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- His activities were being recorded in 1758 when he reported an Indian raid on his home. John was a soldier in the First Virginia Regiment during the Cherokee expedition in 1760. His activities as a land dealer, a soldier, and in the county civic operations were recorded in Fincastle, Botetourt, and Montgomery counties of southwest Virginia.
The Botetourt County records show John Alcorn and his wife, Jane, bought 120 acres of land on Looney's Creek on May the Second 1770 for £50. The records of May 5, 1773, show that the Court of Fincastle County, Virginia, assigned John
Alcorn and others to assess the feasibility of building a proposed road in Fincastle County.
John took the oath of Ensign in the Virginia militia on May 5, 1778. He was assigned to Captain John Montgomery's company. This took place in the Court of Montgomery County, Virginia. On December 1, 1778 John Alcorn bought 201 acres of land in Montgomery County. John's name appeared on the
docket of the grand jurors of Montgomery County on November 2, 1779. On May 3, 1780, John Alcorn, John Bethel, and others were awarded 40 acres each in the Montgomery County Court for army service under Colonel George Washington. The claimants were represented before the court by Patrick
Henry.
On September 2, 1782, John Alcorn Sr., sold 39 acres of land on Reed's Creek, Montgomery County, Virginia, to John Alcorn, the son of James Alcorn. On the same day John, the son of James, bought 44 acres on Reed's Creek from John Mills, his grandfather.
According to the annals of South West Virginia, John Alcorn was certified as a lieutenant of the Virginia militia on November 28 1786. John moved his family to Madison County Kentucky about 1788. He was listed as a taxpayer of Madison County in 1789. In 1793 John gave Robert Breckenridge, his brother-in-law, power of attorney to dispose of property
for him in Wythe County, Virginia. I believe this transaction was made to settle the estate of George Breckenridge.
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