Warren Cash ^31,32,33,34

  General Notes:

Warren Cash was born in Albermale Co., Virginia, probably in that par t of the county which later formed into Fluvanna County. By two separ ate affidavits, he stated he was living in Louise County, Virginia in1 772.
Family stories say that Warren (during his younger years) had a violen t quarrel with his adopted father over wages due Warren for work perfo rmed for a neighbor. As a result of this, Warren left home in anger,p robably in 1773. In 1776 he joined the Revolutionary Army, taking bac k the name of Cash at the age of 14. About 1774, Warren's grandfather , the senior Thomas Cash made an appearance and Warren lived with his grandfather for about 3 years. This is per his own affidavit.
A lawsuit is recorded in Louise Co., Virginia where Warren is known t o have lived at one time, in which Francis FIDLER and Son (name not gi ven) settled with Samuel Henson a judgement for 2 pounds and 7 shillin gs. Details of this proceeding are lacking other than the judgement a nd settlement. The lawsuit was terminated Jan 20, 1773 and it is prob able the son mentioned was Warren Cash Fidler, who at this time was ne ar 13 years of age. (Lewis L. Cash, grandson of Warren, relates thatt he said Warren Cash was hired to a neighbor farmer and his father, Fid ler, entered suit to collect his wages. Warren's attorney advised hi m to fight the case in the name of CASH, which legally was his name.)T here is also a record (1774) in Louis County of a Warren Fidler who wa s to be bound out to learn the trade of brick layer. These records,wh ile not conclusive, give some authenticity to family stories that hav e persisted for 150+ years.
A marriage record in Fluvanna County shows Warren Cash as a witness t o the marriage of Nancy Cash and Merrey Humphrey, Aug 8, 1780. MerryH umphrey was listed as a minor. (Lewis L. Cash, in his writing, gives the name of Warren's sister's husband as David Humphrey. This was th e name of Merrey's father. Warren's cousin, Alsie Fidler, married aDa vid Humphrey.

WAR RECORD OF WARREN CASH . . .
Just before his 16th birthday, Warren Cash enlisted in the Revolutiona ry Army at Charlottesville, Virginia in Captain Mathew Jouett's Virgin ia Military Company. This company was placed in the Continental Linei n the autumn of 1776. He served four years in General Washington's ar my before being discharged in March of 1780 at Alexandria, Virginia.
Warren was in the 7th Virginia Regiment, and participated participate d in the Battle of Brandywine in June of 1777. The 7th Virginia Regim ent was the fifth of six new regiments raised by the fourth Virginia c onvention in December, 1775. It was taken into Continental Service i n February of 1776, and the men recruited for the regiment met at Glou cester Courthouse to muster. In September of 1776, most of the person nel of the regiment were reported sick, but 15 men were well enough t o sent north two months later. In January of 1777, the remainder of t he regiment met Gen. George Washington. They suffered greatly at tha t time, as they lacked adequate tentage. The Regiment fought at the B attle of Brandywine in Gen. Woodford's brigade and was decimated. Cap tain Mathew Jouett, who Warren Cash served under, was seriously wounde d and later died. The next morning, the regiment's 23 year old majorl ed the survivors out of the woods with a bandana attached to his ramro d as a flag, since the regimental colors were lost in the melee durin g the previous day. During the winter of '77-'78, the regiment was qu artered at Valley Forge, PA. Despite heavy losses at Brandywine, ther egiment was fully manned in Sept of '78 when it was reorganized under the arrangement of the Virginia Continental Line at White Plains, NY . In the summer of 1779, the regiment became part of a detachment tha t was sent to Charleston, SC, where most of its personnel were capture d in 1780. In 1781, the 9th VA Regiment (stationed at Fort Pitt durin g the surrender of Charleston) was renumbered the 7th VA. (The Histor y of 7th VA Regiment - http://www.wlu.edu/~valine/7thva/history.htm)
Warren served in the 7th, 5th, and 11th VA Regiments and was in the 2n d VA Brigade when he was discharged. After the Battle of Brandywine,h e went into Winter Quarters (Oct 19, 1777) with Washington's troops a t Valley Forge, remaining there until June 19 of the following year.Ei ght days later he participated in the Battle of Monmouth. He was at V erplanck's Point across the Hudson River from Stoney Point when Genera l Wayne took the fort from the British, but was probably not in that e ngagement. Warren was in the retreat from West Plains, New York and l ater was with Washington at his Winter Quarters at Morristown, NewJers ey. He also served under Colonels Dangerfield and McClanachan. He wa s pensioned for his service, filing his Declaration in 1832 in Hardin County, KY when he was 72 years old.

LIFE IN KENTUCKY . . . .
On November 24, 1782 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, Warren Cash and Sus annah Baskett (daughter of Elder William Baskett, a Baptist preacher)w ere married.
Warren and Susannah Cash and son, Claiborne, with a party of Virginia ns (veterans of the Revolutionary War), came to Kentucky about 1784.Th ey traveled the Old Trading Path in the Shenandoah Valley, enteringth e District of Kentucky at the Cumberland Gap. From here they travele d the Wilderness Road, a narrow trail not wide enough for carts, north ward to Grubb's Station (which was probably a blockhouse fort), and sp ending the winter of 1784 there. This is located in what is now Madis on County, Kentucky on Tates Creek. The following Spring, they ventur ed north and built a cabin on the present site of Mortonsville, Woodfo rd County, Kentucky. It was about the year 1795 that Warren becamea B aptist preacher, serving for the next 50 years as pastor of: Clear Cr eek, Woodford County; Beach Creek and Fox Run, Shelby County; Simpson Creek, Nelson County; Otter Creek, Meade County; and Bethel, Union an d Gilead churches in Hardin County, Kentucky.
On March 17, 1824 Rev. Warren Cash organized and became pastor of Gile ad Baptist Church in Hardin County. Charter members included AbrahamC ash, Catherine Cash, Susan Cash, and Deborah Cash -- all family member s). Later Warren Thompson Cash became part of the congregation. Both Rev. Warren and Susannah Cash are buried in the Gilead Church yard in Glendale, Kentucky. You can view the historical marker placed at the entrance to the Gilead Church.

THANKS to Mrs. Maydelle Sharpe who put together a booklet of the histo ry of the Gilead Baptist Church, 1824-1974. This booklet was obtaine d by Earl Downey (descendent of Warren Cash) at the Cash Family Reunio n in Elisabethtown, Kentucky. The booklet contains records of some o f the proceedings of the Gilead Baptist Church during its early days.

More information is available in a book entitled Extracts from Book Re : Gilead Baptist Church 1824-1849, Hardin County, Kentucky and Data o n Family of Elder Warren Cash, 1760-1849.

HISTORY NOTE . . . .
When Warren and Susannah moved north into what is now Woodford, Nelson , and Shelby Counties between 1785-1790, they lived in the same neighb orhood as Abraham and Bathsheba Lincoln, grandparents of ABRAHAM LINCO LN, our 16th president. It was during the years Warren was preachingt hat the elder Lincoln was killed by Indians and it is likely Warren he lped to bury him. Dr. Louis Warren in his book on Lincoln mentions th e fact that Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln listened to the preachings of Warren Cash in the backwoods section of Kentucky. When Abraham Lin coln was a lad, he with his parents (Thomas and Nancy Lincoln) moved t o Spencer County, Indiana. At about the same time, Jeremiah Cash (War ren's son and also a Baptist preacher) also emigrated to Spencer Count y and became preacher at the Baptist church the Lincoln's attended.

LEGAL DOCUMENTS . . . .

Jos. King
Geo. Southerland WARREN CASH (1760-1849)\National Archives, Washington , DC -- AFFIDAVIT FOR NANCY (MRS. THOMAS) BAILEY - VA #W2991, pp 200-2 01 (1848), State of Kentucky, Hardin County
Be it remembered that on the 24th day of May one thousand eight hundre d and forty eight personally appeared before the undersigned Police Ju dge of Elizabethtown in the County and State aforesaid Warren Cash, wh o being first duly sworn according to law deposith and saith that he i s eighty years of age past, that he has resided in the County and Stat e aforesaid forty two years, and previous hereto he lived in Nelson Co unty, KY. That he was born in Albermale County, Virginia. That he wa s a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and draws a pension of eighty do llars per annum. That he is personally acquainted with Nancy Bailey o f Hardin County, Kentucky whose maiden name was Nancy Gentry. That h e was also personally acquainted with Thomas Bailey, deceased, who wa s the husband of the said Nancy Bailey. That he was also well acquain ted with John Gentry, the brother of the said Nancy. That he, the sai d Cash, and said John Gentry served in the same company and Regiment . That the said Gentry served out the term of twelve months with himt he said Cash, having been drafted for that time. That he is informed that the said Thomas Bailey ENLISTED about the same time the said Gent ry was DRAFTED. That he enlisted for twelve or eighteen months. That he can not say from his personal knowledge that the said Bailey serve d the term aforesaid. But he was [enlisted] to be a Revolutionary sold ier & never heard the fact doubted. That he was intimate many yearswi th said Bailey & has often heard him speak of his revolutionary servic es. That as far as he ever knew, he maintained the character of a tru thful and upright man. That he is informed that the said Nancy Bailey is now applying for a Pension of the services of her husband, the sai d Thomas Bailey. That he has know the said Nancy Bailey a number ofye ars, and believes she is an honest and truthful person, and would not knowingly make a statement which was not true. That according to his recollection the said John Gentry was drafted for twelve months as afo resaid, in the spring of 1778. That he knows the said Bailey was not in the same company with him, but if he was enlisted, he must have bel onged to the Virginia troops, which was distinct from the Continental line. That he knew the said Thomas Bailey and Nancy Bailey, as manan d wife several years, and knew several of their children, but only rec ollects one by name, and that is Carter Bailey.
Warren Cash (his mark)
Subscribed & sworn to in the presence of Susan M. Cash [Susan Cash's s ignature is in the same handwriting as the name of Warren Cash] befor e me, Police Judge of Elizabethtown, this 24th day of May 1848.
E. S. Browe, P.J.E.

CASH,Warren (1760-1849)/Virginia State Archives, Richmond, VA
VOUCHER OF DISCHARGE AND ELIGIBILITY FOR BOUNTY LAND (1782)
At a Court held for Fluvanna County [on] Thursday the 3rd day of Oct.1 782.
WARREN CASH came into Court and made it satisfactorily [sic] appear th at he enlisted as a Soldier in the Service of the United States for th e Term of three Years, and served the same, and was legally discharge d therefrom and produced a certificate of his discharge under the han d [of] Christian Febiger Col. Comd 2nd V.B. [bearing] date Jany 20, 17 80 and claiming the land allowed by Law. The Court are of the Optiont hat he is entitled thereto. Which is ordered to be certified.
Jno. Timberlake Dy. Clk.
a Copy

MARRIAGE BOND (1782)
Know all men by these presents that we, Warren Cash and Joseph King, a re held and firmly bound to his excellency Benjamin Harrison, Esquire , Governor or Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Virginia in thes um of 50 pounds Current money to be paid to this Governor or to his su ccessors in office to the payment whereof will and truly to be made.W e bind ourselves as the Executors and Administrators jointly and Sever ally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this23 rd day of Nov. Anno Dom. 1782.
The condition of the above Obligation is such that whereas there is am arriage Shortly intended to be had and solemnized between the above bo und Warren Cash and Susannah Basket. Now if there is no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage then this Obligation to be void or also torem ain in force and virtue.
[Signed]
Warren Cash (his mark)
Joseph King
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Jno. Timberlake

Sirs,
Please to grant Warren Cash marriage license. I am his [betrothed].
Susannah Baskett
Test.
1790

Warren married Susanna Baskett, daughter of William Baskett and Mary PACE, on Jan 2, 1783 in Fluvannah County, VA.³² (Susanna Baskett was born on Jun 25, 1762 in Fluvanna County, VA and died in Mar 1844 in Nolin, Hardin County, KY.)