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EVENTS AND OFFICES
WAR of 1812
Joel Allen (1775-1850) Private, New York Militia, Battle of Plattsburg, New
York; received wound that never healed. (Cobb, Allen)
Thomas Allison (1779-1838), Private, Smith County Tennessee Volunteers, at
Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. (Allison)
William Banks Anthony (1775-1815) Major, Tennessee Militia, Battle of New
Orleans, January 8, 1815, one of thirteen Americans killed in the battle. (Cobb, Brodie)
William Brown (1757-1813), South Carolina Militia (Allison)
John Cartwright (1790-1850), Private, Tennessee Volunteers, New Orleans,
January 8, 1815, received a wound that never healed. (Allison)
Oliver Whitford (1789-1874) New York Militia (Cobb, Allen)
COTTON TRAIL
John Allison (1811-1868) and his family from 1846 to 1853, from Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to Louisiana and then to Leon County, Texas. (Allison)
Hinchy M. Winn (1822-1888) and family, including families of nine brothers,
1853-1854, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to Leon County, Texas. (Allison)
CIVIL WAR
Arthur Butler Allison (1843-1910) Private, Leon Hunters, 5th Regiment, Hood’s
Texas Brigade, fought in many battles under Robert E. Lee. Wounded and captured at
Little Round Top, Gettysburg, and spent the rest of the war at Fort Delaware. (Allison)
William Alexander McKendree Cobb (1817-1873) Chaplain to Arkansas
Confederate forces. Two sons served in the Arkansas Confederate Militia, one died of
exposure during an ill-fated invasion of Missouri. (Cobb)
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Aaron van Hook Lea (1804-1871) Ran a mill for the Confer ate Commissary, Fall
County, Texas. Four sons served in Confederate forces; two killed, one wounded.
(Mathews, Lea).
INDIAN WARS
Joseph Armstrong (1710-1765) Colonel, Pennsylvania Militia. Prominent in the
defense of the Pennsylvania frontier. Seven days after Braddock's defeat, he gathered a
company of his sons, relatives, friends and neighbors to form a defense against the
Indians. (Mathews, Lea).
Charles Durrell MacLean, brother of direct ancestor Susan MacLean and son of
Lachlan MacLean (1740-1815) With General Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe; took
the tomahawk away from Tecumseh. Dr. Mallory took possession of the tomahawk at the
time, and it is an heirloom in that family in Fort Smith, Arkansas. (Cobb, Brodie)
Gabriel Reagain (1725-1758) French and Indian War: On a list of North Carolina
"Gentlemen Solgers," April 1753-Dec. 1754. To defend the British claim to the Ohio
Territory, Gabriel was with General Forbes’ expedition to take Fort Duquesne (on the site
of today’s Pittsburgh) from the French. On November 24-25, 1758, Forbes divided his
troops into three columns for a final assault on the fort. In the dense forest, British troops
under Colonel George Washington ran into American troops under Colonel Mercer; and
each thought the other to be the enemy. Gabriel was killed by friendly fire in an
exceptionally bloody battle, which ended when soldiers heard the other side calling out
commands in English. (Allison)
State and Colonial Officials
Jesse Cobb (1730-1807) Committee for the Construction of the North Carolina
Capital at Raleigh; Member, North Carolina House of Commons. (Cobb)
Robert Ellyson (1605-1671) Lieutenant Colonel, Virginia Militia; Member, House
of Burgess. (Allison)
George Braxton (1677-1748) Member, Virginia of Burgess. (Mathews)
William Heritage (1707-1769) Clerk of the North Carolina Assembly from 1768
to 1769. (Cobb)
William Lea III (1654-1793) Member, Virginia House of Burgess (replaced by
William Byrd in 1704) (Mathews, Lea)
John Mathews (1650-1702) Captain, Virginia Militia (Mathews)
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Samuel Mathews I (1592-1657) Captain, Virginia Militia. (Mathews)
Samuel Mathews II (1630-1659) Member, Virginia House of Burgess; Lieutenant
Colonel, Virginia Militia; Governor of Virginia, March 13, 1657, to his death in 1659.
(Mathews)
Samuel Mathews III (1685-1718) Captain, Virginia Militia. (Mathews)
Thomas Mathews (born 1650) Member, House of Burgess (Mathews)
George Reade (1608-1674) Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgess. (Cobb,
Brodie)
Edmund Taylor (1723-1808) Member, North Carolina Committee of Safety
(1775) (Cobb, Brodie)
Pasco Whitford II (1700-1788) Lieutenant, Rhode Island Militia. (Cobb, Allen)
Augustine Warner I (1610-1674) Justice of York and Justice of Gloucester,
England (Cobb, Brodie)
Augustine Warner II (1642-1681) Member of King’s Council; Speaker of the
Virginia House Burgess (1675-1676). (Cobb, Brodie)
Robert Wynne (1622-1675) Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgess (16611674). (Allison)
County Officials
Lyman Squires Allen (1806-1877) Trustee, Homer Township, Buchanan County,
Iowa; County Supervisor, Buchanan County, Iowa. (Cobb, Allen)
Samuel Alling (1645-1709) Sergeant, New Haven, Connecticut, Militia. (Cobb,
Allen)
John Anthony (1715-1760) Lieutenant, Bedford County, Virginia, Militia; Justice
of the Peace, Albemarle County, Virginia. (Cobb, Brodie)
Albert Arthur Allison (1873-1943) Postmaster, Corsicana, Navarro County,
Texas. (Allison)
Arthur Butler Allison (1843-1910) Deputy Sheriff, Leon County, Texas. (Allison)
John Austin (1690-1760) Constable, Lunenburg County, Virginia. (Cobb, Brodie)
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Lodowick Brodie Cobb (1849-1922) County Judge, Limestone County, Texas;
District Judge. (Cobb)
Ludvick Brodie (1681-1758) Writer to His Majesty’s Signet, Morayshire,
Scotland; Land Agent for City of Elgin. (Cobb, Brodie)
Robert Coleman, Jr. (1655-1713) Sheriff, Essex County, Virginia. (Allison)
Robert Ellyson (1605-1671) Sheriff, St. Mary’s County, Maryland. (Allison)
Benjamin Freeman (1804-1880) District Clerk, Robeson County, North Carolina
(1855-1862) (Mathews, Lea)
James Howell (1662-1699) Captain, King and Queen County, Virginia, Militia.
(Cobb, Brodie)
Randolph Presley Mathews (1809-1906) Postmaster, Indian Creek, Brown
County, Texas. (Mathews)
Jacob Miller (1667-1732) Captain, New Bern County, Militia. (Cobb)
Thomas Paulin (born 1650) Justice, Rappahannock County. (Mathews)
Robert Ruffin (1646-1693) Sheriff, Surry County, Virginia. (Cobb)
Samuel Ruffin (1716-1779) Sheriff, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. (Cobb)
Colonel Charles Taylor (1696-1779) Member, Albemarle County, Virginia,
Revolutionary Committee of Safety. (Cobb, Brodie)
Lawrence Van Hoeck (1670-1725) Judge, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
(Mathews)
Thomas Wynne (1657-1718) – Captain, Surry County, Virginia, Militia. (Allison)
Founders
Lodowick Brodie (1800-1850) Circa 1832. Built the first Methodist Church and
the first schoolhouse in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Cobb, Brodie)
William Heritage (1707-1769) Founder of Kinston, North Carolina. (Cobb)
John Howe (1596-1678) Founder of Marlborough, Middlesex County,
Massachusetts. From Wikipedia Encyclopedia: In 1656, fur trader John Howe built a
house at the intersection of two Indian trails—the Nashua trail and the Connecticut
path—and was soon joined by several families from the near-by town of Sudbury. That
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intersection would become the town of Marlborough, Massachusetts. Howe could speak
Algonquin, and the local tribe welcomed him and the other settlers because the wellarmed Europeans afforded protection from their traditional tribal enemies. Because of
fervent missionary efforts, Marlborough became one of the seven “Indian Praying
Towns.” (Allison)
James Lea (1715-1788) Leas Chapel, Leasburg, North Carolina. Known in
Revolutionary times as "Chapel Church." Founded as an English Church circa 1750 by
James and William Lea, and John C. Lee (Lea), who was either a cousin or a brother.
Prior to the Revolution, the denomination changed from the Church of England to
Methodist, and Bishop Francis Asbury preached there in 1781. The Chapel was one of
the few buildings left unmolested by Cornwallis's troops as they marched through the
area on their way to Yorktown. Another of the structures the British soldiers left
untouched was the house of John C. “Lee” (Lea). For this reason, locals suspected that
the Leas were known to Cornwallis and to have Tory sympathies; but the Lea family was
quick to point out that they had defended their house by carving the word "smallpox"
above the door. Whether the Leas' quick thinking occurred to avert the plundering British
or after the fact to calm suspicious Patriots is anyone's guess. (Mathews, Lea)
William Lea (1744-1806) Commissioner for the founding of Leasburg, North
Carolina. (Mathews, Lea)
Jacob Miller – (1667-1732) – Palatine, Germany, via Gravesend, Kent, England,
to New Bern County, North Carolina. Jacob Miller arrived in the New World among 600
Palatines and who were soon afterwards followed by the Baron DeGraffenreid and about
1700 Swiss. The voyage cost over half the lives aboard. The survivors traveled with great
hardship overland to North Carolina, stopping several days in the Albemarle region; then
they proceeded through unsettled wilderness to the confluence of the Neuse and Trent
Rivers, where after the arrival of DeGraffenreid and the Swiss colonists later in the year,
they helped to establish the town of New Bern. (Cobb)
George Reade (1608-1674) Founder of the city of Yorktown, Virginia. (Cobb,
Brodie)