Adam Heiskell 1755-

Adam Heiskell was born 1755 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. The son of John Christof Heiskell. He married Margaret Upp 30 January 1778 in Hampshire County, W. Virginia. She was born 1755 in Virginia, and died 15 January 1812 in Newton, Frederick County, Virginia. Adam was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1775, he marched northward with Captain Daniel Morgan's Rifle Company of Winchester, Virginia to Boston, where George Washington was organizing the Northern Army. The company was assigned to the Invasion of Canada, under the joint command of Generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold. Adam fought at the Battle of Quebec in the winter of 1775, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the British. Heiskell was eventually released as part of a prisoner exchange. He died 28 July 1822 in Hampshire County, Virginia,and was buried in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia.

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Adam and Margaret had eight children:

Isaac Noble Heiskell b: 30 JAN 1777 in Frederick County, Virginia. Isaac and his wife Elizabeth had a daughter named Sallie, who married V.M. Poling, Clerk of the Circuit Court and resident of Romney, Hampshire County, W.Va. They also had a son, Frances Lovit Heiskell. Isaac Noble Heiskell was a Captain during the War of 1812.4
Lewis Heiskell b: 1779 in Frederick County, Virginia. Died October 1832, in Monongalia County, W.Va.
Christopher Heiskell b: 14 MAR 1781 in Frederick County, Virginia. He was a Justice of Hampshire County in 1824.2 Christopher was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the town of Romney on 24 February 1818.3 He married Eleanor Abernathy 29 JAN 1807 in Frederick County, Virginia. She was born 1 JAN 1782 in Virginia. Christopher Heiskell died Dec 29, 1851 "in the 71st year of his age". Eleanor Heiskell died Jan 26, 1845 "Who departed this life"; "Aged 61 yrs". They are buried at Indian Mound Cemetery Romney, WV.
Jacob Heiskell b: 1782 in Frederick County, Virginia. He married Kitty (Catherine) Campbell, born 1789. They are both buried in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia.
John Heiskell b: 13 FEB 1785 in Frederick County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Plummer 16 JUN 1808 in Frederick County, Virginia. She was born 13 FEB 1790 in Virginia, and died 11 APR 1845. John, Elizabeth and their five children moved from Virginia to Springfield, Ohio in 1818. He was a Trustee of Madison Township (Ohio). John was a hatter by trade, and he kept a hotel in Springfield. In 1829, he and his family moved to South Charleston, where he opened a mercantile business with his son-in-law, Absolom Mattox. Mattox left the business after ten years, and John took his son, Daniel O. Heiskell, as a partner. John and Elizabeth's children were: Margaret (wife of Dr. Lawrence), Drusilla (wife of Absolom Mattox), Mary D (wife of Rufus Putnam), Adam and Daniel O.
Susanna Heiskell b: 26 SEP 1787 in Hampshire County, Virginia. Susanna married James Lawrence Henshaw on March 19 1833. James and Susan had no children.
Samuel Heiskell
Emily Heiskell b: 1793 in Hampshire County, Virginia

The census for 1810 shows Adam, Christopher and Jacob Heiskell as separate heads of households living in the Romney District. Romney is the seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia. Adam declared that there were, in his household, 7 free white males between the ages of 10 and 16, and one older than 45 [himself]; with 2 free white females: one between 16 and 26, the other between 26 and 45 [Margaret]. He had seven slaves. Christopher's household contained 3 white males: one younger than 10, one between 16 and 26, and one between 26 and 44 [himself]; and three white females: one younger than 10, one 10 to 16, and one 16 to 26 [his wife?]. He had one slave. Jacob declared two males: one younger than 10, one between 26 and 44 [himself]; and one female between 16 and 26 years of age [Catherine].

1 A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia By John Walter Wayland, 1980.
2 History of Hampshire County, West Virginia by Hu Maxwell & H.L. Swisher. Morgantown, W.Va., 1897.
3 History of West Virginia by Virgil A. Lewis. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1889.
4 "Judge Beaty was in the war of 1812, under Captain Isaac Heiskell, brother of the late John Heiskell, of Clark County, and uncle to D.O. Heiskell, of South Charleston, a brave Virginian, who was the son of a veteran of the Revolution, Adam Heiskell. About the time the enemy were preparing to attack Fort Stevenson [Fort Stephenson], the frontiers were in great danger, and General Harrison wrote to the Governor of Virginia, to send to his aid the volunteer riflemen, organized under the State Laws. Captain Heiskell, on getting the news, was soon on the war path." Pioneer record and reminiscences of the early settlers and settlement of Fayette County, Ohio by Rufus Putnam. Cincinnati, 1872:17.