FAUCETT: John Faucett has been the topic of more than one post. He is one of many ancestors I would love to meet. [Just to fill in some blanks in his story, if for no other reason!]
John was born in August 1751 in the Greenbrier Valley of Augusta County, Virginia. [Now Greenbrier Co., WV] About 1760, Indians, probably Shawnee, raided the valley. John was taken captive and his mother and siblings killed. He spent several years with the Indians and was adopted into the tribe. John probably had frequent contact with other whites during peaceful interludes while he was with the Indians. Versions vary as to how John returned to his people, but young Faucett was back among the whites by the early 1770s.
John was living near Beeson's Town about 12 miles from the Old Redstone Fort in when he was called into service with the Pennsylvania militia in 1777. He would serve six tours of duty as a "ranger and spy" on the western Pennsylvania, northern Virginia and eastern Ohio Territory frontier. In May or June of 1780 or 1781, while serving under Captain Pierce, John saw his first and only assignment to Virginia Regulars.
After the war, John turned to farming in Washington Co., PA. By 1797, John decided it was time to move on west. Faucett and his wife, Eve Fry, traveled overland to the Ohio River and began the trek along the river to Cincinnati, Ohio. Son Joseph was born along the way. The Faucetts settled north of Cincinnati in what would become Warren County. John saw his family grow and four of his children marry in Ohio. It was time to move again in the 1820s. John purchased two tracts of central Indiana land in 1823 and moved the family west the next year.
One tract was in Marion County, while the other was in newly formed Hendricks County. John settled in Marion and deeded the other to Joseph and his two sons-in-law. Family social activities seemed to have taken place in Hendricks County. The Faucetts attended church at Shiloh Methodist Church and several of them were buried in the church cemetery.
John and son David farmed the Marion Co. land until John's death in 1838.
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