Other Events:

• NSDAR Ancestor Number: A076875
• Military Service (Specific): 1774, Augusta County, Virginia; Dunmore's War Augusta County, Virginia Captain William Nalle's Company (Paid for 112 Days of Service)
• Military Service: Jul 1776, Sweet Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia; Enlisted in the 12th Virginia Regiment in the company commanded by Captain Matthew Arbuckle.
• Military Service: Aug 1778; Discharged from service
• Military Service (Specific): Jul 1776 - Aug 1778; American Revolutionary War 12th Virginia Regiment Captain Matthew Arbuckle's 5th Company, Colonel James Wood in command 12 Nov 1776 to 14 Sep 1778.
• Personal Property Taxation: 1782, Greenbrier County, Virginia
• Personal Property Taxation: 1785
• Personal Property Taxation: 1786, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 Poll (Adult, Tax-paying or taxable White Males), 3 horses, 8 "Neats" (Archaic Term Meaning a cow or other domestic bovine animal). Tax Levied, L 0,18,0.
• Military Service: 20 Aug 1787; Full payment of balance due for service in the Revolutionary War.
• Personal Property Taxation: 1 Oct 1791, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 white Tithable over 16, 2 horses, mares, colts, &c. Tax Levied, not stated.
• Personal Property Taxation: 16 Jun 1792, Greenbrier County, Virginia; Appears to be 5 White Tithables and 3 Horses.
• Personal Property Taxation: 8 May 1793, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable, 2 horses.
• Personal Property Taxation: 20 Jun 1794, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable over 16 years of age, 2 horses, mares, &c.
• Personal Property Taxation: 7 Apr 1795, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable over 16 years of age, 1 horse, mare, &c.
• Personal Property Taxation: 5 May 1796, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable over 16 years of age, 2 horses, mares, &c.
• Personal Property Taxation: 18 Mar 1797, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable over 16 years old, 1 horse, mare, &c.
• Personal Property Taxation: 19 Apr 1798, Greenbrier County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable, 1 horse. Tax Levied, 9 cents.
• Personal Property Taxation: 1799, Monroe County, Virginia; 1 White Tithable, no other taxable personal property indicated.
• Residence: Abt 1801, Madison County, Kentucky; Israel is said to have moved his family to Madison County, Kentucky.
• Known Presence: 28 Dec 1806, Madison County, Kentucky; On this date, Israel Meadows wrote a letter requesting that a license be granted to William Chambers to marry his daughter, Mary Meadows, that all parties were satisfied. Israel's signature was witnessed by John Meadows and William Meadows.
• Personal Property Taxation: 1807, Clark County, Kentucky; Israel is said to appear on this county's tax list.
• Personal Property Taxation: 1808, Estill County, Kentucky; Israel is said to appear on the Estill County tax list in the year of the county's forming.
• Residence: 1810, Estill County, Kentucky
• Military Pension: 22 Sep 1818, Estill County, Kentucky; S8451 & W8451
• Will: 8 May 1821, Estill County, Kentucky; Writing of Will
• Miscellaneous: 7 Jun 1821, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky; One Lam Hanson wrote a letter, which doesn't bear the recipient's name, stating that, "The pension certificates ____?____ Israel Meadows & Thomas Harris were received by Bullock and Barnes respectively. The enclosed is returned to you as ammended and would thank you to forward [Jacob] Dooley's certificate to me. Yours Respectfully Lam Hanson" I am uncertain as to what this letter meant except to think that perhaps the certificates were misdirected, were being forwarded in the postal system of the day or that perhaps Lam Hanson was involved in processing the pensions of Revolutionary War veterans. Source, the pension file of Jacob Dooley pension file number W1837.
• Known Presence: 12 Sep 1823, Estill County, Kentucky; Gave deposition in court in support of Peter Allumbaugh's Revolutionary War Pension Application (Pension Number S36401). Israel Meadows appeared in Estill County, Kentucky court on 12 September 1823 and stated that he was a citizen of Estill County, Kentucky, he was sixty eight years old and swore that Peter Allumbaugh, a citizen of Madison County, Kentucky enlisted some time in October 1775 as a soldier in the army of the revolution in the county of Greenbriar and state of Virginia under the command of Captain Mathew Arbuckle in the 12th Virginia Regiment on the Continental Establishment . . .

Notes:

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1 _FA1
2 PLAC Enlisted in Rev. War at Virginia, Sweet Springs
2 SOUR Book: Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files
1 _FA2
2 DATE 1800
2 PLAC Moved to Kentucky, Madison County
2 SOUR Book: Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files
1 _FA3
2 PLAC Moved to Kentucky, Estill County
2 SOUR Book: Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files
1 _FA4
2 DATE 22 SEP 1818
2 PLAC Applied for pension in Kentucky, Estill County
2 SOUR Book: at Largo Library, Name?
1 _FA5
2 DATE 12 MAY 1819
2 PLAC Name placed on the pension roll in Kentucky, Estill County
2 SOUR Book: at Largo Library, Name?

Israel and Barbara had ten children. Nancy was their oldest child, William was the oldest son, Jacob was the seventh child and Rebeckah was the youngest. Some other Meadows names that appear in records from Estill County's Courthouse are, Tabitha Meadows, and Ezekiel C. Meadows. These are probably additional children of Israel's.

WILL: Will Of Israel Meadows
May 8, 1821

WILL: In the name of God, Amen. I, Israel Meadows, being week in body, but sound
mind and memory do make, ordain and publish this instrument to be my last
will and testament. It is my will and desire that Sydney L. Meadows, son of
Jacob B. Meadows, have cow now at the house of said Jacob B. Meadows and
that Perry A. Meadows, son of said Jacob Meadows, have the calf of said cow.
It is my will that the tract of land down in Estill County on Millers Creek
adjoining the land of said Jacob B. Meadows and the land of John Horn be
divested to said Sydney L. Meadows and Perry A. Meadows, their heirs and
assigns for ever. It is my will that the tract of land on which I live in
Estill County be divested to John Horn, his heirs and assigns for ever, upon
his paying twenty dollars to my estate and his giving up to my estate a bay
mare that said Horn has. It is my will that my wife Barbara Meadows have the
whole tract of land for a home during her natural life that is herein before
divested to John Horn and life estate have preference over the inheritance
to said Horn, that is to say that said Horn have the same after her death
and my request is that my said wife do not keep too much stock on the place.
My will is that the tract of land that William Edens lives on in Estill
County on Millers Creek or a branch of said creek, be divested to my
grandson James W. Cole to him and his heirs for ever, and I also leave to
him my rifle gun. All the balance of my estate I give to my wife during her
natural life, and my wish is that she dispose of the same as she pleases,
except, the colt of my bald faced mare with which she has now in foal which
I give to Sally Horn and excepting the first colt of the bay mare that John
Horn is to give up to my estate which first colt, when it is foaled, I give
to Elizabeth Horn. I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this
20th day of September 1827.

WILL: Israel Meadows

WILL: I make the following addition to the above will and testament and as part
thereof towit, it is my will that my granddaughter, Tabitha Meadows, have a
heifer that is at my house provided my wife should be willing to it.

WILL: Israel Meadows

WILL: Witnesses: George Henrdon, James R. Turnbull

PENSION: REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS - Selected Records from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Files - Film No. M805-578 - Abstracted from copies of the original claims by June Bork, June 1993:

PENSION: ISRAEL MEADOWS - wife BARBARA (Greene): No. W.8451

PENSION: (Barbara Meadows, a resident of Estill Co, KY in 1840, age 91 (born 1749?) and drawing a Pension as WIDOW of a Rev. Soldier whose given name is not stated on Census).

PENSION: 1818 Sep 22 - Estill County, Kentucky - Personally appeared ISRAEL MEADOWS, aged 62 years; who made oath that he is a citizen of Estill County and that he was enlisted for 2 years at the Smith Spring in the state of Virginia on or about July 1776 by James McNett and served under Capt. Moses Arbucle in the 12th or 13th Regiment of Virginia Line until about August 1778 when he was honorably discharged from service at POINT PLEASANT (Lord Dunsmore's War) in Virginia (now West Virginia); that he was in service 2 years and 3 months having served 3 months longer and was not in any battles of importance. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has lost his discharge and has no evidence in his power of his services and discharge other than that which is here transmitted.

PENSION: ALEXANDER REED states that he was a soldier in the war of the revolution and served in the same company with the within named Meadows for about 18 months and knows that Meadows served for the period in the company and regt. mentioned... and understood that Meadows marched to the frontier near POINT PLEASANT..

PENSION: 1820 Oct 23 - Clarke Co, KY--- On this day personally appeared ISRAEL MEADOWS, aged 65 years, residence in Estill County and declares that he served in the war as a private.. and that he is entitled to a Pension.. Cert. No.10,533 dated 12 May 1819.. "that I have not sence that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property for any part thereof with intent thereby to demonish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress.. my property consists of 1 mare valued at $20; 1 cow at $10; household furniture and farming utensils at $20 = Total $50.. that the debts due me are not more than equal to what he owes other people.. that he has no trade and is by a common labour.. that his wife is aged 63 years.. that he and she are infirm and unable to support themselves by their own labour and without the aid of public or private bounty that they cannot exist.. /s/ ISRAEL MEADOWS

PENSION: 1838 Oct 5 - Estill Co, KY-- Personally appeared BARBARA MEADOWS, widow of ISREAL MEADOWS, DEC'D who was reputed to be a soldier of the revolution and a pensioner.. that she is the widow and her husband was in the war before her marriage and again after their marriage for several months.. she thinks at least 12 months at POINT PLEASANT.. she knows of no record of her age, but she has always understood that she was born on Easter Day in the year of General Braddocks defeat which she thinks was in 1757 and according to her best recollection she was married at the age of 23 going on 24 years old on the 1st day of July but the year she can not recollect. At the time of her marriage she and her husband resided in Greenbrier County, Virginia but there being no parson near, they went over Peters mountain and married on the east side thereof at the house of one Henry Smith but whether this was in Greenbrier County or not (in Botetourt Co) she does not know nor does she recollect the name of the parson who married them. Her first child was born the next spring after her marriage and if living would be 60 years old next spring. She had ten children by her husband but has no record of their ages except a mutilated one from which she can tell that her 7th child was born November 8 1792 and her 10th and last on the 18 July 1799. She knows of no person living who witnessed her marriage.. she states that after her marriage she and her husband continued to reside in Greenbrier Co Virginia until a year or two after the birth of her youngest child that they then moved to Madison County Kentucky (early in 1800) where they resided a few years before they moved to Estill county, Kentucky when her husband died.. she 'thinks 11 years since in the month of September past and where she has ever since continued to reside.. She states positively that her husband was a pensioner of the govt. of the U.S. for several years previous to his death and drew as such $96 per year at Lexington, KY.

PENSION: 1838 Oct 5 - ZACHARIAH PHILLIPS of Estill Co, KY says on oath that he was born in the year 1763 and first became acquainted with ISRAIL MEADOWS DEC'D ABOUT 50 years ago in the County of Greenbrier, Virginia.. that he and BARBARA MEADOWS his widow who has signed the foregoing declaration were then living together as man and wife and continued to do so till the death of the said Izrail which took place as he believes on 30 September 1827 in Estill County and that he never heard any one to question the loyality of their marriage. At the time they had several children one named NANCY who he afterwards married. His wife was at that time a girl 18 or 20 and from what he has always understood as to the age of his deceased wife she would if living be 60 years old the next spring.

PENSION: He thinks that the said BARBARA MEADOWS at the time of their marriage was at that time in BOTETOURT COUNTY... /s/ ZACHARIAH PHILLIPS

PENSION: 1839 - the widow stated that she was married in 1778 or in 1779.

PENSION: 1842 - she made another statement in which she said that her previous statement that she was married 1778 or 1779 was an error, as she had become convinced that her marriage took place in 1776 - she having been a married woman at the time her husband was in the army. BARBARA MEADOWS was allowed pension on her application executed 5 Oct 1838. She stated that she had ten children by her marriage, the names of some of the children were:

PENSION: Oldest, a daughter, NANCY MEADOWS born 1779 and married ZACHARIAH PHILLIPS and was dead in 1839

PENSION: Oldest son, WILLIAM MEADOWS, aged 58 years in 1839 (born 1781)

PENSION: Daughter, ELIZABETH MEADOWS, born Dec 1786; married Mr. COLE and in 1839 made affidavit in Fayette Co, KY.

PENSION: Seventh child, son JACOB MEADOWS, born 8 Nov 1792; in 1839 living in Indiana

PENSION: Tenth child, daughter REBECKAH MEADOWS, born 18 July 1799. (other children not shown).

PENSION: That her name before marriage was BARBARA GREENE.

Military Service:
Monroe County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
I did not find Israel Meadows on the 1785 Greenbrier County, Virginia (Now West Virginia) Personal Property Tax List.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

There is a William Meadows on the same tax list page who was probably the brother of Israel.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

There are several other Meadows in this list; probably brothers, uncles, etc of Israel.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Additional Meadows family members on this page.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Greenbrier County is now in West Virginia.

Personal Property Taxation:
Other Meadows individuals on the same page:
Meadows, Aires?
Meadows, William Jr.
Meadows, Mathias
Meadows, William Sr.

Monroe County, Virginia (Now in West Virginia) was formed in 1799; the family ended up in this newly formed county.

Will:
What follows is a transcription of the Will as posted by Jen Bawden.

Will Of Israel Meadows
May 8, 1821

In the name of God, Amen. I, Israel Meadows, being week in body, but sound mind and memory do make, ordain and publish this instrument to be my last will and testament. It is my will and desire that Sydney L. Meadows, son of Jacob B. Meadows, have cow now at the house of said Jacob B. Meadows and that Perry A. Meadows, son of said Jacob Meadows, have the calf of said cow. It is my will that the tract of land down in Estill County on Millers Creek adjoining the land of said Jacob B. Meadows and the land of John Horn be divested to said Sydney L. Meadows and Perry A. Meadows, their heirs and assigns for ever. It is my will that the tract of land on which I live in Estill County be divested to John Horn, his heirs and assigns for ever, upon his paying twenty dollars to my estate and his giving up to my estate a bay mare that said Horn has. It is my will that my wife Barbara Meadows have the whole tract of land for a home during her natural life that is herein before divested to John Horn and life estate have preference over the inheritance to said Horn, that is to say that said Horn have the same after her death and my request is that my said wife do not keep too much stock on the place. My will is that the tract of land that William Edens lives on in Estill County on Millers Creek or a branch of said creek, be divested to my grandson James W. Cole to him and his heirs for ever, and I also leave to him my rifle gun. All the balance of my estate I give to my wife during her natural life, and my wish is that she dispose of the same as she pleases, except, the colt of my bald faced mare with which she has now in foal which I give to Sally Horn and excepting the first colt of the bay mare that John Horn is to give up to my estate which first colt, when it is foaled, I give to Elizabeth Horn.

I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this 20th day of September 1827.

Israel Meadows

I make the following addition to the above will and testament and as part thereof to wit, it is my will that my granddaughter, Tabitha Meadows, have a heifer that is at my house provided my wife should be willing to it.

Israel Meadows

Witnesses: George Henrdon, James R. Turnbull

The land described as being in Estill County on Miller's Creek and adjoining the land of John Horn appears to be near the land that was owned by Aaron Horn's widow, Elizabeth which was settled between 1778 and 1803 amid a lawsuit between mother and son. See Elizabeth, Person ID I153 in this database; includes some of the images of the actual land transaction and survey. I suspect that the John Horn listed in Israels Will was a descendant of Aaron Horn and Elizabeth but if correct, I do not know the relationship (DJS - 20 Feb 2013).

The Will of Israel Meadows should be found in the Estill County, Kentucky, Probate Records on FHL microfilm.

Vols. A-C 1808-1857 Family History Library US/CAN Film 254623

Miscellaneous:
The person with the name Bullock is mentioned in Israel's pension file as having been a justice of the peace.

Israel Barbara Green about 08 Jul 1776Botetourt County, Virginia. Barbara (daughter of Garrett Green and Elizabeth) 30 Mar 1755 Botetourt County, Virginia; Aug 1845Estill County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to information in I.G.I. records, Israel and Barbara were married on July 08, 1778.

On October 5, 1838 in Estill County Kentucky, Barbara Meadows, "an aged woman" made application for a widow's pension under the 1836 act stating that she is the widow of Israel Meadows; that she was married to him before he entered the service in the company of Captain Matthew Arbuckle, under Colonel Lewis; that she was born on Easter day in the year of General Braddock's defeat which he is told was in 1755; that she was married at the age of 23 going on
24 years of age and on the 8th day of July but she cannot recall the year; that there being no Parson near to where they lived they went over peters mountain and were married on the East side thereof at the house of one Henry Smith but whether it was in Greenbrier County or not she does not know; nor does she recollect the name of the Parson who married them; her first child was born the next spring after their marriage and if living would be 60 years old; that her
husband died in the month of September she thinks 11 years ago; that her husband was a pensioner for his service in the revolution at the rate of $96 per annum.

A number of sources state that Israel and Barbara were married in Botetourt County, Virginia and that is likely accurate; Consider the following:

Barbara stated that she was born on Easter Day in the year of Braddock's Defeat. That date of birth would then be Easter Day in 1755. Add 23 or 24 years to 1755 and you have 1778 or 1779; Greenbrier County existed at this time and is therefore a possibility for the marriage location or records of a marriage should they exist.

In Barbara's statements of October 5, 1838 she said that there were no Parson's near their home so they crossed over Peter's Mountain and were married on the east side. Today, there is a Peter's Mountain, presumably the same Peter's Mountain, on the border between West Virginia and Virginia. A portion of the western slope of Peters Mountain lies in Monroe County, West Virginia while all of the eastern side is in the current counties of Allegheny, Craig and Giles, Virginia. In 1778 or 1779, crossing almost any portion of Peters Mountain to the east slope would have put Israel and Barbara in Botetourt County, Virginia. However, a crossing in the southmost third of Peters Mountain would have put them in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Barbara said that her marriage took place at the home of Henry Smith. The earliest personal property tax records that I have been able to review for Botetourt County did not reveal a Henry Smith in the year 1783. Locating property for a Henry Smith in Botetourt County would be helpful confirmation.

1. Unknown Child of Israel Meadows
2. Nancy Meadows 1779 Greenbrier County, Virginia; before 17 May 1830Estill County, Kentucky.
3. William Meadows 1781 Greenbrier County, Virginia.
4. Elizabeth Meadows Dec 1786 Greenbrier County, Virginia; 20 Sep 1856.
5. Mary Meadows 1789 Greenbrier County, Virginia; 16 Mar 1849.
6. John Meadows 14 Aug 1791 Greenbrier County, Virginia.
7. Jacob Burns Meadows 08 Nov 1792 Greenbrier County, Virginia.
8. Sarah Meadows 20 Aug 1796 Greenbrier County, Virginia.
9. Rebecca L. Meadows 18 Jul 1799 Greenbrier County, Virginia.

Other Events:

• Military Service (Specific): Dunmore's War Augusta County, Virginia Captain Alexander McClanahan's Company Served 122 Days
• Residence: 7 Aug 1820, Peterstown, Monroe County, West Virginia

Notes:

Residence:
At this time, Monroe County was part of Virginia.

Died:
Francis Meadows Sr. is confused in some sources with the service record of his son by the same name. It was Francis Meadows Jr. who served in the Revolutionary War and received a pension for that service.

Francis Mary Kesiah Bell about 1758Essex County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of John Bell) 20 Nov 1736 Orange County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas Ann Bourne. Ann (daughter of Thomas Bourne) about 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas Elizabeth Wood. Elizabeth about 1680 Virginia; before 1758. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]