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  • Samuel Sprinkle, Sr. (1802 - 1870)
    Pioneer record and reminences of early settlers and settlement of Fayette County Ohio By RUFUS PUTNAM, OF CHILLICOTHE, O. C IJVCIJVJVji TI: Applegate.Pounsford & Co. Print, 43 Mam Street, i872.p. 55Sam...

Fayette, Ohio county seat was established in 1810

My Sprinkle/Sprenkle family moved there from Shenandoah, Virginia around this time after the father died. Samuel Sprinkle was a young man when he moved, according to tradition, on a Conestoga wagon with his mother and other siblings. A newspaper article was found by one family member but it is no longer available. I am hoping to find out information about my Great Grandparents by also researching other families (cousin connected families too, like the Parrett family)

Parrett Family Notes for SAMUEL PARRETT: Enlisted in Rockingham County, Virginia, January 01, 1781, and was a pensioner in 1840 in Perry County, Ohio. He moved his family to this County with the exception of one son, Phillip, and spent the remainder of his years there. Phillip settled in Rockingham County, Virginia, near Cherry Grove and Coots store, about twelve or fourteen miles west of Harrisonburg. He (Phillip) served one year in the War-of-1812.

viii. JOSEPH PARRETT, b. 1760, Tom's Brook Farm, Frederick County, Virginia; d. August 28, 1847, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio; m. (1) SARAH MAY WENDEL, Bef. 1780, Tom's Brook Farm, Frederick County, Virginia; m. (2) SARAH MORRIS, July 24, 1825, Fayette County, Ohio; m. (3) ANNA HARTMAN, September 07, 1837, Clinton County, Ohio.

Notes for JOSEPH PARRETT: Joseph was a Revolutionary War soldier. 1775 enlisted as a private in Captain Jonathon Clark's Company, Colonel Peter Muhlenburg's 8th Virginia regiment, and served until December 24, 1777, when he was made Lieutenant in And purchasing commissary of provisions and clothing for the Army at Valley Forge. He was in the battles of Brandywine, and Germantown and at the taking of Cornwallis and was discharged November 1781, at Woodstock, Virginia. He served 5 years and 10 months in Army service. He was allowed a pension and 200 acres of land. He married Sarah Wendel and had 7 children. He moved to Ohio in 1812 (some say 1814) and settled in Fayette County, Ohio. Joseph was buried just outside the old walls of the Quaker cemetery in the Old Morris Woods, near Wilmington, Ohio. As the procession wound down the street the song was sung: "The boys Hallooing down the street,

Captain Parrot's funeral coming. With Barclay Harlan in the lead

And Vandeburg adrumming." The old cemetery and woods have been merged into the town, and the grave site was located in an alley, but a marker to Captain Parrett has been placed on the Soldier's lot in Sugar Grove cemetery, near Washington Courthouse, Fayette County, Ohio.

Source: "Parrett Family History", by Jessee Thomas Mains, 1923.

Notes for SARAH MAY WENDEL: Was also known as Anna Mary Windle or Mary Windle.

ix. MARY CATHERINE PARRETT, b. 1761, Frederick/Shenandoah County, Virginia; d. 1816, Jeffersonville, Fayette County, Ohio; m. PHILLIP FENT, SR., January 01, 1785, Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Notes for MARY CATHERINE PARRETT: Buried with her husband Phillip Fent at Higbee Cemetery, Fayette County, Ohio.

x. FREDERICK PARRETTII, b. 1764, Near Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia; d. May 08, 1842, South Salem, Ross County, Ohio; m. ELIZABETH KELLER, March 17, 1785, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Notes for FREDERICK PARRETTII: Joined Army in Revolutionary War, 1781, Seige of Yorktown. Was in war of 1812. Ensign of the Virginia Militia, Commissions signed by Henry Lee and Edmund Randolph. Buried at South Salem Church, near Chillicothe, Ohio.

Army Commission: "Frederick Parrett (Ensign) of 1st Battalion of Thirteenth Regiment of Militia on 14th day of March, 1794. By recommendation of court of the County of Shenandoah. Ensign rank is held from day 22 of July, 1786, witnessed by Governor at Richmond Dec. 5, 1781, Ed. Randolph."

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