Mathew Gregg
grandson of Jane Owsley and James Gregg
Joined
the Revolutionary army at the age of 31 in October, 1776, enlisting from
Stafford Co. Virginia. He served a three year term enlistment. His company was
commanded by Capt. Mountjoy and belonged to the 10th Virginia Regiment . He was
transferred to Capt. Thomas Holt's company and Col. Buford commanded that. Later
he was transferred to Capt. Woodson's Company. He was in the Battles of Monmouth
of Strawberry Hill & Valentine's Hill. Later he served under Capt. John
Spotwood and Colonels Edward Stevens and John Green. He was discharged from the
army December 1779.
Some notes on Mathew
Gregg (1752-1832)-Nancy Gipson (died 1832)
Sometime before 1787
he and his family joined his brother in Bourbon Co., KY. By 1800 they had
moved to Campbell Co., KY, and by 1820 to Indiana. (Robert Gregg e-mail,
11/24/98)
The tax lists place
Matthew Gregg in Campbell Co. in 1796 and 1800. Mathew was tall, being
5 feet 11 inches in height, large boned and muscular. He was a
free will Baptist minister and a farmer. He first applied for pension as a
Revolutionary War veteran on 31 October 1818. He states that he can no longer
farm and take care of himself. His wife can not take care of him either.
His pension of $8.00/mongh began on 26 April 1818. Nancy may have been
adopted and raised by the Lady Greystock on a James River, VA, plantation.
(pg 38, James Lee Wignal, Following the Footprints in the Sands of Time)
On October 4, 1826,
Mathew and Nancy deeded 25 acres of land on Four Mile Creek to their son,
James Gregg of Rush Co., IN, for $200.00. This land adjoins land owned by
Samuel Thompson. Following the sale of this land they moved to Rush Co., IN,
where some of their other children had moved. Mathew and Nancy died
at their son, John's, home on March 30, 1832, of Black Plague. The
location of the grave is unknown.
Source: Leonard
Jeppeson.
Owsley Tidepool