Mounce Bird, Sr.

Mounce Bird

• Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SOLDIER
• Birth: CIRCA 1729 VIRGINIA
• Death: ANTE 5-22-1793 CRANEY ISLAND PLT SHENENDOAH CO VIRGINIA
• Service Source: BRUMBAUGH, REV WAR RECS, VA, PP 591, 607; ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 3, P 842
• Service Description: 1) CAPT JACOB HOLEMAN, COL ABRAHAM BIRD, DUNMORE CO MILITIA 2) FURNISHED SUPPLIES
• DAR Ancestor # A010338,
• Wife: Clara Ruddell

Children listed at DAR:

• Abraham Bird m Mary Jones
• Ingibo Bird m Isaac Gore
• John Bird m Elinor

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Section IV

The collection belongs to Bernard Samuels, M. D., New York City, a descendant of Mounce Bird, who was a soldier in Capt. Jacob Holeman's company, and a brother of Col. Abraham Bird. Dr. Samuels has given permission for the publication of these muster rolls and census lists, the originals of which, with the rest of the documents, he recently presented to the Virginia Historical Society under the name of "The Bird-Samuels Papers," as a memorial to his grandfather, Justice Green Berry Samuels, of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and Judge Mark Bird, who were partners in the practice of law.

For his service in the Revolutionary War, Mounce was granted at least two tracts of land in what is now Kentucky, jointly with Isaac Ruddle.

The Master Index of Virginia Surveys and Grants 1774-1791 18 shows 1,000 acres on the North Fork of Elkhorn Creek and 2000 acres on the South Fork of the Licking, both in what was then Fayette County Kentucky. This 2000 acres is in what is now Bourbon and Harrison Counties, Kentucky, and the 1000 acre tract is in the present Fayette County, Kentucky. In 1786, as recorded in Shehandoah County Deed Book E, pages 435-6, Mounce sends his son Abraham to Kentucky to claim this land:

On 26 Feb 1786, Mounce Bird of Shenandoah Co., VA, gave power of attorney to his beloved son Abraham Bird: having procured 3000 acres of land in KY. in different tracts, l,750 acres lying on the waters of the Licking River, part of a tract of 2,000 acres of which Isaac Ruddell is to have 250 acres. Also l,250 acres being the one half of a tract surveyed by Green Clay, and being desirous that it be devided between my three sons, Abraham, John and William Bird.

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia extracted from the original court records of Augusta County 1775-1800 Circuit Court Records Section "I" Judgments page 202

Hawkins vs. Byrd--O. S. 267; N. S. 94--Bill, 1813--Complainants are, viz: Benjamin Hawkins and Madeline, formerly Madeline Byrd, daughter of Mountz Byrd, who died, intestate, leaving widow Clara and 8 children, viz: Abraham, William, Mountz, John Byrd, Ingabough (married to Isaac Gore), Sarah (married to John Moore), Mary (married to Cornelius Newman), and oratrix. Mountz, Sr., owned land in Shenandoah. Complainants live at Virgini

The names of Mounce’s children are well documented in at least two legal documents, along with the names of their spouses:

Shenandoah County, Va. Deed Book I page 183 22 May 1793

Indenture in which Abraham Bird and Mary, his wife; John Bird and Elinor, his wife; John Moore and Sarah, his wife; Isaac Goare and Ingobo his wife; Cornelius Newman and Mary, his wife, John Taylor and Magdalene his wife; of one part — all being heirs of Mounce Bird, deceased, late of County of Shenandoah, Virginia, to William Bird and Mounce Bird, Sons of Mounce Bird, deceased, of said County of Shenandoah of the other part for L1000, two tracts of land in County of Shenandoah on Smith’s Creek containing 360 acres, the other tract of 250 acres on east side of Smith’s Creek, etc.

Page 187 22 June 1793

Acknowledgments of the above deed were signed by Abraham Bird and Mary, his wife, of The State of Kentucky, John and Sarah Moore of Rockingham County, Virginia; Isaac Goare and Ingobo, his wife, of Shenandoah County.

A History of Shenandoah County Virginia by John W. Wayland, Ph.D., p. 691

Mounce Bird resided on Smith's Creek in Shenandoah County; he was a son of Andrew and Magdelene Jones Bird, was born about 1735. He married Clara Ruddell, daughter of John Ruddell. He was a large land owner on Smith's Creek, Shenandoah Co., VA. Mounce Byrd of Shenandoah, William Byrd, Andrew Byrd of Rockingham, Anthony Reader of Rockingham and George Rader of Rockingham signed a petition for the formation of a new county out of Rockingham and Shenandoah

Shenandoah County, Va. Deed Book I, page 183, "22 May 1793 Indenture in which Abraham Bird and Mary, his wife; John Bird and Elinor, his wife; John Moore and Sarah, his wife; Isaac Goare and Ingobo his wife; Cornelius Newman and Mary, his wife, John Taylor and Magdalene his wife; of one part — all being heirs of Mounce Bird, deceased, late of County of Shenandoah, Virginia, to William Bird and Mounce Bird, Sons of Mounce Bird, deceased, of said County of Shenandoah of the other part for L1000, two tracts of land in County of Shenandoah on Smith’s Creek containing 360 acres, the other tract of 250 acres on east side of Smith’s Creek, etc.Page 187 acknowledgments of the above deed were signed by Abraham Bird and Mary, his wife, of The State of Kentucky, John and Sarah Moore of Rockingham County, Virginia; Isaac Goare and Ingobo, his wife, of Shenandoah County — dated 22 June 1793.

November 26, 1808, William T. Redmon paid $800 to John Byrd and wife Elinor Byrd and son John M. Byrd for 109 3/4 acres of land on Flat Run. The tract was adjoining to land owned by John Shaw, Jese Claypole, William Byrd and Lewis Ashby and beginning at the comer of a survey of Benjamin Forsythe

Bourbon County Deed Book F, pp. 476-78

John Ardery deposeth, at tavern of Henry Timberlake in Paris, that when he came to Kentucky in year 1785 and Abraham Byrd was settled on land of Mounce Byrd who by reputation was his father, on waters of Hinkson, now in dispute.

John Byrd, brother of Abraham, succeeded Abraham in possession of another part of said tract, and one Martin Rodney immediately succeeded in possession of another part of said tract. John Byrd and John Shaw now live on the land Rodney improved, that Byrd purchased land where he now lives in claim of Mounce Byrd, and succeeded Rodney and continued in possession.

John Byrd settled in said claim under Mounce Byrd where William Redmon now lives about two years after Abraham Byrd settled and William Redmon or those who claim under him followed John Byrd in possession and continued since.

Abraham and John Byrd were settled under their father, and John Byrd put Alexander Rader in possession of place where George Hughes lives, and said Hughes succeeded said Rader and has continued since--all under said Mounce Byrds patent', that the place on which Jesse Claypool lives was settled by Jonathan Huling about two or three years after Rodney settled at other place aforesaid, under John Byrd, and enclosed ground and raised corn and Claypole succeeded him in possession and has since.

Further states the place Isaac Cook lives on was settled when deponent came to Ky. in 1785, by John Cook, who tended corn and enclosed ground and continued there until his death, under Isaac Ruddell's preemption, and at his dea th said John Cook, and Isaac Cook succeeded him, that John Cook, son of J

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