William E. Dragoo (abt. 1747 - 1824)

Born about 1747 in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Temperance (Dickerson) Dragoo — married 1768 (to 1822) in Virginia

Husband of Anne Temperance (Dickerson) Dragoo — married 3 Oct 1768 in Virginia

Descendants

Died 1824 at about age 77 in , Monongalia County, Virginia, United States of America

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Biography

Private William Dragoo served with 12th Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

William Dragoo is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A033212.

William was born about 1747 on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, the of known children and sons of Pierre (IV) and Mary Ann Marlett Dragaud/Dragoo.

At some point he migrated south and in 1768, when he was about twenty-one, he married [[Dickerson-

| Temperance Dickerson]] in Augusta (later Monongalia) County, Virginia.

They had known children, sons, daughters:

1. Martha Dragoo
2. Thomas Dragoo
3. John Ephraim Dragoo
4. Peter Dragoo
5. Mary (Dragoo) Goff
6. Benjamin Franklin Dragoo

In 1824, when he was in his later seventies, William died of unknown causes in , Monongalia County,

From Family Central Network

William E. Dragoo - Temperance Dickerson

William E. Dragoo was born at Richmond, Virginia 1747. [No I expect he was born on Staten Island, New York, Wikipedia says "The [Staten Island] borough is coextensive with Richmond County, and until 1975 was the Borough of Richmond[, New York]."^[1]

His parents were Peter Dragoo and Mary Marlett.

He married Temperance Dickerson 1777 at Harrison [County}, Virginia. Temperance Dickerson was born . . . Harrison, Virginia [in] 1756 daughter of Joshua Dickerson and Martha Whetten. (This too is almost certainly incorrect. Wikipedia says, "European-American trappers visited the area that is now Harrison County as early as the 1760s. Some traded with the Native Americans of the area. The Virginia Colony claimed the area as part of its vast Augusta County. Settler Daniel Davisson claimed the land upon which present-day Clarksburg, Harrison County was formed in 1773; it was then defined as part of Monongalia County, Virginia."

They were the parents of 9 children:

1. Martha Dragoo born Abt 1778.
2. Thomas Dragoo born Abt 1780.
3. John Ephraim Dragoo born 17 Dec 1783.
4. William Dragoo born 8 Feb 1789.
5. Beltesh Azzer Dragoo born Abt 1791.
6. Peter Dragoo born 8 Jun 1793.
7. Other three??^[2]

Citations

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island. Accessed by Patricia Prickett Hickin, 31 May 2017.
2. ↑ William E. Dragoo - Temperance Dickerson," FamilyCentral Network. URL: http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=4841:12930&ref2=4841:13018. Accessed 31 May 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Dragoo-19 was created through the import of Powell.ged on Jan 9, 2013 by Shaun Powell.

Sources

• Parson, Vi. The Legendary Indian Billy Dragoo (Rocklin, CA: Carr Twins & Co., 2012). This book pertains mainly to the William Dragoo who was captured by Indians c1786, the nephew of this William Dragoo.