PRIVATE JACOB TROUB, HENRY COUNTY, VA, MILITIA FOUGHT AND DIED 1781, BATTLE OF YORKTOWN RECENTLY I WAS ASKED TO HELP WITH THE PINCKARD FAMILY HISTORY AND DISCOVERED THIS LINE. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY BRETT MATTHEW SWEENEY, A DESCENDANT OF JACOB TROUP AND A MEMBER OF THE FAIRFAX RESOLVES CHAPTER SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. THE LINE OF DESCENT FROM JACOB TROUB TO THE PINCKARD FAMILY FOLLOWS THE ARTICLE. Jacob Troup By: Brett Matthew Sweeney Jacob Troup was a member of the Henry County Militia who fought and died at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. Jacob and his wife Mary are believed to have been among the many 18th Century ethnic German newcomers to Virginia, having migrated from Pennsylvania. While his exact date and place of birth and marriage are unknown, there is evidence that he may have been born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the records of the First Reformed Church of Philadelphia, 1748-1831, show a child named Jacob Trop born on 26 June 1749 to Valentine Trop and Catherine Deling and baptized on 2 Jul 1749. The birth of Jacob and Mary’s son, Henry, in Maryland indicates Jacob and Mary were probably married prior to 1769 and lived in Maryland prior to establishing residence in Henry County, Virginia. It is likely other Troup family members preceded Jacob and Mary to Virginia for the surname of Troop is cited in early tax and voting records of Halifax County. Little is known of their life in Virginia prior to Jacob‘s Revolutionary War service. Tax records of Henry, later Franklin County, indicate that Jacob and Mary owned about four hundred acres on the Pigg River. It is recorded that Jacob and Mary had three children. Franklin County marriage records show the following: Henry, born about 1770 in Maryland, married Dorothy Wade on 8 Jan 1794; Sarah, born about 15 Jul 1776, married Turpen Rentfro on 7 Apr 1792 and later on 5 Mar 1812 married Enos Miles, widower of Anna Buchanan and Mary, birth date unknown, married Peter Mikesel on 14 Aug 1797. According to the official American Revolutionary Government Records, filed in the Library of Virginia Archives in Richmond, Virginia, Jacob Troup was a private in Captain Owen Ruble‘s Henry County, Virginia, Militia Company. At the Battle of Yorktown, Governor Thomas Nelson was on the field and commanded the Virginia Militia’s three brigade force. Jacob Troup served in and died at the Battle of Yorktown in Oct 1781 as a member of Captain Ruble‘s Henry County Militia Company assigned to Colonel Skipwith‘s Regiment in Brigadier General Robert Lawson‘s Virginia Militia Brigade. In July 1787, February 1788, and August 1788, Jacob Troup‘s family, consisting of his wife, Mary, and three children,………..’’ were cited by the Franklin County Court. Mary Troup was described as being in indigent circumstances having three small children. The court clerk was directed to appeal to the Governor for a pension for them. However, no pension, land warrant, or other support from the U.S. or Virginia State Governments was granted. A record of the Inventory and appraisal of Jacob Troup‘s estate shows there were liabilities in terms of a first colt from a gray mare owed to a neighbor and former Virginia Militia Patriot, John Huff, and assets such as 112.10 pounds in paper currency were owed to Mary by Margaret Turpin. Mary stipulated to the court that she had not sold Jacob‘s land and inherited estate. She kept the property and maintained herself and her children from the profits. In 1799, Mary Troup and John Huff jointly sold 117 acres of Mary‘s land on Pigg River for 50 pounds to Peter Saunders. It seems probable that John Huff had a lien on the land. By 1803, it appears that Mary Troup had died because she no longer appears on the tax rolls of Franklin County and her son, Henry, is recorded as Head of Household. Henry Troup and Dorothy or Dolly Wade had at least eight children, six daughters and two sons. It is through Henry and Dorothy Wade‘s daughter, Mary Troup, that Brett Matthew Sweeney is descended. Mary Troup married Jordan N. Peters and their daughter, Cynthia, married Moses W. Cox, the grandson of James Cox, also a Henry County American Revolutionary War veteran. Brett Sweeney‘s great-great-grandmother was Elizabeth Cox, a grand-daughter of Moses and Cynthia. SOURCE: fairfaxresolvessar.org/content/ffx_about_newsletter/The%20Defender%20(Fall%202009).pdf “The War Comes to Virginia: 1781” Speaker: Andrew Gutowski Date: September 10, 2009 Summary: Except for some parting shots by Lord Dunmore as he fled his post as royal governor in 1776, Virginia had largely been spared the ravages of war until 1781. From 1776 to 1779, the campaigns had mainly been in the northern colonies, especially in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. But in late 1779 the British struck at the southern colonies, landing at Savannah and proceeding steadily northward toward Virginia. General Nathanael Greene conducted a masterful defensive campaign that wore out the columns of Lord Cornwallis. But now the British focused on Virginia - sending first the traitor Benedict Arnold to ravage and devastate the James River area. And Lord Cornwallis was fast approaching. Only Washingtons brilliant French general, the Marquis de Lafayette, stood his ground to meet the British onslaught. Video Download: War Comes to Virginia - 1781.wmv (126MB) Presentation Slides: War Comes to Virginia - 1781.pdf (2.5MB) SOURCE: NSDAR PRIVATE JACOB TROUP: NSDAR Ancestor #: A116172 Service: VIRGINIA Birth: c1750 Death: ANTE 19 Oct 1781 YORKTOWN YORK CO VIRGINIA Service Source: LIB OF VA, AUD ACCT VOL XV, P 196; WINGFIELD, AN OLD VIRGINIA COURT, PP 76, 106, 142 Service Description: 1) HENRY COUNTY MILITIA, CAPT OWEN RUBLE; COL SKIPWITH LINE OF DESCENT: JACOB TROUP (1749-1781) & MARY UNKNOWN (?–LIVING 1802) HENRY TROUP (1776-?) & DOROTHEA “DOLLIE” WADE CHANCELLOR WADE (1812–1896) & JANE TROUP (1814–1876) WM T. FERGUSON (c1845–1894) & SOPHIA J. WADE (1843–1894) JOHN P. PINCKARD (1861–1890) & DELIA ANN FERGUSON (1871 - ?) TO READ MORE ON THIS BATTLE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown
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