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PLEASE NOTE:  I have posted the following here because I recognize several of the names as Pendleton and what became Grant County in 1820, citizens.  I am sure there are many men listed here who were from surrounding counties.  If you have arrived here by a link, please use your back button to return to the site you entered from.  Bonnie


Roll of Field and Staff, Mountjoy's Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, of the War of 1812, and Notes on Organization and Record of service, raised in pursuance of the address of 31st of July, 1813, of Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, and rendezvoused at Newport, Kentucky, August 31, 1813 - Commanded by Colonel William Mountjoy.

PLEASE NOTE:  I tried to transcribe this as it was written, unfortunately, my copy of the following has some data that was very difficult or impossible to read so there may be errors.  Also, the numbers 3 & 8 look identical is some instances so use your own judgment when determining which is correct.  Bonnie Snow


The following format is used:

Name - Rank - Date & Place of Muster - To what time engaged or Enlisted - Remarks

The following officers mustered in at Newport, Aug. 31, 1813 and were engaged until  November 4, 1813

William Mountjoy.......Colonel         

Conrad Overdewple....Major 

Zachariah Eastin.........Major

David Todd.................Surgeon

James Metcalf...........S. Mate 

John M. Garrad........Paymaster 

Daniel Bourn.............Adjutant

William Dickison......Qr. Master 

Daniel Ayres.............Qr. Master 

John Conn................Qr. Master

Innis Woodward.......Qr. Master 



ROLL OF CAPTAIN JAMES ARMSTRONG'S COMPANY, KENTUCKY MOUNTED VOLUNTEER MILITIA - COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM MOUNTJOY.

Note: The following enlisted at Newport, Aug. 29, 1813 and were engaged or enlisted to Nov. 3, 1813 unless otherwise noted.

Conrad Overturf.......Captain  -  Not accounted for.

Enos Woodward........1st Lieutenant 

James Armstrong......2nd Lieutenant - Promoted to Captain.

Jesse Pigman.............Ensign - Promoted to Ensign.

James Logan.............1st Sergeant 

Peter Mann...............2nd Sergeant

William Oden............3rd Sergeant

Harrod Newland.......4th Sergeant

Henry Oakwood.......1st Corporal

Daniel Hutchinson...2nd Corporal

Amos Shroff.............3rd Corporal

Frederick Dillman....4th Corporal

Privates:

Adams, William  - Not Accounted for.

Alexander, Thomas

Allison, Edward

Allison, Isaac

Ambrose, Mordecai

Biddle, John

Brashears, William

Bruce, Joseph

Chalfant, Amos - Promoted to First Sergeant.

Cobler, Nimrod

Defore, Christopher - Mustered out Sept. 7, 1813.  Furloughed at Springfield Sept. 5...very sick.

Defore, Nicholas - Mustered out Nov. 3, 1813.

Donton, Keely - Not accounted for.

Downard, John

Fegans, John

Fishback, Martin

Gill, Reuben

G_ _ _ge?, Benjamin

Hamilton, Samuel

Hammon, Richard

Hammond, Thomas

Hardstock, Peter

Hiles, Christopher

Hooton, James

Hunt, John, Jr.

Jackson, George

Jackson, James R. - Not accounted for.

Lancaster, Mallory

Lyons, James, Sr.

McDowell, Joseph

McKenney, Jarrard

McMillen, John

Miranda, Thomas

Norris, Archibald

Parker, Marshall

Parker, William

Ramley?, Samuel

Reeves, John

Sadler, John

Sallee, Jacob

Smith, George H.

Stites, William

Thomas, Robert

Thompson, Robert

(? possibly Thompson), Samuel

(? possibly Thompson), James -Not accounted for.

Wells, Robert

Wiley, Eli

Wilson, Matthew

Wirrick ?, George

Woodward, Innis

 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN H. MORRIS' COMPANY, KENTUCKY MOUNTED VOLUNTEER MILITIA COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM MOUNTJOY.

Note: The following enlisted at Newport, Aug. 29, 1813 and were engaged or enlisted to Nov. 3, 1813 unless otherwise noted.

John H. Morris......Captain

Coleman Ayres......1st Lieutenant

Martin Boagland?..Ensign

William White........1st Sergeant

Lewis Ayres...........2nd Sergeant

John McGibbany...3rd Sergeant

James Sale.............4th Sergeant

PRIVATES:

Adkins, John

Ashby, Thomas

Baker, Jonathan

Baker, Nathan

Blakemore, Daniel

Boone, George - Died October 20th.

Buckhannon, Thomas

Butts, John

Coghill, Zachariah - Accounted for on muster-out roll of Jas. Cogrell.

Daley, John

Frazier, James

Gullion, George

Hensley, Samuel

Hogland, John

Hoover, Jacob

Lester, William

McDaniel, John

Mills, Elisha

Phillips, Joseph

Queshingberry, Jas. H.

Ray, Jennings

Rice, Jordon

Shelton, John B.

Spillman, Wesley - Not accounted for on muster-out roll.

Stafford, Henry

Tandy, Mark

?, ?

?, ?

Wilson, John

Wright, Jordon

 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN THOMAS CHILDER'S COMPANY, KENTUCKY MOUNTED VOLUNTEER MILITIA - COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM MOUNTJOY.

Note: The following enlisted at Newport, Aug. 29, 1813 and were engaged or enlisted to Nov. 5, 1813 unless otherwise noted.

Thomas Childers.......Lieutenant - Promoted to Captain.

John Mountjoy..........Ensign - Promoted to Lieutenant.

William Little.............1st Sergeant - Promoted to Ensign.

Joseph Brand............2nd Sergeant

James Henry.............3rd Sergeant

Goldsby Childers.......4th Sergeant

William Ellis................1st Corporal

Robert A. Taylor.......2nd Corporal

Henry Ellis.................3rd Corporal

PRIVATES:

Abbott, Fielding 

Arnold, James

Asby, Coleman - Enlisted August 28, 1813

Ashbrook, Levy

Ashcraft, Amos

Ashcraft, Ichabod

Ashcraft, James

Beard, Hugh

Belew, Richard - Enlisted August 25, 1813 - Mustered out September 16, 1813

Boner, Charles - Enlisted August 26, 1813 - Not accounted for on muster out roll.

Brand, Thomas - Enlisted August 26, 1813

Burns, Samuel - Enlisted August 26, 1813

Buskirk, Lawrence - Enlisted August 26, 1813

Calvert, Charles B. - Enlisted August 26, 1813 - Promoted to First Sergeant

Campbell, Matthew - Enlisted August 26, 1813

Childers, James - Enlisted August 26, 1813

Childers, Joseph 

Clark, Jeremiah

Colvin, B. Charles - Not accounted for on muster-out roll.

Colvin, Burket

Colvin, Henry

Crook, Robert

Duncan, Fielding - Mustered out October 29, 1813 - Sick at Delaware, and died October 29, 1813.

Ellis, John

Ellis, Laban

Ford, Thomas

Forsythe, William

Grigg, William - Enlisted August 25, 1813 - Mustered out October 9, 1813

Hart, Thomas

Hitch, John

Johns, Jacob

Jones, William

Kennedy, Jesse

Kennedy, John - Not accounted for on muster-out roll.

Lawless, Lewis W.

Lockwood, Isaac H.

Luckett, William

Mann, Richard - Enlisted August 25, 1813 - Mustered out October 9, 1813 

McClanahan, John

Minor, James

Monroe, John

Moore, James

Moore, William

Morris, James

Morris, Richard

Nichols, Simon

Norton, David

Norton, Henry

Norton, William

Porter, Edward W.

Rush, Gabriel

Rush, Garland

Shoemaker, Laky

Southard, John

Thompson, John

Williams, Elijah

 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM HUCHISON, JR.'S COMPANY, KENTUCKY MOUNTED VOLUNTEER MILITIA - COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM MOUNTJOY.

Note: The following enlisted at Newport, Aug. 31, 1813 and were engaged or enlisted to Nov. 8, 1813 unless otherwise noted.

William Huchison, Jr........Captain

John Current.....................Lieutenant

William Thorton................Ensign

Columbus Eastin...............1st Sergeant

Joseph Kendrick..............2nd Sergeant

Achilles Chinn..................3rd Sergeant

Nathaniel Fisher...............4th Sergeant

Joseph G. Chinn...............1st Corporal

James Morris..................2nd Corporal

Lewis Kendrick................3rd Corporal

Joseph Ellis.......................4th Corporal - Mustered out as private.

PRIVATES:

Armstrong, William -  Promoted Q. M. 4th Regiment, 29(?)th September

Ayres, Daniel - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Belt, Asa                                                                     

Brown, Samuel D.

Buckhannon, Andrew

Cave, Richard

?, William

?, ?

Conn, John - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Conn, Thomas

Conn, William

Corbin, James

Cotton, John E.

Dinwiddie, John - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Eastin, Zachariah - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Ellis, John

Ellis, William

Field, John 

Flournoy, Notley

Fry, Jacob

Garrard, Alexander B. or H.

Garrard, John M. - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Garrard, Stephen

Graham, John - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Henderson, Samuel

Hildreth, John - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Hill, Abraham

Hill, Ezekiel - Promoted to Corporal.

Hutchison, William

Jones, Marshall

?, ?

?, ?

Kizer, John

London, Thomas

McClintock, Joseph

McGuffy, Joseph - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Neal, Charles

Nesbit, Joseph

Nichols, Eramus

Odor, Joseph

Ogle, David

Palmer, Thomas 

Parrish, Ezekiel

Patton, William

Peyton, Valentine - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Runnels, William - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Robinson, Andrew

Searight, George

Searight, Isaac

Smith, Joseph

Smith, Nicholas

Smith, Peter - Discharged at Urbana and sent home.

Smock, Jeremiah - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Summer, Daniel - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Talbott, Daniel

Todd, Davis - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.

Tomlinson, Isaac

Tucker, Edward

Tucker, John

Tucker, Thomas L.

?, ?

?, ?

?, ?

Wigginton, Peter

Williams, George  - Not accounted for on muster-out rolls.  

Williams, Stephen

Yates, Middleton

 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN SQUIRE GRANT'S COMPANY, KENTUCKY MOUNTED VOLUNTEER MILITIA - COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM MOUNTJOY.

Note: The following enlisted at Newport, Aug. 31, 1813 and were engaged or enlisted to Nov. 8, 1813 unless otherwise noted.

Squire Grant...................Captain

William Dickerson..........Lieutenant - Died November 1, 1813

Lowden, Carl.................. Ensign - Resigned September 9, 1813

Henry Spillman................1st Sergeant - Discharged September 10, 1813

Elijah Heradon................2nd Sergeant

Charles Daniels...............3rd Sergeant

William Posey..................1st Corporal

Thomas Organ................2nd Corporal - Accounted for as Private.

Thomas P. Leathers........3rd Corporal

PRIVATES

Anderson, Cornelius W.

Arnold, Benjamin J. - Left sick, and died November 5, 1813.

Baker, Thomas

Bowles, Swansey

Brent, Ellison

Coleman, Thomas B.

Daniel, Garret

Daniel, Travers

Foster, John

Gosney, Peter

Gosney, Robert - Discharged at Newport September 1, 1813 for want of a horse.

Grant, Isrsol Boone                                   

Harwood, George 

Holmes, Joseph - Mustered out September 1, 1813 - Left at Newport.

Kennedy, Thomas

Kenney, James

Kyle, Thomas

Leathers, John

Mann, Elijah

Marshal, John

Palmer, Thomas

Palmer, William

Peck, Peter

Rice, William

Rusk, John

Rust, James

Sapp, John

Thomas, Thomas

Vickers, James - Discharged at Fort Manny September 10, 1813

White, John - Deserted September 21, 1813

White, Joseph

Winston, Joseph 

 

ROLL OF CAPTAIN THOMAS RAVENSCRAFT'S COMPANY, KENTUCKY MOUNTED VOLUNTEER MILITIA - COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM MOUNTJOY.

Note: The following enlisted at Newport, Aug. 31, 1813 and were engaged or enlisted to Nov. 8, 1813 unless otherwise noted.

Thomas Ravenscraft...........Captain

Samuel Hinkson...................1st Lieutenant

David Wilson.......................2nd Lieutenant

Samuel Snodgrass...............Ensign

John English........................Sergeant

Michael Wollery.................2nd Sergeant

Hugh Brown........................3rd Sergeant

William Wilson....................4th Sergeant

Zacheriah Randel................Corporal

John Humble.......................2nd Corporal

Thomas Ravenscraft..........3rd Corporal

Richard Hall........................4th Corporal - Mustered out as Private.

John Conn...........................Sergeant Major

PRIVATES

Adams, Isaac - Not accounted for.

Adams, John

Barnes, John - Not accounted for.

Bean, James

Bean, John

Berry, John

Boyd, Andrew

Burns, Garret

Burns, John

Casey, Archibald

Conner, Samuel

Conover, Joseph - Not accounted for.

Creechlow, John A.

Curry, James

Curry, William

Custard, George - Not accounted for.

Debuler, James C.

Dial, Alexandor

Dobenspecke, John

Drummond, John

Eaton, Morgan

Fishback, George

Garrison, Gagues

Hall, Samuel

Hambleton, Benjamin

Hinkson, John

Holladay, Moses

Jacques, Garretson

Lair, William - Promoted to Corporal.

Moffitt, Mathew - Not accounted for.

Martin, William, Sr.

Martin, William, Jr.

Mitchell, George - Not accounted for.

Nesbit, John

Rankin, Samuel

Ravenscraft, William

Ross, David

Sharp, Isaac

Sharp, Stephen

Smith, Jonathon

Smith, John

Spencer, Barnet

Sturgeon, Jeremiah

Wilson, James

 

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