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��HISTOKY OF RICHLAND COUXTY.

��only soldier of the war of 1812 living in the township, at this time, (March, 1880). His fathers name was John Kincaid ; he was a soldier of Lee's legion, in the Revolutionary war. George William was born, in Philadel- phia, June 23, 1790, and was twent3'-one years old when he enlisted. His regiment was sent to Canada, where he took part in several of the most noted battles, and remembers man}- inci- dents connected with the campaign. At the battle of Fort George, a Scotch Colonel, named McDonald, was taken prisoner, who had been shot in the knee. He pleaded piteously for his life, saying : '' Don't kill me until I have time to save ray soul ! " The prisoner also said that his mother's predictions came true^ — that he would be brought home a cripple or dead. In the Ijombardment of Fort McHenr}^, the wife of a Sergeant in Mr. Kincaid's regiment came to her husband, with a small bucket in her hand. He accosted her in this language : " What in the name of God are you doing here ? " She answered : "If you die, I want to die with you." He took the bucket, which she had set down, and gave it to her, and told her to leave. She set it down, and in a few moments stooped to pick it up, when a shell struck her, severed her body above the hips, and cut off two limbs. Mr. Kiucaid was one of the soldiers sent to re- enforce the array engaged in the battle of Tharaes, in Upper Canada, and arrived on the field as Tecuinseh was killed. He declares that a ball, shot by Col. Johnston's Sergeant, ended

��the career of the desperate chief, instead of Col. Johnston killing him. Mr. Kincaid remerabers sitting on the knee of Gen. Washington, and of seeing Lady Washington get in and out her carriage. He came to Richland County in 1837. He was married to Anna Bond, and is the father of fourteen children. He was wounded in the hand, while in the service, and is a pensioner.

William Galispie, interred in the Bellville cemetery, was a Major throughout the Revolu- tionary war. He was blind during the last thirteen ^ears of his life, and died, February 17, 1841, aged one hundred and four years.

Samuel Poppelton, Sr., was one of the Green Mountain Boys, who fought with Col. Ethan Allen. He clairaed the honor of having placed the Araerican flag on the walls of Fort Ticonder- oga, at its surrender, with his own hands, and heard the historic words : " B3' the authority of Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress," uttered at that time, he being Color Sergeant. He died about 1842, in the ninety-ninth year of his age. He is buried south of Bellville. Frosts and storms have robbed his old sand- stone of its inscription.

This history is particularly indebted to Mr. Reuben Evarts for this chapter. The official records of the township are all destroyed, of proceedings previous to 1850 ; what is inserted regarding early elections and officers, was ob- tained from other sources.

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