Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . de, John Carter, Adam Lynn, Thomas Stephens, Thomas Hall, William Hamiick, Nathaniel Cooper, John Cook; Mr. Wlaugh, John McGlahlen, John Campbell, Wrliam Campbell, Robert Boyd, Thomas Hamrick, William Kerr, Garrott Kelley, James Ard, William Deal, John Bozel, John Welch, William Overstreet, Robert Hill, Samuel Davis, Zachariah Kennot, Augustine Hackworth, William Cook, Uriah Squires, James Boyd, James Dale, Robert Ewing, Francis Seed, William Hackworth, John Roberts, Joseph White, Joseph Bunch, Jacob Dool
Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . de, John Carter, Adam Lynn, Thomas Stephens, Thomas Hall, William Hamiick, Nathaniel Cooper, John Cook; Mr. Wlaugh, John McGlahlen, John Campbell, Wrliam Campbell, Robert Boyd, Thomas Hamrick, William Kerr, Garrott Kelley, James Ard, William Deal, John Bozel, John Welch, William Overstreet, Robert Hill, Samuel Davis, Zachariah Kennot, Augustine Hackworth, William Cook, Uriah Squires, James Boyd, James Dale, Robert Ewing, Francis Seed, William Hackworth, John Roberts, Joseph White, Joseph Bunch, Jacob Dooley, Thomas Owen, John Read, John Wood. —Total 52. From the foregoing official rosters it will be seen that they eon-tain five hundred and thirty-one names. If to these we add those ofthe captains, of the nineteen companies, whose names are known,but of which we have no rosters, we shall have a total of five hun-dred and fifty names of the men who were with the Southern Di-vision, or left wing of Dunmores Army, commanded by GeneralLewis. 15. Died of wounds the night after the MAJOR-GENERAI, HORATIO GATES, OF BERKELEY COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. Born at Maiden, Essex county, England, in 1728 ; entered the army while a youth ;came to America; commanded the Kings Independent Company in New York;stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the rank of Major; joined Braddocks ill-fated expedition, in 1755, and was shot through the body at the disastrous defeat ofthe battle of Monongahela; recovered, and served to the close of the French andIndian War; then settled on an estate, called Travelers Rest, in Berkeleycounty, West Virginia; entered the American service at the beginning of the Revo-lution ; Brigadier-General and Adjutant-General Continental Army, June 17, 1775;Major-General Continental Army, May 16, 1776 ; defeated the British army under Bur-goyne, at Saratoga, New York, October 17, 1777 ; made President Board of War,November, 1777 ; appointed to the command of the armyi in
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