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County was named for American Revolutionary hero Sgt. William Jasper*.
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Jasper, Texas 75951
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Jasper
" ... was settled around 1824 by John Bevil. Thirty families occupied the
settlement as early as 1830, when it was known as Snow River or Bevil's Settlement.
In 1835 it was renamed for William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolution.
Jasper became the county seat in 1844..." - See Handbook of Texas Online.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/hfj2.html
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Texas Forum *JASPER,
William. c.1750-1779. Rev. hero. S.C. Of obscure parentage, but apparently from
the vicinity of Georgetown, S. C., he enlisted on 7 July '75 in Francis Marion's
Co. for service in Wm. Moultrie's Regt. During the defense of Charleston in 1776
he braved enemy artillery to replace the flag that had been shot from the parapet
of Ft. Sullivan (later Ft. Moultrie). Given a sword by Gov. Rutledge, he declined
a commission on the ground of being ignorant. As a roving scout under Moultrie,
Marion and Lincoln, successively, he gathered valuable information of British
activities. He was killed while planting the colors of the 2nd S.C. on the Spring
Hill redoubt in the assault on Savannah, 9 Oct. '79. An impressive monument has
been erected at Savannah in his honor, and one of the redoubts at Ft. Moultrie
was named "Jasper Battery." (James W. Patton in Dictionary of American Biography,
quoted in Boatner's Encyclopedia of the American Revolution.)
I have
found that it is much easier to find information on Sgt. Jasper than it is on
Sgt. John Newton. - Regards, R. Keith Young Fairfax, VA
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