During the last eighteen months of the war the Frontier Regiment found that the Indian menace on the frontier was often overshadowed by use of the frontier units to enforce Confederate conscription laws, arrest deserters, and track down renegades and outlaws.
Moses McCan - frontier scout - Indians - PA KY VA IN By Richard L. Pangburn at 11:23:33 Moses McCan was a member of George Owens Company at the Battle of Fort Jefferson.Many of the members of the garrison, tradition says, had Indian wives. After Ft. Jefferson was abandoned, Moses McCan settled north of the Ohio River in what was then Indian territory and became an Indian trader ...
The following year John Lewis' frontier settlement was removed from the jurisdiction of Orange and the new eminence Augusta County was formed. Elizabeth was the daughter of Alexander DUNLAP and his wife Janet Ann McFARLAND (sometimes referred to as "Jenot" or "Jeani").
From the book, "John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier", by John Richard Alden, we find that in 1757, John Watts was a supervisor of parties of Cherokees and Catawabas coming into Virginia, along with Richard Smith and Thomas Rutherford, all of whom were given the titles of "Conductors and Guides".
The John Layton you mention from the book, b 1730 England, is my 5th great grandfather.Where could I find / purchase Maryland Catholics on the Frontier? Thanks, in advance.
His duty, under his brother Enoch primarily consisted of being a scout on the frontier.He went into Cherokee Territory under Col. Christian but says the Indians sued for peace and there was no fighting.They went on to Dragging Canoe Town and burnt the place.He also served on the Clinch frontier under Capt. Frederick Edwards after the Tories."He ...