Drake/Beagles Family: Eighth Generation

412. Capt.Jacob C.⁸ WARRICK (John Sr.⁹) was born in Greenbrier County, WestVirginia 1773. Capt.Jacob died 9 Nov 1811 in TippecanoeBattleField, Tippecanoe, Indiana, at 38 years of age. Captain Warrick was killed by indians in the battle of Tippecanoe, on the Wabash River, in 1811.

His body was interred 11 Nov 1811 in Tippecanoe, Indiana, Tippecanoe Battle Field.

He married Jane MONTGOMERY in Kentucky, 1795.

He emigrated, 1784. Point of origin: Greenbrier County, Virginia. Jacob Warrick settled about seven miles from Lexington, Kentucky.

At 24 years of age Capt.Jacob became the father of Montgomery WARRICK in nr. Lexington, Kentucy, 1797. At 25 years of age Capt.Jacob became the father of Eleanor WARRICK in nr.Lexington, Fayette?, Kentucky, 9 May 1799. Capt.Jacob immigrated, 1807. Destination: Gibson County, Indiana. Captain Warrick was one of the first settlers of Gibson County, Indiana.

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Jacob Warrick was killed at the battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811, he formerly being a member of the force under Gen. Wayne. He had hand-to-hand encounters with the savages during the war. he was a prominent Mason and a man of influence: Warrick County, Indiana, was named in his honor. He was of Scotch-Irish descent.

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(The following is from "The Montgomerys and Their Descendants" by D. B. Montgomery, published in Owensville, Indiana by J. P. Cox Publisher in 1903, starting on page 221.)

CAPTAIN JACOB WARRICK

At the age of 21, or in 1794, he enlisted under the command of General Anthony Wayne. Soon they marched by Fort Defiance, in Ohio. On the 20th of August, 1794, Jacob Warrick took part in the battle at the Rapids of the Maumee river. An incident occurred at this battle relating to Jacob Warrick which I will here relate in the language of a daughter of one of the soldiers: "As soon as General Wayne came up with the Indians, who were in line of battle on the left bank of the river, the firing commenced. The Indians, who had more than double the number of the Americans, soon made a desperate effort to turn the left flank. General Wayne ordered a charge to be made, which was executed with great promptness. The Indians give way. They were pursued in full speed. The company to which Warrick belonged was on the flank of the enemy next to the river. Warrick's horse was in full speed on the river bank a few paces ahead of the company, when an Indian who had concealed himself in the thicket, finding that he would be run over, darted under the neck of Warrick's horse to reach the river. Warrick, quick as thought, grabbed him by the hair of the head. (It must be understood here that a horse is as much afraid of an Indian as he would be of a bear; therefore when Warrick caught the Indian his horse reared and plunged into the air.) The shock caused Warrick to careen in the saddle, which carried him, the Indian and the horse over the precipice, headlong down the bank, to the water's edge. Warrick, being a giant in strength as well as size, clung to the Indian, who was his equal, and just at the moment when each was preparing for the combat one of Warrick's compeers leaped from the saddle down the bank of the river, and with one deadly blow of the tomahawk sent the Indian; to his long home." - From an old copy of Evansville Journal, now (1903) in the possession of J. W. Jones, Midland, Illinois. Mr. Warrick's people here stoutly deny this statement of assistance by a comrade and claim that Mr. Warrick dispatched his antagonist alone and single-handed. Some one did fire a shot, and General Harrison ordered him to desist, saying that Warrick was capable of taking care of himself; at the same time saying, "You may shoot Warrick." In 1806 Jacob Warrick came with his father-in-law, "Purty Old Tom" Montgomery, to Indiana and settled in Knox county (now Gibson), west of Owensville, on what is now (1903) known as the J. D. Thompson farm, in section 11, town 3, range 12 west. He brought with him to Indiana fine cattle, fine horses, several slaves and money. He was a close, intimate friend of Henry Clay, and often consulted with him in regard to Indiana finally becoming a slave state. Mr. Clay, who at one time later on had eighty thousand dollars in vested in slaves always told.Mr. Warrick that Indiana would not be a slave state. Jacob Warrick, at the outbreak of the Indian war of 1811, "raised a company of eighty men known as rangers, and at the request of General Harrison joined the main army at Vincennes, and with it marched against the Indians, and while gallantly leading a charge at Tippecanoe was mortally wounded," Nov. 7, 1811, and "Major Smith, the old surveyor and school-teacher of Gibson county, wrote Captain Warrick's will on the battle field after the battle was over. He lived two days and was buried on the battlefield where he had so bravely fought for the preservation of the lives of those he held dear, and for the safety of the homes and firesides which were so sacred to the settlers. General Harrison in his official report of the battle took occasion to commend in the highest terms the bravery and intrepid conduct displayed by Captain Warrick." We know but little of Captain Warrick's ancestors. We find in a historv of the Moutgowerys and Summervilles of Virginia and Ohio, written by Prof. Frank Montgomery, now in the signal service at Davenport, Iowa, a reference to a Jacob Warrick taken from the Pocahontas Journal in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, who was probably an uncle of Captain Jacob Warrick. Warrick county, Indiana, was named in honor of Captain Warrick. "It is claimed by Mr. Warrick's close friends that Gibson county, Indiana, by all right and fairness should have been named in honor of Captain Warrick. There is no monument marking the graves of those who fell at the battle of Tippecanoe. There is a plot of ground arranged something like this, the squares with names and dates being slightly raised and set in sod, with the names and dates set in gravel:

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