General Matthew Arbuckle, Jr

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• Residence: Feb 1822, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA
• Military: Feb 1822, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA; Post Commander
• Residence: May 1824, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA
• Military: May 1824, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA; Post Commander
• Military: 1837, West Point, Orange County, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA; Post Commander

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According to his Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arbuckle,_Jr. he was a career military officer, and a rival of Gen Zachary Taylor. Associated primarily with Fort Smith, Arkansas and Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, which he established in the 1820s. He built roads and maintained peaceful relationships with local Indians as well as Indian who were relocated there. The Arbuckle Mountains of eastern Oklahoma are named after him.

Died:
Died in a Cholera epidemic shortly after being reassigned to his position as commander of Fort Smith after Pres Zachary Taylor, a professional rival, died in office.

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• Occupation: Military Officer, Frontiersman
• Probate: 20 Nov 1781, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; "An appraisement of the goods and chattels of Capt. Matthew Arbuckle."

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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.

See Captain Matthew Arbuckle'ss Wikipedia article☍


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 Frances Lawrence Hunter on 17 Dec 1774 in Botetourt County, Virginia, USA. Frances was born on 10 Mar 1749 in Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; died on 25 Jul 1834 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Welch Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: James Arbuckle
• Arrival: Bef 1740, Virginia, USA; Before the birth of their first son
• Residence: 1749, Balcony Falls, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA; "Greenbrier pioneers and their homes" says that he settled on land on the James River granted by King George II. A letter from his grandson James II says that he lived for a time on the James RIver, and his son William was born in 1752 in Balcony Falls
• Residence: 5 Sep 1749, Augusta County, Virginia, USA; Purchase of 400 acres on the North side of the James River, below the Isand Ford
• Residence: 1779, Accomack County, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1780, Accomack County, Virginia, USA

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Buried:
GRid=90938675; short bio, no photo

James married Margaret Thompson on 12 Feb 1734 in Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Margaret was born on 1 Jan 1714 in Scotland; died in 1761 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
GRid=96521594; no photos; minimal biographical information

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• Baptism: 9 Sep 1686, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

John married Margaret Bartholomew. Margaret was born in 1685 in Scotland; died in 1766. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1762, Augusta County, Virginia, USA