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  1. Joseph Wiseman: Birth: 29 MAR 1759 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 27 DEC 1836 in , Monroe, Virginia, (Now Wv), United States

  2. John Wiseman: Birth: 18 AUG 1760 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 22 JAN 1842 in Perry, Ohio, United States

  3. Sarah Wiseman: Birth: 17 JUL 1762 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: FEB 1842 in Kerrs Creek, Monroe, Virginia, USA

  4. Isaac Wiseman: Birth: 19 JUN 1764 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 14 JUL 1852 in Gallia, Ohio, United States

  5. Jacob Wiseman: Birth: 12 JAN 1767 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: ABT 1830 in Harrison, Kentucky, United States

  6. Rachel Wiseman: Birth: 1 MAR 1769 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 2 NOV 1856 in Monroe, Virginia, United States

  7. Samuel Wiseman: Birth: 15 FEB 1771 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 4 MAY 1861 in Walnut Creek, Fairfield, Ohio, USA

  8. Abner Wiseman: Birth: 1772 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 1830 in Estill, Kentucky, United States

  9. Elizabeth Wiseman: Birth: 1774 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: Between Aug 1823 -1835 in , Kentucky or Indiana, United States

  10. Margaret Wiseman: Birth: 1777 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 1869

  11. William Wiseman: Birth: 6 MAY 1779 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. Death: 4 JUL 1842 in Nicholas, Virginia, United States

  12. Mary Wiseman: Birth: 1784 in Greenbriar, Virginia, United States.

  13. Edith Wiseman: Birth: 4 FEB 1785 in Rockingham, Virginia, United States. Death: 5 FEB 1857 in Wolf Creek, Monroe, Virginia, USA


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a. Note:   nd A Grave.com) Isaac Wiseman, I. b: Aug 18,1738, Berks County, Pennsylvania. d: May 3, 1818 Monroe County, West Virginia. NOTE: Isaac Wiseman I was the son of Isaac Wiseman Sr. and Mary (Marshall) Wiseman. Isaac I married Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Samuel Davis about 1758 in Berks County, Pennsylvania and they had the following children: Joseph, John, Sarah, Isaac II, Jacob, Rachel, Samuel, Abner, Elizabeth, Margaret and William. Isaac Wiseman I served in the Revolutionary War. (bio by: Robert N. Wiseman) From "A History of Monroe County, West Virginia" by Oren F. Morton, B. Lit. Baltimore Regional Publishing Company 1988. Page 101: Wiseman, Isaac--of William (Elizabeth) Rice -- 78 -- Dropping Lick, n. John Hutchinson, Robert Chambers - 1797 (See defination of terms in William Blanton's notes) Page 418: Wiseman: Isaac (Elizabeth) came from Bucks Co., soon after the Revolution, and settled not far from Rehoboth. C: Joseph (b 1759) (Elizabeth) --- John (1760-1842) (Sarah Green) --- Sarah --- Isaac --- Jacob --- Rachel --- Samuel --- Abner (Isabel Blanton, 1800) --- Elizabeth --- Mararet(Bartholemew Ramsay, 1799) --- William (Mary Ramsey, 1801). John, Isaac, and Samuiel went to Ohio. One daughter married a Blanton and they went with Abner to Kentucky. The latter lived while here on Dropping Lick. John, a Methodist minister ordained by Bishop Asbury, removed to Perry Co., O., in 1818. C. of John: Elizabeth --- Mary --- Margaret. ( Aaron Morgan) --- Ann --- James G. --- John R (1796-1879) (Mary Bostick, 1825) --- Isaac (Sarah Hill) ---Sarah (Thomas Bratton, 1815) --- 4 others. Mrs. Jennie Burnside is a daughter of J. R. Page 472: Monroe Voters in 1800: Qualified voters for the presidential election of November 3, 1800 had to own land in order to vote. Isaac Wiseman was included on this list. Page 479-81: Residents of 1799 were placed on a tax list. This is one of the first lists of the residents of Monroe County. Abner, Isaac Sr, Isaac Jr, John, and Joseph were on this list. The following information is taken from “The Wisemans” 2nd Edition, 1992. Compiled by Boyd W Venable of 2312 Branner Avenue, Jefferson City, Tennessee, 3760, a Wiseman descendant. According to records of the DAR (Daughters of The American Revolution), Isaac Wiseman Jr was born in England 8/18,1738 (see notes on grandfather, Thomas Wiseman,for updated information indicating Isaac was actually born in the United States), lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania during his early years, and died 5/3,1818 in Monroe County,Virginia (now West Virginia) at the age of 80. Isaac Jr's wife Elizabeth Davis Wiseman was born 8/26,1738 and died 7/19, 1807 in Monroe County, Virginia, at the age of 69. Isaac Jr was the son of Isaac Wiseman Sr of Berks County, Pennsy1vania. Isaac Wiseman Sr's immediate family is now said to have included wife Mary (Marshall?), sons Isaac Jr(our ancestor), Jacob, James and William, and daughters Mary and Rachel. Since Isaac Wiseman Jr was probably no more than 5 years old when he came to America, he would have been more American than English. He and Elizabeth Davis were married in 1758. Young Isaac Jr was only 20 years old at the time. Four years later he and Elizabeth had three children, and by 1769 Isaac Jr was paying taxes on a small tract of land in Amity Township of Philadelphia County (Now Berks County, Pennsylvania) nearby to his father, Isaac Sr. The first three children born were: Joseph Wiseman, born on March 29, 1759, then the following year John Wiseman, born August 18, 1760, and less than a year after that Sarah, born July 17, 1761. Then after a three year hiatus, Isaac III was born on June 19, 1764, Jacob on January 12, 1767, Rachael on March 1, 1769, Samuel on February 15, 1771, Abner in 1772, Elizabeth in 1774, Margaret in 1777, and William in 1779. All told, Isaac Jr and Elizabeth had 11 children, of which all but the last one or two (Margaret and William) were born in what is now Berks County, Pennsylvania. Abner is our ancestor. The French and Indian War While Isaac Wiseman Jr was growing up prior to the American Revolution, The French and Indian War was heating up. The French claimed the entire Mississippi River drainage basin as their own, by right of the explorations of Joliet, Marquette, and LaSale. The English in Virginia also claimed a lot of the same area based on their charter of 1609 from the King of England. The shooting began in 1754 when George Washington commanded a small force of volunteer Virginia militia who unsuccessfully challenged the French near the present site of Pittsburgh, then called Fort Duquesne. The big Indian tribes such as Algonquin, Iroquois, Cherokee and Creeks had by this time become acquainted with steel knives, whiskey and firearms, and were taking sides in disputes among the Europeans in America. Both French and British used Indian TSDAR W1SEMAN. ISAAC. born August 38. 1736 in England (Berks County, Pennsylvania): died May 3, 1818 in Union Township, Monroe County, Virginia. Married about 1758 to Elizabeth Davis, born August 26. 1735, died July 19, 1807 in Monroe County, Virginia. SERVICE: Patriot, Oath of Allegiance. Berks County, Pennsylvania. CHILDREN: 1. Joseph. born March 29, 1759. 2. John. born August 18, 1760. married Sarah Greene, May 10, 1786. 3. Sarah. born July 3, 1761. 4. Isaac. Jr.. born June 19. 1764. married Mary Magdalene Armentrout. 5. Jacob, born January 12. 1767. married Caty Smalley. 6. Rachael, born March 1. 1769. married Frederick Camper. 7. Samuel. born February 15. 1771. married Mary Bowyer. 8. Abner, born 1772. married Isabel Blanton, 1800. 9. Elizabeth, born 1774. l0. Margaret, born 1777, married Bartholomew Ramsey. 11. William, born 1779, married Mary Ramsey, 1801. MEMBERS: Florence Nicholson Merrill, No. 159337. Caroline McDaniel Lewis, No. 489972. Martha Merrill Garey, No. 466346. The Boones Amongst the neighbors of the Isaac Wisemans in Berks County, Pennsylvania were a prominent early Quaker family, the Boones, including one named Daniel Boone who achieved fame later as a frontiersman. Isaac Wiseman Jr was two years younger than Daniel and one year older than Daniel’s younger brother, George. They must have been acquainted. Squire Boone, Daniel’s father, was disassociated from his church in a dispute over one of his grown children marrying out of the church (she was pregnant), so he moved away with his whole family heading for North Carolina in 1750. It took them almost three years to get there. He was blacksmithing at the Scotch-Irish settlement near Opequon Run in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, then went on to the “Jersey Settlement����������� in the Yacikin Valley of Rowan County (now Davidson County), North Carolina in1753. In 1759 they fled from Indian outbreaks in North Carolina back north to Virginia and Maryland before returning to North Carolina three years later. In later years many others would follow the Boones from Pennsylvania to Rowan County, North Carolina, including one branch of our Wiseman cousins headed by Jacob Wiseman. There was another Isaac Wiseman in this branch of the family also. Our ancestor Isaac Wiseman Jr. may have taken his family from Pennsylvania to North Caolina also, before returning to Virginia. The Wisemans during the American Revolution The years 1775 thru 1783 were war years. The early campaigns of The American Revolution were fought in Pennsylvania and adjoining states. TSDAR records list Isaac Wiseman Jr as:”Patriot, oath of allegiance”. The foot marker stone at his grave in Union, West Virginia, is inscribed “2CL PVT PA MILITIA”. His oldest son, Joseph served in the Continental Army two different times, and his second son, John, served in the Continental Line from Berks County, Pennsylvania, and later in the volunteer Virginia militia of what. is now Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Isaac Jr left eastern Pennsylvania for good in 1777. One British army under General Howe was occupying Philadelphia, and another was coming down from Canada to take Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York. Indian raids in eastern Pennsylvania were taking settlers' scalps, and it would seem that that would have been a good time to move on, and Isaac Wiseman Jr seems to have done so. His family travels for the next eleven years are not well documented, except as follows: North Carolina Isaac Jr's oldest son Joseph moved to Rowan County, North Carolina in 1777 after he got out of the army the first time. Since Joseph was but 18 years of age and unmarried, he was likely to have still been in the Isaac Wiseman Jr family group with his parents and siblings, but I can't confirm it. That would have been a strenuous southern migration of some 500 miIes each way down and back for the family, by way of the “Irish Road” through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It is also possible that Joseph went there with other kin instead of his immediate family. For instance, there was a Jacob Wiseman of Rowan County, North Carolina who was born in Pennsylvania in 1730 and who named his oldest son Isaac (born 1765). Repetition of family names often indicates to which branch of a family a given individual belongs. Considering that Isaac Wiseman Jr named one of his sons Jacob (born 1767), these two families could have been close kin. Yohogania County, Virginia (Western Pennsylvania) The next record of Isaac Jr is in Yohogania County, Virginia in 1778. Isaac Wiseman's name appears in an October 27, 1778 petition of landholders praying the Virginia authorities to resubdivide that county. Yohoyania County was on the western frontier, abutting the Ohio River and centered on the Mononyahela River, 250 miles west of Berks County, near the present day city of Pittsburgh, and our Wiseman family was in what is now Westmoreland County. As noted before, Westmoreland, Washington, and other western counties became a part of the State of Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary War when the various state boundaries were defined. It appears that because of transportation problems caused by poor roads and the distance between western Pennsylvania and the more populous East, a principal money crop in Western Pennsylvania was whiskey because, as noted before, it was a high-value refined and transportable product. When, later, (1791) Congress imposed a Federal tax of seven cents a gallon on whiskey, attempts to enforce that act were openly defied in western Pennsylvania in what became known as the “Whiskey Rebe1lion.” President George Washington sent 13,000 militia to put it down in 1794. Isaac Jr would have been 40 years old in 1778 when he was in Yohogania County, and our ancestor Abner 6 years old. In July of that same year a raid of Tory Rangers and Seneca Iroquois annihilated regular and militia defenders and took more than 200 scalps in the Wyoming Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania about 50 miles north of Berks County. Then they continued to terrorize frontier settlements all through the summer. Also in 1778, George Rogers Clark and 175 frontiersmen took a convoy of flatboats down the Ohio River from Fort Pitt (later renamed Pittsburgh) and successfully won the War in the West by capturing the British settlements of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes in what was then called the County of Illinois in the State of Virginia. Roger's volunteers also captured the British Colonel Hamilton (called “The Hair Buyer” because he offered payment for American scalps) at Vincennes and transported him as a prisoner about 800 miles on an uncomfortable horseback ride all the way to Richmond, Virginia by way of Cumberland Gap on the Tennessee - Kentucky border. Rogers' forces were doubled in numbers by reinforcements of English-hating French volunteers they picked up along the way. Ironically, Rogers was unable to get compensation for his troops from the State of Virginia after the war, and he wound up stuck personally for their bills. Those debts troubled him all the rest of his life. Maryland The next stop for the Wisemans returning east from Yohogania along the Forbes Road was in Washington County, Maryland, in the panhandle of that state near Hagerstown, about 1780. The evidence of that is in Joseph’s military record, after he returned from North Carolina (See illustration “Pensioners of the Revolution”). Virginia Then Isaac Wiseman Jr and his family apparently retraced some of their steps and set out down the Great Warpath or “Irish Road” through the panhandle of Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Our own Wiseman ancestors weren't the only ones to leave Pennsylvania. By Census of 1790 there was but one Wiseman family left there, the Adam Wiseman family. They were out on the Cumberland Plateau at the western gateway to the Appalachians in Bedford County. In 1787 the three oldest Wiseman boys, Joseph, John, and Isaac Wiseman III, were living in Rockingham County. Virginia. at the head of the North Fork of the Shenandoah near what is now the border between Virginia and West Virginia, in the evening shadow of Shenandoah Mountain, the first ridge of the Alleghenys. Joseph and John Wiseman were grown and married, and Joseph and his wife Elizabeth Bateman Wiseman had two children already. Our ancestor Abner was then 15 years old, and likely still with his father Isaac Jr and mother Elizabeth, wherever they may have been. Vouchers for military supplies show that Isaac Jr and family were also living in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1788. Because the British destroyed the census records for Virginia in 1814 during the War of 1812 when they burned all the public buildings in Washington DC except the patent office, it has been difficult to trace Isaac Wiseman Jr's whereabouts for intervening years. However I do know that Isaac Wisemarm Jr, our ancestor, bought property from William Rice in Greenbrier (Monroe) County, Virginia in 1797 and settled down there for the rest of his life. Monroe County was originally a part of Botetourt County in Virginia, later became part. of Greenbrier County when Botetourt was subdivided, then later still became a separate county from Greenbrier. During the American Civil War it went with theWest Virginia when that Union state separated from Virginia. In regard to the burning of Washington in 1814, President and Mrs Madison were just sitting down to a meal when the British entered the City sooner than expected. The Madisons had to flee in such a hurry that British officers got to eat the meal before they burned the White House. These events took place during the August stormy season, and a tornado the next day also did further damage, but a heavy rainstorm dampened the fires. General Ross, the British commander, lost his life in an attack on Baltimore about three weeks later, and the invasion force was withdrawn. It was that naval bombardment of Baltimore which Francis Scott Key witnessed, and which inspired him to write the verses of “The Star Spangled Banner” which later became our National Anthem. The year 1787, when Isaac Wiseman Jr's older boys lived in Rockingham, was still pretty early in the life of the United States of America. The United States Constitution was adopted in that year, but George Washington's inaugural as the first President was still two years away. In 1794 Joseph Wiseman, Isaac Jr’s thirty-five year old eldest son, crossed the mountain from Rockingham and settled land on the other side of the Alleghenies in what is now Monroe County, West Virginia, but which at that time was part of Greenbrier County, Virginia. Several other members of the family, including Josephs father Isaac Jr, followed within the next three years. Isaac Jr was then 59 years old. His wife Elizabeth was the same age. Abner, our ancestor, was 25. The youngest child, William, was 18. All the boys except Abner and William were married and raising families. Summary of the Travels of Isaac Wiseman Jr and His Family Isaac Wiseman Jr and his wife Elizabeth and nine or ten of their eleven children had lived as a family in Berks County, Pennsylvania for about 19 years from 1758 to 1777, then they appear to have moved around a lot during the next twenty years prior to 1797. Part of the way they seemed to be following in the footsteps of the Squire Boone family, whose travels are described in a previous paragraph. In those days frontier land was plentiful and cheap. Sometimes settlers didn't even bother to acquire a land title, they just squatted on a tract long enough to raise a crop or two, then moved on. Finally, between 1794 and 1800, Isaac Wiseman Jr., Joseph, Isaac III, Abner and William Wiseman settled down nearby to one another to farm the wild Greenbrier Valley west of the Allegheny Mountains. Isaac Jr., Joseph, and Isaac III remained there until they died. Our ancestor Abner owned property there from 1798 until about 1802. He married Isabell Blanton there in 1799 and shortly after that, probably by the year 1802, moved over the mountains to Kentucky. Why did the Wisemans move south from Pennsylvania and Maryland? It may have been the cold winters in 1779 and 1780. The following article in the Knoxville News Sentinel on Jan 8th 1889 explains that winter condition. Winter of 1780 nominated as Northeast’s worst on record . By DON KIRKMAN, Scripps Howard News Service. With most of the country about to be chilled by their coldest temperatures of the year, the question always arises: What was the country’s coldest, meanest winter? The question is unanswerable for a couple of reasons. Most of the country’s climatological records are just 100 years old. Because weather varies so widely, each area of the country has a different candidate for the meanest and coldest. However, one of the nominees has to be the winter of 1780, the only winter on record in which the New York harbor froze solid and remained, ice-covered for five weeks. The tale was told recently by weather historian David Ludlum in Weatherwise, a magazine for meteorologists. Ludlum believes the winter of 1780 probably was the harshest ever in New England, New York, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. At the time, the Revolutionary War was in its fifth year, a large British army was holding New York City and Gen. George Washington’s ragged American army was camped 20 miles away at Morristown, N.J. The first winter snowstorm hit on Dec. 18, 1779, and blanketed New England and the Middle Atlantic states. Then, in rapid succession, three more snowstorms thickened the area’s snowpacks in late December and early January. Washington, who was an on-again, off-again amateur climatologist, kept a weather diary that winter in which he reported that Morristown’s snow was 18 inches deep on Jan. 6 and nearby roads were covered by deep drifts. Bone-chilling cold — what we now call an Alberta Clipper — roared into the New York area during the first week of January and picked up reinforcements throughout the month. On Jan. 29, 1780, a British army officer stationed in Manhattan recorded a temperature of 16 degrees below zero. “The winter is gone,” a chronirier reported. and so it was. If I had been living in or near Pennsylvania at that time and had been thinking of going south to a warmer climate, 1780 is the year I would have chosen to go. I would have said “to hell with this cold country” and off I'd have gone farther south. I think the Wisemans did the same The Rockingham County, Virginia tax record of 1787 lists Isaac Wiseman III, Joseph, and John, who had among them 8 horses and 13 cattle. In the vernacular of the day, you can read the term “cattle” to mean livestock, of whatever type. Isaac III was then 23 years old, Joseph was 28, and John was 27. There is no record there of Jacob, 20, Samuel, 18, Abner, 15 and William 8. They may have still been with their parents. In Virginia from 1618 on, a settler could exercise a “head right” to acquire 50 acres of public land at no purchase cost just by building a cabin on it and paying the taxes. He could also acquire another 50 acres for each other member of his family, including servants. This was the first. homestead act in America. It tended to encourage the formation of large families, such as the Wiseman family. The place where most of Isaac Jr's family finally settled by 1797 and where Isaac Jr ended his days in 1818 was farm and pasture land on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains in Greenbrier County, Virginia, (now Monroe County in southeast West Virginia), between the west slope of the mountain and the east bank of the Greenbrier river. It was a part of the western frontier, although the cutting edge of the frontier had by that time moved farther west where Daniel Boone and others were leading settlers into Kentucky in spite of opposition from Indians north of the Ohio River and Cherokees from their towns on the Little Tennessee. Nowadays Monroe County is still remote and rural. The entire population of Monroe County is listed in the 1980 census as only 12,873. The County Seat is Union, with 743 population. Poor Elizabeth! Isaac Jr had it hard, but probably she had it worse. Put yourself in Elizabeth's shoes; see with her eyes. At age 39 and pregnant with one and with another still in diapers, you are about to leave family and friends in civilized eastern Pennsylvania and travel, all told, more than 1000 miles mainly walking or sometimes in a horse or mule drawn wagon or on horseback over primitive roads, driving livestock, and with no conveniences except those you are able to carry with you. Your party would likely ferry across the mighty Susquehanna on Wright's Ferry near the present-day town of Wrightsville, then go southwest on a looping route to bypass South mountain on the way to Hagerstown, Maryland. From Hagerstown, cross the Potomac on Wadkin's Ferry and make the l000 mile round trip to and from North Carolina, and/or 400 mile round trip west through the mountains on the Forbes Wagon Road (present day U.S.Highway 30) to Fort Bedford and on to Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) and Yohogania County, Virginia to what is now Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania and back. Then you'd return southwest on the Great Indian Warpath (Now U.S.Highway 11), through the Shenandoah Valley west of the Blue Ridge to the source of the North Fork of the Shenandoah in Rockingham County, Virginia, followed by a climb over the Allegheny mountains to the west and back down into the wild Greenbrier valley of what is now West Virginia. Maybe Isaac or his sons had built a cabin there earlier, but. a lot of the land would have had to be cleared to farm it. It would have been a tough way to go, even though the entire trip probably took about 19 years, with several lengthy stopovers, as indicated previously. About 160 miles of the Great Indian Warpath, from Hagerstown to the New River, was in those days often referred to as the Irish Road because so many Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania were using it to get to new lands on the frontier. The Warpath was so called because it was used by the Cherokees to make war on their enemies the Iroquois, and vice versa. An extension of this Warpath passed through Jefferson County, Tennessee, not far from where I live. King George III's proclamation of 1763 (at the official conclusion of the French and Indian or Seven Years War) had closed the Greenbrier and all other westward-draining areas to white settlement, at least officially, before the war. The purpose of that proclamation was to maintain an Indian buffer between the English east of the mountains and the French in the Mississippi drainage area west of them. Had the edict of 1763 remained in effect the West would have remained Indian country by the exclusion of whites. This is one of the reasons the western settlers were such supporters of Independence. They wanted to get out from under the Royal Governors so they could expand into Indian land. Another reason for resentment against the English Crown was the one that had brought the Scotch-Irish to America in the first place, discrimination against their wool and other products in North Ireland in favor of English industry. They were forbidden to trade with other markets, and subjected to limited quotas (North Ireland was governed as a plantation colony). Elizabeth's eleven children by Isaac Jr, seven boys and four girls, comprise Generation 3, all but one or two born in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Abner, the sixth son, is our ancestor. The occupation of all the adult Wisemans is listed in the census of 1810 as “farmer” or in “agriculture.” I think the term probably includes sheep ranching. In the census of 1810, the principal cash crop in Greenbrier County is listed as 4,000 pounds of wool worth 33c per pound with sales for the year of $1,64O, which was quite a bit of money for the time, considering that the money was all in silver and gold coin. Probably subsistence farming produced food for the table but not much cash. All the adult male members of this Wiseman family in Virginia are listed as farmers. Nowadays (1991), sheep and cattle can still be observed grazing those pastures. Isaac Jr remained at Rehoboth, Union Township, in Monroe County, Virginia for the rest of his life. He died there on May 3rd 1818 at the age of 79. Elizabeth died there also, on July 19, 1807, at the age of 69. Their joint grave in the churchyard of Old Rehoboth Methodist Church near Union is now marked by scribed gravestones erected by their descendants in Ohio. In 1910, B W S Wiseman described the Rehoboth Church as “A century and a quarter old and probably the oldest Methodist Church standing west of the Allegheny Mountains.” It is still there, now a National Historic Site. It is said that during church services in the early days the men came armed, and sat in the upper level, where.they could look out and watch for hostile Indians. Some idea of what things cost in those days can be found in the following record of the Greenbrier County Court of September 29, 1775. “The Court rated ordinaries as follows: Warm dinner 25 cents, cold dinner 21 cents, warm breakfast 21 cents, cold breakfast 17 cents, hay and stabledge 24 hours 21 cents, corn per quart 2 cents, oats per quart same, lodging in feather bed 6 cents, Madeira wine 32 cents per gallon, sherry 30 cents per gallon, Lisbon wine 74 cents per gallon, Tenerife wine 20 cents per gallon, West India spirits 24 cents per gallon, French brandy 30 cents per gallon, common West India spirits 16 cents per gallon, single distilled whiskey 8 cents per gallon, cider 3 cents per gallon, beer 3 cent per gallon, peach brandy 12 cents per gallon, pastureage 12 hours 6 cents, 24 hours 9 cents” During Isaac Jr's lifetime he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a sailing vessel, helped to pioneer the American West, and lived on the frontier through the American Revolution and the War of 1812 when the British burned the Capitol. The calendar used in America was changed from the Julian to the Gregorian in 1757, so by modern reckoning, his actual birth date may be 11days later than the one given. He was an approximate contemporary of ,“George Washington who was six years older, and lived through the administrations of four Presidents of the United States: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison In “A History of Monroe County, West Virginia” the following is recorded: “Wiseman. Isaac (Elizabeth) came from Bucks Co., Penn., soon after the Revolution. and settled not far from Rehoboth. C: Joseph (b. 1759) (Elizabeth) - John (1760-1842) (Sarah Green) – Sarah – Isaac – Jacob – Rachel – Samuel - Abner (Isabel Blanton, 1800) – Elizabeth - Margaret (Bartholemew Ramsay, 1799) - William (Mary Ramsy, 1801). John. Isaac. and Samuel went to Ohio. One daughter married a Blanton and they went with Abner to Kentucky. The latter lived while here on Dropping Lick. John, a Methodist minister, ordained by Bishop Asbury, removed to Perry Co., Ohio in 1818. C. of John: Elizabeth – Mary - Margaret (Aaron Morgan ) - Ann - James C - John R. (1796 - 1879) (Mary Bostick 1825 )- Isaac (Sarah,Hull) - Sarah (Thomas (Bratton, l815) - 4 others. Mrs. Jennie Byrnside is a daughter of J. R. We are told that the Wiseman connection still represented in the county are a related branch, but we are without definite information.”
Note:   BURIAL: Old Rehoboth Cemetery, Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. (Fi


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