Micajah Frasher ^40,139

• Born: 25 Sep 1753, Albemarle Co, VA ¹³⁹
• Marriage: Susanna Hamilton in 1774 in Staunton, VA ¹³⁹
• Died: 9 Nov 1843, Lawrence Co, Kentucky, USA ¹³⁹
• Buried: Frasher Hill Cemetery, Fort Gay, Wayne, West Virginia, USA ¹⁴⁰

  General Notes:

The author's 4th Great-Grandfather

Revolutionary War Veteran.  The Wayne county Genealogical and Historical Society erected a sign commerating Macajah Frasher's service, which shows the following:  "REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER'S GRAVE -   Micajah Frasher/Frazier and wife Susan Hamilton are buried nearby.  Enlisted in 1780; served 18 months in Va. Line under Pope.  Was at Hood's Fort, Williamsburg and under Washington against Cornwallis at Yorktown.  Progenitor of the area's Frasher/Frazier/Frazer/Frasure family."

Micajja served in the Revolutionary War. He Served at Albemarle Barracks, Hood's Fort, Little York, Williamsburg, Flowery Hundred and built breastworks at Yorktown.

The following is Micajah's deposition, given to support hi s Revolutionary War Service pension application. It is located in the National Archives , Washington, DC :

State of Missouri, County of Jackson, On this the second day of May in the year of our Lord, 1836, personally appeared before the County Court of Jackson County, Micager Frazeur, a resident of Rock Creek in the County of Jackson and State of Missouri, aged 82 years who being first duly sworn on his oath made the following statement in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congres s passed June 7, 1832.

I, Micager Frazeur of Rock Creek, Jackson County, State of Missouri, was born the 25th day of December, 1753, in the county of Albemarle, VA, and when a youth moved to Amherst Co., VA, where I grew up and was drafted into the service of the United States and marched to Albemarle Barracks under Captain Richard Ballinger, which place was commanded by Colonel Taylor, where I remained one month and was discharged and returned to Amherst Co. Not long after I returned home, I enlisted under Benjamin Taliferro for 18 months and marched under command of Captain Samuel Cabell from Amherst Co. down James River by Richmond to Williamsburg where he joined General Marques De Lafayette who was engaged in battle by the British and the morning when the British le t in their vessels down the river.

Shortly after we got to Williamsburg several companies of us went under command of Major Willis Cabell down to Amelia County to Hood's Fort, which was commanded at that time by Colonel Dabney. I also saw Major Hardiman there and at different times I saw Colonel Merriweather and General Lafayette. We were marching to the Flowery Hundred then back to Hood's Fort, then to the Flowery Hundred, etc. Before the expiration of my time, I was taken sick with yellow fever, and was very ill, and a relative of mine procured a furlough from General Lafayette for me and took me home, where I remained until I recovered and not long afterward I was drafted for 60 days and marched from Amherst County under Capta in Dawson to Williamsburg and to Hood's Fort and to the Flowery Hundred and was under Colonel Dabney; and at the end of 60 days I was discharged and returned home. And after tha t I was drafted again for 3 months and I served in the same part of the country I had been before, and at the end of the 3 months I was discharged and returned home, where I remained about one year. Then I removed to Wilkes County, North Carolina, where I remained about two years, in which time I went to Amherst County, Virginia, where I married.

Then moved to Pittsylvania County, Virginia where I remained about three years, then I moved to the western part of Vi rginia in a county on the Sandy River, where I remained about twelve months, when I came to the County of Jackson an d State of Missouri.

All the discharge I ever had burned in the conflagaration of a dwelling house; and I do not know of any person near me who can testify to those facts. I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and I declare that my name is not on any pension roll of any agency or state.

We, Samuel Short and James Garrett, residing near Rock Creek, in the County of Jackson and State of Missouri, hereby certify that we are acquainted with Micager Frazeur who wa s subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be 82 years of age, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have b een a soldier of the Revolutionary War and we concur in tha t opinion."

26 December 1842, Micajah completed another deposition before the County Court of Lawrence County, Kentucky, at Louisa,

Micajah married Susanna Hamilton, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, in 1774 in Staunton, VA.¹³⁹ (Susanna Hamilton was born about 1758 in Orange Co, Virginia, USA,¹³⁹ died in 1852 in Cabell Co, Virginia, USA and was buried Frasher Hill Cemetery in Fort Gay, Wayne, West Virginia, USA ¹³⁹.)