Affidavit by Josiah Meadows concerning Mordecai Hicks' Rev. War. service:

Monroe County

State of Virginia

This day Josiah Meadows of Giles County and state of Virginia aged seventy seven years came before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Monroe and made oath in due form of. Said that he was in the Revolutionary War, that he was in the Illinois Regiment under the command of Colonel John Montgomery, that he knew Mordica Hicks as a soldier in said Regiment, that he was present when he died in the service at a place called Illinois Border (?), that he was well acquainted with his famaly, that he knew all his sisters and two own Brothers William and Richard. William has been dead for many years past and five sisters Sarah, Nancy, Susan, Cathrian and Elizabeth and that there was but three sisters now living - Susan, Elizabeth and Catherine, which is all the heirs now living; that the said Mordica Hicks enlisted for the same period as him self which was one year, that they were marched from Botetort County in Virginia to the Long Islands of Holston under Captain Isaac Taylar where they rendezvous and there joined Colonel John Montgomery, that they were marched from there to the Chickamaga Towns Destroyed them, that they were marched from the Chickamaga towns to Illinois Town on the bank of Kaskaskias River at which place the said Mordica Hicks died, sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of June 1834.

William Daniel, J.P. and Josiah __(his mark) Meadows

Letter from Henry Alexander : Union June 29, 1834

Dear Sir,

I am requested to enclose : you the within evidance relating to Mordica Hicks - in order to obtain his land bounty for the benefit of his hirs. You will please let me know if it is sufficient to authorise you to issue a warrant. If so his heirs code in_ce_ts as proven to same persons to recover (?) it.

Yours with respect

Henry Alexander

From Jno H. Smith, Comr.

Petn for bounty land

The Heirs of Mordicai Hicks

Mordecai Hicks was a member of Captain Isaac Taylors Company of Illinois volunteers and died in the service, July 4, 1779 (See payroll of Capt. Isaac Taylors Company of Volunteers, in the 7th (?) Vol. of "Illinois Papers") I have heretofore considered Mordicai Hicks a soldier via the Illinois Regt and enlisted for those years: and have reported the claims of his heirs good for ad__vise of three years. I am now satisfied that I was in error, and did injustice to the heirs. They are entitled to 200 acres of land for his services as one of the Illinois Volunteers.

The affidavit of one witness has been fil'd. Josiah Meadows says he served in the same company with Hicks, and that he died in that service. Meadows' name is on the payroll aforesaid of Captain Taylors Company of Volunteers. His testimony and the evidence of the payroll support each other.

Respectfully submitted,

John H. Smith Comr. July 5th 1834.

c - % Governor Tesswell

Mordecai Hicks, Sold.(?) Ills. Reg.

Reg 5 July 1834

Aug 14, 1834 advised that this claim be allow'd for a service as a volunteer under General Clark as the Capture of the British ?? Approved Aug. 14, 1845 L.W.T.

Note: Josiah went on to live to a ripe old age. He shows up in the book "Soldiery of West Virginia" as one of the pensioners of the Revolutionary War who was still living in WV in 1840:

Josiah Meadows, age 83, enumerated in Mercer County living with Green Meadows on June 1, 1840

Further information in "A History of Middle New River Settlements & Contiguous Territory" by David E. Johnston, 1906 gives more information on Josiah's (and Mordecai's) travels as soldiers:

"Josiah enlisted in the early spring of 1778, under Captain Joseph Renfroe, and marched with his company to Jarrett's Fort on Wolf Creek, now in the County of Monroe, where the company was divided, and part thereof, he among the number, was sent to Keeney's Fort, on the Greenbrier, where he was stationed at the time of the attack made by the Indians on Donnally's Fort. Upon the expiration of the term for which he enlisted he again entered the service in the company of Captain Isaac Taylor, and with his company and regiment, the latter commanded by Colonel John Montgomery, marched through the Holstein country to the Indian town at Chicamauga, which they destroyed; from thence going to the Illinois country, under Colonel George Rogers Clark. After his (Josiah's) return, he was with a portion of the American army that had charge of the British prisoners captured at Yorktown.... From this Josiah Meadows, the soldier, has descended the large family of that name in Mercer and adjoining counties."

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