Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Stephen MCBRIDE
In May of 1778 Congress resolved to raise an army to defend the frontier from British and Indian hostility. Preparation would be centered at Fort Pitt. In time an expedition across the wilderness would be aimed at the British stronghold at Fort Pitt.
In 1778 , at the age of 19, Stephen McBride was drafted in Hampshire County, Virginia for a term of 6 months. He served under General Lachlan McIntosh while helping to construct Fort Laurens near present day Bolivar, Ohio. This was one of a number of frontier forts controlling the Indian tribes during the War for Independence. A force of militia and continentals, with McBride among them, moved from Fort Pitt by way of Fort McIntosh to the Bolver area. After the building of Fort Laurens, Stephen was placed under the command of Captain Foreman and marched to Fort Wheeling. He served a total of nine months and left the service early in 1779.
In 1780 he returned to Hopewell and married Hannah Smith. At some point he volunteered for the Continental Army and is recorded to have been with Washington at York Town. He served as a private and Drummer Boy. The York Town victory ended the war in 1781. He was a 22 year old " Drummer Boy ". Perhaps this non-combat status was due to his Quaker religion.
Stephen and Hannah with all their 12 kids ( Charity died in 1802), moved to Hanover( now Hanoverton ) Ohio . In the " History of Columbiana County Ohio ", published in 1879, page 156, which records early settlers to Hanover. It references Stephen McBride. Stephen beside farming must have been an able builder. As during the Revolutionary War at Fort Laurens, he again in 1806 took to the task of building. It is recorded that he erected a Friends meeting-house and was it's founder. This was a long log meeting house about a mile west of the village. In 1827 a brick building rplaced the log church. The McBride's property was near the church but in later years it came into the hands of the Firestone Family.
Stephen served in the Revolutionary War, but during the war he was converted to and joined the Society of Friends. As a result he would never accept his pension and arranged it so no one else could obtain it. His son Jeremiah and siblings filed for the pension but their request was denied since Stephen was not a pensioner.
Both Stephen and his wife are buried in the Sandy Spring Quaker cemetery in Hanoverton, Ohio. A U.S. government marker, at the interment site, is inscribed " Stephen McBride, US Soldier Revolutionary War 1776 "
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