Document 79, 22 October - 23 November, 1782. Pay Roll of Lincoln Militia under Captain Samuel Kirkham on actual Service on an Expedition against the enemy Indians under General George R. Clark. Samuel Kirkham, Captain Henry Grider, Lieutenant William Crow, Ensign George Cambell, Sergeant Daniel Brown, Sergeant James Fisher, Sergeant John Crow, Adjutant James Thompson, T.H. Master Privates: Joseph Wilson, John Sellars, Josiah Boone, Jeremiah Boone, James Stephenson, Samuel Lawrence, Isaac Lawrence, Soloman Lawrence, Joseph Lawrence, William Gracey, Benjamin White, George Wilson, George Reading, Edward Dougherty, Samuel Brenton, William Brenton, Adam Brenton, Robert Brenton, James Brenton, John Brenton, Edward Taylor, William Stone, Nicholas Pix, Jesse Thomas, Abraham Thomas, Jacob Holsclaw, William Barba, John Barba, Joshua Barba, William Kenn, William Fields, George Yunt, John Harris, Peter Watts, Robert Foreman, Moses Cherry, Ash Emerson, Absalom Yagar, Cornelias Yagar, Stephen Archer, Jacob Crow, Levi Scott, Isaac Romaine, Elisha Scott. Just a blurb about the William Barbee/Barba -- he went to Ohio with Abraham Thomas - their wives were siblings -- William was married to Mary Smith, daughter of Adam Smith (of John Michael and Anna Magdalena Thomas Smith family) and Abraham was married to Susannah Smith, the sister of Mary> The marriage of Mary Smith is recorded in Lincoln Co., KY with notation -- daughter of Adam Smith MIAMI COUNTY HISTORY by Sesquicentennial Committee - 1953 p. 164 - In 1805, Abraham Thomas, Wm. Barbee and their families, with a small party of their neighbors, moved to Miami County from Fayette County, KY. They stopped for a short time at Staunton, then moved on and forded the river at what is to this day called Broadford. From there they had to cut their way through dense undergrowth to their farms, a short distance from the present site of Troy. They paid $1.25 per acre for their land, making the payment in two or three installments. MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO FAMILIES, Volume 4, p. 85 The Barbees were among the first settlers in the Troy area, coming from Kentucky in 1804. William Barbee was the third of six sons born to John and Elizabeth [Welch] Barbee. He was born in Culpeper Co., VA on Sept. 14, 1759. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the Revolutionary War with Col. Elias Burwell's Regiment and he was with Washington the night he crossed the Delaware and captured one thousand Hessians. On 23 Feb. 1781 he was married to Mary Smith, the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Smith. They had eleven children: Elizabeth, Thomas, Lucy, William,Jr., Polly, Sarah, Nancy, Susannah, Melinda, Elisa and Melissa. In 1807 William Barbee sold land to the Town Directors of Troy for $421.50. He was one of the first Associate Judges of Miami County. He also took a conspicuous part in the War of 1812. He was Captain of a company of older men formed for the purpose of the defense of the Miami County area. After a brief illness, he died on Oct. 21, 1813. He is buried with his wife in the old Barbee Cemetery north of Troy. His wife later married Aaron Tullis, and her history becomes part of his. To make the family tree even more interesting -- a son of Aaron Tullis and his first wife, married a daughter of Abraham and Susanna Smith Thomas.