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Albemarle County in Virginia

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4. APPENDIX, No. 4.

Albemarle Soldiers of the Revolution.

OFFICERS.

David Anderson, Ensign, 9th Va.

Nathaniel Anderson, Lieut., 3rd Va.

John Beck, Ensign, 9th Va.

Samuel Bell, Ensign, Grayson's Reg.

Thomas Bell, Captain, Gist's Reg.

Bezaleel Brown, Captain, State troops at Yorktown.

Henry Burke, Captain, State militia.

John Burke, Captain, State militia.

May Button, Captain, State militia.

Peter Davie, Quartermaster, 14th Va.

Samuel Eddins, Captain, 1st Cont. Artillery.

Edward Garland, Captain, 14th Va.

Peter Garland, Captain, 6th Va.

Nathaniel Garland, Lieut., State militia.

William Gooch, Lieut., State militia.

William Grayson, Captain, State militia.

John Hargis, Ensign, 13th Va.

Benjamin Harris, Captain, State militia.


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Robert Harris, Captain, State militia.

Reuben Hawkins, Captain, State militia.

William Henderson, Captain, 9th Va.

Reuben Herndon, Lieut., 7th Va.

Joseph Holt, Lieut., 4th Va.

Samuel Hopkins, Lt. Col., 10th Va., captured at Charleston, S. C.

Charles Hudson, Quartermaster, 14th Va.

John Hudson, Captain, State militia.

Isaac Israel, Captain, 8th Va.

John Jameson, Lt. Col., Dragoons.

Matthew Jouett, Captain.

Robert Jouett, Captain, 7th Va.

John Key, Ensign, 8th Va.

Mask Leake, Captain, State militia.

Charles Lewis, Colonel, 14th Va.

Nicholas Lewis, Captain, State militia.

William Lewis, Lieut., Cont. Line.

Reuben Lindsay, Col., State militia.

Richard Lindsay, Col. Gen., Lawson's Brigade.

Bernard Lipscomb, Captain, State militia.

Col. Mallory.

John Marks, Captain, 14th Va.

Hudson Martin, Lieut., 9th Va.

John Martin, Captain, State militia.

Abraham Maury, Adjutant, 14th Va.

David Meriwether, Lieut., 14th Va., captured at Charleston.

James Meriwether, Adj., State militia.

Thomas Meriwether, Major, State militia.

Peter Minor, Captain, 5th Va.

Archelaus Moon, Lieut., 14th Va.

Jacob Moon, Paymaster, 14th Va.

George Nicholas, Lt. Col., 11th Va.

John Nicholas, Lieut., 9th Va.

Wilson C. Nicholas, Com., Washington's Guards.

Lipscomb Norvell, Lieut., 5th Va.

John Piper, Lieut., State militia.

James Quarles, Captain, State militia.

Robert Rodes, Captain, captured at Charleston.

Clough Shelton, Captain, 10th Va., captured at Charleston.

William Simms, Captain, 6th Va.

Larkin Smith, Captain, 4th Dragoons.

George Thompson, Lieut., State militia.

John Thompson, Lieut., 7th Va.

Leonard Thompson, Lieut., State militia.

Roger Thompson, Captain, 2nd Va.

Thomas Walker Jr., Captain, 9th Va.


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Captain Warr, probably Marr.

Daniel White, Captain, State militia.

Tarleton Woodson, Sergeant, State militia.

PRIVATES.

John Burton, disabled and pensioned.

John Buster, died 1820, served against Indians, and in Revolution.

Nathan Clausby, Grenadier, 1st Partisan Legion.

James Craddock, died in the service.

Charles Davis, 1st Light Dragoons, wounded and pensioned.

David Epperson, died in the service.

John Fagg Sr., died 1829, aged 92.

Simpson Foster, died in the service.

John Gillaspy, 9th Va., killed at Germantown.

Charles Goolsby, Corporal, 9th Va., captured at Germantown, and
died in the service.

James Goolsby, 9th Va., captured at Germantown, and died in the
service.

John Goolsby, 9th Va., died in the service.

John Greening, 2nd Va.

William Hardin, killed at Ninety-Six.

Bartlett Hawkins, pensioned.

Ambrose Howard, 9th Va.

Richard Marshall, pensioned by Act of Assembly.

Peter Massie, 5th Va.

Thomas Mitchell, Sergeant, Cont. army, died in the service.

James Old, died 1821, in battles of Quebec and Long Island.

William Smith, died 1823, aged 95, served against Indians, and in
Revolution.

John Snead, in Cont. army.

Kenneth Southerlin, State militia.

Daniel Tilman, died 1820, served at 16 against Indians, and in Revolution.

Applying for pensions under Act of Congress passed in 1818.

ENLISTED IN ALBEMARLE.

William Bailey, in Capt. Thomas Walker's Co., 9th Va., in battles of
Brunswick and Saratoga, discharged in Pa.

Joseph Brockman, in Capt. Lindman's Co., Col. Davies's Reg., in no
battle, discharged in Powhatan.

William Eastin, in Capt. Reuben Taylor's Co., Col. Moses Hazen's
Reg., in battles of Staten Island, Brandywine and Germantown,
discharged at Morristown, N. J.

Nehemiah Greening, in Capt. Stribling's Co., Buford's Reg., at Fort


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Motte, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs, discharged at Salisbury,
N. C.

Edward Hughes, in Capt. John Mark's Co., 1st Va., in battles of
Brandywine, Germantown and Guilford C. H.

Thomas Johnson, in Capt. Roger Thompson's Co., 2nd Va., in no
battle, discharged at Long Island, Holston River.

John Jones, in Capt. Winston's Co., Col. Charles Lewis's Reg., in
battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, discharged
at Middlebrook, N. J.

Sabrit King, in Capt. Robert Jouett's Co., 7th Va., in battle of Monmouth.

Martin Mooney, in Capt. Fontaine's Co., 14th Va., and Capt. Wm.
Lewis's Co., Col. Cleveland's Reg., in battles of Long Bridge,
King's Mountain and Ninety-Six.

Richard Mooney, in Capt. John Mark's Co., 1st Va., in battles of
Guilford C. H., Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs, discharged
at Salisbury, N. C.

Samuel Munday, in Capt. Wm. Simms's Co., Col. Green's Reg., at
Guilford C. H., Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs, discharged
at Salisbury, N. C.

Enlisted in other places, but residents of Albemarle after the war.

Humphrey Beckett, in Frederick County, Capt. Porterfield's Co., 11th
Va., in battles of Somerset, Amboy and Monmouth, discharged
in Frederick.

Thomas Burton, in Hanover County, Capt. Hurd's Co., Buford's Reg.,
in no battle, discharged in Fluvanna.

Youen Carden, in Cumberland County, under Lt. Benj. Garrett, Capt.
Baylor's Cavalry, and twenty months under Col. Washington,
discharged at Charleston, S. C.

John Grinstead, in Hanover County, Capt. Woodson's Co., Col.
Posey's Reg., at Savannah and Yorktown, discharged in Cumberland
County.

Sabrit Hoy, in Culpeper County, Capt. Harrison's Co., 2nd Va., at
Cowpens, Guilford C. H., Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs,
discharged at Salisbury, N. C.

William Kirby, in Hanover County, Capt. Stribling's Co., Buford's
Reg., at Guilford C. H., Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs,
discharged at Salisbury, N. C.

Isaac Milliway, at Dover, Del., Capt. McCannon's Co., Col.
Vaughan's Reg., at Guilford C. H., Camden, Eutaw Springs,
where he was severly wounded, discharged at Dover.

George Norvell, in Capt. Richard C. Anderson's Co., 5th Va., at
Brandywine, Germantown and Yorktown, discharged at West
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Joseph Shepherd, at Fredericksburg, in Capt. John Wallace's Co., 3rd
Va.

Cephas Shickett, in Capt. John Stuart's Co., 1st Maryland, at Brandywine
and Germantown, discharged at Annapolis.

John Wm. Shube, in Philadelphia, in Pulaski's Corps, at Savannah,
Camden, Mount Scoota, and James Island, discharged at Smithfield,
Va.

John Smith, in Pennsylvania Artillery, Capt. Proctor, at Trenton,
with Gen. Clark down the Ohio in 1781, and one year with Gen.
Harmar, discharged at Fort Pitt.

William Turner, in Capt. Francis Taylor's Co., 2nd Va., at Germantown
and Stony Point.

John Williams, in Brunswick County, Capt. John Overton's Co., 10th
Va., at Guilford C. H., Eutaw Springs, and Yorktown, discharged
at Williamsburg.

PRIVATES IN STATE MILITIA.

                                     
Samuel Barksdale  William Jordan 
Micajah Bowen  Adam Keblinger 
William Boyd  Samuel McCord 
Gideon Carr  Cornelius Maupin 
Meekins Carr  Daniel Maupin 
John Collins  William Maupin 
Major Dowell  Jonathan Munday, at Yorktown 
James Dunn  Ephraim Seamonds 
George Gentry  Richard Snow, at Yorktown 
James Gentry  Richard Spinner 
Sharod Going  John Spradling 
John Hall  David Strange, at Yorktown 
Nathan Hall  John Taylor 
George Hardin  Nathaniel Thacker 
William Harris  Absalom Thomas 
Richard Hill  John Thomas 
Charles Huckstep  Roger Thompson, at Yorktown 
Richard Johnson  Micajah Wheeler 
John Wood.