Jobe Hale (abt. 1764 - 1792)

Born about 1764 in Randolph, North Carolina

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Died 6 Nov 1792 at about age 28 in Northwest Territory, United States

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Biography

On November 6, 1792, Lieutenant Job Hale died on active duty in the Northwest Territory (became the state of Ohio, in 1803) ^[1]

From Historical Collections of Ohio: In Three Volumes ; an Encyclopedia of the State ... : with Notes of a Tour Over it in 1886 ... Contrasting the Ohio of 1846 with 1886-90, by Henry Howe, published by Henry Howe & Son, 1891, Volume 3, pages 120 and 121

"On the 6th of November, 1792, a severe battle was fought almost under cover of the guns of Fort St. Clair, between a corps of riflemen and a body of Indians. Judge Joel COLLINS, of Oxford, who was in the action, gives the following facts respecting it in a letter to James McBRIDE, dated June 20, 1843:"

"Indians Led by Little Turtle.—The parties engaged were a band of 250 Mingo and Wyandot warriors, under the command of the celebrated chief LITTLE TURTLE, and an escort of 100 mounted riflemen of the Kentucky militia, commanded by Capt. John Adair, subsequently governor of Kentucky...." *“Close Fighting.—As soon as the day-dawn afforded light sufficient to distinguish a white man from an Indian, there ensued some pretty sharp fighting, so close in some instances as to bring in use the war-club and tomahawk. Here Lieut. Hale was killed and Lieut. Madison wounded.

• “Melancholy Duty.—By sunset on the day of the action we had some kind of rough coffins prepared for the slain. For the satisfaction of surviving friends I will name them, and state that in one grave, some fifty paces west of the site of Fort St. Clair; are the remains of Lieut. Job HALE; next to him...

From my family history, it says Job Hale Hannah Ogle. While his brothers were Patriots and wanted an America free from England's control, Job somehow got turned around, sided with the British Loyalists and became a Tory. But he was captured by the American Militia and they "converted" him to standing with the Patriots. Then he was killed at the Battle of Fort St. Claire, in Ohio, on 6 Nov 1792. - by Jayne Peace Pyle

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F68D-ZY7 : 19 January 2020), Job Hale, 1792

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=8544673&pid=1552

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Hale-876 created through the import of altic Family Tree.ged on Aug 3, 2011 by Todd Altic