Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILLIAM DARKE, OF BERKELEY COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. Born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1736, and when but five years of age, heaccompanied his parents to a home near the present site of Duffields Station, n|owin Jefferson county, West Virginia, where he grew to manhood. On the 9th of February,17 76, he entered the the Revolutionary Army as Captain in the 8th Virginia Infantry,and became Major in that Kegiment on the 4th of January, the next year ; was takenprisoner at the Battle of Germ
Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILLIAM DARKE, OF BERKELEY COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. Born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1736, and when but five years of age, heaccompanied his parents to a home near the present site of Duffields Station, n|owin Jefferson county, West Virginia, where he grew to manhood. On the 9th of February,17 76, he entered the the Revolutionary Army as Captain in the 8th Virginia Infantry,and became Major in that Kegiment on the 4th of January, the next year ; was takenprisoner at the Battle of Germantown, en the 4th of October. 1777 : 1, 1780, after which he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonelin a Virginia regimenit. With Brigadier-General Adam Stephen he representedBerkeley county in the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788, and there voted for theratification of the National Constitution. With the rank of Brigadier-General, he,in 1791, commanded the right wing of the American Army at St. Clairs defeat,in the Northwest Territory, at which it is sai
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