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Greathouse of Dunmore County, VA

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1775, Oct 25 - Public Service Claim: Isaac Hite, Assignee of John Greathouse

Excerpt from Dunmore's War: Public Service Claims Paid at Romney, Hampshire County, VA:

To Isaac Hite for prvns; Total: 115:15:8; paid to: assignee.
To ditto assee of Thos. Stewart for a beef 45/. of Jacob Stokely L8. of Chas. Buck L7. of Jos. Bowman L9. of Henry Funk L6. of Ben Wilson L15. of Isaac Bowman L11:7:8. of Jno Reed L9:6:0. of Peter Black L22:5:0. of Jacob Funkhouser L8:10:5. of Abs Stuckelogers L3:16:0. of Martin Rollon L8:13:0. of Geo. Rollor 39/. of Christian Crabill 20/. of Ben Stakely 10/. of John Greathouse 7/6. for provns wagonage &c.

Footnotes

1) This public service claim paid to John Greathouse would have been for provisions and wagonage given in support of either Maj. Angus McDonald's Wakatomica expedition which consisted of four hundred men raised from the south branch of the Potomac River or Hampshire and Frederick County, VA and occurred between Jun and Aug 1774 or Lord Dunmore's Sciota expedition which consisted of two regiments, the first raised by Col. William Crawford from Frederick County, VA and the second raised by Col. Adam Stephen from Berkeley County, VA and occurred between Aug and Oct 1774.

Sources:

Virginia,(Virginia Payrolls/Public Service Claims, 1775) Collection Library, Dunmore's War: Public Service Claims Paid at Romney, Hampshire County, VA. Part of Record Group #1, Colonial Government. View @ Virginia Library

Virgil Anson Lewis, History of the Battle of Point Pleasant Fought Between White Men and Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River (now Point Pleasant, West Virginia) Monday, October 10th, 1774: The Chief Event of Lord Dunmore's War, Tribune Print. Company, 1909. Original from Harvard University, Digitized Jul 26, 2006. Pages 20 - 22 View @ Google Books

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