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24 March 1781 Samuel, Skidmore, Holton, and Luke Muncy were in Captain Patton’s Company of Militia, Montgomery County, Virginia (Revolutionary War Records, Fincastle and Montgomery Counties, Virginia)
Samuel Muncy and Thomas Munsey appear in Captain Mayes Company of Militia of Montgomery County, Virginia Revolutionary War Records
The state of a Company of Militia in Montgomery County, Virginia - the list contains the names of men from 18 to 50 years of age. Revolutionary War records, Fincastle and Montgomery Counties, Virginia 1775-1788 p. 107
p. 125 - 1781 April: Obediah Muncy & Samuel Muncy
Samuel Muncey and Ob Munsey appear in a list believed to be a record of service against the Indians - recorded in Muster Roll book compiled by Judge C.W. Crush (p. 54, 55) which was copied in the clerk’s office, Montgomery County, Virginia
1748 Samuel moved to Augusta County, Virginia where they settled on Linvill’s Creek in the Craven-Harrison community.
Several of Samuel Jr's children left Virginia and crossed over to Knox County, Kentucky around 1800-1802.
Samuel Muncy Jr was in the Revolutionary War, along with brothers Obediah, Holton, Luke, and Skidmore.
1770 to 1785 Samuel was in four different units of the Revolutionary War. (The custom was to draft emn for a certain number of days service and pay them by the day. If needed later, they were again drafter for another few days.)
Capt Daniel Smith to Col. William Preston
Dr Sr
The late invasion of Indians hath so much alarms the inhabitants of this river that without more men come to their assistance from other parts, some of the most timorous among us will remove to a place of safety, and when once the example is set I fear it will be followed by many. By what I can learn, the terror is as great on Holston so that we’ve no room to hope for assistance from that quarter. Mr Kingkeid is an intelligent man and can give you an account of the situation of the Clinch inhabitants. To him I refer you for the same. I am just going to the assistance of the Castles Woods men with what force could be spared form this upper district.
I am Dr Sir yours most respectfully
Dan Smith Elk Garden 4th Oct 1774
Robert Brown Saul Cecil Joseph Mares
John Smith Wm Baylstone Holton Moncy
David Patton Israel Harmon Thos Maxwell
Samuel Moncy Joseph Turner Wm Magee
(a list of the garrison at Elk Garden)
Samuel served in the militia in Captain Cloyd’s Company (1777) - Captain Linkhorn’s Company, Augusta County, Virginia - Captain Pattons’s Company (1781) - the militia from Montgomery County, Virginia.
He was at Elk Garden in 1774 during the French and Indian War. He won special applause for his great activity and for full execution of order in Captain Mayes’ Company.
Mid 1780’s Samuel sold land in Montgomery County, Virginia and moved his family to Burk’s Garden, Virginia
About 1789 Samuel moved his family to Lee County, Virginia. (During that time in history thousands of persons were flowing down the Shenandoah Valley, through the Cumberland Gap and on into Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois where they developed new frontiers - some settled in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee and others migrated further west and established homesteads and remained there for generations).
Entry book 1, p. 7 Wythe County, Virginia
Samuel Moncy Jr by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant for 100 acres #410 and dated 21st January 1790, enters 50 acres of which was assigned him by Robert Adams assignee of Saml McCraw, lying on the clerk fork of Wolf Creek about a mile above the fork beginning in a line surveyed for Laurence Murry at the beginning corner running down both sides the creek to include a small improvement made by Joseph Baker for quantity.
Samuel and Agnes were among those who stopped near Cumberland Gap, in Lee County, Virginia. Their descendants remained there for generations.
1799 Samuel is listed on the property and land list of Lee County, Virginia
1801 he bought land on the north side of Wallens Ridge, near his brother William.
1810 he is on the Lee County tax list - owning 100 acres of land.
Samuel Muncy Jr remained in Wythe County for several years but eventually sold his land and migrated to Lee County, Virginia, where he purchased land lying on the north side of Wallens Ridge, adjoining James McMillan and James Fulkerson. He purchased the land from Robert Walker. He remained there for several years.
9 Feb 1811 Samuel sold his land to James Fletcher for $200 and although Agnes is named on the deed, she did not sign with Samuel
The deed is signed Samuel Munsey, witnessed by Thomas Gilbert, Isaac Sayers, Willoughby Randolph and Francis Munsey.
(Recorded in Deed book 2, p. 359)
His last official residence was the 100 acre farm on the north side of Wallens Ridge, Lee County, Virginia.
Son James was named administrator of his estate.
-many records were destroyed by fire over the years in that area-
During the time frame that Samuel and Agnes were moving their family around the U.S. was a fledgling nation and just recovering from the Revolutionary War, attempting to establish an independent existence as a democracy. It was frontier country and neither Kentucky or Tennesse was a state. (Kentucky became a state in 1792; Tennessee 1796). Life was hard. Everyone had few personal pleasures and devoted themselves to the work necessary for survival. There were few social activities outside the church and few provisions for settling problems in courts so the church became responsible for recreation, and the settling of interpersonal disputes. Grievances against individuals or deviations from church doctrine were handled as part of the church’s official business and punishment was given out easily. Some offenses that actions were taken against were lying, dancing, fiddling, a disorderly walk, working on the Sabbath, fighting, not attending church, and drinking. Excommunication was for more serious offenses such as adultery or fornication. Sometimes these offenses and actions were in the church minutes.
Many major events in the Muncy’s life are traced through the church records. Samuel’s son Francis and his family were pillars of the Thompson Settlement Baptist Church for decades.
The Samuel Muncy mentioned in the Thompson Settlement Baptist Church minutes is the younger Samuel.
Note: Samuel was a Private in the Virginia Infantry, Revolutionary War. He is in the DAR Patriot I
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