DOCUMENTATIONS
( Civil War and The French and Indiana War )
ON DENTON AND BRUMMETT SURNAMES
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John W DENTON , born 1845 , Monticello, Wayne Co, KY. John was an member of COMPANY G, 30th Kentucky Mounted Infantry , US ARMY , in the Civil War . He was Mustered in on March 29, 1864 by Capt. Charles H. Fletcher at Camp Burnside, KY. This Infantry was Initially created to protect the Kentucky State Capital and to be in the service of the State, their mission changed as the War Department ordered that they be mustered into the US Service . The 30th became ' One of the MOST efficient one-year regiments in the service `.
James W DENTON , born 1847, Monticello, Wayne Co, KY. Served in US ARMY, Company C, 30th Kentucky Mounted Infantry in Civil War . James is the brother to John W DENTON .
Captain Abraham DENTON , was born 1700, Hempstead , NY. Died 12 Aug 1774, Shenandoah Co , VA. Abraham was an CAPTAIN in the French and Indian War in the Provincial Army of 1766.
Samuel DENTON , born 1734 , Orange Co, NY . Died 1811 in Pendleton District , SC . Samuel was an REVOLUTIONARY War Soldier, in the NC CONTINENTAL LINE . Is the brother to Capt. Abraham DENTON .
John DENTON , was born 17 June 1759 in Shenandoah Co, VA . Died 2 Jul 1842 , Monroe Co , TN . " In the year 1779 or 80 , he volunteered while living on Nolachucky River in what is now Washington Co , TN , in the CALVARY under COL. John SEVIER to go against the Cherokee Indians . When the company was raised , Joseph BULLEN was elected CAPTAIN and applicant 1st LT. in which offices they served . About 270 men were under COL. SEVIER who marched from Long Cedar Springs-- (in what is now Blount Co, TN ) , where they had an engagement with Indians and killed 12 of them and wounded many more . He killed one Indian whom he had pursued some distance and from him he took an new gun with " Georgia Rex " on the barrel and a new tomahawk , said to have been furnished by the BRITISH . He then under COL. SEVIER , marched back to Buckingham Island in French Broad , where they were joined by COL. CAMPBELL from VA with about 300 men . They then marched down the Tennessee River in what is now Monroe Co and killed several Indians in the campaign . In this campaign he was engaged as 1st LT. at least one month and half . He received no discharge and no pay and served in all eleven months .And the said COURT do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the WAR DEPARTMENT , that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states . Jeremiah FRAZER , Thomas J CALDWELL , William JAMES , William TIPTON ".
Abraham DENTON SR, born 1668 in Hempstead, LI, NY, died in 1729 in Orange Co, NY. Abraham was an private in Captain Cornelius HARING'S company from Orange Co, NY during 1715 . ( Some sources has him born 1675 ). He was in the Colonial Army .
George W BRUMMETT , US ARMY, Civil War, George was an farmer from Monticello, Kentucky . Served four years from 1856-1860 as an volunteer of the Kentucky 12th Infantry . He enlisted at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee .