Isaac Fleetwood (1745 - 1832)

Born 3 Oct 1745 in Loudon, Loudon, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Rider) Fleetwood — married 13 Feb 1790 in Loudoun, Loudon, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1832 at age 87 in Lawrence, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Private Isaac Fleetwood served with 11th Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Isaac Fleetwood is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A208502.

Isaac was born about 1743. Isaac Fleetwood ... He passed away about 1832. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Marie Mills, Oct 23, 2011

• https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A208502
• Find A Grave: Memorial #9006607
• Service Record of Isaac Fleetwood
• Land-Office Military Warrant, No. 2430

To the principal SURVEYOR of the Land, set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the Commonwealth of Virginia. THIS shall be your WARRANT to survey and lay off in one or more surveys, for Isaac Fleetwood his Heirs or Assigns; the Quantity of one hundred Acres of Land, due unto the said Isaac Fleetwood in consideration of his Service for three years as a Seaman of the State Navy, agreeably to a Certificate from the Governor and Council, which is received into the Land-Office •GIVEN under my Hand, and Seal of the said Office, this 9th Day of February in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and 84

State of Kentucky Floyd County (…)

At a court held for Floyd County at the courthouse in Prestonburg on Monday the 27th day of January 1823, Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary Soldier produced in open court a schedule of his property which is in the following words and figures to wit. State of Kentucky Floyd County (…)

January term 1823 this day personally appeared in open court this being made a court of record by the laws of this state being solemnly adjudged to be such by the other tribunal of this state with power to fine and imprison always keeping a record of its proceedings Isaac Fleetwood aged about 78 years a resident citizen of the county aforesaid and in pursuance of an act of Congress approved the 18th day of March 1818 providing for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and also in pursuance to an act of Congress approved the 1st of May 1820 entitled an act in addition to an act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 upon his oath doath solemnly declare that he enlisted in the service of the … in the Army of the Revolutionary War against the common enemy in the year 1776 for the term of three years or induring the war and that he was enlisted in Loudoun County in the state of Virginia in the 11th Virginia line in a company commanded by Captain William Smith in a Regiment commanded at that time by Col. Morgan and afterward by Col. Fabaker in Virginia line and continental establishment that he continued to serve in the Army of the Revolutionary War in the Service of the United States four years at the end of which time he was honorably discharged which was the 1780 at the Valley Forge which discharge he has lost or mislaid and that he was in the following battles to wit: The battle at Germantown , The battle at Monmouth. That he has no other evidence of his service except the deposition of John Smith an old Revolutionary solider and the other depositions herein filed and transmitted too he made his original declaration and application for a pension on the 16th day of June 1818 but he has not yet received his pension certificate which declaration is refered to marked A which is herewith transmitted and he also doth declare on oath that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner whatever disposed of his property or any part thereof with an intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself in the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscriber Viz, one little mare worth $25, two little heifers worth seven dollars each $14, eleven head of hogs worth $20 one pot worth $1.50 cts, one oven worth 300 cts, two axes worth one dollar each $2, three old hoes worth $1, and that he has no other property either real or personal his occupation is that of farmer but he is too old and infirm to pursue it his family consists in a wife aged about forty five years and ... three small children which is unable to contribute anything for his support and it is from his reduced circumstances in life and inabilities to labour that he claims the assistance of his country