Revolutionary War Soldiers Series: Remembering Jacob Fishback
Editor's note: Next year, the United States of America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, its 250th anniversary. The semiquincentennial marks the first nationwide celebration of America's birth since the bicentennial in 1976. Of course, America's independence cannot be celebrated without also honoring the efforts of the Revolutionary War soldiers that led to independence. The Waw-wil-a-way Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, along with the Southern Ohio Genealogical Society, will be presenting a series of articles featuring Revolutionary War soldiers who lived and died within the borders of Highland County.
By Betty F. Crum and Pat Young
Waw-wil-a-way Chapter Daughters
of the American Revolution, 250 Project
Jacob Fishback was born April 14, 1749 in Culpeper County, Va. and died March 30, 1826 in Highland County. His grave is unknown.
Common Pleas Court records show that he personally appeared at the age of 69 to declare his service in the Revolutionary War. He stated that he enlisted in the spring of 1779 at Culpeper County, Va. for 18 months, serving as a private in Captain Wail’s Company in Col. James Barbour’s Virginia Regiment in the Virginia line.
Before his term expired, he re-enlisted in the spring of 1780 during the war and served in Captain Clough Shelton’s Company, Col. Thomas Posey’s Regiment. He also served as a wagoner under Maj. Sam Finley in Georgia and South Carolina until the fall of 1783. This declaration was originally made on March 16, 1819.
In 1787, he married Hannah Huffman in Madison County, Va.
They lived in Greenbrier County, Va. before coming to Highland County. They had a son, John, and a daughter, Rosa or Rosannah. Rosannah never married, but had a child named Mary Ann, still living in Highland County in 1857.
Rosa died in the 1830s before her mother, Hannah. Hannah never applied for a widow’s pension; and in 1857, son John, who married Betsey Ninemile, Nov. 12 1835, in Brush Creek Township, applied to see if the arrears of what she was due could be paid to him as her survivor.
This was unsuccessful. This Jacob Fishback is not listed in the DAR database.
Source: Order Book No. 6 1834-37, Page 29, June 27. 1834.
“Descendants of Harman Fishback, The Emigrant” compiled by Reuben DeWitt Fishback and published by Thomas M. Taylor, N.Y. 1929.