Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Jesse Poe, Private, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Jesse Poe of Franklin Co., Ken. heir at law of Jesse Poe, appointed Thomas Miller of Richmond, Va. his Atty. 21st July, 1819. Witness, Reuben Smothers. Acknowledged before O. G. Waggener, J. of P. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Council Chamber, June 12, 1821. Advised that the heirs of Jesse Poe be allowed Land Bounty for his services for three years as a Private in the Contl. line. Thos. M. Randolph, Gov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 page 148 25th June, 1821. Recd. of Register warrant 6460 for 100 acres issued in the name of Jesse Poe, decd. Thos. Miller, Atty. Forwarded to Nathl. Sawyer, Frankfort, Ken. Captain William Taylor, of Louisville, Ken. a Captain in the Second Va. Regt. certified that Jesse Poe was a soldier in his company, that he enlisted to serve three years, but that he [p.148] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virgil Poe, a soldier of Franklin Co., Tenn. declared that he was a soldier in the company of said Capt. William Taylor, and that he knew said Jesse Poe. That Poe marched to the North and died at Blackwater, New Jersey--that he (Virgil Poe) was raised near John Poe--knew him all his life, and that he is a brother of Jesse Poe. That the latter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 John Poe, Private. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Council Chamber, Dec. 17, 1818. John Poe is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a Private of the Contl. line for three years service. James P. Preston, Gov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Know all men by these presents that I, John Poe of Ross Co., Ohio, late a Private in the first Regt. of Light Dragoons of the Contl. line during the Rev. war, appoint John Watts, of Bedford Co., Va. my lawful Atty., etc. Signed, 30 Oct., 1815. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 State of Ohio, Ross Co., Corporation of Chillicothe, John Poe personally appeared before Joseph McLine, Recorder of said Corporation and said state, 30 Oct., 1815. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Warrant 6311 issued 11th May, 1819 for 100 acres to John Poe. Recorded Book 3, p. 55, Va. L. Off. Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Data Concerning Quarles Family. Alice Meredith, daughter of Samuel and Anne (Power) Colburn, married James Valentine Reddy. Two of their children are Alice M. Reddy (married L. Harvey Poe, and have a son, L. Harvey Poe, Jr.), and Anne Waller Reddy.