Moses Stepp

Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements

Pension application of Moses Stepp (Stipp) S15655 fn46NC/SC

Transcribed by Will Graves

State of Kentucky, Pike County

On this 26th day of November 1833 personally appeared before the Justices of the Pike County Court Moses Stepp a resident of Kentucky in the County of Pike aged 76 years who being first duly doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1778 under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He first enlisted in State troops of North Carolina in the year 1778 in the month of May under Captain Whitson and Lieutenant Morgan in Burke County and ...   [ Read more » ]

Moses Stapp/Stepp (1763 - 1856) of Martin County, Kentucky

"The Stepp/Stapp Families of America", pg. 207, by Henry Preston Scalf, 1976

PROLOGUE

Moses Stepp, Orange County, Virginia native, and resident of Pike County, Kentucky when he died, was soldier, Indian fighter, hunter, explorer and backwoods settler of five states. He became a legend long before he succumbed to great age, so old his descendants said that when he died he had attained the age of 120 years. If his headstone dates are true on his grave beside the road on the Pigeon Roost Fork of Wolf Creek in the present Martin County, Kentucky, he was the oldest man to ever live in Kentucky.

He joined the revolutionary forces when he was a mere youth, fought Indians and Tories, helping to hang many of the latter. He was a hunter of renown who approached famous marksmen and hunters who earned pages in history but Stepp imprin...   [ Read more » ]

 Ancestry.com Military Page: Moses Stapp Stepp
http://trees.ancestry.com/view/military.aspx?tid=4931072&pid=-1521592942&gss=seotrees

Moses Stepp was a ruthless enemy of the Tories and helped hang dozens while serving under General Thomas Sumter in South Carolina.
"The Stepp/Stapp Families of America", Chatper VI., page 209, by Henry Preston Scalf, 1976

Moses Stapp, the son of of James STAPP and Lucy GHOLSON, is Legendary Indian fighter, hunter, explorer, soldier, and backswoodsman of five states & Kentucky Legendary figure. Moses Stapp's graveSite is beside the road at Pigion Roost Fork of Wolf Creek, Martin Co., near Lovely, Kentucky, near West Virginia border.

 HISTORICAL MARKER 922

Historical Marker 922
Location: 10 mi. S. of Lovely, Pigeon Roost Valley Rd.
Description: Moses Stepp, Colorful frontiersman. An ancient headstone at grave shows he was born 1735, died 1855....   [ Read more » ]

Moses Stepp Had An Adventurous Family
by Evelynn Cassady

http://www.ydg.com/stepp/story_tellin/ms_had_advent_fam.html

In 1781, Moses came upon the beautiful Tugaloo River Valley in South Carolina while it was still Indian territory and decided to stay there. For four years the Indians and the homesteaders fought many bloody battles as each tried to drive the other back. Finally, in 1785, the Indians agreed to peace and the "Hopewell Treaty" went into affect. By that time, Moses had served in three different wars and had fought the Indians over territorial land for four years. He did all that before he was twenty-two years old.

It was during those last four years that Moses was caught by the Indians. While traveling far west of the Tugaloo River deep into Indian-dominated country, he was captured by the Cherokee, who were experts at human torture. With bones from deer, they pounded bone-spikes through his ears and into...   [ Read more » ]

Moses Stepp: Fighting Frontiersman

by Evelynn Cassady

http://www.ydg.com/stepp/story_tellin/ms_fight_frontier.html

This writer is a product of the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry era. I spent my Saturdays watching cowboy heroes in white hats blaze trails across the silver screen, bringing law and order to a lawless frontier. It gave me cause to associate the frontier as being somewhere "out west," beyond the Mississippi River.

Now, after some research about Moses Stepp's life adventures during the 1700s and 1800s, I realize that at that      time, the western frontier was right here [Martin County, Kentucky] in our own backyard. And it too was opened up by brave, sometimes reckless rebel frontiersmen in search of one thing: a place to call home, away from the overpopulated colonies along the eastern coast.

 Therefore, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and th...   [ Read more » ]

Moses Stepp: Settling on Big Creek
by Evelynn Cassady

http://www.ydg.com/stepp/story_tellin/ms_setl_on_bg_creek.html

Above: Moses finds a home on Wolf Creek, Martin Co., KY

Moses Stepp and his family settled on the Tug River Fork of the newly formed Pike County, Kentucky during the early 1800s. This is believed to be the Big Creek area on the Kentucky side from Nolan, West Virginia, which was Virginia at the time.

Moses' offspring prospered and multiplied in land, wealth and children. The girls married into upstanding families and, with hard work and determination, they became owners of large estates. Two of the boys, Thomas and Joseph began buying land and before long, they owned large holdings in Virginia (now West Virginia) and Kentucky. Barnabus, the eldest son migrated northwest of Kentucky and he too, owned many acres of land.

Between 1770 and 1870, the eastern part of Kentucky went through many name chan...   [ Read more » ]

Will:  Stepp, Moses, 1876-Martin Co., KY  

Book 1 Pg# 60   

Last Will & Testament of Moses Stepp