft. Dinwiddie.
Of the Indian raids into Bath County, VA, the earliest known took place near the middle of September 1756 within or very near the present county limits, and mainly along Jackson’s River. During this raid, the families who usually sought protection there were warned of the approaching danger. The families were trying to escape to Fort Dinwiddie, located on the Jackson River one mile north of Fassifern Farm. This fort had been recently visited by General George Washington in his Southern tour of inspection in 1755. The John Byrd family delayed their flight, and the father, John, was killed within sight of the fort. Mrs. Byrd (nee Mary ‘ Margaret’ Dean [sister of William and John Dean]) and six of her children including John Jr., age 8. A younger sister, Sarah Byrd (b 1743) was not taken and became the ward of her uncle John Dean. (She married Samuel Vance.)
In all, 9 men, 1 woman, and 3 children were killed and 2 men were wounded in the raid. In addition to John Byrd, among the slain were Ensign Humphrey Madison, Nicholas Carpenter, James Mayse, and James Montgomery. Joseph Carpenter, David Galloway, George Kincaid, and a Mrs. McConnell were captured, but got away. Mrs. Byrd, Mrs. George Kincaid (nee Elizabeth Dean, daughter of William and Sarah [Campbell]) , Mrs. Persinger, and 25 boys and girls were taken to the Indian towns in Ohio. Among the children were 6 Byrds, 5 Carperters, 3 Kincaids, and 2 Persingers. Paul Larsh, abandoning his goods, rescued Elizabeth Kincaid by carrying her on his back the two miles to his boat. He then paddled down the little Miami and the Ohio Rivers and up the Mississippi to the French settlement of Kaskaskia. On June 19, 1759 they were married in the Church of St. Ann at Fort Chartres and had a son Charles and daughter Hannah.
Bouquet’s decisive victory at Brushy Run over Pontiac in 1763, near the site of Pittsburg, and subsequent treaty of 1764, brought an end to the war with Pontiac. The Indians were required to give up their prisoners they had collected during the preceding 10 years. List F of prisoners delivered to Ft. Pitt in Jan. 1765 included: Margaret Bird, "an old woman taken years ago from Jackson River, died since her arrival." List G: Molly Bird, taken from Greenbrier, 10 yrs. in captivity; and Nalupua Bird, sister to Molly Bird, 6 yrs. Nalupua, less than 10 yrs. old, may have been daughter of Margaret Bird with one of her Indian captors, but this is not confirmed by any written account.. Also among this number were Mrs. Mayse, John Byrd, Jr and several others including one of the Kincaid children. A sister, Kathryn, 2 years older, was married to an Indian chief, and never returned.
During his capture, John Byrd, Jr. became so Indianized that it was quite awhile before he could reconcile himself to the ways of his own people. When John Byrd was given up he wore a gold chain suspended to his nose and ears. He made two attempts to return to the Indians, but was prevented. He was a favorite with the red men, and made at least one attempt to go back to them.
John Byrd Jr. (aka Indian John) married Mary Ann Hamilton and they had 7 children. Andrew Hamilton Byrd, whose wife was Elizabeth Capito, was the only son to stay in Bath. He was twice its sheriff. (1849 & 1857). John Byrd died in 1836. He was the grand-father of John T. Byrd, of Bath.
Alexander McClintic (b. 2-16-1787) married Alice Byrd daughter of "Indian John" Byrd, son of John Byrd who was killed by an Indian in 1757. Alice was the sister of Andrew Byrd of Bath County and to Thomas Byrd of Greenbrier County and later of Saline County, Missouri. Alexander McClintic lived on land inherited from his father east of Marlin's Bottom Turnpike near Lewisburg. Before the Civil War, he moved to Missouri and all contact with Greenbrier kinfolk was lost. He probably lived in Saline County, Missouri where Thomas Byrd lived because around the year 1900, Joe, Mary and Sarah McClintic, all old and unmarried, lived in Saline County, Missouri and were children of Alexander McClintic and known by several of the distant and near kin living in Missouri. ~A brief history of Bath County, Virginia By Jean Graham McAllister 1920 “Virginia Magazine of History,” by J. T. McAllister, (July, 1894)
Father: John Thomas Byrd , Pioneer b: 1713 in Somerset County, New Jersey Colony Mother: Mary Margaret Dean b: BEF 1722
Marriage 1Mary Ann Hamiltonb: 1745 in VA, USAChildren John C. Byrdb: 1772 in Bath County, VA William Wallace Byrdb: 1779 in VA, USA Alice Byrdb: BET 1780 AND 1789 in VA, USA Andrew Hamilton Byrd , Col.b: 19 OCT 1790 in Bath County, VA, USA Thomas Byrd b: UNKNOWN in VA, USA
Sources: Title: McClintic Genealogy Publication: sent by William McClintic of Roanoke, Virginia in the early 1990's Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Repository: Note: www.ancestry.com Media: Ancestry.com Page: Volume: 23, Page Number: 477 Text: mil.priv. Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, saliors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):118 Title: Bicentennial History of Bath county, VA Author: Bath County Historical Society Repository: Media: Book Page: 145 Title: Bicentennial History of Bath county, VA Author: Bath County Historical Society
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Mary H Morris's Timeline
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1747
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Bath, VA, United States
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October 1775
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Greenbrier, West Virginia, USA
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Peters Creek, Nicholas, West Virginia, USA
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Nicholas County, WV, United States
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Nicholas, Virginia, United States
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October 10, 1783
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Nicholas, WV, United States
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