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David Lindsey of Berkeley Co., Virginia ca. the
Revolutionary War
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The purpose of this research is to identify the
man named David Lindsey who lived in Berkeley Co., VA during the Revolutionary
War. David Lindsey was a soldier in the 4th VA regiment. Muster rolls from
this regiment show that David enlisted on December 15, 1776 in Capt. Isaac
Beall's company (raised in Berkeley Co.) and that he signed up for the duration
of the war.1 Capt. Beall was later promoted
to Major, and Capt. John Stith took over Beall's former company in August of
1777.2 It is known that Capt. John
Stith's company was at the Siege of Charleston in 1780, and that many of the men
in the company were taken prisoner, including Capt. Stith.3
David Lindsey may have been one of the men taken prisoner.
David Lindsey had a wife named Catherine.4
The names of his children are not known. It is possible that David Lindsey was
the father of Stephen Lindsey (b. abt. 1775), who lived in Berkeley Co., VA as a
child. Many years after the Revolutionary War, Stephen Lindsey lived in
Fulton Co., IL, where he deposed in 1843 that he had lived in Berkeley Co. as a
youth, and that he had lived with his maternal aunt and uncle Ruth Beasley
Dollar and William Dollar for a time in Berkeley Co. when he was young.5
Perhaps Stephen had gone to live with his aunt and uncle because his father had
been taken prisoner.
David Lindsey survived the war. He received
a bounty land warrant for 100 acres of land for his service, which he assigned
to someone else.6 At this time, it is
not known what became of David Lindsey after the Revolutionary War.
References:
1. David appeared on Capt. Isaac
Beall's, then Capt. John Stith's muster rolls continuously from August 1777 to
November 1779. No muster rolls are available for Stith's company after November,
1779. Because David Lindsey enlisted for the duration of the war, it can
be assumed that he remained in Stith's company until the end of the war:
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A listing of David Lindsey's
appearance on muster rolls |
An image from a muster roll
taken in August, 1777 |
Isaac Beall raised a company in Berkeley Co., Virginia.
A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution,
1774-1787, compiled by E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra. Richmond: Virginia State Library,
1978.
Pg. 43:
2. Henry Aldred was also a private in the
same company with David Lindsey. He enlisted in 1776 in Winchester in
Capt. Isaac Beall's Company. Aldred said in his
pension application that Capt. Beall was promoted and John Stith then took
command of the company.
Page 4 of pension application:
Pg. 5:
3.
Henry Aldred said the company was marched to South Carolina in
1779, and that they were all taken prisoner on May 12, 1780.
From page 3 of his
pension application:
Captain Stith's company arrived in Charleston on
April 8, 1780.
From
Nothing But Blood and Slaughter, The
War in the Carolinas, Volume Two, 1780, by Patrick O'Kelley. Published
by booklocker.com, 2005, page 48:
http://www.booklocker.com/pdf/1707s.pdf
John Stith's military record states that he was captured at Charleston on May
12, 1780.
Gwathmey, John H. Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution. 1938.
Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,1973. Page 743:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/1789/1789_743.html
Stith, John, 1st Lieut. 4 CL Mch. 19,
1776; Captain Mch. 12, 1777; taken
prisoner at Charleston May 12, 1780;
trans. to 2 CL Feb. 12, 1781; Brever
Major Sept. 30, 1783; awarded 4,666
acres.
John Stith was reported a prisoner at Charleston in 1781. The information
below is from the Orderly Book of Captain Robert Gamble of the Second Virginia
Regiment.
http://www.newrivernotes.com/va/gamble1.htm
SECOND REGIMENT.
Colonel Christian Febiger, Command at Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Colonel Gus. B. Wallace, Prisoner Charlestown.
Major Smith Sneed, on furlough.
Captains Robert Higgins, just exchanged-absent.
John Stith, Prisoner Charlestown.
Alexander Parker, Prisoner Charlestown.
Benjamin Taliaferro, Prisoner Charlestown.
John Stokes, Prisoner on parole.
Isaiah Marks, Prisoner on parole.
Cohn Cocke, Prisoner Charlestown.
Robert Porterfield, Prisoner Charlestown
Francis Cowherd, Prisoner Charlestown.
4. David Lindsey's wife,
Catherine, received government assistance in 1779, as ordered by the Berkeley
Co., VA court.
"The Soldiers of Berkeley County., W. Va." William and Mary College
Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1. (Jul., 1904), Pg. 34:
Stable URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28190407%291%3A13%3A1%3C29%3ASOBCWV%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
The same day relief was
given to other wives of soldiers, including Catherine Lindsey, wife of David
Lindsey. The soldier's wives were given varying amounts of money. The
amount was probably dependent upon the number of children each woman had to
support.
From page 35:
5. In 1843
Stephen Lindsey deposed that he had lived in Berkeley Co., VA as a young child,
and that he had lived with his Uncle William Dollar and his wife, Ruth Beasley
Dollar, for a time while he was growing up.
From page 12 of
William Dollar's pension file:
This is an image of page 12.
6. David Lindsey received a
bounty warrant for land for his military service. He assigned his
certificate to Jacob Regar.
Jacob Regar, to whom David Lindsey assigned his
bounty warrant, was a resident of Berkeley Co., SC in 1783. That year he
was appointed guardian of Henry Regar, an orphan of Burkett Regar. Source:
"Berkeley County, West Virginia Guardians' Bonds 1776-1796." The
Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan. 1960. Edited by John
Frederick Dorman. Page 4.
Henry Bedinger, who witnessed the assignment of David Lindsey's bounty warrant
signature, lived in Berkeley Co., Virginia, where he was a captain in the 4th
Virginia Regiment:
History of Berkeley Co. West Virginia,
by Willis F. Evans, Copyright by Willis F. Evans, 1928.
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookView&ti=0&dbid=30039&iid=dvm_LocHist013660-00113-0&rc=763,3278,983,3320;980,3279,1281,3321&fn=henry&ln=bedinger&st=d&ssrc=&pid=222
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This page was updated on 2-05-2012
Susan Grabek
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