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Kentucky militia played a prominent role in the military history of the United States. As a result of the predominantly volunteer nature of the early U.S. military establishment, state and local militias, including volunteers from Kentucky, provided a great portion of military service during periods of conflict on the untamed frontiers following the end of the Revolutionary War. From the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, ongoing disputes with Native Americans in the trans- Appalachia region necessarily drew in Kentucky militiamen to patrol the wilderness and protect scattered settlements.

Renewed threats of Indian hostilities in the early nineteenth century caused the recruitment of several militia units in 1806–1807. Companies under Captains Jesse Holmes, John Hughes, William Patterson, and Jonathan Taylor mustered from 25 December 1806 to 24 January 1807. They were joined by Capt. James Elder’s Company of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Kentucky Militia, from 4 January to 2 February 1807.

Our ancestor who served during the Post Revolutionary War Indian Campaigns was:

Jeremiah Belsha 

(abt. 1785 - btw. 1830 - 1834)

3x Great Grandfather