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• Hij is geboren op 1 januari 1734 in Virginia, United States.
• (Marriage) in het jaar 1755 in Shepherdstown, Jefferson, West Virginia, United States: Spouse: Rachael Shepherd (born Teague).Bron 2
• Hij is overleden op 2 februari 1795 in Wheeling, Ohio County, WV, USA, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.Bron 3
• Hij is begraven op 2 februari 1795 in Stone Church Cemetery Elm Grove Ohio County West Virginia, Verenigde Staten.
• Een kind van Thomas Shepherd en Elizabeth van Metre

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of COLONEL. [http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A102930 DAR Ancestor # A102930] Shepherd was the commander of Fort Henry, Wheeling, in 1777, and was the first County Lieutenant of Ohio Co. He gave the ground for the Stone Church and Cemetery, Elm Grove, WV, where he and members of his family are buried. There are numerous references to Colonel Shepherd in area history books. Some of the most interesting are in a fictional account of Lydia Boggs and Moses Shepherd entitled "Time Steals Softly" by Virginia Jones Harper, Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Also, in the Wheeling, Ohio County, Library, you can find "David Shepherd, His Ancestors and Descendants" by Dorothy Rine Brown, assembled by Audra Rickey Wayne, Wheeling, West Virginia 1985. sold "Pell Mell" on June 4, 1769, and made plans for a journey to Ohio County, Virginia, where he bought land from Silas Zane.iles east of Wheeling at the junction of two branches of Wheeling Creek, which wound among the hills from there to empty into the river at Wheeling, and his property was known as Shepherd Forks or just 'the Forks.' "rt and farm to take command of Fort Henry. . . . Though the fort survived the siege, the settlement around it was burned to the ground, at at Shepherd Fords the enemy destroyed all of David's buildings but the gristmill. Among the casualties were David's elder son, who was tomahawked and clubbed to death, and a son-in-law."f Fort Henry, at the mouth of Wheeling creek, in the year 1777, is one of the most memorable events in Indian warfare - remarkable for the indomitable bravery displayed by the garrison in general, and for some thrilling attendant incidents. The fort stood immediately on the left bank of the Ohio river, about a quarter of a mile above Wheeling creek, and at much less distance from an eminence which rises abruptly from the bottom land. The space inclosed was about three quarters of an acre. In shape the fort was a parallelogram, having a block-house at each corner with lines of pickets eight feet high between. Within the enclosures was a store-house, barrack-rooms, garrison-well, and a number of cabins for the use of families. The principal entrance was a gateway on the eastern side of the fort. Much of the adjacent land was cleared and cultivated, and near the base of the hill stood some twenty-five or thirty cabins, which formed the rude beginning of the present city of Wheeling. The fort is said to have been planned by General George Rogers Clarke; and was constructed by Ebenezer Zane and John Caldwell. When first erected, it was called Fort Fincastle but the name was afterwards changed in compliment to Patrick Henry the renowned oratorsome of whom were enfeebled by age while others were mere boys. All, however, were excellent marksmen, and most of them, skilled in border warfare. Colonel David Shepherd, as a brave and resolute officer in whom the borderers had full confidence. The store-house was well-supplied with small arms, particularly muskets, but sadly deficient in ammunition.as ascertained that a large Indian army was concentrating on the Sandusky river, under the bold, active, and skillful renegade, Simon Girty. Colonel Shepherd had many trusty and efficient scouts on the watch; but Girty deceived them all and actually brought his whole force of between four and five hundred Indians before Fort Henry before his real object was discovered.ng given all the inhabitants in the vicinity repaired to the fort for safety. At break of day, on the 27th, Colonel Shepherd, wishing to dispatch an express to the nearest settlements for aid, sent a white man and a negro to bring in some horses. While these men were passing through the cornfield south of the fort, they encountered a party of six Indians, one of whom raised his gun and brought the white men to the ground. The negro fled and reached the fort without receiving any injury. As soon as he related his story, Colonel Shepherd dispatched Captain Mason, with fourteen men, to dislodge the Indians from the cornfield. Mason marched almost to the creek without finding any Indians, and was about to return, when he was furiously assailed in front, flank, and rear by the whole of Girty's army. Of course, the little band was thrown into confusion, but the brave captain rallied his men, and taking the lead, hewed a passage through the savage host. In the struggle, more than half of the party were slain, and the gallant Mason severely wounded. An Indian fired at the captain at the distance of five paces and wounded, but did not disable him. Turning about, he hurled his gun, felled the savage to the earth, and then succeeded in hiding himself in a piled their safety to the heaps of logs and brush which abounded in the cornfield., to cover his retreat. The party fell into an ambuscade and two-thirds of the number were slain upon the spot. Captain Pyle found a place of concealment, where he was obliged to remain until the end of the siege. Sergent Ogle, though mortally wounded, managed to escape, with two soldiers into the woods.ison, however, compelled them to halt. Girty had changed the order of attack. Parties of Indians were placed in such of the village-houses as commanded a view of the block-houses. A strong party occupied the yard of Ebenezer Zane, about fifty yards from the fort, using a paling fence as a cover,e. twelve men and two boys. Yet the gallant Colonel Shepherd promptly replied to the summons, that the fort should never be surrendered to the renegade. Girty renewed his proposition, but before he could finish his harangue, a thoughtless youth fired at the speaker and brought the conference to an abrupt termination. Girty disappeared, and in about fifteen minutes, the Indians opened a heavy fire upon the fort, and continued it without much intermission for the space of six hours. The fire of the little garrison, however, was much more destructive than that of the assailants. About one o'clock, the Indians ceased firing and fell back against the base of the hill.benezer Zane, about sixty yards from the fort. Several young men promptly volunteered for the dangerous service; but Shepherd could only spare one, and the young men could not determine who that should be. At this critical moment, a young lady, sister of Ebenezer Zane, came forward, and asked that she might be permitted to execute the service; and so earnestly did she argue for the proposition, that permission was reluctantly granted. The gate was opened, and the heroic girl passed out. The opening of the gate arrested the attention of several Indians who were straggling through the village, but they permitted Miss Zane to pass without molestation. When she reappeared with the powder in her arms, the Indians, suspecting the character of her burden, fired a volley at her, but she reached the fort in safety. Let the name of Elizabeth Zane be remembered among the heroic of her sex.ade upon the south side of the fort, but the garrison poured over the assailants a destructive fire from the two lower block-houses. At the same time, a party of eighteen or twenty Indians, armed with rails and billets of wood, rushed out of Zane's yard and made an attempt to force open the gate of the fort. Five or six of the number were shot down, and then the attempt was then opened fire upon the fort from all sides, except that next to the river, which afforded no shelter to besiegers. On the north and east the battle raged fiercely. As night came on the fire of the enemy slackened. Soon after dark, a party of savages advanced within sixty yards of the fort, bringing a hollow maple log which they had loaded to the muzzle and intended to use as ach was applied and the wooden piece bursted, killing or wounding several of those who stood near it. The disappointed party soon dispersed.Shepherd, arriving from the Forks of Wheeling, was shot down before he could reach the fort. About four o'clock next morning, Colonel Swearingen, with fourteen men, arrived from Cross Creek, and was fortunate enough to fight his way into the fort without losing a single man.ch, with forty mounted men from Short Creek, arrived. The gate was thrown open, and the men, though closely beset by the enemy, entered the fort. But Major M'Culloch was not so fortunate. The Indians crowded round and separated him from the party. After several ineffectual attempts to force his way to the gate, he turned and galloped off in the direction of Wheeling Hill.by the Indians before the fort, they might have taken his life without difficulty, but they had weighty reasons for desiring to take him alive. From the very commencement of the war, his reputation as an Indian hunter was as great as that of any white man on the north-western border. He had participated in so many reconnoiters that almost every warrior possessed a knowledge of his person. Among the Indians his name was a word of terror; theyives of twenty of his warriors to secure to himself the living body of Major M'Culloch. When, therefore, the man whom they had long marked out as the first object of their vengeance, appeared in their midst, they made almost superhuman efforts to acquire possession of his person. The fleetness of M'Colloch's well-traineds, moved on in pursuit. At length the hunter reached the top of the hill, and, turning to the left, darted along the ridge with the intention of making the best of his way to Short Creek. A ride of a few hundred yards in that direction brought him suddenly in contact with a party of Indians who were returning to their campill. The party being too formidable in numbers to encounter single-handed, the major turned his horse about and rode over his own track, in the hope of discovering some other avenue to escape. A few paces only of his countermarch had been made, when he found himself confronted by his original pursuers, who had,p the hill directly on his right. He was now completely hemmed in on three sides, and the fourth was almost a perpendicular precipice of one hundred and fifty feet descent, with wheeling creek at its base. The imminence of his danger allowed him but little time to reflect upon his situation. In an instant hes reins with the other, he urged his horse to the brink of the bluff, and then made the leap which decided his fate. In the next moment the noble steed, still bearing his intrepid rider in safety, was at the foot of the precipice. M'Colloch immediately dashed across the creek, and was soon beyond reach of the Indians.ll, and soon after set fire to all the houses and fences outside the fort, and killed about three hundred cattle. They then raised the siege and retired. The whole loss sustained by the whites during this remarkable siege, was twenty-six men killed and four or five wounded. The loss of the enemy was from sixty to one hundred men. As they removed their dead, exact information on the subject could not be obtained.em. A number of females, who were in the fort, undismayed by the dreadful strife, employed themselves in running bullets and performing various services; and thus excited much enthusiasm among the men. Perhaps ammander only because of his position."until he could battle nor more. The cortege for Colonel David Shepherd, Lieutenant of Ohio County, included Virginians and Pennsylvanians, and condolences came for many weeks from prominent statesmen and military dignitaries in the East. There was a minister at that time at Stone Meeting house, and he led the service, after which David was buried in the church cemetery atop the hill. bleak weather on the day of the funeral, Rachel Shepherd contracted a chest infection, then called 'hasty consumption.' The end came quietly within a month of David's death.and that of his brother, Moses built a rail to designate the Shepherd lot.s Application for Membership in the Sons of the American Revolution: of Wisconsin gave the history of the Warfare of the Wilderness.., Patrick Henry, as County Lieutenant of Ohio County.n command of Fort at Wheeling, West Virginia, by order of Gen. Hand.en wounded. Col. Shepherd's son, William, and his son-in-law, Francis Duke, both killed in this engagement. 1881 In commandof Expedition in Coshocton Campaign in service of United States Government."oofs. Copied from the West Virginia Historical Magazine Vol. 3, page 70-78. Jan. 1903. Wis. His. Soc. Vol 2, p. 37.ington for Burgess. See letters to Washington.o Wm. Helms.for the year. Original receipt.left Shepherdstown with his family and settled near Wheeling at the Forks of Big and Little Wheeling Creed. Here he built Shepherds Fort and block hous. Shepherd's Mss. Mrs. Dandridge, given about 1752 as the marriage date. Sara was born in 1755 and Elizabeth was the eldest daughter."s. Shepherd Mss.ived a warrant from Lord Dunmore for 1063 acres of land under the King of Great Britain's proclamation of 1763, lying in the forks of Wheeling in the county of Augusta. This warrant was signed by Gov. Benjamin Harrison, March 18th, 1784. Land Records. his will which was probated August 20th in Martinsburg. See records in Martinsburg.litary colony formed out of West Augusta by an Act of Legislature. All of the county officers were military officers. Court records.rd to raise companies of militia under instructions of the Convention of 1776 and to administer the oath. Court records.Cabin.open Military Court.at Wheeling as the Indians were expected. Fort Shepherd was destroyed by the Indians. August 22-Colonel Shepherd wrote General Hand- "In obedience to your orders I have called in all the men to this place then removed my family likewise, but there seems great confusion in the county. We- are repairing the fort as fast as possible and shall. soon have it, Indian Proof, except they scale the Stockades."the attack of the Indians. Col. Shepherd's own report is as follows - "Lieutenant and fourteen privates killed. 1 Captain and four privates wounded. By the best judges here who have seen the plans laid by the Indians and their breast works and blinds in the late action, it is thought their number must not have been less than between two and three hundred. The destruction of cattle is not yet ascertainable. A number of the distressed families have moved off, yet a number remain for want of horses." Col. Shepherd writes to General Hand- "Your timely relief by Major Chew was very acceptable as we could not bury the dead before he came." Major Chew wrote to Generalval Col. Shepherd and myself marched and buried these unfortunate men , in the late action, a moving sight, cruelly butchered even after death."lled the year of the three sevens. It was the most terrible year in the annals of the West." De Haas. 'Through all Colonel Shepherd was the guiding and protecting spirit, although suffering great losses of life in his family and his property, through the destruction of Fort Shepherd Sept. 27th. which was burned by the Indians . He removed his large family to Redstone. De Haas. was the death of his son and his son-in-law Francis Duke. His son William was only in his twentieth year, yet left a widow Rebecca McColloch, sister of Hugh McColloch. His child was a daughter named Elizabeth. "She is mentioned in her grandfather's will.arly settler of Berkley County, Virginia. Beach Bottom twelve miles below Wheeling during the Indian troubles, Col. Shepherd as County Lieutenant, had caused the erection of blockhouses in the vicinity for the safety of the Settlers. One of these was at Beech Bottom where Francis Duke was Commissary and in charge of the Fort. he dashed toward the Fort coming suddenly upon the Indians, he was shot down before he could reach the gate. He was so near that the Indians did not venture for his scalp until after dark, when he was dragged into one the cabins and scalped and his body stripped. His widow, Sarah, and two sons, John and Francis, survived him. His widow afterwards married Levi B. Springer. See Draper's notes. Withers and De Haas./memorial/14858483/david-shepherd--ENTS, (1977), p.90.RELL) to William WARNOCK, Jr.n 1804, William and Maryann (JOLLY) WARNOCK conveyed this land to Daniel TERREL, but the deed says it corners to Joseph FERREL-----------------------------

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