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Gen Griffith Rutherford
Griffith Rutherfors was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, a political leader in North Carolina, and an important figure in the early history of the Southwest Territory and the state of Tennessee. Originally from Ireland, born in 1721, Rutherford immigrated with his parents to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Colony, at the age of 18. In 1753, he moved to Rowan County, in the Province of North Carolina, where he married Elizabeth Graham. he moved to Rowan County, in the Province of North Carolina, where he married Elizabeth Graham. During the French and Indian War, Rutherford became a captain of a local British colonial militia. He continued serving in the militia until the start of the American Revolution in 1775, when he enlisted in the North Carolina militia as a colonel. He was appointed to the post of brigadier general of the "Salisbury District Brigade" in May 1776, and he participated in the initial phases of the wars against the Cherokee Indians along the frontier. In June 1780, Rutherford was partly responsible for the Loyalist defeat in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill. He was present at the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780, and was taken prisoner by the British. After a prisoner exchange in 1781, Rutherford participated in several other campaigns, including further attacks on the Chickamauga faction of the Cherokee. An active member of his community, Rutherford served in multiple civil occupations. He was a representative of both houses of the North Carolina House of Commons and as an unsuccessful candidate for governor. Rutherford was an Anti-Federalist and was appointed President of the Legislative Council of the Southwest Territory in 1794. He retired to Sumner County, Tennessee, where he died on August 10, 1805, at the age of 84.
1800 - 1850 Rutherfords
John Rutherford was born in Virginia in 1776, migrated to North Carolina with is brother David, then to Kentucky where he married Sarah Sloan. Later John and David migrated to Indiana, in about 1810, and is listed in the 1810 US Census as living is Switzerland County Indiana with several children. David the same year is listed in Washington County Indiana.
John and Sarah have a son Elijah born in Kentucky. He marries Rebecca Harlow in Indiana and they have a daughter Mary Ann. She marries Xavier (Frank) Hardenburger in Clark County, Indiana in 1854. They move to Iowa, and then to Nebraska.
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Later Rutherfords
In the 1850 US Census for Indiana there are several Rutherfords listed in addition to Elijah. They are John, David, William Hezekiah. It is believed that John anad Sarah Sloan Rutherford are the parents of Elijah. John and Sarah were married in Wayne County Knetucky in 1804. John, David and William are all mentioned in the will of William C. Rutherford dated 1809 in Lincoln County, North Carolina So it would seem that the Rutherford came from North Carolina, spent some time in Kentucky and then in the early 1800s moved to Indiana.,
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