. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . d 1864. These com-panies with their captains were as follows:Captain M. T. Haller Barbour County. A. All top Marion County. H. S. Sayre Doddridge County. J. C. Wilkinson Lewis County. George C. Kennedy County. John Johnson William Logsdon Wood County. William Ellison Calhoun County. Alexander Donaldson Roane County. Hiram Chapman H. S. Burns Wirt County. John Boggs Pendleton County. M. Mallow John Ball Putnam County. ^ J. L. Kesling Upshur County. William R. Spaulding W
. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . d 1864. These com-panies with their captains were as follows:Captain M. T. Haller Barbour County. A. All top Marion County. H. S. Sayre Doddridge County. J. C. Wilkinson Lewis County. George C. Kennedy County. John Johnson William Logsdon Wood County. William Ellison Calhoun County. Alexander Donaldson Roane County. Hiram Chapman H. S. Burns Wirt County. John Boggs Pendleton County. M. Mallow John Ball Putnam County. ^ J. L. Kesling Upshur County. William R. Spaulding Wayne County. M. M. Pierce Preston County. William Gandee Roane County. Nathaniel J. Lambert Tucker County. James A. Ramsey Nicholas County. John S. Bond Hardy County. > William Bartrum Wayne County. Ira G. Copeley William Turner Raleigh County. Sanders Mullins Wyoming County. Robert Brooks Kanawha County. B. L. Stephenson Clay County. G. P. Taylor Braxton County. W. T. Wiant Gilmer County. Isaac Brown Nicholas County. Benjamin R. Haley Wayne County. Sampson, Snyder Randolph County. Part Second County History. W. B. OUTRIGHT. CHAPTER XVIIL EARLY SETTLERS AND INDIAN TROUBLES. ROYAL DESERTERS The occasion of the first settlers coming into the present Hmits of UpshurCounty is uncertain as to time and reasons. The best evidence we can gatherleads us to believe the following story: Anxiety to settle in the New Worldwas possessing the English Plebeian at the middle of the i8th century. Oldand young alike wanted to reach American shores and find a home of religiouspeace and politic freedom. It mattered little to them in what capacity theycame, whether as indented land tenants, house servants, or as soldiers in theKings arniy. The goal of an Englishmans ambition was to get to America,where freedom of personal action was as boundless as the forests the countrymaintained; thus the cause of the great immigration from England in the i8thcentury. In addition to the foregoing reasons the F
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