Colonel Return Meigs served with 2nd Connecticut Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Return Meigs is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor. NSSAR Ancestor #: P247661 Rank: Colonel, 6th Connecticut INF under Gen Wayne, Major 2nd Connecticut under LCol Sherburne's Additional Continental Regiment , POW at Battle of Quebec
Return Meigs is Notable.
Col Meigs served during the Revolution. He was one of the founding members of The Ohio Land Company which began the first settlements of the Northwest Territory in what is now Ohio. He was later an Indian agent for the Cherokee people in Tennessee. His son, Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. was the 4th governor of Ohio. No source has been presented to support the statement that he died in GA or elsewhere than the neighborhood of burial.
Birth
Born on 17 Dec 1740 at Middletown, Connecticut,[1]
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Return by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Meigs-150 and Meigs-36 appear to represent the same person because: Meigs-36 and Meigs-150 are both born on the same day in the same location and married to what appears to be the same person. These appear to be the same person, please take a moment and cofirm and merge is appropriate.