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Descendants of George John Dame

Generation No. 1

1. GEORGE JOHN¹ DAME was born 1755 in Hanover, Germany, and died in Maplewood. He married MARGARET GREEN Abt. 1784 in Hannover, Preussen. She was born 1765 in Botetourt, Virginia, and died Bef. 1810 in Botetourt, Virginia.

Notes for GEORGE JOHN DAME:
According to the book by Charlotte Traylor George John Dame was of English descent. His ancestors fled into Germany from England when religious persecution was rampant. He fought in Revolutionary War of 1776 under the name John Dame. He was a private in Captain Hill's Co., 7th Virginia Regiment commanded by Alexander McClenanhan. John's name is included on the muster roll of 20 May 1777, he was discharged on 2 February 1778.

"Dame Family Genealogy"
being Descendants of George Dame of Hanover, Germany

who came to the American Colonies as a stowaway on a ship bound for Charleston (South) Carolina, was indentured to a carpenter to work off his passage, which he did, then married the carpenter's daughter.

The descendants of this couple are now found in many states of the USA.

This Genealogy was researched and typed and distributed to members of this Dame family by: Helen Morse Dame, 4331 Chowen Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN in March 1940.

This title page was composed by William H. Dame, 11th generation of John Dam-Dame-Damme line of New Hampshire, and given to Della Dame Edmunds of Salt Lake City, Utah for presentation to the LDS Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah on 28 January 1974

DAME - Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky Families

In the year 1769, Augusta County, Virginia was divided, all territory south of the Marys River and to the west as far as Virginia extended, was included in the new county of Botetourt. The county seat of the new county was Fincastle. At this time, the settlers of this portion were Scotch Irish, Dutch, German and Swiss with a few English coming from the east and south of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The first permanent settlement by white people in this section of country which became Augusta County and later Botetourt was made by natives of Germany in 1726 on the Shenandoah River, a few miles below the present village of Fort Republic. Also, a smaller settlement of German settlers for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania made their home in this section.

Between 1769 and the beginning of the American Revolution found great progress in the settlement and development of southwestern Virginia. The opening guns of the Revolution found this section in possession of people that might properly be termed the bravest, heartiest of the races, most fearless and determined patriots and advocates of liberty to be found in America.

The first settlers were people seeking refuge from political and religious persecution. Educated to unusual degree at the time, these people were lovers of religious and political liberty, ready at all times to stake their lives and fortunes to attain these objects.

The little town of Fincastle lies in a large valley, surrounded in the distance by huge, rolling mountains, blanketed with a canopy of forest trees. During the early days of the Revolution, George Dame, pioneer, who is said by his descendants to have come from Germany to America, served his new county in the field of battle. Revolutionary records is not available although there is recorded one John Dame from Virginia, who served as a private in Captain Hill's Company, 7th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Alexander McClenachan. His name is first borne on the company muster roll dates May 20, 1777, and he was discharged February 2, 1778. The county in which he resided is not shown, although it is known that Colonel Alexander McClenachan was a native of Botetourt County which places John Dame in the same general locality. The collection of Revolutionary War records in the United State War Department in Washington is far from complete, and it is possible that George Dame fought also in those same ranks. The John Dame on record may have been a brother, or there could even been a mistake in the given name in the records.

It has not been possible to trace the exact home of this early family, known to have lived in or about Fincastle, in as much as early land surveys of Botetourt County were burned during the Civil War.

George Dame was doubtless of English descent, his family having fled into Germany from English religious persecution and thence sailed to the new world where religious freedom was assured. Nothing is known of his wife although the name of Margaret Dame appears in the 1810 Census Records of Botetourt County, Virginia, age 45 or over and head of household. It is entirely possible that she was then the widow of George Dame. Jacob Dame's name also appears in this same record.

George Dame was by trade a brick and stone mason, an ardent Whig in his political views and was a very earnest and consistent Christian man whose membership was probably in the Methodist Church. He was the father of John, born in 1785, and George Jacob, born 1786. These are the only known children, although there is a records of David Dame having married Margaret Cressir, daughter of Matthias Cressir in Botetourt County, Virginia in the year of 1802. This David Dame was probably another brother, inasmuch as the name David has followed through both families of John and George Jacob. Both of these brothers learned the tanners trade in Fincastle.

Shortly before the War of 1812, John had married Elizabeth Oyler of Franklin County, Virginia, and George Jacob had married Elizabeth Kittinger. The latter couple had four children, Thomas b. 1809; George b. 1811; John, b. 1812; and Katie, b. 1813, all in Virginia. It is said that these brothers heard the tales sent back by a friend about the paradise that was called Kentucky territory. George Jacob, in his eagerness to find this paradise, left a large Virginia farm, never returning to claim it. So the little group of the two Dame brothers and their families, probably accompanied by their close Virginia friends, the Moores and Johnsons who settled near the Kentucky family later, set out from their Botetourt County, Virginia home, through the wilderness, crossing the rugged mountains, doubtless through the Cumberland Gap, in quest of a new home in the West where land was plentiful, forests abounded with wild game and furnished logs for the early pioneer homes.

John and his wife found the Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee to their liking and stopped off there for their future home. During the War of 1812, John entered the service of his country and fought in the Southland under Andrew Jackson. On the close of hostilities, he walked from Mobile, Alabama to his home. Later he removed with his family to Kentucky but, not liking that state as well as Tennessee, he returned to the Sequatchie Valley where his descendants live today.

George Jacob, known later through his life as Jacob Dame, although buried by the name George J. Dame, and his little family pressed further into the West, after leaving his brother in Tennessee and contined until they reached Northwest Kentucky, settling in what later became Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Shortly after settling in their newly adopted home, Elizabeth (Kittinger) Dame passed away, leaving her busband and four small children. Elizabeth's grave is said to be in what is McLean County now as Muhlenberg County was later divided and part of it became McLean. Several of the older memebers of the Kentucky family remember having seen her grave, but younger ones have failed to find it, and it is feared that the marker may have been removed from the spot.

On March 27, 1817, George Jacob married Sarah Musgrave (or Musgrove), W. Henderson performing the marriage rites as recorded by the Kentucky Historical Society. Early U.S. Census reports show that Sarah Musgrove was born in North Carolina.

Following are accounts of the two brothers, John and Elizabeth (Oyler) Dame of Tennessee and Jacob and Elizabeth (Kittinger) 1, and Sarah (Musgrove) 2 Dame of Kentucky and their descendants. (as listed in database for each family).

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated 25 July 1842 Copy of contract with John Dame Sr. giving title to his land in Marion County, Tennessee of about 244 acres to his sons, Valentine, John Dame's (decd) heirs, Andrew, George, David, Daniel; and to his daughters, Malinda Walker wife of Saunder Walker, Polly Kerzy wife of Isaac Kerzy, she having now decd., Elizabeth Ridley wife of Elisha Ridley, Sarah Rogers wife of Stephen Rogers, and Lucinda Dame. Their is a condition that his children will maintain him and their mother, Elizabeth Dame, so long as they both live.
Change Date: 22 Jun 2005
Children
David DAME b: 1828 in , Marion, Tennessee

Sources:
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: Dame Family Bible
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: Dame Family Bible in Biography of George W. Dame in Ogles Compendium - written in 1895
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: "Dame Family Genealogy" by Helen Morse Dame in March 1940
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: Dame Family History. In possession of Christina Grindstaff Aeschbacher
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Cemetery records, Jasper Co., Tennessee
Title: Cemetery records, Jasper Co., Tennessee
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: Widow's Pension request by Elizabeth Dame states date of John Dame's death as 06 February 1866
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: "Biography of George W. Dame in Ogles Compendium - written in 1898"
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Widow's Pension Claim
Title: Widow's Pension Claim
Page: War of 1812 - served as a Private in Capt. James Tunnell's
Company, 3 Reg't East Tennessee Militia.
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: 28 Nov 1850 - application for bounty lands for serving in War of 1812
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: transfer of land to children in Marion Co., TN
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: copy of sale of land by John Dame in Franklin County, TN
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: Ordered by the court that John Dame be relieved from any further liabilities as the security of Henry Briant as Guardian of the minor heirs of John Dame, decedent.
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: page 204 - John Dame, Sr., appointed by the court to serve as judge of Pres. election in Dist. 7 along with A. V. Martin, A. G. Hale.
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: bound land warrant for 80 acres issued on July 1, 1851
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Botetourt County, Virginia records
Title: Botetourt County Virginia records
Page: no actual copies available
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: "Dame Family Genealogy" by Helen Morse Dame in March 1940
Abbrev: Christina Aeschbacher genealogy
Title: Christine Aeschbacher genealogy
Page: Widow's Pension request by Elizabeth Dame
Abbrev: Oyler Ancestry
Title: Oyler Ancestry for "Five Generations of Mormonism" pages 324 - 333

Per Helen Morse Dame, 4331 Chowen Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN March 1940
"Dame Family Genealogy" being Descendannns of George Dame of Hanover, Germany who came to the American Colonies as a stowaway on a ship bound for Charleston (South) Carolina, was indentured to a carpenter to work off his passage, whichhe did, then married the carpenter's daughterr. The descendants of this couple are now found in many states of the USA. This title page was composed by Wiliam H. Dame, 11th generation of Johhn Dam-Dame-Damme line of New Hampshire and give to Dela Dame Edmmunds of Salt ALake city, Utah for presentation to the LDS Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah on 28 January 1974.

More About GEORGE JOHN DAME:
Burial: Virginia
Immigration: England, Germany and the Americas
Military service: November 11, 1779, Revolutionary War, Private in Captain Thomas Hill's Company of the 7th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Alexander McClenachan.
Nationality: English Descent
Occupation: Brick and Stone Mason, Pioneer
Religion: Most likely Methodist

More About MARGARET GREEN:
Burial: Virginia

Children of GEORGE DAME and MARGARET GREEN are:

2.	i.	DAVID H.² DAME, b. 1770, Botetourt, Virginia; d. 1851, Lawrence County, Tennessee.
3.	ii.	JOHN DAME, b. 1786, Botetourt, Virginia; d. February 06, 1866, near Jasper, Marion Co., Tennessee.
4.	iii.	GEORGE JACOB DAME, b. February 19, 1786, Botetourt, Virginia; d. July 24, 1856, Calhoun, McLean Co., KY.
	iv.	CATHERINE DAME, b. 1787, Botetourt, Virginia; m. RICHARD WRIGHT, 1805.
	v.	WILLIAM ANDREW DAME, b. 1792, Botetourt, Virginia; m. MARY ENYART.
	vi.	BETSY DAME, b. 1797, Botetourt, Virginia.
	vii.	SAMUEL DAME, b. 1799, Botetourt, Virginia; d. September 02, 1843, Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA; m. MARY MCKNIGHT, 1823.

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