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Greathouse of Ohio County, WV Do you have any Greathouse kith and kin who resided in Ohio County, WV? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse kith and kin who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point. 1777, Sep 27 - Captain William Foreman's Defeat
Excerpt from Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D. and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph. D., Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778, 1912. Page 301 [ View @ Google Books ] A List of Losses in Captain Forman's Company We the Subscribers do hereby Certify That the within specifyd appraisements are Just & true to the Best of our Judgments & that the several articles were lost in the late unhappy Defeat near McMechen's Narrows on the 27th of Septembr: 1777 as witness hands this 3d. of Octobrr. 1777 Anthony Miller Lieut Sworn Before me David Shepherd A List of Loses in Capt. Formans Company [Additional names of men in Foreman's company, mentioned in Draper MSS., as indicated in press-mark following each name:] Killed: Capt. William Foreman [2S280]; Hamilton Foreman [2S280]; George Avery [37J25]; Thomas Brazier [2S97; 3S3; 37J25]; Hugh Clark [37J25]; Jacob Greathouse [3S166]; Ezekiel Hedges [2S51]; Moses Lawson [9BB58]; Jacob Ogle [2S51; 3S131]; John Polk [37J25]; William Shens [2S323]; William Williams [37J25]. Captured: Jonathan Pugh [2S97]. [Deceased on 26 Sep 1777]. Escaped: Harry Castleman [37J25]; John Chambers [6ZZ16]; John Cullins [2E67]; William Engle [2S97]; Robert Harkness [3S158, 165]; William Harrod [7NN19]; Solomon Jones [9BB58]; William Linn [6ZZ9; 9BB58]; Daniel McLain [2S280]; Joseph Ogle [6ZZ9]; John Vincent [9BB58]; Martin Wetzel [2E10]; .Daniel McLain [2S280]. Footnotes:
Sources: Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D. and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph. D., Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778: compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1912. Page 301; Killed at McMechen's Narrows, Foreman's Defeat: Jacob Greathouse, died: 27 Sep 1777. View @ Google Books |
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