Individual Details
Isaac Van Meter
(2 Feb 1759 - 4 Nov 1840)
Events
| Birth | 2 Feb 1759 | Frederick, Virginia, British America |  | ||
| Military | Jan 1778 | American Revolution - Pennsylvania, United States |  | | |
| Marriage | 29 Jul 1783 | Lincoln, Kentucky, United States - Martha Hubbard | | ||
| Marriage | 5 Apr 1825 | Hardin, Kentucky, United States - Jane Carson | | | |
| Death | 4 Nov 1840 | Grayson, Kentucky, United States | | ||
| Burial | VanMeter (Old) Cemetery, Yeaman, Grayson, Kentucky, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Martha Hubbard (1759 - ) |
| Child | Frances Van Meter (1784 - 1860) |
| Child | Abraham Van Meter (1786 - 1855) |
| Child | Jacob Van Meter (1789 - 1832) |
| Child | Nancy Ann Van Meter (1791 - 1824) |
| Child | Elizabeth Van Meter (1794 - ) |
| Child | Isaac Hoagland Van Meter (1796 - ) |
| Child | Mary "Polly" Van Meter (1798 - ) |
| Child | Letitia Van Meter (1800 - ) |
| Child | Hubbard Van Meter (1802 - ) |
| Child | Matilda Van Meter (1807 - ) |
| Spouse | Jane Carson (1786 - ) |
| Father | Jacob Jansen "Valley Creek Jake" Van Meter Sr. (1723 - 1798) |
| Mother | Letitia "Letty" Strode (1725 - 1799) |
| Sibling | Eleanor Van Meter (1742 - 1811) |
| Sibling | Abraham Van Meter (1744 - 1781) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Van Meter (1746 - 1821) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Van Meter (1752 - 1848) |
| Sibling | Susanna "Susan" Van Meter (1750 - 1798) |
| Sibling | Rachel Van Meter (1754 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Mary M. "Polly" Van Meter (1757 - 1832) |
| Sibling | Margaret Van Meter (1759 - 1843) |
| Sibling | Jacob "of Otter Creek" Van Meter Jr. (1762 - 1850) |
| Sibling | John Van Meter (1764 - 1806) |
| Sibling | Alcinda "Alsey, Aisley" Van Meter (1766 - 1828) |
| Sibling | William Van Meter (1766 - 1808) |
Notes
Military
Isaac served in the Revolutionary War; enlisted in the western part of the State now Pennsylvania (then claimed by Virginia) in 1778. He served eight months as a private under Capt. William Harrod and Col. George Rogers Clark; again from Aug., 1780, six weeks under Capt. Johm Swan, Col. Lynn; and again in fall of 1782, six weeks under Capt. John Vertrees, Col. John Floyd. Among battles engaged in were those of the taking of Kaskaskia, Vincennes, Chillicothetown and Piqua in the campaign of the Northwest.Kentucky Pension Roll of 1835
ISAAC VANMETLER
GRAYSON COUNTY
PRIVATE
PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA
$35.96 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$107.88 AMOUNT RECEIVED
FEBRUARY 23, 1833 PENSION STARTED
AGE 82
Marriage
Second wife, no issueEndnotes
1. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.), p. 17.
2. Wood, Melba, Loper-Keller-VanMeter and allied lines : Rhoads, Keele, Searles, Haynes, and many other pioneer settlers of Macoupin County, Illinois (Godfrey, Ill.: Illinois Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1969, 57 pgs. ), has b. 2-2-1759.
3. Unknown. A Story of a Van Matre Family. (Eleven pages copied by Shirley Lillie,
4. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.), p. 17.
5. McAdams, Harry Kennett, Kentucky pioneer and court records : abstracts of early wills, deeds, and marriages from court houses and records of old Bibles, churches, grave yards, and cemeteries (Lexington, Ky.: Mrs. H.K. McAdams, 1929, 383 pgs.), p. 121.
6. Wood, Melba, Loper-Keller-VanMeter and allied lines : Rhoads, Keele, Searles, Haynes, and many other pioneer settlers of Macoupin County, Illinois (Godfrey, Ill.: Illinois Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1969, 57 pgs. ).
7. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.).
8. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.), p. 17.
9. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p 125.
10. Pete Ross, compiler, Papers on Van Meter, Holtzclaw, and allied families (Montrose, CO: from Marjorie Olive Tree Rhodes and William W. Henton, Jan 2007).