The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-03-03
Another SON of a Revolutionary Sire.
For Tie Egis and InteIligencer

For The Egs and Inteligencer.
| read with much interest in your last issue
DIR. Archer'S account of the Revolutionary
soldier Parker Fl. Lee, and of his two surviv-
| ing sons Parker H. Lee and James Carvil Lee,
| now residing on Tobacco Run, in this county.
| DIR. Archer in concluding his letter has asked
| for information in regard to the last resting
places of those Revolutionary soldiers who
may he buried in.the county, he supposing, as
| take it. that no other son or child of Revolu-
| tionaIy officer now resides i'll the county; but
| if such is his supposition hd is mistaken.
Jacob Rutledge the son or Lieutenant
Joshua Rutledge Of the Revolutionary army.
| father, at the Brick House farm, on Cat Tail
| Branch, a tributary of Little Creek, in the 4th
district OF this county, near Madonna Z; O.
| He is about 10 years OF age, and hale and hear
| ty for man of his years, and Is the owner OF
| one of the best improved farms in the district,
pGs 5ee by his first 3e Miss Bss
| Delaware, and the only child now living, his
| brothers and sisters, of whom there were many,
being all now dead. His father married Il
second time but left no children by the second
marriage.
Lieut.. Joshua Rutledge went into the army
under 81 years of age, fought through the war,
and came home when peace was made.
He was captured in one of the campaigns in
the South by the enemy, ahd was Imprisoned
harbor. This Information i'll regard to his
| imprisonment have on the authority of the
late Mr.. Ohio Scott. Whether he escaped from
the hulKs was exchanged | have no Know
| ledge. but rather AIN of the opinion that he
eSca ped, as he told Mr.. Scott that the most de-
lcious nlorSel of food he had ever eaten III his
| life was biscuit which was spread some
lard, in the place of butter, given him by
woman i'll Charleston, after lie had left the
prison ships. He was member of the society
of the Cincinnati, as | remember to have seen
at the residence of Jacob Rutledge, many years
ago, the diploma of the order, on parchment,
containing his name, and attested by many Of
fcers of the army, his old comrades and Gill
GERS, ut the time of the society.
The State granted to Lieut.. Joshua Rutledge
thnr nffi n a 81
Line in the Revolutionary army certain tracts
of wild land, lying west of Fort Cumberland, in
Allegheny, now Garrett county, as some small
recoInpense for their servicesin the war. How
valuable these grants were may be judged of
from his case. His four tracts of 90 acres
each 200 in all, he devised to his oldest daugh-
tcrs Elizabeth, wife of james Nelson, and
Mary Ann, wife of Ignatius Rutledge, and the
title still stands in the descendants of his devil
sees, the lands not being of sufficient value to
pay for the trouble of selling them. ..
after the war Captain Rutledge, as he was
afterwards called, moved to Washington coun-
ty, near Hagerstown, and settled on lands be-
longing to Col Tilghnan, of the Revolution
AIRY army, but after Il short residence there he
returned to Hartford, his brother, John Rut-
tract of land called ''Rich Neck" lying be-
tween and at the intersection of Little and
Deer Creeks, which he afterwards divided into
two farms, and gave his sons, Edward and
Abraham, and now constituting the fine farms
of County Commissioner VIM A. Hope, part
OF the VIM g. Roberts land, ana the greater
part the fine tracts owned by Col. E. II. Web
ster, on Little Creek. .. .-..'
John Rutledge, who was married but with
out children, at his death gave his brother
Lieut.. Joshua Rutledge, the Brick House
farm, part of which, about 400 acres in all, is
now in the possession OF JACOB Rutledge, the
son. on which he resides.
Lieut. Joshua Rutledge lived on the Brick
House farm until his death, and lies buried
i'll the family burial ground on the property,
where his tomb stands on the side of the hill
overlooking the residence, but the date of his
death L am unable to give.
In what company or command of the Mary
land Line Lieut.. Rutled9e entered, / do not
know, but think he must have enlisted in Bal
timore county, as his father, Abraham Rut-
ledge, lived on q tract of MY Lady's Manor"
/ in Baltimore county, the Revolutionary War,
as we all know, breaking cut after Hartford
was cut Off from Baltimore county in 1878.
Il.