Other Events:

• NSDAR Ancestor Number: Ancestor #: A076867
• Military Service (Specific): American Revolutionary War Service: VIRGINIA Rank: PRIVATE Service Description: 1) CAPTS LAIRD & LAMB, COLS GREEN & WOOD
• Military Service: 5 Sep 1780, Rockingham County, Virginia; Colonel James Wood registers or grants a pass for Francis Meadows who reported that his time of service had expired and that he had escaped imprisonment at Charles Town. Francis was granted a pass until such time that a rendezvous with his company could be arranged and an inquiry be made into his enlistment.
• Military Service: 26 Feb 1787, Rockingham County, Virginia; Some time about 1787, Francis Meadows sent a request to the Auditor of Accounts in Richmond, Virginia to deliver any certificates due for pay and land to Captain John Hopkins. On 26 February 1787, Francis appeared before Benjamin Harrison, a Justice of the Peace in Rockingham County, Virginia, whereby he signed and acknowledged the order [the request to forward payment due for services to Captain John Hopkins].
• Military Service: 10 Mar 1787, Rockingham County, Virginia; L. Hawes, formerly of L. Company, 1st Virginia Regiment, certified that Francis Meadows enlisted about the first of January 1777 and continued in the original 10th Virginia Regiment where he was captured by the British at Charles Town and later made his escape; his term of service being expired. A note from 14 Nov 1788 indicates that the claim had not yet been settled.
• Military Service: 15 Nov 1790, Rockingham County, Virginia; Francis Meadows to the Honorable Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates . . . Francis requested that they direct the Auditor of Public Accounts to settle his accounts. From the book source, it would appear that his petition was referred to Claims and there is a date of 8 Dec 1790.
• Military Pension: 29 Jan 1819, Monroe County, Virginia; W5367
• Residence: 7 Aug 1820, Peterstown, Monroe County, West Virginia

Notes:

I am not currently aware of the children of Francis Meadows Jr. but, if he had a son by the same name, then a land record in Monroe County, Virginia can probably be attributed to him. The record indicates that this 50 acres was adjacent to land that he already owned there.

URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=363&last=&g_p=G83&collection=LO Grant
Author Meadows, Frs., Jr. grantee.
Title Land grant 1 September 1834.
Summary Location: Monroe County.
Description: 50 acres about 1 mile from Greenbrier River.
Source: Land Office Grants No. 83, 1833-1837, p. 363 (Reel 149).
Part of the index to the recorded copies of grants issued by the Virginia Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125- , reels 369-.
Subject - Personal Meadows, Frs., Jr. grantee.
Subject - Topical Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- West Virginia -- Monroe County.
Subject -Geographic Monroe County (W. Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Land grants -- West Virginia -- Monroe County.
Added Entry Virginia. Land Office. Register. Land grants, 1779-
Library of Virginia. Archives.

System Number 000794823

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

Died:
Monroe County is now in West Virginia.

Francis Frances Bush 16 Sep 1797Rockingham County, Virginia. Frances 1774 Rockingham County, Virginia; 8 Feb 1853Monroe County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]