Timothy Logan

Ancestor Number

A071162 »

Date of Birth

1759

Place of Birth

Rowan County, North Carolina

Date of Death

March 21, 1848

Place of Death

Garrard County, Kentucky

Spouse(s)

Sarah Boone

Children

Elizabeth

American Revolution Service

Timothy Logan, Pvt., enlisted at Kennedy’s Station Virginia in 1780, serving as an Indian spy under Capt. John Kennedy until August 1781. He also served under Gen. Benjamin Logan and Col. George Rogers Clark in his Indian Expedition. Pvt. Logan was part of the Battle at Pickaway Towns, and served at Bryant’s Station until peace was declared in 1783.

State of Service

Virginia

Donor

“The Ladies of Montana DAR” are 31 Daughters who chose randomly from their family’s Patriots the name of Timothy Logan. Pvt. Logan’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Alexander Lynch moved to Wild Plains MT circa 1864-1865. Pvt. Logan’s descendants, Maradell Binko and her granddaughter, Veronica Bovee-Anderson are third and fifth generation Montanans. “Oro-y-Plata”

Timothy Logan was a Private in the Revolutionary War and received a pension of $80 per year; he enlisted in Virginia although he resided in Garrard County, Kentucky.

Records from the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., show that Timothy Logan was born in Rowan County, North Carolina. He enlisted at Kennedy’s Station in 1780, an American Indian Spy in Captain John Kennedy’s Company and by his own account “was very actively employed as an Indian Spy scouring the surrounding country giving alarm to the Fort, and hunting for and supplying provisions to those who were in the Fort and keeping off the Indians, until the last of July or first of August 1781.” He then served under Captain Kennedy in General Benjamin Logan and Colonel George Rogers Clark’s Expedition, and was in the battle at Pickaway Towns and served at Bryant’s Station until peace was declared in 1783.

Timothy Logan, credit to Sue Arnott from Find a Grave.

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He was a farmer in the northeast part of Garrard County; on March 22, 1787, George Adams deeded 50 acres on Paint Lick Creek in Madison County to Timothy Logan.

Logan was married several times, first to Sarah Boone, daughter of Squire Boone, the brother of the legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone. Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth Logan, was born in Madison County, Kentucky in 1759, and she married James Alexander in March 1804. Timothy Logan died at the age of 96.

Logan’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Serilda Alexander and husband Neptune Lynch settled in Wild Plains, Montana, in 1870. The family established many of the town’s permanent infrastructure, such as the first Plains School, Post Office and sawmill. Today, their descendants are living in Montana and are members of Daughters of the American Revolution.