Jacob Leas ¹

  General Notes:

Notes from Arline Fultz:

Here are some scribbles from my notes on the family:
18 Feb 1794 - Michael Iseerhower, apprentice of Jacob Leas. [Source: Augusta County Order Book XXIII, p. 276]
19 Jan 1795 - John Summers, aged about 20 years, son of John Summers, appeared with his father and agreed to apprentice himself to Jacob Leas, master, for two years and a half [19 Jun 1795 to 19 Dec 1797] to learn the art and mystery of a tanner. [Source: Augusta County Order Book No. XXIII, p. 404]
17th July, 1798. Subscribers form themselves into a fire company--James Edmonson, Wm. Breckinridge, J. Bowyer, Michael Garber, Sr.; Peter Elliott, Joseph Dickey, John Gorden, Robt. McCullock, Geo. Grant McIntosh, John McCausland, Vincent Tapp, Abraham Teebo, Jacob Leas, Philip Hopkins, David Griener, John Moore, John Fackler, Alex. St. Clair, H. Paul, Jacob Swoope, Samuel Clarke, W. Herren, W. Chambers, Geo. Mitchell, Thos. Barry, David Parry, Joseph Cowan, Hamp Keyes, Cornelius Baldwin, Smith Thompson, John Backenstoe, Jno. Wayt, Jno. Johnston, Robt. McDowell, Jno. Wise, James McGongal, Joseph Points, Ro. B. St. Clair, Andrew Haveouf, Jno. McDowell, Jacob Kinney.
CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
REVOLUTIONARY DECLARATIONS.
REVOLUTIONARY DECLARATIONS--AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA.
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July 1831 - John McCutcheon's Declaration: Of the Little Calf Pasture, in Augusta County; aged eighty-two years on the thirteenth of August, 1832; entered the service in the early part of 1777 or 1778 (he thinks in 1777), when he was drafted for three months against the Indians; marched to Clover Lick, where he remained until the latter part of the next November, when he was discharged with the rest of the troops. His officers were Capt. Andrew Lockridge, Lieut. Wm. Kinkead, Ensign James Gay. About June, 1779, upon an alarm raised that Donnelly's Fort was being attacked by Indians, he was drafted and marched to the Warm Springs, where he was left with twenty or thirty others under John Wackub (either Lieutenant or Ensign) to guard that place, where he remained twelve or fifteen days and was discharged. In January, 1781, he was drafted for three months and rendevouzed at Staunton on the 8th of January, 1781; thence marched via Charlottesville, New Kent, and Suffolk to Portsmouth, where he remained until the 7th or 8th of April, 1781, when he was discharged. He was under the command of Col. Sampson Mathews, Lieut.-Col. Wm. Bowyer, Capt. Wm. Kinkead, Lieut. Jacob Hamrick, Ensign Jonathan Humphreys (Major's name forgotten); no regular troops were stationed there at the time; Gen. Muhlenburg and Col. Dick visited the troops; he was in no engagement but a skirmish with the picket guards. In June, 1781, he was drafted for 20 days, with his wagon and team, and he, as driver, marched from Staunton under Maj. Alexander Robertson. He joined the main army in New Kent, where he remained his time, and longer, which was shortly after the battle of Jamestown, when he was discharged. He thinks Gen. LaFayette and Gen. Wayne were among the general officers. James Stuart (now too old to attend Court) was his companion soldier at Clover Lick. William Graham, aged sixty-nine years, deposes, that he served the last three tours with declarant. Joseph Henderson, of the Little Calf Pasture, aged sixty years, testifies to declarant's good character. William Armstrong, of the Little Calf Pasture, aged seventy-two years on the 12th of December, 1831, testifies to declarant's good character. JACOB LEAS, aged sixty-seven years, also testifies to his good character. ¹

Jacob married Margarethe Ann Kinzer. (Margarethe Ann Kinzer was born on 10 May 1768 in York County, Pennsylvania, USA and died on 12 May 1850.)