These Mountain Surnames Prove Your Family Survived the 1774 Frontier Wars History Never Named
On October 10, 1774, approximately 1,100 Virginia militia men fought a day-long battle against a Shawnee force at the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The battle is called Lord Dunmore's War. The Virginia legislature in 1908 officially designated the Battle of Point Pleasant as the first battle of the American Revolution. Most history textbooks do not mention it at all. The men who fought there were Scots-Irish and German backcountry settlers from the mountain communities of southwestern Virginia and what would become West Virginia. Their names are in the muster rolls. Lewis, the name of the colonel who commanded the expedition. Fleming, the regimental commander shot through the chest who survived to have a Kentucky county named for him. Shelby, the company commander whose son Isaac went from Point Pleasant in 1774 to the first Kentucky governorship in 1792. Arbuckle, a specifically documented company commander in the Greenbrier Valley companies. Clendenin, the family name now embedded in the geography of Charleston, West Virginia. Van Bibber, Dutch origin, one of the clearest examples of Dutch bloodline reaching the Appalachian frontier. And Grills, fewer than 2,000 Americans carry it, specifically documented in the Greenbrier Valley company muster rolls at Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. The muster rolls are at lva.virginia.gov and wvculture.org. The Draper Manuscripts at the Wisconsin Historical Society contain eyewitness accounts collected from survivors. The records are searchable tonight. Lord Dunmore's War, Battle of Point Pleasant 1774, Point Pleasant West Virginia, Appalachian surnames, Virginia militia 1774, Andrew Lewis Virginia militia, William Fleming Point Pleasant, Isaac Shelby Kentucky governor, Cornstalk Shawnee, Kanawha River history, Greenbrier Valley Virginia, Scots-Irish Appalachian ancestry, German Appalachian settlers, Appalachian genealogy, West Virginia history, frontier wars Appalachia, pre-Revolutionary war America, Shawnee history, Draper Manuscripts, hidden American history #LordDunmoresWar #BattleOfPointPleasant #AppalachianSurnames #AppalachianAncestry #VirginiaMilitia1774 #IsaacShelby #AndrewLewis #Cornstalk #ScotsIrish #GermanAppalachian #WestVirginiaHistory #appalachianhistory #AppalachianGenealogy #hiddenhistory #PreRevolutionaryWar #americanhistory #kentucky #virginia
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