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- Jesse Gaskins, was born about 1739. By 1776 he was living in Northumberland County, Virginia, when he became a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
By 1810 Jesse was living in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia, where he gave the following statement on July 24, 1820 while applying for his military pension
"I was in the battle of Germantown [Oct. 4, 1777], where I was taken prisoner by the enemy, put in jail at Philadelphia, and carried to New York in a prison ship kept there about one month; we were then exchanged and I got back to my own Army again, I was at the taking of Stony Point [July 16, 1779], when we took it at the point of the bayonet with wooden flints in our guns we were marched to Charleston South Carolina was in what is called the Siege of Charleston, after a close fire of about twenty-eight days, when our officers capitulated we were marched out, and stacked our arms we were then marched by the enemy back into the barracks as prisoners. I was kept by them about thirty days, I then made my escape from them and returned home in Northumberland County Virginia. ...
"I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, to wit, one horse, one cow, one yearling, one old rough table, a few old dishes & plates, five cups and saucers, a few broken knives & forks, knives made by the blacksmith, 2 weeding hoes, 2 dutch ovens, one kettle, tea kettle, one skillet, one old washing tub, 3 old barrels with heads out, 2 buckets, one plow, 2 pairs of gears, one old coffee mill, one old wheel & reel, 4 old chairs, 5 iron spoons, necessary bedding & wearing apparel. I have no trade, and live on rented land, my wife Susanna about 75 to 78 years of age very infirm and unable to do anything. One daughter Chloe about 22 years of age, with 3 small children of her own, one son now in his 18th year, but not of sound mind is all my family that lives with me."
Jesse Gaskins was pensioned at the rate of $8 per month starting May 28, 1818, for service as a Private in the Virginia Continental Line.
Jesses daughter Chloe never married. All of her children took the Gaskins surname. Her son John Albert Gaskins, born in 1826 in Marion County, came to Doddridge County sometime prior to 1847 when he married Mary Ann Pernell. All of the Gaskinses from Doddridge County descend from John and Mary.
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