Excerpt from Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Iowa

It is especially apt that the Iowa Society Sons of the Revolution should have their headquarters upon the Father of Waters - the good old Mississippi - and at Davenport. Here came the first pioneers of this grand and good state, settling a narrow strip only the equivalent of what is now two counties in width, the whole length of the Mississippi Valley within the state, with Dubuque at the north and Burlington, our first capital of the state as it now stands, in the south, with Davenport one of the oldest of these cities midway between.

It was a far cry from the first point of entry into Amer ica for these pioneers to come hence to this beautiful valley.

The records of the various families concerned in this book tell us that among the earliest settlers in the Delaware Valley was one Robert Lucas, who landed at Burlington, N. J on the 4th day of April, 1679. At Doylestown, Penn., near there this good old man lived to his allotted three score years and ten, and his son as well.

As the Delaware Valley filled up with the many settlers from across the ocean, the Indians confining any spreading out toward the North, the east side of the Delaware being already settled, the mountains lying to the west, the younger generation, and the third generation it was then, moved on west and south and settled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley at the mouth of the Rattlesnake Run in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia. There two generations lived and took part in the glorious battle for American freedom from British rule.

The Revolutionary War being over, Wm. Lucas, who had been captain of a company of local troops, and private in the 11th Virginia Line Regiment, great-grandson of this original Robert, with his family of grown young men and women, again turned their eyes toward the west and after careful deliberation and selection, went through the Cum berland Gap and settled near the mouth of the Sciota River in southern Ohio.

One of the younger sons of this family was Robert Lucas, one probably not intended for the life of a farmer or an artisan of any kind, but more fitted for a life of public utility. This Robert Lucas spent the early part of his life in Sciota County, starting in public service as a surveyor, then as a lieutenant of militia, passing through the various grades of army life, until at quite an early age for so high a rank; he reached that of Brigadier General of the first Brigade of Ohio Militia.

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