Robert Bob (Breckenridge) Breckinridge (1754 - 1833)

Born 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia

Ancestors

Died 10 Sep 1833 at about age 79 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Lieutenant Robert (Breckenridge) Breckinridge served with 4th Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Robert (Breckenridge) Breckinridge is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 120377
Rank: Lieutenant

Robert "Bob" Breckenridge, son of Robert Breckenridge and Mary (Poage) Breckenridge, was born in 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia. ^{[1] [2]}

Excerpt from page 696. of the referenced Poage book:

"Robert Breckenridge, farmer and merchant Louisville, KY who never married.; b. Augusta County, Va, 1754, d. Sep 10, 1833, an old and wealthy man but not married; Iieut in the American Revolution, captured and a prisoner as above and also settled at Louisville; mem of the Kentucky Convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States; mem and first speaker Ky House of Delegates; finally known as General Bob Breckenridge; buried at Floyd Station seven miles east of Louisville, which perhaps was the Floyd-Breckenridge plantation; devised half of his property, including lands and slaves, to Mrs. Marion Breckenridge in trust for the children of his nephew Henry, and the other half to his nephew James in trust for his daughter Eliza. Three of his slaves he ordered set free." ^[1]

He died unmarried in Louisville, Kentucky and is buried in Floyd-Breckinridge Cemetery, Plymouth Village, Jefferson County, Kentucky. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Woodworth, Robert Bell. The Descendants of Robert and John Poage, Volume I. Staunton, Virginia: McClure Print. Company, 1954 Page 696
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #7590348 accessed 29 May 2018, memorial page for Gen Robert Breckinridge (1754–10 Sep 1833), citing Floyd-Breckinridge Cemetery, Plymouth Village, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by Vickie Cassady.

See also:

• Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: William Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1886. Page 141

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFF-L9X2-S?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-R9N%3A1597372301 : 29 August 2019), Connecticut-Virginia, Historical register of officers of the Continental Army, image 114 of 690; citing various published state rosters, United States.

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