Joseph Lindsay (abt. 1750 - 1782)

Born about 1750 in Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Kennedy) McGinty — married 18 Jun 1781 (to 19 Aug 1782) in Harrodsburg, Lincoln County, Kentucky

Died 29 Aug 1782 at about age 32 in Blue Licks, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Joseph Lindsay was a Virginia colonist.

Joseph was born in 1750. He passed away in 1782.

Col. Joseph Lindsay served with Kentucky County Militia, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

Military: He fell in the battle as a commissary soldier at the Battle of Blue Lick. Inscription: "So valiantly did our small party fight, to the memory of those who unfortunately fell in the Battle, enough of Honour cannot be paid." Daniel Boone

Killed at the battle of Blue Licks , Robertson County, Kentucky, USA

Sources

1. ↑ MRS. MARTHA T. NUCKOLS Register of Kentucky State Historical Society Vol. 12, No. 35 (MAY, 1914), pp. 61-64 Published by: Kentucky Historical Society

See also:

Monument dedicated August 19, 1928

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75050696
• "A chapter of Hopkins genealogy. 1735-1905"
• HISTORY OF COL. JOSEPH LINDSAY
• Find A Grave: Memorial #75050696

• Adams, Michael C. C. "An Appraisal of the Blue Licks Battle," Filson Club History Quarterly (2001) 75#2 pp 181–203.
• Cotterill, R. S. (October 1927). "Battle of Upper Blue Licks". Filson Club History Quarterly. 2 (1). Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
• Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. New York: Holt, 1992. ISBN 0-8050-1603-1.
• Hammon, Neal O. Daniel Boone and the Defeat at Blue Licks. Minneapolis: The Boone Society, 2005. (Local history, no ISBN)
• Lofaro, Michael A. Daniel Boone: An American Life. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ISBN 0-8131-2278-3.
• Nelson, Larry L. A Man of Distinction among Them: Alexander McKee and the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754–1799. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87338-620-5 (hardcover).
• Rice, Otis K. Frontier Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975. ISBN 0-8131-0212-X.
• Sugden, John. Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8032-4288-3.

• Northern Kentucky and Battle of Blue Licks, KY

• Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society-Vol. 12, No. 35, (May, 1914), pp. 61-64 on "Colonel Joseph Lindsay" by Martha T. Nuckols. It has within its four pages is a section called, History of Col. Joseph Lindsay. URL: https//www.jstor.org/stable/23368586