Individual Details

7 Aug 1766 Served in the Frederick Co Militia as a Lt.

Mounce Bird also served during the Revolution, as a Captain in Jacob Holeman's company and was granted at least two tracts of land in Kentucky. Two thousand acres in what is now Bourbon & Harrison Counties, and another 1000 acres in what is now Fayette Co.

Shenandoah Co DB #, p.435: Mounce Bird gave power of attorney to his son Abraham and sent him to Kentucky in 1786 to oversee the division of his land there among his three sons.

Court case in Augusta Co VA. Hawkins vs. Byrd. Bill, 1813. Mountz Byrd died intestate leaving the widow Clara and 8 children: Abraham, William, Mountz, John, Ingabough married to Isaac Gore, Sarah married to John Moore, Mary married to Cornelius Newman and Madeline married to Benjamin Hawkins. The Hawkins who live in Virginia, initiated the suit. Mountz Sr owned land in Shenandoah.

Birth	1735	Chester County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	Abt 1755	Augusta County, Virginia - Clara Ruddell
Death	1793	Shenandoah County, Virginia

Spouse	Clara Ruddell (1735 - 1822)
Child	Mounce Bird ( - )
Child	Abraham Bird (1756 - 1820)

Father	Andrew Bird (1702 - 1750)
Mother	Magdalena Jones ( - )
Sibling	Andrew Bird (1723 - 1799)
Sibling	Mary Bird (1725 - 1780)
Sibling	Ingaborg Bird (1726 - )
Sibling	John Bird (1730 - )
Sibling	Col. Abraham Bird (1731 - 1820)
Sibling	Rebecca Bird ( - )
Sibling	Amos Bird (1739 - 1818)
Sibling	Elizabeth Bird ( - )
Sibling	Magdalena Bird (1741 - )