Short Subjects

Plucked from old research notes, here are brief discussions, excerpts, etc. of specific or peculiar topics which, for various reasons, had appealed to my interests.

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CATAWBA INDIANS COATED THEIR "PUNJI STICKS" WITH RATTLESNAKE VENOM (A. D. 1755)

In May 1755, while working as a road-cutter in preparation for British General James Braddock's campaign against the French at Fort Duquesne, 18-year-old James Smith was captured by Indians, taken to the Ohio country, and adopted into the Caughnewago tribe. This was the time of the French and Indian War. Yet while this war went on, the northern Indian tribes continued their traditional war with the southern Indians, such as the Catawbas.

http://books.google.com/books?id=pRETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA189

or

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100266084

Indian Captivities, Being a Collection of the Most Remarkable Narratives of Persons Taken Captive by the North American Indians... to which are Added, Notes, Historical, Biographical, &c

Samuel Gardner Drake

Antiquarian Bookstore and Institute, 1839 - Indian captivities - 360 pages

James Smith's narrative is on pages 178-264.

p.178

A N A C C O U N T

OF THE REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE LIFE AND

TRAVELS OF COLONEL JAMES SMITH, (LATE A CITIZEN OF

BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY,) DURING HIS CAPTIVITY

WITH THE INDIANS, IN THE YEARS 1755, '56, '57, '58, AND '59.

....

p.189

...

Though the Indians had given me a gun, I had not yet been

admitted to go out from the camp to hunt. At this place Mo-

hawk Solomon asked me to go out with him to hunt, which I

readily agreed to. After some time we came upon some fresh

buffalo tracks. I had observed before this that the Indians

were upon their guard, and afraid of an enemy ; for, until now,

they and the southern nations had been at war. As we were

following the buffalo tracks, Solomon seemed to be upon his

guard, went very slow, and would frequently stand and listen,

and appeared to be in suspense. We came to where the tracks

were very plain in the sand, and I said it is surely buffalo

tracks ; he said, hush, you know nothing, may be buffalo tracks,

may be Catawba. He went very cautious until we found some

fresh buffalo dung; he then smiled, and said, Catawba cannot

make so. He then stopped, and told me an odd story about

the Catawbas. He said that formerly the Catawbas came near

one of their hunting camps, and at some distance from the

camp lay in ambush ; and in order to decoy them out, sent two

or three Catawbas in the night past their camp, with buffalo

hoofs fixed on their feet, so as to make artificial tracks. In the

morning, those in the camp followed after these tracks, thinking

they were buffalo, until they were fired on by the Catawbas,

and several of them killed. The others fled, collected a party

and pursued the Catawbas ; but they, in their subtilty, brought

with them rattlesnake poison, which they had collected from

the bladder that lieth at the root of the snake's teeth; this they

had corked up in a short piece of a cane-stalk. They had also

brought with them small cane or reed, about the size of a rye-

straw, which they made sharp at the end like a pen, and dip-

ped them in this poison, and stuck them in the ground among

p.190

the grass, along their own tracks, in such a position that they

might stick into the legs of the pursuers, which answered the

design; and as the Catawbas had runners behind to watch the

motion of the pursuers, when they found that a number of them

were lame, being artificially snake bit, and that they were all

turning back, the Catawbas turned upon the pursuers, and de-

feated them, and killed and scalped all those that were lame.

When Solomon had finished this story, and found that I un-

derstood him, he concluded by saying, you don't know, Catawba

velly bad Indian, Catawba all one devil Catawba.

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"For Want of a Shoe": The Horseshoe Troubles of the Confederate Cavalryman

Munford, Thomas T., "Reminiscences of Cavalry Operations: Paper No. 1," Southern Historical Society Papers 12 (1884): p.342-350.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924092916604;view=1up;seq=376

p.346

...

A soldier can cheerfully submit to personal privations and toil, his

mind and spirit keeps him buoyant, but a‘ horse loses spirit and

strength, and the more spirit he has the worse it is for him as soon

as his rations are cut down and double duty imposed upon him. We

could get grass sometimes, when com could not be had, and when

in camp they could live; but the finest horse in the best physical

condition, casting a shoe on a rough, rocky road and forced rapidly

over it, will be rendered wholly unfit ,for service in half a day. The

cavalry were used as couriers, scouts, guides—the eyes and ears of

the army. They were expected to move promptly and quickly, the

loss of a shoe was not taken as a valid excuse when dispatch was

demanded. Few men well enough off to furnish their own horses,

could nail on a horse-shoe (if he had the tools), and if he had extra

shoes and nails in his saddle-pocket, and the company's-blacksmith

was sick or absent, what could he do? The service was too preca-

rious to admit of wagons accompanying an expedition, so that,

with the best management, it often happened neither shoes, nails or

smith could be had. I have seen my men many a time have the

hoof of a dead horse strapped to their saddles, which they had cut

off at the ankle with their pocket-knives, and would carry them until

they could find a smith to take it off with his nippers, and thus sup-

ply their sore-footed steeds. ...

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Fort Gower Resolves or Resolutions

The Fort Gower Resolves were composed on 5 November 1774 in the aftermath of the victorious but costly Battle of Point Pleasant, which had been fought on the previous 10th of October.

For a short discussion of their significance see, for example, http://arrt-richmond.blogspot.com/2014/07/meeting-notes-july-16-2014.html .

The Fort Gower Resolves were printed on pages one and two of Purdie and Dixon's Virginia Gazette of December 22, 1774.

To view the digital images of those pages see

http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/va-gazettes/VGSinglePage.cfm?issueIDNo=74.PD.65&page=1&res=LO

Virginia Gazette

Purdie and Dixon: Dec. 22, 1774

The resolves begin on page 1, column 3 (in the lower right corner of the page) and conclude on page 2, column 1.

Below is an easier to read transcription:

https://archive.org/stream/AmericanArchives-FourthSeriesVolume1-ContainingADocumentaryHistory/AaSeries4VolumeI#page/n479/mode/2up

Peter Force's American Archives - Fourth Series, Volume 1 (December 1837)

by Peter Force

pages 962-963 [digital pages 480-481 of 994]

...

p.962

MEETING OF OFFICERS UNDER EARL OF DUNMORE.

At a Meeting of the Officers under the command of his

Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore,

convened at Fort Gower* November 5, 1774, for the pur-

pose of considering the grievances of British America, an

Officer present addressed the Meeting in the following

words:

"GENTLEMEN: Having now concluded the campaign,

"by the assistance of Providence, with honour and advan-

tage to the Colony and ourselves, it only remains that

"we should give our country the strongest assurance that

"we are ready, at all times, to the utmost of our power, to

"maintain and defend her just rights and privileges. We

"have lived about three months in the woods without any

"intelligence from Boston, or from the Delegates at Phila-

"delphia. It is possible, from the groundless reports of

"designing men, that our countrymen may be jealous of

* Situated at the junction of the Ohio and Hockhocking Rivers, two

hundred miles below Fort Dunmore.

p.963

"the use such a body would make of arms in their hands

"at this critical juncture. That we are a respectable body

"is certain, when it is considered that we can live weeks

"without bread or salt; that we can sleep in the open air

"without any covering but that of the canopy of Heaven;

"and that our men can march and shoot with any in the

"known world. Blessed with these talents, let us solenm-

"ly engage to one another, and our country in particular,

"that we will use them to no purpose but for the honour

"and advantage of America in general, and of Virginia in

"particular. It behooves us then, for the satisfaction of our

"country, that we should give them our real sentiments,

"by way of resolves, at this very alarming crisis."

Whereupon the meeting made choice of a Committee

to draw up and prepare Resolves for their consideration,

who immediately withdrew; and after some time spent

therein, reported that they had agreed to and prepared the

following Resolves, which were read, maturely considered,

and agreed to, nemine contradicente, by the Meeting, and

ordered to be published in the Virginia Gazette:

Resolved, That we will bear the most faithful allegiance

to his Majesty King George the Third, whilst his Majesty

delights to reign over a brave and free people; that we will,

at the expense of life, and every thing dear and valuable,

exert ourselves in support of the honour of his Crown and

the dignity of the British Empire. But as the love of

Liberty, and attachment to the real interests and just rights

of America outweigh every other consideration, we resolve

that we will exert every power within us for the defence

of American liberty, and for the support of her just rights

and privileges; not in any precipitate, riotous, or tumul-

tuous manner, but when regularly called forth by the

unanimous voice of our countrymen.

Resolved, That we entertain the greatest respect for his

Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Dunmore, who

commanded the expedition against the Shawanese; and

who, we are confident, underwent the great fatigue of this

singular campaign from no other motive than the true in-

terest of this country.

Signed by order and in behalf of the whole Corps.

BENJAMIN ASHBY, Clerk.

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Alexander Crawford and his wife Mary McPheeters Crawford were killed by Indians at their home in Augusta County on 29 September 1764.

http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001280/html/m1280-1337.html

Maryland Gazette, Thursday, November 29, 1764, page 2, column 1

PHILADELPHIA, November 15.

...

In a Letter from Stanton, in Virginia, dated

October 26, it is said, that on the 29th of Septem-

ber the Indians killed one Crawford and his Wife,

and burnt their House and Barn, with a great

Quantity of Grain in it : And that on the First of

October they burnt the House of William Patton,

and carried off a Boy.

...

See the same report in:

The Pennsylvania Gazette

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Thursday, November 15, 1764

page 3, column 1

https://books.google.com/books?id=rZbEC1kEdpcC&pg=PA191&dq=%22Alexander+Crawford%22#v=onepage&q=%22Alexander%20Crawford%22&f=false

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871

Joseph Addison Waddell

C. R. Caldwell, 1902 - Augusta County (Va.) - 545 pages

p.191

Alexander Crawford and his wife were murdered by Indians, in

October [sic], 1764, it is believed. All we know certainly in regard to

Crawford's latter days is, that he was alive February 18, 1762, when

he became one of the securities of Thomas Gardiner, jr., in a

guardian's bond ; and that he was dead by November court, 1764,

when his administrator qualified.

His wife's maiden name was Mary McPheeters. He acquired an

extensive tract of land in Augusta, covering a part of the Little North

mountain, and extending far out into the plain. It embraced sixteen

hundred and forty acres. His dwelling stood on a knoll, at the eastern

base of the mountain, and looked out towards the rising sun on a wide

tract of level land. It was "beautiful for situation." The spot is

about two miles northeast of Buffalo Gap, and a hundred yards south

of the present residence of Baxter Crawford, a great-grand-son of

Alexander and Mary. The site of the house is now marked by a

thicket, surrounding a pile of unhewn stones which composed the

chimney.

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Declaration of Peter Tallman, dated 13 March 1702/3.

http://books.google.com/books?id=AQKXGD1BS4AC&pg=PA90&dq=Tallman

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1915

Volume LXIX (69)

January, 1915

p.90 [Notes continued]

TALLMAN. - In the town records of Portsmouth, R. I., there is to be found the

following deposition by Joseph Sheffield concerning a declaration made by Peter

Tallman of Portsmouth on 13 Mar. 1702/3:

Joseph Sheffield, one of her Majesties Assistants, testified that being in the

house of Peter Tallman in Portsmouth, 13 March 1702/3, Peter declared: I am

now 80 years of age, and in the year 1647 I came from Hambrough to the Island

of Barbados, and within two years after my arrival I married with Ann Hill, the

daughter of Phillip Hill and Ann his wife, and he was married in Christ Church

Parish in said Island, and after seven or eight months after his marriage the said

Tallman moved from the Island of Barbados to Rhode Island, bringing with him

his wife and his wife's brother called Robert Hill, as likewise his wife's mother,

who after said Philip Hills death married Mr. John Elten, and Mrs. Elten re-

mained in Rhode Island about one year with her son Robert, and afterwards

removed from Rhode Island to Flushing upon Long Island, and thence to Staten

Island in the Government of New York, and afterwards under Virginia or Mary-

land, carrying her son Robert Hill, and after her being in Virginia she had a child

or more by Capt Hudson, who, as is reported, she married, and further saith

Robert Hill settled in Virginia, and further said Tallman declared to me, the said

deponent, that the Peter Tallman whose habitation is now at Guildford in the

County of New Haven in Conaecticet is eldest lawfull son of said Peter Tallman.

17 March 1702/3.

Since finding the deposition given above I have received through the courtesy

of my friend E. G. Sinckler, Esq., of Barbados, the following item from the

registers of Christ Church Parish, Barbados: "married January 2, 1649 Peter

Tolman and Ann Hill."

Newport, R. I. G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR.

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https://books.google.com/books?id=kElKAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, R.I.

William Field Reed

Gibson Bros., Printers, 1900 - Rhode Island

p.37

...

The following items of interest have been secured from

various reliable records covering some of the transactions

of Peter Tallman, the father of Benjamin, who married

Patience Durfee:

He had a clearance from Newton, Long Island, N. Y.,

for the South river Delaware, June 27, 1651.

In 1655 he was on the roll of freemen, of Newport, R. I.

January 25, 1656, he was complained of for removing

tobacco which had been attached by order of the court.

December 18, 1658, he bought land in Portsmouth,

R. I., of Robert Morris, and on the 20th of the same

month and year bought land of William Wilbur, adjoining

that obtained of Morris.

In 1661 he was solicitor of the colony of Rhode Island.

In 1661-62 he was commissioner of Warwick and Ports-

mouth, R. I.

In 1662-65 he was a member of the General Court.

June 25, 1662, he bought land in Portsmouth, R. I.

June 22, 1664, he sold land to Anthony Emery.

In 1665 he was divorced from his wife Ann, and married

to his second wife, Joan Briggs.

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p.31

TALLMAN.

8. Durfee, Patience (Thomas 1st). Daughter of

Thomas and (2d wife) Deliverance (Hall) (Tripp) Durfee,

of Portsmouth, R. I.; born in Portsmouth, R. I. ; died

in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1723; married in Portsmouth,

R. I., September 23, 1708, to BENJAMIN TALLMAN, of

Portsmouth, R. I., son of Peter and Joan (Briggs) Tall

-man. Born in Portsmouth, R. I., January 28, 1684.

Died in Warwick, R. I., May 20, 1759.

Their children were:

1.—BENJAMIN TALLMAN, born June 19, 1710; married

at Warwick, R. I., in January, 1735, to ELIZABETH GOR-

TON, of Warwick, R. I., daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth

(Collins) Gorton. Born in Warwick, R. I., September 26,

1709.

...

p.34

II.—MARY TALLMAN, born August 2, 1712; married

in Portsmouth, R. L, October 22, 1730, to DANIEL FISH,

of Portsmouth, R. I., son of Robert and Mary (Hall)

Fish, born in Portsmouth, R. I., May 17, 1707.

...

p.35

III.—DELIVERANCE TALLMAN, born February 4, 1715;

died in Portsmouth, R. I.; married in Portsmouth, R. L,

July or August 2, 1741, to RICHARD SISSON, JR., of Ports-

mouth, R. I., son of Richard and Ann (card) Sisson.

Born in Portsmouth, R. I., February 28, 1708; died in

Portsmouth, R. I., May 30, 1753.

...

p.36

IV. —WILLIAM TALLMAN.

V. —PATIENCE TALLMAN, born April 6, 1721; died in

Portsmouth, R. I.; married in Portsmouth, R. L, June

6, 1754 (as second wife) to JOHN SISSON, of Portsmouth,

R. I., son of Richard and Ann (Card) Sisson; born in

Portsmouth, R. I., January 5,1716; died in Portsmouth,

R. I.

...

P.36-37

Benjamin Tallman, Sr., married a second time, June 7,

1724, to Deborah Cook, daughter of John and Mary

(--------) Cook.

Their children were:

1st.—JAMES TALLMAN.

2d.—SARAH TALLMAN.

3d.—JOHN TALLMAN.

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https://books.google.com/books?id=M3KwAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ein+besonderer+Dank+geb%C3%BChrt+auch+

Deutsche U-Boot-Erfolge von September 1939 bis Mai 1945

Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll

Mittler, 2001 - Ritterkreuz - 483 pages

Page 8

...

Ein besonderer Dank gebührt auch Herrn Steve M.[sic-Steven] Zuraff, der auf Grund seiner

langjährigen Forschungen zum U-Boot-Einsatz in der Karibik wertvolle Anregungen

und Ergänzungen geben konnte.

...

approximate translation:

Special thanks go to Mr. Steve M. [sic-Steven] Zuraff, who, on the basis of his

many years of research into U-boat operations in the Caribbean could give valuable suggestions

and additions.

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http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/civil_war/diaries_journals/murphy/

George H. Murphy Civil War Diary

...

Bibliographic note: As one might expect, records of the actions of Confederate troops in the Shenandoah

after the battle of Waynesboro are scarce. Most of the men of the 23rd Virginia Cavalry find no mention in

the NARA records from 31 October 1864 (the date of a surviving muster roll) to April 1865, when they

were paroled. Some information may be gleaned from Official Records, Series I, Vol. 46, Parts 1-3. The

regimental history of the 23rd Virginia is Richard B. Kleese, 23rd Virginia Cavalry, Lynchburg VA, 1996.

The Murphy diary is listed in the bibliography of Kleese's book, under "Manuscripts in Private Hands." Col.

Robert White of the 23rd Virginia Cavalry wrote a reminiscence of a delaying action fought by 28 troopers

under his command on 1 March 1865; see "Heroes Unsung," in Ben La Bree, ed., Camp Fires of the

Confederacy, Louisville KY, 1898, 166ff. Also relevant is a memoir of Charles T. O'Ferrall, the regiment's

last commanding officer, entitled Forty Years of Active Service, New York and Washington, 1904. Thanks

to Steven J. Zuraff of Las Vegas NV, who graciously shared his compilation of documentary sources on

Lomax and Rosser in the Valley, March-May 1865.

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"A Negro Man Slave Named Harry": Deed Of Emancipation, Frederick County, Virginia, 1806

http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/52VLPH12FFBIUDRXE9KVDBC6N5HCH4EP876AJTQLV2R54TH84Y-03471

Object

- Complex Object ()

Record number 000341907

Title Harry : Deed Of Emancipation

Date Issued 1806

Notes Original filenames: 1117610_0005_0004_0001-0002

Includes a full-text searchable transcription generated by the Library of Virginia's crowdsourced transcription site, Making History - Transcribe.

Coverage Frederick County

Rights There are no restrictions.

Finding Aids http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi01364.xml

Is Part Of African American Narrative

Cite As [title], [date of original], African American Narrative Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.

Source Frederick County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1795-1871

Type Deed of Emancipation

pid 1092479

http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:1801/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=1092479.xml&dvs=1454971255717~225&locale=en_US&search_terms=thomas+babb&adjacency=Y&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

thomas babb >> Harry : Deed Of Emancipation > Transcription

Harry: Deed Of Emancipation, Frederick County

1806

1117610_0005_0004_0001.jpg

page 1

We George Clark, Thomas Babb, William

Mercer and John Mercer do hereby Manumit

and Set free a negro man slave named Harry

from ourselves our Heirs Exetors.[Executors], and Admrs., for ever

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our

hands and seals this third Day of March one

thousand Eight hundred and Six.

George Clark (Seal)

Jane Clark (Seal)

Thomas Babb (Seal)

Margaret Babb (Seal)

William Mercer (Seal)

Ann Mercer (Seal)

John Mercer (Seal)

Lydia Mercer (Seal)

page 2

At a Court continued and held for Frederick County the 1st day of

April 1806

This Deed of Emancipation was acknowledged by

William Mercer party thereto and ordered to be Recorded. and ordered

that it be Certified that Harry the Negro therein mentioned is between

the age of twenty one and forty five years and of sound mind

& body

...

Notes on the above signers

Thomas Babb married Margaret Wilson, Nov. 27, 1788. (Margaret was the daughter of James Wilson and Margaret Denny.)

William and John Mercer were sons of Moses Mercer (whose will was written Sept. 28, 1796).

William Mercer married Ann Webb, Aug. 1, 1786.

John Mercer married Lydia Barrett, April 21, 1789. (Lydia was the daughter of Benjamin Barrett and Eleanor Rogers.)

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https://books.google.com/books?id=-wNf6WjNbScC&pg=PA119&dq="NEGRO+HARRY,+FREE+NEGRO"

Frederick County, Virginia, Wills & Administrations, 1795-1816

M. N. Kangas, D. E. Payne

Genealogical Publishing Com, 1983 - Reference - 144 pages

p.119

WILL BOOK NO. 9, 1810-1816

...

NEGRO HARRY, FREE NEGRO

Inventory & Appraisal. 31 July 1815

Appraisers: Danl. Magruder, George Kiger, Jonathan Wright (p. 428-429)

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Sixteen 1945 Bronze Star recipients - "for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations" in Europe

R E S T R I C T E D

HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH ARMY

WESTERN MILITARY DIVISION

APO 758 US Army

GENERAL ORDERS ) 26 September 1945

:

NUMBER 549 )

AWARD OF THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL

By direction of the President , under the provisions of Army Regulations

600-45, 22 September 1943, as amended, the Bronze Star Medal is awarded by the

Army Commander to the following named individuals for meritorious service in

direct support of combat operations :

DANIEL W. BAKER, 14 021 931 , Staff Sergeant, Ordnance Department, 3408th

Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company, from 1 December 1943 to 8 May

1945, in Italy, France and Germany . Entered military service from Monroe, North

Carolina.

ROBERT T. BOSSERMAN, ... , Captain, Ordnance Department, 181st

Ordnance Battalion, ...

JAMES P. CLUNE, ... , Captain, Chaplain Corps, 54th Ordnance Group,

...

WILLIAM A. EHRGOTT, ... , Captain, Medical Corps, 101st Ordnance

Battalion, ...

RAYMOND P. ENGLISH, ... , First Lieutenant, Ordnance Department,

536th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company (Tank), ...

RICHARD A. GRAY, W2 129 888 , Warrant Officer Junior Grade, United States

Army, 911th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company, from 11 November 1944

to 1 May 1945, in France and Germany . Entered military service from Pennsylvania.

DAVID H. HIBBS, ... , Captain, Dental Corps, 44th Ordnance Battalion,

...

RICHARD J. HOUCK, ... , Technician Third Grade, Ordnance Department,

141st Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company, ...

LOUIS E. KILMER, ... , Master Sergeant, Ordnance Department, 340th

Ordnance Battalion, ...

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GO No 549 Hq 7th Army/WMD R E S T R I C T E D

26 Sept 45 cont'd.

STEWART J. KRAMER, ... , Technician Fourth Grade, Ordnance Department,

141st Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company, ...

JULIUS F. MAJOR, ... , Captain, Ordnance Department, 592d Ordnance

Battalion, ...

WILLIAM F. O'DONNELL, JR., ... , Technician Fifth Grade, Ordnance

Department, 89th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company (FA), ...

CARL PIGMAN, ... , Captain, Medical Corps, 44th Ordnance Battalion,

...

CHARLES F. POKORNY, JR. , 32 091 115 , First Sergeant, Ordnance Department,

3422d Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company, from 9 June 1944 to 31

August 1944 , in France. Entered military service from New York, New York.

https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-11/CMH_Pub_10-11.pdf

The Ordnance Department: On Beachhead and Battlefront

p.244-245

...

Shortly after midnight on 11 June the headquarters of the 177th Ordnance Bat-

talion, the First Army maintenance battalion attached to V Corps, was ashore at

Dog Green Beach. When the commanding officer was able to get in touch with

the command posts of V Corps and First Army Ordnance, he learned that he had

lost an entire medium automotive maintenance company, the 3422d, and twenty-

seven enlisted men of Detachment B of the 526th Heavy Maintenance Company

(Tank) when LST 1006* was sunk in the English Channel by a German torpedo in

the early hours of 9 June. Eleven men and two officers of Detachment B had been

rescued but were carried back to England, and all the company's equipment had gone

down with the ship.

...

*LST 1006 was not even present at Normandy, having been assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater.

The Bridgeport Post

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Sunday, July 11, 1976

Page 33

...

Sgt. Pokorny's outfit sailed for France on June 9, 1944, but out in the English Channel the

landing craft that the sergeant was on , and another that accompanied it were hit by

German torpedoes. Both ships sank,** killing 60 of the 168 men in the Ordnance unit, including

most of those who had attended the Pokorny wedding. Sgt. Pokorny survived the sinking

without injury and was rescued by a ship of the British Royal Navy and brought back to

England.

The couple were reunited for a while until the sergeant was reassigned to another outfit and

sent to France again, this time without having his ship sunk under him. He served in the

rest of the European campaign, including the Battle of the Bulge, and at the end of the

war won the Bronze star.

...

**Evidently LST 314 and LST 376:

HAROLD SAUNDERS, 11 095 369 , Technician Fourth Grade, Ordnance Department,

538th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company (Tank) , from 4 October 1944 to 5

February 1945 , in France. Entered military service from Connecticut.

MELVIN ZURAFF, 6 861 693, Technical Sergeant, Ordnance Department, 445th

Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company , from 21 January 1945 to 8 May

1945, in France and Germany. Entered military service from Sioux Falls, South

Dakota.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL KEYES: [i.e., Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes]

JOHN M. WILLEMS

Brigadier General, GSC

Acting Chief of Staff

OFFICIAL:

(Caldwell's signature)

W. G. CALDWELL

COLONEL, AGD

Adjutant General

2

R E S T R I C T E D

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C I T A T I O N

For Award Of The

Bronze Star Medal

MELVIN ZURAFF, 6 861 693, Technical Sergeant, Ordnance

Department, 445th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance

Company, for meritorious service in direct support of combat

operations from 21 January 1945 to 8 May 1945, in France

and Germany. Sergeant Zuraff, as non-commissioned officer

in charge of an Ordnance Automotive Platoon, performed his

duties in a highly commendable manner. His ability, initia-

tive, cooperative spirit and devotion to duty reflect great

credit upon himself and the armed forces. Entered military

service from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

note:

https://books.google.com/books?id=VzUPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA337&lpg=PA337

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia

Volume I, p. 337

COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS

NOVEMBER, 1762 (A).

John Craven and Margaret, his wife, late Margaret Dyer, administratrix of William Dyer, deceased.

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Children of Adam Hull (d.1836) and Esther Keister:

Peter A. Hull m. Rachell Tallman 10 Sept 1816 in Bath Co., VA (Rachel was the daughter of James Boone Tallman and Nancy Crawford.)

Frederick K. Hull m. [1) Margaret Amelia Wilson, 2) Julie Ann Whitlaw] [F. K. Hull died 21 Oct 1870 at age 65.]

John Hull m. Margaret M. Warwick (daughter of William Warwick and Nancy Craig) [John died 20 Nov 1861 at age 65 on Jacksons River, Alleghany[?] Co., Virginia.]

Jacob Hull m. Mahala Hoover [Jacob died 27 Nov 1861 at Crabbottom at the age of either 55yrs or 57yrs, 6mos, 27dys.]

Catherine Hull m. Jacob Hidy [Catherine died 27 June 1876 at age 85yrs, 10mos, 5dys.]

Sarah "Sally" Hull m. Benjamin Flesher 12 Nov 1812 (son of Henry and Susan Peninger) [Sarah died 19 Sept 1881 at age 89.]

Hannah Hull m. Adonijah Ward 21 Jun 1814 [Hannah died after the 1870 census in Randolph Co., WV. In 1870 her age was listed as 81, indicating she was born about 1789.]

Susan Hull m. John Long 20 Nov 1817 in Pendleton County, VA.

Hester (or Esther) Hull m. Robert Warwick 18 Oct 1821 (Robert Craig Warwick was a son of Andrew Warwick and Elizabeth Craig.) [Esther was deceased by 17 May 1853, the date of her sale bill in Pocahontas Co.]

Elizabeth "Betsy" Hull m. Jacob Warwick 6 April 1825 (Jacob was a son of Andrew Warwick and Elizabeth Craig.)

NOTE

Although there appear to be no contemporary records which indicate that Adam Hull was married to Esther Keister specifically,

there are a few Hull death records which do indicate that the parents of the deceased were Adam and Esther Hull.

Death record of John Hull:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRQ2-V2Z

Esther Hull

mentioned in the record of Jno. Hull

Name: Esther Hull

Sex: Female

Husband: Adam Hull

Son: Jno. Hull

Other information in the record of Jno. Hull

from Virginia Deaths and Burials

Name: Jno. Hull

Gender: Male

Death Date: 20 Nov 1861

Death Place: Jacksons River, Alleghany, Virginia

Age: 65

Birth Date: 1796

Birthplace: Pendleton Co.

Occupation: Farmer

Race: White

Marital Status: Married

Spouse's Name: Margaret Hull

Father's Name: Adam Hull

Mother's Name: Esther Hull

Death record of Jacob Hull:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRQ2-VJT

Esther Hull

mentioned in the record of Jacob Hull

Name: Esther Hull

Sex: Female

Husband: Adam Hull

Son: Jacob Hull

Other information in the record of Jacob Hull

from Virginia Deaths and Burials

Name: Jacob Hull

Gender: Male

Death Date: 27 Nov 1861

Death Place: Crabbottom, Highland, Virginia

Age: 55

Birth Date: 1806

Birthplace: Pendleton County

Occupation: Farmer

Race: White

Marital Status: Married

Spouse's Name: Mahala Hull

Father's Name: Adam Hull

Mother's Name: Esther Hull

In addition, the death record for Catherine Hull Hidy identifies her parents as Adam and Esther Hull.

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FYI:

Peter A. Hull and Rachel Tallman

10 Children:

James T. Hull

John P. Hull

William B. Hull

Harvey Hull

Martha Hull m. Thomas J. Glenn

Crawford Hull

Nancy Hull

Mary or Polly Hull m. John E. Sipe

Adam Laban Hull

Rebecca A. Hull m. James C. Tallman

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Here is a history of the confusing transactions regarding William Smith's two and one hundred acre tracts

as described in a later deed:

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https://books.google.com/books?id=fMMMAAAAYAAJ

New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 12, No. 3, July 1858

New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1858 - Genealogy

p.272

Issue of Stephen Samborn, (4.) third son of John of Derbyshire, Eng-

land, and his wife Sarah.

THIRD GENERATION.

1. Sarah Samborn, b. June 4, 1651.

2. Dorothy Samborn, b. March 2, 1653.

No record is found when Stephen was married, nor what Sarah's

surname (maiden) was before marriage. Since Stephen returned with

his grandfather, Rev. Stephen Bachilor to England, in 1654, probably

his wife and daughters accompanied him; and the births of his then

living children were registered in Norfolk County Records for presser-

vation.

"The ancient Stephen Bachilor of Hampton, N. H., died at Hackney,

a Village and Parish in Middlesex, two miles from London, in 1660, in

the one hundredth year of his age."

1. Abial, (7.) Sanborn Gen. in these records is plainly written out

Abigail, b. Feb. 23, 1653.

2. Richard, (8.) b. Feb. 4, 1655, instead of Jan. 4, 1655.

3. Stephen, (11.) b. Nov. 12, 1661.

4. Sarah, (20.) b. Feb. 12, 1667, instead of Feb. 10, 1667.

It seems that the name Samborne and Sarrtbourne were not uncom-

mon in Somersetshire and Berkshire, in the Parishes of Timsbury and

Moulsford. It is, also, found in Hamshire, Shropshire, and Worcester-

shire, but not in Derbyshire.

p.350

...

The names of four children of Rev. Stephen Bachiler are known with

certainty. Deborah, born in 1592, child of his first wife; Stephen, born in

1594, son of the first wife; Ann, born in 1601, probably of the first wife;

and Theodate, who died October 20, 1649, at Hampton, N. H.

...

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List of Prisoners going to Fort Pitt under the Command of Captn Lewis Nov ye 15, 1764:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005503211;view=1up;seq=272

The papers of Col. Henry Bouquet ... v.18. Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765.

p.248

-248-

(November 15, 1764)

CAPT. CHARLES LEWIS: LIST OF PRISONERS

[B. M., Add. MSS. 21655, f. 249, D. S.]

List of Prisoners going to Fort Pitt under the Command of

Captn Lewis Nov ye 15, 1764.

Males.

1. John Wiseman 1. Eve Harper

2. John Donehoo 2. Mary Capmbell

3. Sore mouth 3. Ann Finley

4. Crooked Legs 4. Mary Cath. Lengenfield

5. David Bighead 5. Kitty Stroudman

6. ------- Clem 6. Betty --- black eyes & hair

7. James Butler 7. Eliz. Franse

8. Michael Cobble 8. Peggy Baskin

9. Pouter, or Wynima 9. Mary McIlroy

10. Charls. Hormontrout 10. Sour Plumbs

11. Ebenezer 11. Christiana House

12. Mordicai Babson 12. Mary Lowry

13. Henry Bonnet 13. Jane Lowry

14. James 14. Susan Lowry

15. Tommy Wig 15. Mary Greenwood

----------- Sore knee

16 Michael See 16. Nancy Davison

17 George See 17. Molly Davison

18 John Huntsman 18. Magdalen, or Pagothow

19 Solomon Carpenter 19. Mary Craven

20 John Gilmore 20. Catherine Westbrook

21. Molly Metch

22. Whitehead

23. Margaret Yokeham

24. Mary McCord

25. Elizth Gilmore

26. Eliz Gilmore Junr

27. Florence Hutchinson

28. Mary See

29. Barbara Huntsman

30 Susannah Fishback

32 Margaret Fishback

31 Peggy Freeling

33 Peggy Cartmill

34 Molly Cartmill

35 Peggy Reyneck

36 Elizth Slover

37 Elizth Slover junr

38 Mary Lansisco

39 & child

40 girl with a Sore Knee

p.249

-249-

(November 15, 1764)

Camp at Muskingum Novr ye 15e 1764

Received from Captn. Lewis Ourry A. D. Q. M. G. the above

Sixty Captives, which I am to deliver to the Commanding Offi-

cer at Fort Pitt having Signed two Receipts of this same

Tenor & date

CHAs LEWIS

[Endorsed] List of Prisoners Sent by Captain Lewis to Fort

Pitt the 15th November 1764

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Ewing, William S., "Indian Captives Released by Colonel Bouquet", The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 3, Fall 1956, p.187-203.

https://journals.psu.edu/wph

Western Pennsylvania History: 1918 - 2015

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/issue/view/282

Ewing, William S., "Indian Captives Released by Colonel Bouquet", The

Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 1956,

p.187-203.

article PDF: https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/2529/2362

LIST A - Return of Necessaries furnished to the undermentioned Captives delivered to their Friends at Fort Pitt. Novr. ye 29th 1764

LIST B - Return of Necessaries delivered to the Captives of the Northern District of Virginia. Fort Pitt Novr ye 30th 1764.

LIST C - List of Necessaries furnished to the Captives of Pennsilvania. Fort Pitt. Novr ye 30th 1764

LIST D - List of Captives taken by Indians in Augusta County, Virginia going home under the Care of Coll McNeill, Vollunteers.

with a Return of the Necessaries delivered to them at Muskingum & Ft Pitt. November 30, 1764.

LIST E - List of Prisoners going to Fort Pitt under the Command of Captn [Charles] Lewis Nov. ye 15, 1764. Camp at Muskingum Novr ye 15e 1764

LIST F - List of Prisoner's delivered up by the Shawanese Indians at Mackwayack and arrived at Fort Pitt 5th January 1765.

LIST G - List of the Prisoners deliver'd up by the Shawanese Nation of Indians at Fort Pitt the 10th May 1765 LIST H – A List of the Prisoners at the Lower Shawana Towns

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Captives delivered to Colonel Henry Bouquet as given in the papers of Sir William Johnson, Volume 11.

APA Citation

Johnson, W. (192165). The papers of Sir William Johnson. Albany: The University of the State of New York.

MLA Citation

Johnson, William, Sir, 1715-1774. The Papers of Sir William Johnson. Albany: The University of the State of New York, 192165.

Volume 11, p.484-491:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064814224;view=1up;seq=504

or

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000009111099;view=1up;seq=502

p.484

CAPTIVES DELIVERED TO COLONEL BOUQUET

Contemporary Copy1

List of Captives taken by the Indians and delivered to Col.

Bouquet by the Mingoes, Delawares, Shawanese, Wyandots &

Mohiccons at Tuskarawas & Muskingum Novemr. 1764. —

transmitted to Sir Wm. Johnson Bar'. by Mr. Alexr. McKee

Assist. Agent for Indn. Affairs, Decr. 3d. 1764

____________

1 In Canadian Archives, Indian Records, Volume 7.

...

https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001280/html/m1280-1379.html

The Maryland Gazette

(Annapolis, Maryland)

Thursday, January 31, 1765

page 2, column 3 ; concluded on page 3, column 1

L I S T of C A P T I V E S taken by the INDI-

ANS, and delivered to Col. BOUQUET,

by the Mingoes, Delawares, Shawanese,

Wyondots and Mohickons, at Tuscarawas

and Muskingham, in November, 1764.

...

and

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23092346/list_of_captives_delivered_to_col/

The Pennsylvania Gazette

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Thursday, January 17, 1765

Page 1, columns 1 and 2

L I S T of C A P T I V E S taken by the INDIANS, and deli-

vered to Colonel BOUQUET, by the Mingoes, Delawares,

Shawanese, Wyondots and Mohickons, at Tuscarawas and

Muskingham, in November, 1764.

...

---------------

http://books.google.com/books?id=DS0XAAAAIAAJ

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XX.

By Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Published by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1896

p.570-571

List Of Captives Taken By The Indians, and delivered to Colonel

Bouquet, by the Mingoes, Delawares. Shawanese, Wyondots, and Mo-

hickons, at Tuscarawas and Muskingam, in November, 1764.

VIRGINIANS, OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT.

Males.

Michael Patterson; John Burd; George Yokeham; Stephen Blank-

infhip; Thomas Harper; Michael See; George See; John Huntzman ;

Adam Huntzman; Solomon Carpenter; John Gilmore; Thomas Wheat;

and John Freeling.

Females and Children.

Barbara Rigar; Dorothy Rigar; Margaret Sivers; Elizabeth Sivers;

Catherine Sivers; Mary Lancifco, and her Child; Elizabeth Tofher;

Eleanor Kincade, and two Children; Elizabeth Moufe; Eve Harper;

Chriftiana Houfe; Margaret Yokeham ; Mary M'Cord; Elizabeth Gil-

more ; Elizabeth Gilmore, junior; Florence Hutchinfon; Mary See;

Catherine See; Barbara Huntzman; Sufannah Fishback; Margaret

Fishback; Peggy Freeling; Peggy Cartmill; Molly Cartmill; Peggy

Reyneck; Elisabeth Slover; Elisabeth Slover, junior; Tamar, a Mu-

lattoe Woman; Elizabeth Snodgrafs; Elizabeth Caftle.

VIRGINIANS, OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT.

Males.

Frederick Myers; Leonard Hyett; James Bell; Thomas Collins;

James Price; William Young; James Harris; Chriftopher Harman-

trout; Michael Cobble; Bridget's Son; Cawacawache; Nicholas Petro;

Philip Petro; Hance; John Wifeman; Daniel Rhoads; Michael

Rhoads; Henry Punnet; Mordecai Babfon.

Females and Children.

Eve Ice; William, Lewis, John, Thomas, Elifabeth and Catherine

Ice; Rebecca Bryan; Anna Catharina; Sarah Price; Hannah Price;

Sally; Katey Weftbrook; Polly; Hannah; Experience Wood; Mary

Clauffer; Betty Clauffer; Magdalene Clauffer; Mary Clauffer; Peggy

Colly; Conogoniony; Alice Steddler; Molly Mitch; Mary Craven;

Peggy Punnet.

PENNSYLVANIANS.

Males.

John Jacob Le Roy; Ephraim Walter; John Walter; John Coch-

ran; David Johnfon; Morice Devine; Lodowick Clemn; Felty Clemn;

Francis Innis; James Beaty; Thomas Boyd; James Campbell; Andrew

Sims; Henry; Hance Adam Smeltzer; Jacob Smeltzer; Jofeph (red

Jacket); Jofeph Studibacker; Christopher Tanner; Hance Adams;

Simon; Peter; Jemmy; Pompadour; Tawanima; James Butler; Sam-

uel Wallace; Crooked Legs; Sore Mouth; John Dunnahoe; William

Leake; William Martin ; James Martin ; Robert Knox; John Fifher;

John Riddle; John Diver; Hance Diver; John Palmer; ----- M'Cul-

lough ; John Gibfon; Thomas Smallman ; Edward Henderfon; Daniel

Clemn; George Anderfon ; John Harry; Jacob Shover; Hicks; Hicks.

Females and Children.

Sarah Boyd; Elifabeth Smith ; Hannah Smith, and her Child; Eliza-

beth Henry ; Margaret Miller; Mary Villa; Elisabeth M'Elroy, and

her Child; Mary M'Elroy ; Catherine Heat; Uly Stroudman; Catherine

Stroudman ; Hannah Maria Sourback; Kitty; Beverly Miller; Peggy;

Catherine Williams; Betty Young; Jenny Innis; Christina; Rachel

Leninger; Margaret Leninger; Margaret Manfelle; Dorothy Manfelle;

Elisabeth France; Hannah Smith; Catherine Lingerfield; Peggy

Bafkin; Ann Finley; Mary Campbell; Mary Lowrey ; Jane Lowrey ;

Sufannah Lowrey; Irena; Phebe; Christina Wampler; Flat Nofe;

Betty; Agnes Davidfon ; Molly Davidfon; Rachel; Polly; Catherine

Bacon; Jane Crow; Polly Crow; Dorothy's Son; David Bighead;

Martha Martin; Sufannah Knox; Jane Knox; Mary Knox ; Sufannah

Knox [Jr.]; Efther Flaugherty; Elifabeth Stinfon; Mary Stewart; Jane

Coon [aka McCoon, McQueen]; Rachel Fincher; Elifabeth Coon, and two Children; Chriftopher

Wampler; Rhody Boyd; Elifabeth Studubacker; Dorothy's Daughter.

Virginians, Men, Women and Children . . . 91

Pennsylvanians, Ditto . . . . . . . . . 116

Total, 207

Lewis Ourry,

Assistant Deputy Quarter-Master General.

[From the Pennsylvania Gazette of January 17, 1765.]

note:

Names in green are found on Ewing's List A.

Names in blue are from Ewing's List E - prisoners going to Fort Pitt with Capt. Lewis.

See above: Ewing, William S., "Indian Captives Released by Colonel Bouquet", The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 3, Fall 1956, p.187-203.

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Identically sourced newspaper reports of the attacks on the fort at the Upper Tract and Fort Seybert, which occurred on 27 and 28 April 1758:

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday, May 18, 1758

page 3, column 2

...

W I L L I A M S B U R G, May 5.

By an Express arrived in Town Yesterday from Augu-

sta, we learn that the Enemy Indians are very numerous

on the Frontiers, that they have lately taken and burnt two

of our Forts, where were stationed one of our ranging

Companies, 40 of whom were led and scalped, and

Lieutenant Dunlop with 19 Men missing.

...

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https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001279/html/m1279-1362.html

The Maryland Gazette

Annapolis, Maryland

Thursday, May 18, 1758

page 3, column 3

...

column 2

W I L L I A M S B U R G, ...

column 3

May 5. By an Express arrived in Town Yester-

day from Augusta, we learn that the Enemy Indians

are very numerous on the Frontiers, that they have

lately taken and burnt two of our Forts, where

were stationed one of our ranging Companies, 40

of whom were killed and scalped, and Lieutenant

Dunlop with 19 Men missing.

...

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The papers of Henry Bouquet, Volume 5

Henry Bouquet, John L. Tottenham, Donald H. Kent, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Pennsylvania Historical &, 1984 - Pennsylvania

p.310

Letter from Henry William Stoy to Henry Bouquet, 26 February 1761

[translated from the original French]

Sir:

May I hope very humbly that you will not object to my writing you these few

lines, as I am compelled to do so not knowing anyone more suitable than your-

self, Sir, to address regarding this affair. About two and a half years ago the sav-

ages or Indians took a small fort [Fort Seybert] in Virginie near a river called the South-

branch, where my father-in-law's brother had taken refuge with his entire fam-

ily. His name was George Maus, a Palatine German. The said George Maus,

his wife and three of his children were killed by the savages. Three other chil-

dren were taken by them into the most pitiful captivity. The oldest of the poor

prisoners was a boy 14 years of age. The latest report I have had of them was

from a girl named Le Roy, who, having escaped from the hands of the savages,

told me that the unhappy prisoners, my relatives, were not far from Fort Pitt

or Pittsbourgh, among the Indians. That is why, Sir, I beg you, very hum-

bly but also fervently, to interest yourself in these poor captives, if it be

possible to rescue them from the most miserable and distressing captivity to

which they are reduced, deprived of their freedom not only as human beings,

but what is more, as Christians. And because there is another woman, whose

husband is named Michel Mallo, who was taken prisoner at the same time and

place, and who is said to be in Montreal, where she was sold by the savages to a

Frenchman, therefore, Sir, if it will please you to secure her freedom also, you

will give me a very great and a very lasting pleasure. I will be responsible for

all your expenditure and will never fail to express very sincerely that I shall con-

sider it a very great honor to call myself, Sir,

Your most humble and most obedient servant,

W. Stoy, Minister of the German

Reformed Church at Lancaster

Lancaster, 26 February 1761

Note:

The name of Elizabeth Mouse, one of the three Mouse daughters taken captive at Fort Seybert in 1758, appeared on the "List of Captives

taken by the Indians and delivered to Colonel Bouquet by the Mingoes, Delawares, Shawanese, Wyondots & Mohickons at Tuscarawas

and Muskingum in November 1764".

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Pennsylvania Gazette, Thursday, 27 June 1765 - advertisement for information on the whereabouts of John Adam Mallo,

who was captured by Indians at Fort Seybert, 28 April 1758, and released by Col. Henry Bouquet in November 1764.

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday, June 27, 1765

Page 1, Column 2 of 3

T H R E E P O U N D S Reward.

S E V E N Years ago, the Wife and 5 Children of Michael

Mallo, living on the South Branch, in Augusta County, in

Virginia, were taken Prisoners by the Indians, when, some time

After, the three youngest Children died, and the Wife and eldest

Daughter came home again ; but his Son, John Adam Mallo,

was, according to the Report of other Prisoners, delivered up by

the Indians but last Fall, when he went with the Pennsylvania

Troops. His Indian Name is Wannimen ; he has dark brown

Hair, somewhat curled, black Eyes, a Hair Lip, and is of a taw-

ny Complexion ; has had, as other Prisoners say, the Small-pox

among the Indians, and is now 13 Years and a Half old. He was

taken at Seyvest's Fort, on the South Forks, in the abovesaid

County, and, together with a Swiss Woman, detained among the

Shawanese, at an Indian Town called Wabeda-Metne. Any Per-

son, with whom he lives, or who can give an Account of him to

either of the following Persons, viz. Benjamin Shoemaker, at

Philadelphia ; Adam Mosser, at Tulpehocken ; Jacob Hausman,

at Carlisle ; George Shafer, in Conecocheague ; Michael Laubin-

ger, in Winchester ; or to his said Father, at the above mentioned

Place, so that he may have him again, shall have the above Re-

ward, and reasonable Charges, paid by either of the Persons a-

foresaid, or by me MICHAEL MALLO, Shoemaker.

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Pennsylvania Gazette, Thursday, 5 September 1765 - advertisement for information on the whereabouts of Barbara Conrad,

who was captured by Indians at Fort Seybert, 28 April 1758, and released by Col. Henry Bouquet in November 1764.

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday, September 05, 1765

Page 4

T H R E E P O U N D S Reward.

A B O U T seven Years ago, the Wife and five Children of

Ulrick Conrad, living on the South Branch, in Augusta

County, in Virginia, were taken Prisoners by the Indians; after

four Years Captivity, the Wife and eldest Son came home again,

two Children died among the Indians, one is yet among them,

and the fifth, a Girl, was delivered up at Fort Pitt last Fall :

But as her abovesaid Father cannot learn what, since that

Time, is become of her ; he takes this Method to get Informa-

tion about her : She is 16 Years of Age, her Name Barbara, and

her Indian Name Attawa ; she has probably light brown Hair,

her Eyes between grey and brown ; has lived with an old Indian

Woman, who has but half a Nose. Whoever will give an Ac-

count of the said Girl to either of the following Persons, viz. to

Frederick Mouse, Stocking-weaver at Philadelphia ; to John

Adam Moser, at Tulpehocken ; Jacob Houseman, at Carlisle ;

to George Shafer, at Conecocheague, to Michael Laubinger, at

Winchester ; or to her Father, on the South Branch, in Augusta

County, in Virginia, so that, in all Probablilty, she may be had

again, shall have the above Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid

by me. ULRICK CONRAD.

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The number of Indian casualties from the Battle of Point Pleasant, which was fought 10 October 1774:

http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm [Virginia Gazette]

http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=4901&Res=HI&CFID=7204381&CFTOKEN=21702446

Virginia Gazette, Purdie, February 10, 1775, page 4, column 1

...

Some little time ago, the Shawanese

Indians applied for leave to go to the late

field of battle to bury their dead (most

part of whom they had only time to hide)

and were accompanied thither by Captain

Ruffel, of Fincastle ; who learned from the

Corn Stalk (their principal headman) that

he had lost upwards of 100 of his people

in that engagement, 80 being killed on

the spot, and a great number woundered,

20 of whom have since died in the towns.

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The 1918 Armistice demanded specifically the surrender of all Fokker DVII aircraft.

http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/LaConventionDarmistice.pdf

La convention d’armistice

du 11 novembre 1918

-2-

CONDITIONS DE L'ARMISTICE CONCLU AVEC L'ALLEMAGNE.

A. SUR LE FRONT D' OCCIDENT.--

...

IV. Abandon par les Armées Allemandes du matériel de guerre

suivant en bon état :

5.000 canons (dont 2.500 lourds et 2.500 de campagne),

25.000 mitrailleuses,

3.000 minenwerfer,

1.700 avions de chasse et de bombardement, en premier lieu

tous les D.7 et tous les avions de bombardement de

nuit,

- 3 -

à livrer sur place aux Troupes des Alliés et des Etats-Unis,-

dans les conditions de détail fixées par la Note Annexe N° 1,

arrêtée au moment de la signature de l'Armistice.

English translation:

https://books.google.com/books?id=nJRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq="IV.+Abandon+par+les+Armees

International Law Documents

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - International law

Germany, Armistice (starts on p.56)

Has English and French versions side by side

p.57

CONDITIONS OF THE ARMISTICE CONCLUDED WITH GERMANY.

A. -- THE WESTERN FRONT.

...

IV. Surrender in good condition by the German Armies of the following equipment:

5,000 guns (to wit 2,500 heavy and 2,500 field),

25,000 machine guns, 3,000 Minenwerfer,

1,700 fighting and bombing aeroplanes - primarily all the D.7's and all the night bombing machines.

The above to be delivered in situ to the Allied and United States troops in accordance with the detailed

conditions laid down in the Note (Appendix I) determined at the time of the signing of the Armistice.

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Some Historical Boundary Changes for Virginia Counties in the Upper South Branch of the Potomac

CONTEMPORARY REFERENCE MAPS

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3ADARMAP0628/from_search/637eb1c4c6f79b38710be8a70ac59ce6-4

Map of the northern neck in Virginia - Sh. 1 of 2

Fairfax Line is labelled “N 46 W. 76 Miles” from the “Head Spring” of the North Branch of the Potomack to the head of the Conway River [at very bottom of map].

Also shown is the head of Hedgmans River “or The No Branch of [cont’d on Sh. 2 of 2] Rapa han nock”.

Title: Map of the northern neck in Virginia - Sh. 1 of 2

Date: January 1, 1747

Identifier: DARMAP0628

Description:

Map of the northern neck in Virginia, according to an actual survey begun in the year MDCCXXXVI, and ended in the year MDCCXLVI. Manuscript Map. Copied by James A. Burt from the original in the Public Record Office, London [Board of Trade Maps Vol. 12, No. 16] for W. M. Darlington Esqr., May, 1882. Relief shown pictorially; Hand colored; Includes part of Maryland.; "Drawn by Peter Jefferson and Robert Brooke, Surveyors"; "Benya. Winslon and Thomas Lewis, Surveyors"; "Having examined and compared this map with one drawn by the former Commissioners, we do certify it to be truly drawn and we haved caused the line now surveyed and marked A C to be added [signed by] Th. Fairfax, H. Beverley, Joshua Fry, Lunsford Lomax, Peter Hedgman"; "Receiv'd Aug'st ye 10th 1747 with Sir Wm. Good's letter to ye Board of Trade, dated the 10th of June 1747".

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3ADARMAP0629/viewer

Map of the northern neck in Virginia - Sh. 2 of 2

Continued from Sheet 1.

Title: Map of the northern neck in Virginia - Sh. 2 of 2

Date: January 1, 1747

Identifier: DARMAP0629

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3880.ct000362/?r=0.085,0.35,0.607,0.281,0

Title:

A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron Cameron,

bounded by & within the Bay of Chesapoyocke and between the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack:

With the courses of the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack, in Virginia, as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737.

Contributor Names:

Warner, John, active 1727-1741.

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692-1782.

Created / Published:

[n.p., 1747?]

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3880.ar142800/?r=0.345,0.108,0.22,0.102,0

Title:

A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina.

Contributor Names:

Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754.

Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757, joint author.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Created / Published:

London, Thos. Jefferys [1755]

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Articles on the Creation of Frederick and Augusta Counties

George Hume surveyed the boundary between Frederick and Augusta Counties in 1744.

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Vol. 38, No. 1 (Jan., 1930), pp. 73-86

(article consists of 15 pages)

Published by: Virginia Historical Society

p.73

NOTES AND QUERIES

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BOUNDARY LIINE BETWEEN AUGUSTA AND FREDERICK [COUNTIES].

"[Frederick County] Deed book 1, p.310

According to an order of Frederick County Court dated on Friday

the 10th day of February 1743 I have run & marked the dividing

line between the said Frederick County & Augusta County as the

Law directs, Viz. I began at the Head of Hedgeman River at three

blazed Hickorys & run N. 72 W Crossing the points of the moun-

tains & Happy Creek

Crost the South River of Shanandore at the Limestone Rocks be-

low Richard Herrells bottom

Crost Powels Fort as I was informed below all the Plantations

Crost the North Fork of Shanandore about half way between Jona-

than Dentons and Henry Johnstons Plantations agst. the Mouth of

a Gutt

Crost the Road a little above Thomas'es Brook then crost the said

Brook twice at a Narrow Turn, left Charles Huttle about 200 yards

in Augusta County left Frederick Covert in Frederick County left

John Barrett in Augusta left Augustine Windle in Frederick County

and then began to Rise the North Mountains which I crost seeing

no Plantations nor anything remarkable till I came to the Lost River

which I was informed was a branch of Cape Capon---

Crost the Lost River about half a miles above Barnaby McHenrys

Crost the South Branch a little above ye fork by Peter Thorns

plantations.

Crost the North Fork of the South Branch a little below Henry

Lancescus Plantation---

Crost the Alligani Hill to ye head of Pittomack---

Marked all Roads, Plains Paths Rivers Creeks & all Remarkable

Places, as are used, a tree or two with the letters F C next to Fred-

erick County and A C next to Augusta County given under my

hand this 6th of August 1744.

G. Homme Sur : F : C. . . "

I have seen in print the order of Frederick County Court for the

survey of the boundary line between that county and Augusta, but

have not before seen the return of the same, so am sending it for

publication in the Historical Magazine, since it should be of great

interest to Virginia historians. As you know, Frederick them em-

braced what are now Hardy, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley, Jeffer-

son, Clarke, Warren, Frederick, Shenandoah and part of Rockingham

counties.

Augusta B. Fothergill.

Note: The above gives the bearing as N 72 W, run from the Head of Hedgeman River to ye head of Pittomack.

Compare this bearing to the bearing of N. 67° 45' W given in the next article:

https://books.google.com/books?id=r4pQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA198

Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, Volume 1

West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History

The Department, 1906 - Archives

p.198-199

…

Orange County was formed from the southwestern part of

Spottsylvania, in 1734. Its southern boundary was the line of

Hanover county; its northern boundary the southern line of the

Fairfax Grant; and westerly, it extended to the uttermost limits

of Virginia. Thus it embraced the whole of the present State

of West Virginia, except that portion north of the "Fairfax

Line" which extended from the Fairfax Stone to the source of

the Conway River on the Blue Ridge, passing through the mouth

of the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac a few

miles above the present town of Petersburg in Grant County.†

______

†Hening's "Statutes at Large," Vol. IV, p. 450.

In 1738, an act was passed providing for the division of that

part of Orange extending westward from the Blue Ridge, and the

formation therefrom of two counties, to be known by the names

of Frederick and Augusta. They were separated by extending a

line from the "Head Spring" of Hedgeman's River on the Blue

Ridge N. 67° 45' W. through the site of the present town of

Moorefield in Hardy County, to the ''Head Spring" of the North

Branch of the Potomac, where the Fairfax Stone was located

eight years later. All the territory north of this line and ex-

tending to the Potomac River became Frederick County ; and all

the region south of it "to the uttermost limit of Virginia" be-

came Augusta County. Thus it is seen that these two counties

embraced the whole of West Virginia; Frederick including all of

the present counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire,

Mineral, half of Hardy, half of Grant and about one-tenth of

Tucker; while Augusta embraced all of the remainder of the

State. All that part of the Valley of the South Branch of the

Potomac above Moorefield was in Augusta, and all of it below

that town was in Frederick County.*

An act of the House of Burgesses passed in November, 1753,

formed the County of Hampshire—the first unit of taxation in

West Virginia. Section 1, so changed the line separating Fred-

erick and Augusta counties, as to make it identical with that

forming the southern boundary of the Fairfax Grant, that is

the line drawn from the source of the Conway River on the Blue

Ridge to the Fairfax Stone. From the western part of Freder-

ick County thus enlarged, the new county of Hampshire—oldest

in West Virginia— was formed. The line separating them be-

gan on the Fairfax line near Orkney Springs, now in Shenandoah

County, Virginia, and extended northward along the crest of

the Great North or Cacapon Mountain, and the Warm Springs

Mountain to the Potomac River. All of Frederick west of this

line became Hampshire County which then included the present

county of that name, all of Mineral County, a third of Morgan,

five-sixth of Hardy, three-fourths of Grant and about one-tenth

of Tucker. That part of West Virginia remaining in Frederick

after the formation of Hampshire included all of the present

counties of Jefferson and Berkeley and two-thirds of Morgan.

All of West Virginia not thus included in Frederick and Hamp-

shire lay within the County of Augusta.†

______

*Hening's "Statutes at Large," Vol. V, pp. 78, 79.

______

†Hening's "Statutes at Large," Vol. VI, pp. 376, 377.

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Official Acts Creating Frederick and Augusta Counties

https://books.google.com/books?id=isVOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA78

or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol05-05.htm

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 1738−−12th GEORGE II.

CHAP. XXI.

An Act, for erecting two new Counties, and Parishes;

and granting certain encouragements to the Inhabi-

tants thereof.

I. WHEREAS great numbers of people have set-

tled themselves of late, upon the rivers of Sher-

rando, Cohongoruton, and Opeckon, and the branches

thereof, on the north-west side of the Blue ridge of

mountains, whereby the strength of this colony, and

it's security upon the frontiers, and his majesty's re-

venue of quit-rents, are like to be much increased and

augmented: For giving encouragement to such as

shall think fit to settle there,

II. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Coun-

cil, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and

it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That

all that territory and tract of land, at present deemed to

be part of the county of Orange, lying on the north west

side of the top of the said mountains [Blue Ridge], extending from

thence northerly, westerly, and southerly, beyond the

said mountains, to the utmost limits of Virginia, be

separated from the rest of the said county, and erected

into two distinct counties and parishes; to be divided

by a line to be run from the head spring of Hedgman

river, to the head spring of the river Potowmack: And

that all that part of the said territory, lying to the north-

east of the said line, beyond the top of the said Blue

ridge, shall be one distinct county, and parish; to be

called by the name of the county of Frederick, and pa-

rish of Frederick: And that the rest of the said terri-

tory, lying on the other side of the said line, beyond

the top of the said Blue ridge, shall be one other dis-

tinct county, and parish; to be called by the name of

the county of Augusta, and parish of Augusta.

...

https://books.google.com/books?id=avRGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275&dq="Augusta+County

or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol05-16.htm

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER 1744−−18th GEORGE II.

Inhabitants of Augusta to pay their proportion of expenses

of running dividing line between that county and Frederick.

CHAP. XXXVI.

An Act, to oblige the inhabitants of Augusta County, to

pay their proportion of the charge, for running the

dividing line, between Augusta and Frederick coun-

ties.

I. WHEREAS, by an act of Assembly, made in

the twelfth year of the reign of his present

majesty, intituled, an act, for erecting two new coun-

ties and parishes; and granting certain encouragements

to the inhabitants thereof; it is enacted, that all that

tract or territory of land, then deemed to be part of the

county of Orange, lying on the north west side of the

Blue Ridge of mountains, extending from thence, north-

wardly, westerly, and southerly, beyond the same to the

utmost limits of Virginia, should be separated from the

rest of the said county, and erected into two distinct,

counties and parishes; to be divided, by a line, to be

run from the head spring of Hedgman river, to the

head spring of the river Patowmack: And all that

part of the said territory, lying on the north east of

the said line, beyond the top of the said Blue Ridge,

should be one distinct county and parish, to be called

by the name of the county of Frederick, and parish of

Frederick; and that the rest of the said territory ly-

ing on the other side of the said line, beyond the top of

the said Blue Ridge, should be one other distinct coun-

ty and parish, to be called by the name of the county

of Augusta; and parish of Augusta. By which said

recited act, it is provided, that the said new counties

and parishes, should remain part of the county of O-

range, and parish of Saint Mark, until it should be

made to appear, to the governor and council for the time

being, that there was a sufficient number of inhabitants

for appointing justices of the peace, and other officers,

and erecting courts therein, for the due administration

of justice; so that the inhabitants of the said counties,

should be thenceforth exempted from the payment of

all public, county, and parish levies, in the county of

Orange, and Parish of Saint Mark.

II. And whereas there is a sufficient number of in-

habitants in the said county of Frederick, and the go-

vernor and council have thought fit to appoint justices

of the peace, and other officers, in the same; where-

by the said county is become distinct and separate from

the said county of Orange; and the court of the said

county of Frederick, hath contracted with, and appoint-

ted the surveyor of the said county of Frederick, to

run the dividing line between the same, and the coun-

ty of Augusta; the expence of which, it is reasonable

and just, that the inhabitants of the said county of Au-

gusta, should be equally chargeable with:

III. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Gover-

nor, Council, and Burgesses of this present General As-

sembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of

the same, That the charge and expence of running the

said dividing line, between the said two counties of

Frederick and Augusta, shall be paid and born by the

inhabitants thereof, in proportion to the respective

number of tithables in each: And the court of the

said county of Orange, shall and may, and they are

hereby required, at the laying of the next county levy,

after the passing of this act, to levy and assess upon

the inhabitants of the said county of Augusta their full

proportionable part of the said charge and expence,

according to their number of tithables; to be collected

by the same persons, and in the same manner, as is,

and are appointed and directed, to receive and collect

the tax or levy of two shillings, for every tithable per-

son in the said county of Augusta in and by one act of

Assembly, made in the fifteenth year of the reign of

his present majesty, intituled, an act for laying a tax

on the inhabitants of Augusta county, and appropria-

ting the money thereby arising, to their use; which

said proportionable part, so as aforesaid to be levied,

shall be paid by the said collectors, to the justices of

the said county of Frederick.

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Creation of Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

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or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol06-18.htm

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 1753−−27th GEORGE II.

Hampshire county formed from Frederick, and part of Augusta.

CHAP. XIV.

An Act for adding part of the county and

parish of Augusta, to the county and pa-

rish of Frederick, and for dividing the

county and parish of Frederick, and the

part of Augusta to be added thereto, into

two counties and parishes.

I. WHEREAS part of the county and parish of

Augusta, lies within the bounds of the territory or

tract of land, called the Northern Neck belonging to

the right honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of

Cameron; and it will be more convenient if the divid-

ing line between the said territory, and the other part

of this colony, be established as the line of the said

county, and that part of the said county be added to

the county and parish of Frederick. And whereas

the said county and parish of Frederick, are of a very

long and large extent, and inconvenient to the inhab-

itants thereof.

II. BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Coun-

cil, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly,

and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,

That on the first day of May, next ensuing, all that

part of the county of Augusta, which lies within the

bounds of the Northern Neck, be added to, and made

part of the county of Frederick; and that from and

immediately after the said first day of May, the said

county of Frederick, and the said part of the county

of Augusta so to be added to, and made part of the

county of Frederick as aforesaid, be divided into two

counties; and that all that part thereof, lying to the

westward of the ridge of mountains, commonly called

and known by the names of the Great North, or Cape

Capon mountain, and Warm Spring mountain, ex-

tending to Potomack river, be one distinct county, and

called and known by the name of Hampshire; and all

that other part thereof, lying to the eastward of the

said ridge of mountains, be one other distinct county,

and retain the name of Frederick.

...

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Creation of Rockingham County, Virginia

https://books.google.com/books?id=e00wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA420

or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol09-20.htm

Hening's Statutes, volume 9, pp. 420-424.

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 1777−−2nd OF COMMONWEALTH.

Part of Augusta county added to Hampshire.

Rockingham county and parish formed out of Augusta.

CHAP. XVIII.

An act for forming several new coun

ties, and reforming the boundaries

of two others.

WHEREAS it is represented to this present session

of assembly, by the inhabitants of Augusta and Bote-

tourt counties, that they labour under many inconve-

niencies by reason of the great extent of the said coun-

ties and parishes: Be it therefore enacted by the Gene-

ral Assembly, That from and after the first day of

March next the said county and parish of Augusta shall

be divided by a line beginning at the north side of the

North Mountain, opposite to the upper end of Sweed-

land Hill, and running a direct course so as to strike

the mouth of Seneca creek, on the north fork of the

south branch of Potowmack river, and the same course

to be continued to the Allegheny mountain, thence along

the said mountain to the line of Hampshire county; and

all that part of the said county and parish of Augusta

which lies to the northward of the said line shall be

added to and made part of the said county and parish

of Hampshire. And that the residue of the county and

parish of Augusta be divided by a line to begin at the

South Mountain, and running thence by Benjamin

Yardley's plantation so as to strike the north river be-

low James Byrd's house, thence up the said river to the

mouth of Naked creek, thence leaving the river a di-

rect course so as to cross the said river at the mouth of

Cunningham's branch, in the upper end of Silas Hart's

land, to the foot of the North Mountain, thence fifty

five degrees west to the Allegheny mountain, and with

the same to the line of Hampshire; and all that part

which lies north eastward of the said line shall be one

distinct parish,* called and known by the name of

Rockingham.

...

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* So in the original, but it should be "county"'−or, more pro-

bably the words "county and" should be introduced between

"distinct" and "parish," so as to read distinct county and parish,

as is done in relation to the other counties and parishes men-

tioned in this act.

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Creation of Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

https://books.google.com/books?id=tfVGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA86

or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol12-04.htm

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 1785−−10th OF COMMONWEALTH.

Hampshire county divided and Hardy formed.

CHAP. XXXV.

An act for dividing the county of

Hampshire.

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That from

and after the first day of February next, the county of

Hampshire shall be divided into two distinct counties,

by a line beginning at the north branch of Potowmack,

opposite to the mouth of Savage river, and running

thence in a direct course so as to strike the upper end

of the plantation known by the name of Myre's mill,

on New creek; thence in a direct course to John Lew-

is's mill, on Patterson's creek; thence in a direct course

to the highest part of the mountain known by the name

of the High Nob; thence in a direct course to the gap

of the Short Arse mountain, where the North river

runs through the same; thence along the road leading

by the upper end of Henry Fry's plantation, on cape

Capon, and along the said road to the top of the North

mountain to the dividing line between the counties of

Shenandoah and Hampshire; and that all that part of

the said county lying south of the said line shall be

called and known by the name of Hardy; and the resi-

due of the said county shall retain the name of Hamp-

shire. ...

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Creation of Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

https://books.google.com/books?id=tfVGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA637

or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol12-27.htm#page_637

Hening's Statutes, volume 12, pp. 637-638.

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 1787−−12th OF COMMONWEALTH.

Pendleton county formed out of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham.

CHAP. XCIV.

An act for forming a new county of

the counties of Augusta, Hardy,

and Rockingham.

[Passed the 4th of December, 1787.]

I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That

from and after the first day of May next, all those parts

of the counties of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham,

within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning on the

line of Rockingham county, on the North mountain,

opposite to Charles Wilson's on the South Fork, thence

a straight line to the Clay Lick on the North Fork,

thence to the top of the Allegana, and along the same

and the east side of the Greenbrier-waters to the south

west fountain of the South Branch, and thence between

the same and the waters of James-River, along the

dividing ridge to the said North mountain, and with

the top of the same to the beginning, shall form one

distinct county, and be called and known by the name

of Pendleton.

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Part of Augusta County added to Pendleton County

https://books.google.com/books?id=9PNGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq="added+to+the+county+of+Pendleton

or

http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol13-08.htm

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 1790−−15th OF COMMONWEALTH.

Bath county formed out of Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier. [Sect. 1]

Part of Augusta added to Pendleton. [Sect. 7]

CHAP. XLIII.

An act for forming a new county out of the

counties of Augusta, Botetourt and Green-

brier.

(Passed the 14th of December, 1790.)

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That

from and after the first day of May next, all those parts

of the counties of Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier,

within the following bounds, to wit, beginning at the

west corner of Pendleton county, thence to the top of

the ridge dividing the head waters of the South branch

from those of Jackson's river, thence a straight line to

the lower end of John Redman's plantation on the Cow-

pasture river, thence to the top of the ridge that divides

the waters of the Cow-pasture from those of the Calf-

pasture, ...

… shall form one distinct county, and be called and

known by the name of Bath.

...

SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That all that part

of the county of Augusta lying on the head waters of the

Bull-pasture and Cow-pasture rivers, not included with-

in the limits of the county hereby established, shall be

and the same is hereby added to the county of Pen-

dleton.

...

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Part of Bath County added to Pendleton County

https://books.google.com/books?id=v183AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Hening%27s+"added+to"+"Pendleton"+"1796

The Statutes at Large of Virginia: From October Session 1792, to December Session 1806 [i.e. 1807],

Inclusive, in Three Volumes, (new Series,) Being a Continuation of Hening.

VOL. II.

Richmond

Samuel Shepherd, 1835

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 1796.

Part of Bath county added to Pendleton.

CHAP. 56.—An ACT for adding part of the county of Bath to the county of

Pendleton.

(Passed December 3, 1796.)

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That all that part of

the county of Bath within the following bounds, to wit: beginning

at the top of the Alleghany mountain, the north-west side of the

line of the county of Pendleton, thence a straight line to the lower

end of John Slavin’s plantation on Greenbrier river, thence to Dun-

widdie’s gap on Jackson’s river, thence crossing the Bull Pasture

river, so as to leave Edward Stewart in the county of Bath, thence

to Stewart’s gap on the Cow Pasture, thence to the top of the

mountain which divides the waters of the Cow Pasture and Calf

Pasture rivers, thence a north-eastwardly course along the said

mountain to the line of the county of Pendleton, shall be and the

same is hereby added to and made part of the said county of Pen-

dleton.

...

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Highland County Created Out of Parts of Pendleton and Bath Counties

https://books.google.com/books?id=g9RJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA52&dq="Highland+county

Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia

Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Purchases and Supply, 1847 - Law

Highland county created; its boundaries.

CHAP. 56.—An ACT forming Highland county out of parts of Pendleton and

Bath.

[Passed March 19, 1847.]

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That so much of the

counties of Pendleton and Bath as is included within the following

boundary lines, to wit: Beginning where the North river gap road

crosses the Augusta county line, and running thence to the top of

Jackson's mountain so as to leave Jacob Hiner's mansion house in

Pendleton county; thence to Andrew Fleisher's, so as to include his

mansion house in the new county; thence to the highlands between

the Dry run and Crab bottom, and thence along the top of the main

ridge of said highlands, to the top of the High knob; thence north

sixty-five degrees west to Pocahontas county line; thence along said

county line to the Plum orchard on the top of the Alleghany moun-

tains; thence to Adam Stephenson's mansion house on Jackson's ri-

ver in Bath county, so as to include Thomas Campbell's mansion

house on Back creek, and also said Adam Stephenson's in the new

county; thence to Andrew H. Byrd's mansion house on the Cow-

pasture river, so as to include the same in the new county, and so as

to leave the dwellinghouse of William M'Clintick, jr., in Bath

county; thence south sixty-five degrees east to the Augusta county

line, and thence with said line to the beginning, shall form one dis-

tinct and new county, which shall be known and called by the name

of Highland county.

...

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Dunmore/Shenandoah County, Virginia

List of Michael Reader's Company, and "A List of Alexander Machir's Company in the Strasbg District. "

in Brumbaugh, G. Marcus. (1936). Revolutionary war records ... Washington, D. C..

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t7fr0z71j;view=1up;seq=640

Revolutionary War Records

Volume I, Virginia, ... Vol. 1,

Virginia Army & Navy Forces

with Bounty Land Warrants for Virginia

Military District of Ohio, and Virginia

Military Scrip; from Federal and

State Archives

Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh

Washington, D. C.

1936

p.590

(24) "The Bird — Samuels Papers:" Original Census and Military

(1775) Records of Old Dunmore County, Virginia.

...

p.602

List of Michael Reader's Company

(This roll is not headed like the others, but is decorated with flags, drum, and cannon. The

name "M. Reader," written on the back of the roll folded, indicates that this company was under

the command of Michael Reader, whom the records of Shenandoah County show to have been

Captain and Major of Militia.)

Richard Branham, Lieutenant

Antheney Cortner, Ensign

William Artrip, Sargant

James Hord (Herd?), Sargt.

David Maggot, Sargt.

Thomas Cummins, Corporal

(Three names are marked out but legible: Abraham Brubaker, John Hunt, John Overbocker.

Three are so well marked out as to be illegible, though the first of these might be "John Stone-

barger," a name that is found farther on in the roster.)

Adler, Abraham Fugit, Doonsen

Adwell, John Furrey, Christley

Aleshite, Benedick Gimblet, Andrew

Aleshite, Conrad Gimblit, Frederick

Alturf, Anthoy. Good, Gasper

Alturf, John Grove, Christley

Artrip, John Groves, Marks (Mark?)

Bellus, Henery Hammon, George

Beveridge, John Hammon, Peter

Breden, Bryant Harris, William

Brinkley, William Hay, Alexander

Bumgardner, Christley Heartsbarger, John

Burner, Jacob Heaston, Jacob

Burner, John Heaston, John

Burton, John Heston, Peter

Cambel, James Heyner, John <===== John Hiner ; m. Magdalene Burner, daughter of Jacob Burner Sr. ; moved to near Doe Hill in present-day Highland County, Virginia

Celley, Darby Hite, Andrew

Celley, Edward Hite, Daniel

Celley, Luke Hudle (Heedle?

Cofman, Christon Judah (?), Jacob

Cofman, David Keplinger, Daniel

Coffman, Long David Kibliner, Jacob

Coffman, Hogspill * David Kiser, Charles, Juner

Cofman, Martin Kiser, Joseph

Coler, Michel Kuents, George

Comer, Michel Lear, John

Cuningham, John Lee, John

Deker, Adam Lee, John

Dial, John Limeback, John

Fryermood, Mathias Long, Philip

Fugit, Bengeman Magget, Chrisley

* Doubtless Hawksbill Creek, Page County.

p.603

Maggot, Bengeman Rodecap, George

Maggot, John Rodecap, Peter

Mauk (Mauks?), Henery Roler, Peter

Miler, Henery Rufe, Jacob

Overbocker, Jacob (jur.) Rufner, Bengeman

Overboker, Frederick Rufner, Joseph

Pebler, Christon Shits, George, Sr.

Pence, Frederick Shits, George, Jr.

Pence, Henery Shits, Matthew

Pence, Jacob Sisinger, Peter

Pence, John, Jr. Sitse, Andrew

Pence, Lewis Snider, Daniel

Perrey, Thomas Snider, John

Pibler, Lewis Spitler, Abraham

Pidler, Abraham Spitler, Jacob

Piper, Augustine Stonebarger, Frederick

Pitsbarger, Abraham Stonebarger, John

Price, Anger Stonebarger, Lewis

Price, Edward Strickler, Bengeman

Price, Even Strickler, Isack

Price, Meredeth Strickler, Joseph

Price, Meredth, Juner Tisinger, Peter

Price, John Tyre, William

Price, Thomas Underwood, George

Price, Zachrey, Sener Urdah (?), Jacob

Price, Zachrey, Juner Vincent, Joseph

Prince (Price?), Philip Watson, Jonathan

Profit, David Watson, William

Pyser, Augustine Whitick, Henery

Reap, Michel Wiggle, Jacob

Rickabecker, Henery Williams, John

Rife, Christley Wingart, Philip

Rinehart, Michel Wise, John

Rode, Michel Wise, Mikehel

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p.605

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"A List of Alexander Machir's Company in the Strasbg District. "[15th.]

Airs, Joseph Beard, Christian

Anderick, Christian Beard, Martin

Baker, Michael Beck, Stephen

Balthus, Leonard Black, Peter

Baltis, George Bowman, Christian

Beale, Charles Bowman, Isaac

p.606

Bowman, John Huddle, David

Broback, Adam Huddle, George

Browbach, John Huddle, Jacob

Cashwyler, Jacob Kellar, Michael

Cashwyler, Joseph Kisner, John

Cline, Peter Kister, Christopher, Sr.

Cline, Philip Kister, Christopher

Colvil, Samuel Lamb, Joseph

Conrad, John Lambert, Christopher

Cooper, George (Sadler) Lambert, Jacob

Cooper, George (Shoemaker) Lawn, Rudolph

Cooper, Leonard Lezenia, John

Copenhafer, Jacob Lotz, Christian

Cowman, John Lotz, Jonas

Crawford, Strader Loughmillar, John

Cryble, Abraham Loughmillar, Valentine

Cryble, Christian Millar, Christian

Cryble, Jonas Millar, David

Dedawick, Stephen Millar, Samuel

Dillinger, Jacob Murdock, James

Dogherty, Jervis Neighberger, Christian

Dogherty, William Newman, Conrad

Draper, Robert Piles, Francis

Evans, Jeremiah Pitman, Nicholas

Everly, Jeremiah, Sr. Pitman, Philip

Everly, Jeremiah, Jr. Righer, Michael

Feckley (Fickley?), George Roler, Martin

Feltner, Adam Rorer, Daniel

Funk, Henry, Jr. Rush, Conrad

Funk, Jacob S——, Christian

Funk, John Sea, Philip

Funk, Samuel Setzer, Martin

Funkhouser, Abraham Shaffer, Daniel

Funkhouser, Christian Shoe, Benjamin

Funkhouser, David Shoe, Jabez

Funkhouser, Jacob, Sr. Shultzner, Matthias

Funkhouser, Jacob, Jr. Shyreman, Peter

Funkhouser, John Sitzer, Martin

Fuzle, John Siver, Bernard

Harr, Simon (Clerk) Siver, Jacob

Hannah, Brice Slack, John

Heapner, Gasper Smith, Philip

Helver, Jacob Smith, Valentine

Hemp, Christopher Snapp, Lawrence

Hite, Alexander Snapp, Peter

Hite, Matthias Snapp, Philip

p.607

Sonner, Philip Teezle, Sebastian

Spore, Henry Thomas, Martin

Stickley, Benjamin Trayeler, Andrew

Stickley, Jacob Tryer, Peter

Stitzler, John Tush, Christopher, Sr.

Stoner, Frederick Tush, Christopher, Jr.

Stover, Christian, Sr. Walsh, Thomas

Stover, Jacob Walter, Christian

Stover, John Wickman, Conrad

Stover, Joseph Wilson, Robert

Stover, Peter Wise, Christian

Stutzlegar, Alexander Woller, John

Teezle (Tulzle?), John Yeager, Andrew <======= ancestor of the Yeagers of Pocahontas Co., VA/WV

Teezle, Michael Yost, Jacob

Capt. Machir made the following notation on this roll :

"There are Several in this List that never appeared at Musters they Pre-

tending to be in Communion with the Menonists as also the Officers Ommited to

be inserted at the Beginning Viz. Philip Huffman Lieutenant, Law. Snapp,

Junr. Ensign,

Alexr. Machir."

(On this list is a "Christopher" with no surname given.)

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https://books.google.com/books?id=pEMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA354&lpg=PA354&dq="Captain+Peter+Babb"

Journals of the American Congress from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes

Way and Gideon, 1823

VOLUME II :

From January 1, 1777, to July 31, 1778, inclusive.

page 353

...

FRIDAY, November 28, 1777.

...

page 354

...

Ordered, That there be paid to captain Peter Babb, or his order, 887

44.90 dollars, in full of his pay-roll of a company of militia from Frederick

county, Virginia, sent to relieve the soldiers of the 12th Virginia regiment,

garrisoned at Fort-Pitt, from the 3d of April to the 3d of June following,

inclusive, the warrant to issue on the auditor-general.

...

Note:

From Fort Pitt, the 12th Virginia regiment marched back to Winchester, Frederick Co., VA.

In April 1777, these troops were marched north to Morristown, NJ. where General Washington had his headquarters.

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Jeremiah Trexler

https://books.google.com/books?id=X941AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA695&dq="Jeremiah+Trexler

Oct. 14, 1767-Sept. 26, 1776

Pennsylvania. General Assembly, Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton

Henry Miller, in Race-Street, 1776 - Pennsylvania

p.695

1776.} March 15.

...

Two Accounts, from Jeremiah Trexler and Adam Yohe, were laid before the House,

amounting to £ 28 5 9, for Expences in entertaining and conducting a Number of

Indians from Easton to Philadelphia, which being examed, were allowed, and an Order

drawn on Michael Hillegas, Esq; for Payment.

...

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https://books.google.com/books?id=y4s3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA516&dq="Trexler

Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume 14

United States. Continental Congress

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909

JOURNALS OF THE

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

1774 – 1789

Volume XIV. 1779

April 23 – September 1

p.513

TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1779

...

p.516

...

The commissioners report,

...

That there is due to Jeremiah Trexler, his account of

expences for conducting six indians from Easton to Phila-

delphia, in July, 1777, thirty two dollars and 60/90ths, to be

paid as per order to Joseph Deane.

Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.

...

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