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Elizabeth Washington Lewis (762 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elizabeth Washington Lewis (June 20, 1733 – March 31, 1797), also known as Betty Lewis, was the younger sister of George Washington and the only one of

List of George Washington articles (588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The following is a list of articles about and largely involving George Washington. Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington – father and mother of

John Tyler Sr. (945 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Tyler Sr. (February 28, 1747 – January 6, 1813) was an American lawyer, planter, politician and judge who served in the Virginia House of Delegates

Clementina Rind (627 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clementina Rind (c. 1740–September 25, 1774) was a Colonial American woman who is known as being the first female newspaper printer and publisher in Virginia

Anne Makemie Holden (400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anne Makemie Holden (née Makemie; 1702–c. 1787/1788) was an American landowner of the colonial period and early Republic. The younger daughter of clergyman

Betty Zane (632 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elizabeth Zane McLaughlin Clark (July 19, 1765 – August 23, 1823) was a woman involved in the American Revolutionary War on the American frontier. She

James Armistead Lafayette (1,311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Armistead Lafayette (born 1748 or 1760 – died 1830 or 1832) was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American

James Breckinridge (510 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Breckinridge (March 7, 1763 – May 13, 1833) was a Virginia lawyer and politician and a member of the Breckinridge family. He served in the Virginia

Mary Willing Byrd (1,725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mary Willing Byrd (September 10, 1740 – March 1814) was an American planter. At twenty years of age, she became the step-mother of five children and managed

David Walker (Kentucky politician) (224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Walker (April 13, 1763 – March 1, 1820) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, brother of George Walker and John Walker and grandfather of James

Peter Francisco (2,340 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peter Francisco (born Pedro Francisco; July 9, 1760 – January 16, 1831) was a Portuguese-born American blacksmith and soldier best known for his service

David Meriwether (Georgia politician) (748 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Meriwether (April 10, 1755 – November 16, 1822) was a United States (U.S.) Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia. U.S. congressman

1st Virginia State Regiment (399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 1st Virginia State Regiment was a regiment of regular state troops from Virginia which fought during the American Revolutionary War. The regiment was

2nd Virginia State Regiment (384 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2nd Virginia State Regiment was a regiment of regular state troops from Virginia which fought during the American Revolutionary War. The regiment was

Thomas Gibson (American politician) (251 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas Gibson (1750 – May 13, 1814) was an American Revolutionary War soldier who became the first Auditor of the U.S. State of Ohio. Gibson was born in

Benjamin Harrison VI (736 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Benjamin Carter Harrison VI (1755–1799) was an American merchant, planter, politician, and revolutionary. He was a son of Founding Father Benjamin Harrison

Bolling Hall (186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bolling Hall (December 25, 1767 – February 25, 1836) was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He served

Fluvanna County militia (317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Fluvanna County militia was a component of the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. It was based in Fluvanna County, Virginia for

James Forten (2,866 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Forten (September 2, 1766 – March 4, 1842) was an American abolitionist and businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A free-born African American

Stephen Trigg (3,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stephen Trigg (c. 1744 – August 19, 1782) was an American pioneer and soldier from Virginia. He was killed ten months after the surrender of Cornwallis

William Lee (valet) (1,218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Lee (c. 1750 – 1810) was an American slave and personal assistant of George Washington. He was the only one of Washington's slaves who was freed

George M. Bedinger (451 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Michael Bedinger (December 10, 1756 – December 7, 1843) was an American military officer and politician who came to oppose the expansion of slavery

Samuel Hammond (865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Hammond (September 21, 1757 – September 11, 1842) was a lieutenant colonel during the American Revolutionary War, governor and leader in the Louisiana

Archibald Cary (1,071 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Col. Archibald Cary (January 24, 1721 – February 26, 1787) was a Virginia planter, soldier, politician, and major landowner. He was a political figure

John Tipton (Tennessee frontiersman) (1,814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Tipton (August 15, 1730 – August 9, 1813) was an American frontiersman and statesman who was active in the early development of the state of Tennessee

Anna Maria Lane (897 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anna Maria Lane (c. 1755–1810) was the first documented female soldier from Virginia to fight with the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War

James O'Hara (quartermaster) (715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

James O'Hara (c. 1752 – 1819) was an American military officer, businessman, and captain of early industry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Richard Callaway (304 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Callaway (June 14, 1717 – November 8, 1780) was an American frontiersman, military officer, politician, and hunter who was one of the first white

John Tayloe II (2,441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Col. John Tayloe II (28 May 1721 – 18 April 1779) was the premier Virginia planter; a politician, and colonial Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Virginia

Saul Matthews (248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saul Matthews was an enslaved African American who spied for the Continental Army during American Revolutionary War. He spied on the British, obtaining

Robert Carter Nicholas Sr. (1,625 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Virginia Colony currency Robert Carter Nicholas (January 28, 1728-November 1780) was a Virginia lawyer, patriot, legislator and judge. He served in the

Joseph Bowman (1,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – 15 August 1779) was an American frontiersmen and military officer who fought during the American Revolutionary War. He

Robert Carter III (3,611 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Carter III (February 28, 1728 – March 10, 1804) was an American planter and politician from the Northern Neck of Virginia. During the colonial period

Henry Lee II (1,663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Col. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) was an American planter, military officer and politician from Westmoreland and later of Prince William County. Although he

Benjamin Waller (877 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Benjamin Waller (1 October 1716 – 1 May 1786) was an American planter, lawyer, politician, military officer and judge. Waller was born on October 1, 1716

Caesar Tarrant (579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Caesar Tarrant (c. 1740–1797) was an American boat pilot who served as a patriot in the American Revolutionary War. Born a slave, Tarrant's skill as a

John Wesley McCormick (558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Wesley McCormick, Sr. (August 30, 1754–April 18, 1837) was a nineteenth-century settler in Indiana. He was one of the first white settlers in the

Dick Pointer (156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dick Pointer (before 1778 – 1827) was an American frontier hero and an enslaved African. He is best known for his bravery in the defence of Fort Donnally

Lewis Wetzel (1,870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lewis Wetzel (1763 – 1808) was an American scout and frontiersman. Because of how feared he was by the Native American Tribes, he was nicknamed "Death

Richard Dale (3,828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Dale (November 6, 1756 – February 26, 1826) was an American naval officer who fought in the Continental Navy under John Barry and was first lieutenant

Jonathan Clark (soldier) (1,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Jonathan Clark (August 1, 1750 – November 25, 1811) was an American soldier. After serving as captain, major and colonel in the American Revolutionary

Thomas Lewis (Kentucky politician) (633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas Lewis (May 8, 1749 – September 9, 1809) was an American Revolutionary War veteran who figured prominently in the early development of Lexington

John Chavis (1,893 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Chavis (c. 1763–June 15, 1838) was a free Black educator and Presbyterian minister in the American South during the early 19th century. Born in Oxford

William Flora (742 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William "Billy" Flora (fl. 1755–1818) was a free-born African American from Virginia who served as a soldier on the Patriot side in the American Revolutionary

William Hardin (791 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain William Hardin (c. 1745 – July 22, 1821) was an American soldier, farmer, and founder of Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Known as "Big Bill" or "Indian

Thomas Hannan (Virginia settler) (702 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas Hannan (December 25, 1757 - April 18, 1835) was an American Revolutionary War soldier and first Anglo settler of the Kanawha River region of Virginia

Joel Leftwich (995 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joel Leftwich (November 22, 1760 – April 20, 1846) was an American planter and politician, who also served as brigadier general of the Virginia militia

John Fleming (judge) (126 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Fleming (November 1697–1766) was a judge in Cumberland County, Virginia who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for more than a decade, working

William Foushee (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Foushee Sr. (October 26, 1749 – August 21, 1824) was an American medical doctor, politician, and socialite. After serving with distinction as a

Abram Penn (861 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abram Penn, also known as "Abraham Penn" (December 27, 1743, in Caroline County, Virginia – 1801, in Patrick County, Virginia) was a noted landowner and

Patrick Henry (13,976 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention

Thomas Madison (politician) (229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas Madison (1746–1798) was a soldier, planter and politician in Revolutionary-era Virginia, who served several terms (part-time) in the Virginia House

Zackquill Morgan (1,771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Colonel Zackquill Morgan was the son of Welsh-born Colonel Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson, the first known white settlers in what would become the

John Parker (pioneer) (633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Parker (September 6, 1758 – May 19, 1836) was an American frontiersman, soldier, surveyor, minister and diplomat. He was born in 1758 in Baltimore

Richard Stephens (pioneer) (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Richard Stephens (September 7, 1755 – died July 2, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier, politician, slave-plantation owner and Breckinridge

Charles Scott (governor) (9,477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Charles Scott (April 1739 – October 22, 1813) was an American military officer and politician who served as the governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812

Jimmy Blair (soldier) (271 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

James Blair (March 6, 1761, Augusta County, Virginia – March 31, 1839, Pickens County, Alabama) was an American soldier and politician. Blair served in

George Waller (colonel) (559 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

George Waller (1734 – November 18, 1814) was landowner, patriot and early settler in Henry County, Virginia, in the Colony of Virginia. Waller was born

Robert Munford III (302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Munford III (1737-1783) was an American playwright, civic leader and soldier, having served under Colonel George Washington in the French and Indian

Samuel Barton (689 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Colonel Samuel Barton (May 1749 – January 1810) was a pioneer and Patriot of the American Revolution (1775–1783) but is remembered more for the exploration

Alexander Balmain (1,779 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander Balmain (1740 – June 10, 1821) was an American Episcopal minister and teacher in Winchester, Virginia. He ministered Christ Episcopal Church

William Rickman (3,473 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dr. William Rickman (c. 1731–1783) served during the American Revolutionary War as the Director and Surgeon of the Continental Hospital of the Continental

Francis Thornton (soldier) (1,539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Lt. Francis Thornton of Rolling Hill (October 22, 1747 – November 18, 1808) was a planter and soldier during the American Revolutionary War. Thornton served

Richard Conway (mayor) (853 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Richard Conway (November 11, 1740 – November 27, 1806) was a politician, shipowner, and merchant in Colonial Virginia who served as the fourth mayor of

William Herbert (mayor) (669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Herbert (1743 – February 24, 1818) was an Irish American politician, banker, and merchant in Colonial Virginia who served two non-consecutive terms

James Hendricks (colonist) (1,856 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

James Hendricks (c. 1740s – abt. July 26, 1806) was a merchant and farmer who became a Continental Army officer during Revolutionary War, the second mayor

Jacob Hite (1,528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Holton, Forced Founders, xiv. Freeman H. Hart, The Valley of Virginia in the American Revolution: 1763-1789 (New York: Russell and Russell, 1942),56. Hart

Charles Harrison (general) (1,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Guide to the Continental Artillery Brigade Orderly Book 1779 Society of the Cincinnati. societyofthecincinnati.org Virginia in the American Revolution

Edward Carrington (2,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Publishing Com. ISBN 9780806307220. Schulz, Emily L. (2009). "Virginia in the American Revolution" (PDF). Washington, DC: Society of the Cincinnati. Archived

Edith Cumbo (712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-1-4576-2893-1. "LUOA 120 Virginia History Unit: Virginia in the American Revolution". Liberty University Online Academy. Heuvel, Lisa L. (October