Week 2 Malone

The Malone story begins with John Sr. Malone, who is said to have been born in Maryland in 1723.  A land record in Maryland in 1764 says John Malone was a blacksmith.  John and his son John served in Dunmore's War. 
The article below was shared on Ancestry:
"Although we do not know from what country the Malones migrated, we suspect England. They settled first around the Baltimore MD area, migrated to VA, then NC, and finally to Sullivan Co. TN. JOHN and his son, John, served in the militia during the campaign known as "Lord Dunmore's War." The Earl of Dunmore, British governorof VA organized the VA militia in order to safeguard the VA frontier against the Indians and to push the VA state line northward to the Ohio River. In 1774, Fincastle VA was the western frontier, and many families had moved into the fertile valleys to establish homesteads. The Shawnee Indians, seeing the westward expansion, sought revenge on the settlements, and the summer and fall of 1774 was one of the most agonizing times for these families.The plans of Governor Dunmore to meet the Indians at Point Pleasant in the fall of 1774 caused the militia leaders to enroll their men, gather supplies, and march toward the rendezvous. The Indians were defeated, forcing them to cede the contested grounds. Records indicate that in October 1782, JOHN MALONE and son, Michael, were granted 200 acres of land each in Sullivan County TN, and son, William, was granted 100 acres. It is believed that JOHN died shortly after that, since he is not mentioned again in census or other records. He apparently left no will."
Others who served in Lord Dunmore's War from Fincastle are Lt. Daniel Boone and Israel Boone.

From Wikipedia;
"In September 1773, an obscure hunter named Daniel Boone led a group of about 50 emigrants in the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky County, Virginia. On October 9, 1773, Boone's oldest son James and a small group of men and boys who were retrieving supplies were attacked by a band of Delawares, Shawnees, and Cherokees. They had decided "to send a message of their opposition to settlement…" [5] James Boone and another boy were captured and tortured to death. The brutality of the killings shocked the erstwhile settlers along the frontier, and Boone's party abandoned their expedition. By December, the incident had been reported in Baltimore and Philadelphia newspapers.
The deaths among Boone's party were among the first events in Lord Dunmore's War. For the next several years, Indian nations opposed to the treaty continued to attack settlers, ritually mutilated and tortured to death the surviving men, and took the women and children into slavery.
Early the next year, a field surveyor named William Preston sent a letter of report to the head engineer of the frontier fort construction, namely George Washington, which indicates his understanding of circumstances just prior to the outbreak of Dunmore's War..."
John Sr or John Jr also fought in the Revolutionary War in 1782 (listed in Rev War Stub indent book for Washington and Sullivan counties, TN).
John Sr. is on the 1777 Washington county TN petition, and received a land grant in Sullivan county TN in 1782.  It is estimated he died between 1782-1786.
John Jr. was born about 1748 in Maryland, and is believed to be the John Malone on two marriage records in Virginia.  It looks like he married Charity Posey in Shenandoah Va in 1773 (she probably died soon thereafter) and he married Mary Ann Posey in Bedford county Va in 1780.  I am currently trying to find the parents of these girls.  
Besides the military service discussed above with his father, the records we have for John Jr. include tax lists in Greene county TN in 1797-1812.  John Jr. died in 1823 (per the book "Tennessee's First Settlers and Soldiers") in Greene county TN.
The headstone below may belong to John Jr. in the Malone cemetery.

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