the mouth of Little Cabell Creek. 

Among others to settle in the neighborhood at an early date were Thomas 

Maupin, Adam Black, Russell Leroy, and James Newman, Sampson and John 

Handley, Landon Carter, Asher Crockett, Larose Merritt, William Miller, 

John Holroyd, Sr., Benjamin Davis, John Thomas, and Henry Dundas, Andrew 

Sheff, James Turley, William Greenwood, James Carroll, Robert Poar, James 

Cyrus, William Blackwood, Jacob Baumgardner, and Jacob Harshbarger, Sr. 

Of the early settlers, John Morris, James Turley, John Everett, Charles 

Love, Asher Crockett, Allen Rece, Joseph Hilliard, and Larose Merritt were 

soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Among the war records, and especially 

in the Pension Department at Washington, there is much of interest to the 

older residents of this section. Copying from these records a few sketches 

are herein given. 

"John Everett, born February 28, l753, died February 17, 1845; enlisted 

September 28, 1775 to September 28, 1776 as private under Captain Wm. 

Campbell, Colonel Patrick Henry, first Virginia regiment; enlisted May 15, 

1779 for two years service; guarded prisoners at Albemarle Barracks and 

was discharged at Winchester under Captain John Allen, Colonel Francis 

Taylor; first enlisted from Bedford County, Virginia." 

"James Turley, born in Pennsylvania, 1754; enlisted from Bedford County, 

Virginia, length of service two years, rank private, Captain John Chapman, 

Colonel Joseph Crockett, Virginia State Line". 

"Allen Rece, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, October 7, 1759; enlisted 

early in the war for three months service as a wagoner under Captain 

Groves, Colonel Proctor, State of Pennsylvania; enlisted in 1777 for one 

month service as private under Captain Singer, Colonel lrwin, State of 

Pennsylvania; enlisted in 1779 for seven months as a wagoner under Captain 

Ferguson, Colonel Hooper, State of Pennsylvania; enlisted in 1780 for 

three weeks as private under Captain Thomas, Colonel Robinson, State of 

Pennsylvania; enlisted in 1781 or 1782 for one month as private under 

Captain Thomas, Colonel Robinson, State of Pennsylvania". He died November 

29, 1837. 

"Larose Merritt, born October 19, 1749; died July 30, 1831; enlisted at 

Winchester, Virginia, in 1777, served till 1780 under Captains John 

McGuire and Thomas Bell, Colonel William Grayson; served at Brandywine, 

Germantown, and Monmouth; received a wound in the foot during service, 

which rendered him a permanent cripple". 

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