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In 1775 Benjamin Logan arrived in
the frontier district of Lincoln County Virginia, where he established
one of the first three early
Kentucky
settlements at
Logan
’s
Fort. By March of 1776
Logan
moved his family to the fort’s adjoining community of St. Asaph’s,
(present day Stanford) and was appointed Sheriff of
Kentucky
County
and a Captain in the
County
Militia
.
As part of the British strategy during the American Revolutionary
War, arms and munitions were supplied to the Indians and numerous
attacks organized against the fledgling frontier settlements.
During March of 1777, Logan’s Militia Company successfully
defended the fort against some of that year’s most severe Indian
attacks.
Logan
’s
Company also fought with
Col.
Bowman in 1779 on the raid against the Indian town of
Chillicothe
,
and under General George
Rogers
Clark
at the battle of Picaway, in August 1780.
A number of
Logan
’s
men also saw service as some of the frontier militia or “
Ova
Mountain
Men”, at the turning-point battle of
Kings Mountain
,
South
Carolina
.
John Vardeman and his sons Amaziah and John are listed on the
company’s roster as some of the frontier men providing duty at the
fort in 1779.
The men of Captain Benjamin Logan’s Company of
Kentucky County Militia are faithful re-enactors of 1777 Kentucky
Frontier Militia, wearing traditional garments of the frontier and
demonstrating 18th century lifestyle activities such as salt
boiling, woodworking, leather working, natural dyeing, cooking, musket
drill and tactical weapons demonstrations. |
