- Kenneday List 1782 Head of Families
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Helm, George 7 0 s/o b 1747 s/o Leonard Jr.
Helm, Meredith 10 4
Throckmorton List
Helm, Henry 1 0
Helm, Mered 8 10 s/o Leonard Sr.
Calmes, Geo 1 1 related to Ann Calmes w/o Wm
Bulger, James 6 0 m to Bridget Helm's g'dau
Bonham, Aaron 16 0
Jones, John 3 0 prob bro of Stephen & Thomas Jones
George Noble List
Helm, William T. 8 10 s/o Leonard Sr.
Calmes, Lucy 5 12 related to Ann Calmes w/o Wm Helm
Isaac Lane List
Jones, John 5 0
Jones, Joseph 3 1
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- Fred Co. Deed Book 19, p 215 30 Mar 1781
[Lease] Between Allen McDonald {lease of Stephen Jones} of County of Frederick [to] Peter Peterson of County aforesaid... consideration of twenty three Pounds... for the rent covenants hath granted to farm let... a certain tract of land formerly the property of Lewis Neill dec'd and was by said Lewis Neill devised to Edward and Jost White in the year 1770... and was said Edward and Jost White devised to ___... and was by said ___ devised to Stephen Jones and was by said Stephen Jones devised to above named Allen McDonald.... corner to said Lewis Neill..... corner to Meredith Helm..... containing seventy acres... term of ninety nine years. Signed Allen McDonald
Wit: Ben Rutherford; Meredith Helm; Abraham Neill
Recorded: 3 Apr 1781
(Will recorded VA Will Records, Wills in Fred Co. 1804)
Colonel Meredith Helm served in Daniels Morgan's Riflemen during the American Revolution (brief essay on MGen Morgan and the Rifle Corps below) and also furnished supplies to the cause. (DAR Notes. )The original company called, Morgans Rifles, as raised in Winchester, Virginia, in June of 1775. Morgan marched his men to Boston to join the army under General Washington besieging the British. They made the 600 mile march in 21 days without a single man dropping out. At Boston, the company was one of three rifle companies selected to join an expedition under Benedict Arnold. The objective was to capture Quebec. The route was up the Kennebec River in what is now the State of Maine, across the Height of Land and down the Chaudiere River to the St. Lawrence. The hardships were enormous, cold, hunger and exhaustion took a heavy toll. The little army reached and besieged Quebec in late November and was joined there by troops under General Montgomery, which included John Lamb's Artillery Company.
The combined force attacked Quebec in a blinding snowstorm on Dec. 31, 1775. Arnold was wounded in the leg, and Morgan took command of his troops. Morgan and some of his men were able to get over the wall and into the Lower Town, the only American troops to succeed in entering the city. With Montgomery dead leading the attack on another part of the city, and Arnold wounded, the attack failed. Morgan and many of the riflemen were captured by the British.
Morgan was exchanged in the Spring and went on to play an active role in the War, notably as a Colonel leading a Corps of Riflemen at Saratoga and as a Brigadier General in command at the Battle of the Cowpens.
- Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) -- American Soldier . He was born near Junction, in Hunterdon County N.J., worked as a teamster, and served in that capacity on Gen. Edward Braddock's disastrous expedition in 1755. During and after the French and Indian War he was an Indian fighter. After the outbreak of the American Revolution, Morgan was commissioned captain of a rifle company by Congress. He accompanied Gen. Benedict Arnold on the difficult march to Quebec in 1775. On December 31, Morgan led a heroic attack against overwhelming odds on the inner defense of Quebec city before being repulsed. Forced to surrender, he was held prisoner until the fall of 1776. Congress then commissioned him colonel of a Virginia regiment. Morgan subsequently organized 500 sharpshooters who fought well again Gen. John Burgoyne in the crucial battles at Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights in 1777. Poor health and dissatisfaction with Congress caused Morgan to leave active service, but he returned in 1780. On January 17, 1781, he won a brilliant victory over the British at the Cowpens, in South Carolina. Morgan then returned to his estate near Millwood Virginia. In 1794, he commanded the Virginia militia as it helped put down the Whiskey Rebellion. He served as a Federalist in the United States House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799. He died in Winchester, Virginia, on July 6, 1802. Source: University of South Carolina History Dept. 1936
- On June 14, 1775, with war on the horizon, the Continental Congress resolved that "six companies of expert riflemen be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia." In 1777, this force of hardy frontiersmen provided the leadership and experiences necessary to form, under Dan Morgan, the organization George Washington called "The Corps of Rangers." According to British General John Burgoyne, Morgan's men were "...the most famous corps of the Continental Army, all of them crack shots."
References on Meredith Helm - "Shenandoah Families - Helm" by Bessie Taul Conkwright, 1936, p-168-179 and "The Helm Family of Virginia" by Samuel K. Helm Sr., 1985 p-89-93
- From "The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 46,"
(pg 108):
Mrs. Julia Selina Smith Burchfield
DAR ID #: 45358
Born Warren County, Virginia
Wife of Allen George S. Burchfield
Descendant of Colonel Meredith Helm
Daughter of Clarendon Smith and Lena Overall, his wife.
Granddaughter of William C. Overall and Selina Jolliffe, his wife.
Gr-granddaughter of John Jolliffe and Frances Helm, his wife.
Gr-gr-granddaughter of Meredith Helm and Frances Sanford Fowler, his second wife.
(pg. 108) Meredith Helm was colonel of the Morgan Rifles and was granted land in
Ohio. He died 1804 and is buried at his old homestead near Winchester, Virginia.
Also numbers 1406, 38397
From "The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 47," (pg 86)
Mrs. Harriet Overall Keyes Chandler.
DAR ID #: 46187
Born in Alexandria, Virginia
Descendant of Meredith Helm.
Daughter of Thomas keyes and Lucy Marshall Overall, his wife.
Granddaughter of William Overall and Selina Jolliffe, his wife.
Gr-granddaughter of John Jolliffe and Frances Helm, his wife.
Gr-gr-granddaughter of Meredith Helm and Frances Sanford Fowler, his 2d wife.
Meredith Helm was colonel of the Morgan Rifles and was granted land in Ohio. He
died in 1804 and is buried at his homestead near Winchester, Virginia.
Also Nos. 1406, 38397.
Facts about this person:
Burial
at his home, Belleville Farm, 4 miles from Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia
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