"American War Of Independence Relative" Topic

I've been digging around in the family tree and found that my 5th Great Grandfather James Garrison was veteran of the AWI. He fought in the Battle of Cross Creek, Utah Springs and Battle of Fort 96.

It really brings history home when you can see it's part of your own family history.

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Mine were still mostly in Canada, Sweden, and Ireland then. But good for you.

Eric

Captain William McBride of the Augusta County Va militia was killed at Blue Licks in Kentucky (then part of Va) in 1782.

The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Cornwallis's famous surrender at Yorktown, which had effectively ended the war in the east. On a hill next to the Licking River in what is now Robertson County, Kentucky (but was then in Kentucky County, Virginia), a force of about 50 American and Canadian Loyalists along with 300 American Indians ambushed and routed 182 Kentucky militiamen. It was the worst defeat for the Kentuckians during the frontier war.

Interesting, Doc. And you still share the same last name! I had to go through about 3 different surnames before finding James Garrison.

I guess Battle of Cross Creek is also called Moore's Creek:

"During the American Revolution, Cross Creek was a hotbed of wartime activity and home of divided loyalties. Highland Scots assembled there in 1776 and marched to Moore's Creek Bridge, only to be defeated by the Patriots. In 1778, the county court issued orders for about four hundred citizens suspected of being Loyalists across Cumberland County, many of them Highland Scots, to take an oath of allegiance to the Provincial government. In 1788, when Charles Lord Cornwallis marched from South Carolina toward Guilford Courthouse, he and his troops passed through Cross Creek, where a battle ensued between Patriots and Loyalists. Fighting reoccurred when Cornwallis passed through again, this time following a retreat from Guilford Courthouse on April 7, 1781. On August 14, 1781, David Fanning raided Cross Creek with his band of Tories and captured several Patriots. "

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Ambushed on the way to Guilford Courthouse no doubt.

That family link of yours is special. I hope to find mine one day.

I do have a relative who fought and was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh (ACW) but an AWI link would mean so much to me.

Good on you.

Blues 4

My paternal grandmother had (and showed me, long ago) a family history of the Bokey family, published around 1900. She was in it, near the end, as the latest generation. I was excited to earn that "Bokey" was the Americanized version of Bouquet and sure enough, I'm descended from Colonel Henry Bouquet of Bushy Run.

I expect there were folks in the book who were active in the American Revolution, and quite possibly on both sides!

Ancestry.com has a subsidiary called Fold3 that has military records going back to at least the War of 1812. I was able to find an ancestor's pension record for his involvement in one of the Pennsylvania regiments during the American Revolution, so it is worth a look

Utah Springs = Eutaw Springs perhaps? I had to to think about that for a few seconds before I made the connection.

Through marriage: my wife is descended from Major McJunkin.
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Bouquet was never married nor had any children, so you could be an offshoot of the family, but no direct link to him:

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Bouquet was never married nor had any children

Awkward moment.

It was Eutaw Springs, in my search I saw it spelled three different ways. Weird.
I did find that James Garrison's son Samuel Garrison served in the War of 1812.

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Probably not a direct descent from Col Bouquet -- but he's in the same book of the Bokey family along with my grandmother.

Not sure how important direct descent is unless you are inheriting land or a title. My direct g g g grandfather served in a Confederate cavalry unit until dying of disease; never saw action. My g g g granduncle JJ McBride was a captain and brevet major in the 5th Texas, twice wounded (2nd Manassas and Wilderness). I suppose I'm equally proud of both -- and of JJ's body servant Levi Miller who went through the war with him -- but JJ and Levi are certainly a lot more INTERESTING.

I have a great great etc grandfather(Adam Frederick Epting) who may have died during or succumbed to wounds after the Revolution. If I remember correctly he has an 1780 and 1783 date of death. I seem to recall(at work so I don't have any of my info)he served under Sumner or Roebuck in the South Carolina militia.

My direct great….. great granddaddy, Valentinius Bunger, was a member of the Reformed German Church in Culpepper, VA. His contribution was to sign a petition, with the rest of the congregation, protesting the levy of any taxes levied to fight the war against the King!!

My ancestor Arthur Eason was a drummer in the 64th Regiment of Foot in the Philadelphia Campaign and was also a drummer in the British Legion Infantry, Captain Edwards Company and was captured at the Battle of the Cowpens.