Henry VAN METER

                   In his fatherÕs will he is listed as the second son of his fatherÕs wife Margrit

John Swan, Thomas Hughes and Henry Van Meter, brother of Jacob, were also granted land for services, and all four erected forts, located near each other on bottom land, not far from the mouth of Muddy Creek: Fort Van Meter, by Jacob VanMeter, on Muddy Creek; Fort Swan, by John Swan, on Swan's Run, and another Fort Van Meter, by Henry Van Meter, on Swan's Run. The location of Thomas Hughes' fort is not listed.

He was sheriff of Frederick County. Planned road from Conrad Weiser'sto mouth of Wheeling.

Carnegie Museum Annals, v. 1, pp. 533, 564, 565: Received Warrant of lands for military service, 400 acres in Washingtron Co. Pa. 5-25-1785 and 250 additional acres in 1786.

Henry Van Meter's homestead was just north of the road that ran from Martinsburg to Shepherdstown on the west bank to the Opequon River near the "Old Flagg" house. Many of his descendants still live in this area.

It was not this Henry who was a member of the Peace Commission of West Augusta.

He served in Frederick County VA Militia (Rev. Services, Fred. Co.Records p. 349)

Henry Van Metre, Joseph Van Metre, John Lemon, Nicholas McIntyre and Edward Lucas, soldiers, of Frederick Co., Va., were paid 7 shillings each for services in resisting Indians; Sept., 1758 (Boogher's Gleanings of Virginia History, p. 81, and Virginia Colonial Militia, by Crozier,p. 72). They are rated as privates in Capt. Thomas Speak's Company,Virginia Colonial Militia.