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Captain Matthew Arbuckle was born on 15 Jul 1740 in Botetourt Co, VA (son of James Arbuckle, Sr and Margaret Thompson); died on 27 Jul 1781 in Jackson River, Bath, VA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Military Officer, Frontiersman
- Probate: 20 Nov 1781, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; "An appraisement of the goods and chattels of Capt. Matthew Arbuckle."
Notes:
Matthew Arbuckle was a renowned frontiersman in western Virginia (now West Virginia) and the Ohio territory in the 1760, and is considered to be the first European to travel on his own (i.e. not in captivity) across the mountains of Virginia to the Ohio River. He was an officer in the Virginia miltia as early as 1767, and was a "gentleman justice" in Botetourt County Virginia from 1769 to 1773. In 1773 or 4, he was the guide and chief scout for British General Andrew Lewis in his campaign in the upper Ohio River Valley. In October, 1774, he led a Virginia militia company in the Battle of Point Pleasant, which is historically because it was the first battle in which Colonial and British armies were (effectively) on opposite sides. General Lewis was expected to join the Virginia Militia in defense of frontier settlements that were under attack by a Native American force led by the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. but General signed a peace agreement with a Shawnee conferation. His failure to assist the militia at the time of the Battle of Point Point Pleasant contributed to the miltia's sound defeat.
In 1777, Captain Arbuckle was in command of Fort Randolph at Point Pleasant, when he "detained" Cornstalk while Cornstalk was on a peace mission. When Cornstalk's son Elinipsico visited him at the fort, a Native American who was presumed to be part of Elinipsico's contingent killed a militiaman, whereupon a gang of militiamen raced into the fort and murdered Cornstalk, Elinipsico, and two companions. The murder was widely publicised and roundly crticized, but the militiamen were acquitted at trial because their fellow soldiers refused to testify againt them.
In 1789, Captain Arbuckle participated in Gen. George Rogers Clark's successful military expedition into the Northwest Territories (Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, etc.). Then, in 1790, he was the first settler of the new town of Lewisburg, (now West) Virginia, on the western slopes of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1781, while returning from a trip to the Virginia state capital at Williamsburg, he was killed by a falling tree during a storm.
Capt Arbuckle's son, Gen. Matthew Arbuckle, was instrumental in establishing peaceful relations between American and Native Americans in western Arkanas and eastern Oklahoma. The Arbuble Mountains of Oklahoma are named for Gen. Matthew Arbuckle.
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Buried:
GRid=19481302; lengthy obit of military career and life thereafter. Grave metal sign and Gravestone with curved top, both with inscriptions.
Died:
Killed by falling tree in a storm while returning to Greenbrier County from Jamestown
Matthew married Jane Lockhart in 1768 in Virginia. Jane was born in 1746 in Augusta Co, VA; died in 1781 in Augusta Co, VA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Charles Arbuckle was born on 24 Feb 1768 in Botetourt Co, VA; died on 27 Mar 1846 in Greenbrier Co, WV; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV.
- John Arbuckle was born on 2 Oct 1771 in Greenbrier Co, WV; died on 30 Sep 1843 in Knox Co, OH; was buried in Arbuckle Cemetery, Madison Co, OH.
Matthew married Frances Lawrence Hunter on 17 Dec 1774 in Botetourt Co, VA. Frances was born on 10 Mar 1749 in Botetourt Co, VA; died on 25 Jul 1834 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV; was buried in Welch Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- James Harvey Arbuckle was born on 17 Nov 1775 in Fort Donaldson, Greenbrier, WV; died on 7 Mar 1869 in Greenbrier Co, WV; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV.
- Matthew Arbuckle, Jr was born on 28 Dec 1778 in Greenbrier Co, WV; died on 11 Jun 1851 in Fort Smith, Sebastian, AR; was buried in Arbuckle Cemetery, Lavaca, Sebastian, AR.
- Thomas Arbuckle was born on 15 Jan 1780 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier, WV; died on 29 Sep 1838 in Henry Co, MO; was buried in High Tebo Farm Cemetery, Henry Co, MO.
- Samuel Arbuckle was born on 15 Feb 1782 in Greenbrier Co, WV; died on 6 May 1831 in Hopkinsville, Christian, KY.
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