John Lewis ^{12,84,85,86,87}

  General Notes:

John served in the Revolutionary War starting in July, 1776 when he was drafted in Capt. George West's Co. of Minute Men in Loudoun Cty, Va. for 18 Months. In May, 1778 he joined Capt. Mason's Company under Col. Abraham Sheperd at Fort Wheeling for 1 month. He was drafted and served as a drummer for 6 months in Capt. Isaac Pierce's Co. of Wood Rangers under Maj. Henry Taylor. He moved to Washington Co., PA and served for 1 month as a 1st Lt. in Capt. Bates Co. under Col. Campbell at Fort Laurens on the Muskingum River. He was allowed a Pension (file #16448) in Indiana in 1833 amounting to $30.33 per year. At the time of application on 04/10/1833 he stated his age as 84 Years.

He is shown in the 1771 Tax Record for Loudoun Cty, Va. living with Joseph Power and Richard Power. In 1802 John borrowed money from his son-in-law Andrew Guffin to purchase furniture from Richard Power in Bracken Co. KY. John and wife Mary sold 52 1/2 acres to "our son" Thomas Lewis on 02/03/1802, land being located in Mason Co. KY.

He purchased land from Phillip Buckner, 10/23/1792. This was near the boundry with Bracken Co. and by 1794 he was living in Bracken Co., where he lived until 1827. In 1828, John, and his son Stephen D. Lewis, and their families followed John's oldest son Thomas Power Lewis to Rush County, Indiana. The Lewis Family Farm is located on the land where Thomas had his farm. [Note: part of this data is from the manuscript at the Nebraska State Historical Society Library, compiled by Orville E. Lewis, Lincoln, Nebraska.]




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Dunmore's War (or Lord Dunmore's War)was a war from 1773 to 1774 between militiamen led by Lord Dunmore, the British Royal Governor of Virginia, and American Indians of the Ohio Country, primarily Shawnees and Mingos. The conflict resulted from escalating violence between British colonists who were exploring and moving into land south of the Ohio River\emdash modern West Virginia and Kentucky\emdash and American Indians who hunted there. The war ended soon after Virginia's victory in the Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. Indians who attended the peace treaty agreed that the Ohio River would mark the boundary between Indian lands and the British colonies. Those who did not agree with these terms renewed the struggle soon after the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775.Although British officials had acquired the land south of the Ohio River in the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix from the Iroquois, Ohio Indians who actually used the land had not agreed to this treaty and were prepared to defend their hunting ground. Soon after the treaty, Shawnees began to organize an anti-British, anti-Iroquois confederacy to prevent the loss of their lands.[1] British and Iroquois officials worked to diplomatically isolate the Shawnees from other Indian nations, however, and so when Dunmore's War broke out in 1774, Shawnees faced the Virginia militia with few allies.Following the 1768 treaty, British explorers, surveyors, and settlers began pouring into the region. In September 1773, an obscure hunter named Daniel Boone led a group of about 50 emigrants in the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky. On October 9, Boone's oldest son James and a small group of men and boys who had left the main party to retrieve supplies were attacked by a band of Delawares, Shawnees, and Cherokees who had decided, in the words of historian John Mack Faragher, "to send a message of their opposition to settlement…" James Boone and another boy were captured and gruesomely tortured to death. The brutality of the killings sent shockwaves along the frontier, and Boone's party abandoned their expedition. The massacre was one of the first events in Dunmore's War.[2]Early in May 1774, Governor Dunmore received word of the hostilities that commenced at Yellow Creek and other points on the Ohio. In response he mustered forces for the invasion of the Native territories. He split his force into two groups: one would move down the Ohio from Fort Pitt, under the Governor himself, and another body of troops under Colonel Andrew Lewis would travel from Camp Union (now Lewisburg, West Virginia) to meet Dunmore at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River. Under this general plan Governor Dunmore traveled to Fort Pitt and then he proceeded with his forces down the Ohio River, and on September 30 arrived at Fort Fincastle (later Fort Henry) which recently had been built at Wheeling by Dunmore's order. The force under Lewis, eleven hundred strong, proceeded from Camp Union to the headwaters of the Kanawha, and then downriver to the appointed rendezvous at its mouth, which was reached on October 6. Lewis, not finding Lord Dunmore already there, sent messengers up the Ohio to meet him and inform him of the arrival of the column at the mouth of the Kanawha. On October 9 a dispatch was received from Dunmore saying that he (Dunmore) was at the mouth of the Hocking River, and that he would proceed thence directly to the Shawnee towns on the Scioto, instead of coming down the Ohio to the mouth of the Kanawha as originally planned. At the same time Dunmore ordered Lewis to cross the Ohio and march to meet him at the Shawnee towns.On October 10, before Lewis had commenced his movement across the Ohio, he and his 1,100 men were attacked by warriors under Chief Cornstalk. The Battle of Point Pleasant raged nearly all day. Lewis's army suffered about 200 casualties, including Lewis's brother, but the battle resulted in the defeat of the native warriors, who subsequently retreated across the Ohio. Dunmore and Lewis advanced from their respective points into Ohio to within eight miles of the Shawnee town on the Scioto and erected a temporary camp called Camp Charlotte, on Sippo Creek. Here they met Cornstalk to begin peace negotiations. Chief Logan, although he stated he would cease fighting, would not attend any of the formal peace talks. The Shawnee accepted the terms but the Mingo did not; Major William Crawford was therefore sent against one of the Mingo villages, called Seekunk, or Salt Lick Town. His force consisted of two hundred and forty men, with which he destroyed the village.These operations and the submission of the Shawnee and Mingo at Camp Charlotte virtually closed the war. Governor Dunmore immediately set on his return, and proceeded by way of Redstone and the Great Crossings of the Youghiogheny River to Fort Cumberland, then to the Virginia capital. Revised Jan 2007,

Soldiers at the Battle of Point PleasantCaptain Thomas Buford's Companyof Bedford County, VA Volunteers Thomas Buford, Captain Thomas Dooley, Lieutenant Jonathan Cundiff, Ensign Nicholas Mead, Sergeant John Fields, Sergeant Thomas Fliping, Sergeant William Kenedy, Sergeant James Ard, William Bryant, John Bozel, Robert Boyd, James Boyd, Joseph Bunch, William Campbell, John Campbell, John Carter, John Cook, William Cook, Nathaniel Cooper, James Dale, Samuel Davis, William Deal, Gabriel DeHart, Jacob Dooley, Robert Ewing, William Hackworth, Augustine Hackworth, Thomas Hall, Thomas Hamrick, William Hambrick, Robert Hill, Zachariah Kennot, William Keer, Gerrott Kelley, Adam Lin, James McBride, Absalom McClanahan, John McGlahlen, William McColister, John McClanahan, Thomas Owen, William Overstreet, John Reed, John Roberts, James Scarbara, Thomas Stephens, Francis Seed, Abraham Sharp, Uriah Squires, John Welch, Joseph White, John Wood, Mr. Waugh Captain Daniel Smith's Company of Fincastle Militia Daniel Smith, Captain William Bowen, Lieutenant David Ward, Ensign John Kinkeid, Ensign Robert Brown, Christian Bergman, John Courtney, Saml. Dollarhide, Robert Donelson, Robert Griffin, Joseph Horne, Benj. Jones, James Kendrick, David Kingkeid Jr., Burton Litton, Wm. McFarland, Thomas Mullin, William Neale, Joseph Olverson, James Price, Thomas Price, Richard Price, Drury Pricket (Pucket), Arcchelaus Scott, James Scott, James Smith, Samuel Vanhook, Alden Williams, Charles

_____At Elk Garden FortRobert Brown, Sergeant Richard Price, Sergeant John Lewis, Ericus Smith, James Laughlin, William Priest, Robert Breeze, Benjamin Jones, Samuel Priest, Thomas Jones, Thomas Price, Thomas Donelson, Richard Breeze, Thomas Brumly, James Rogers, David Priest, Henry Manadue, James Anderson, John Kingkeid, David Kingkeid, Robert Donelson

Ericus Smith's name appears among others on a monument commemorating the Battle of Point Pleasant, the first battle of the American Revolution. Service in Lord Dunmore's war qualifies descendants of Ericus Smith for DAR and SAR

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence: Rush, Indiana, United States, 1830. ⁸⁷

2. Residence: Bracken, Kentucky, United States, 1820. ⁸⁶

3. Residence: Bracken, Kentucky, 1810. ⁸⁵

4. Residence: Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, 1790. ⁸⁴

John married Mary Powers, daughter of Joseph Pore Powers and Sarah Shores, in 1772 in Louden, Virginia, United States. (Mary Powers was born in 1775 and died in Jun 1832 in Rushville, Rush, Indiana, United States.)