Isaac Frizzell

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• Residence: 1820, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Henry, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1840, , Weakley, Tennessee, USA

Notes:

Isaac Frizzell served in the War of 1812 (Pension Certificate # 13,691). Inducted as a corporal, he became a sergeant in a company commanded by Captain John Jackson, First Regiment Tennessee Militia, Col. William Metcalf, General William Carroll’s Division. He was wounded in the Battle of New Orleans.

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"COLONEL WILLIAM METCALF

DESIGNATION: 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia
DATES: November 1814 - May 1815
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Bedford, Franklin, Lincoln, Maury, Warren, and Giles Counties
CAPTAINS: John Barnhart, Daniel M. Bradford, Barbe Collins, John Cunningham, Lewis Dillahunty, Alexander Hill, Bird S. Hurt, John Jackson, Thomas Marks, William Mullen, Andrew Patterson, William Sitton, Obidiah Waller
BRIEF HISTORY:
Part of the division under Major General William Carroll's at New Orleans, this regiment comprised the right section of Carroll's line at the breastworks at Chalmette. Muster rolls show casualties in the engagements of December 1814 and January 1815. Lieutenant Colonel James Henderson was killed in the skirmish of 28 December 1814. Captain Daniel Bradford led the elite corps known as "Carroll's Life Guard." The division reached New Orleans in mid-December 1814 after an excursion down the Mississippi River." http://www.tn.gov/tsla/history/military/1812reg.htm

Isaac married Lydia Boaz on 17 Nov 1800 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Lydia was born in 1780 in , Baltimore, Maryland, USA; died in 1830 in , Weakley, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Boaz Frizzell was born on 18 Aug 1801 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 28 Jul 1857 in , Weakley, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Ore Springs, Weakley, Tennessee, USA.