Flashcards: Virginia militiamen in the American Revolution
Leonard Helm
Leonard Helm was an early pioneer of Kentucky, and a Virginia officer during the American Revolutionary War.
Beverley Randolph
Beverley Randolph (1754 – February 7, 1797) was an American politician from Virginia.
John Page (Virginia politician)
John Page (April 28, 1743 – October 11, 1808) was a figure in early United States history.
George Jackson (Virginia politician)
George Jackson (January 9, 1757 – May 17, 1831) was an American farmer, lawyer, and politician.
Andrew Wodrow
Andrew Wodrow (1752–1814) was a prominent Scottish American merchant, militia officer, clerk of court, lawyer, and landowner in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia.
Christopher Greenup
Christopher Greenup (c. 1750 – April 27, 1818) was an American politician who served as a U.
James Madison Sr.
James Madison Sr.
Mordecai Barbour
Mordecai Barbour (October 21, 1763 – January 4, 1846) was a Culpeper County Militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and a prominent Virginia statesman, planter, and businessperson.
Robert Page (Virginia politician)
Robert Page (February 4, 1765 – December 8, 1840) was a United States Representative from Virginia.
Anthony Bledsoe
Anthony Bledsoe (1733-1788) was an American surveyor, politician and military colonel.
Edward Stevens (general)
Edward Stevens (1745 – August 17, 1820) was an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later a state legislator for Virginia, serving in the Virginia Senate.
John Hopwood
John Hopwood (1745 – June 2, 1802) was an American civil servant during the American Revolutionary War and founded the town of Hopwood, Pennsylvania (originally named "Woodstock").
John Pope (travel writer)
John Pope (circa 1754 – January 31, 1795) was an American soldier, traveler, and author of the book A Tour through the Southern and Western Territories of the United States of North-America.
Joseph Bowman
Joseph Bowman, born Joseph Lawrence Bowman (c. 1752 – August 14 or 15, 1779), was a frontier, Virginia state militia officer, during the American Revolutionary War.
Isaac Coles
Isaac Coles (March 2, 1747 – June 3, 1813) was an American planter and statesman from Virginia.
John LaRue
John P. LaRue (1746-1792) was a Kentucky pioneer and member of the LaRue family of Virginia.
John Clopton
John Clopton (February 7, 1756 – September 11, 1816) was a United States Representative from Virginia.
Humphrey Marshall (politician)
Humphrey Marshall (1760 – July 3, 1841) was a politician from the U.
Robert White (judge)
Robert White (March 29, 1759 – March 9, 1831) was a distinguished early American military officer, lawyer, judge, and politician in the U.
Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician)
Isaac Parsons (January 27, 1752 – August 25, 1796) was an American planter, politician, and militia officer in the U.
John Johns Trigg
John Johns Trigg (1748 – May 17, 1804) was an American farmer and politician from Bedford County, Virginia.
John Reily
John Reily (1763-1850) was a soldier in the American Revolution who later held a number of civic positions including helping draft the Ohio State Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln (captain)
Abraham Lincoln (May 13, 1744 – May 1786) was the grandfather of the 16th U.
Narsworthy Hunter
Narsworthy Hunter (c. 1756 – March 11, 1802) was a delegate to the U.
Samuel Goode
Samuel Goode (March 21, 1756 – November 14, 1822) was a United States Representative from Virginia.
Angus McDonald (Virginia militiaman)
Angus McDonald (1727 – August 19, 1778) was a prominent Scottish American military officer, frontiersman, sheriff and landowner in Virginia.
George Mason V
George Mason V of Lexington (30 April 1753 – 5 December 1796) was a planter, businessman, and militia leader.
George Weedon
George Weedon (1734–1793) was an American soldier during the Revolutionary War from Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Phillip Hamman
Phillip Hamman, Sr.
William Campbell (general)
William Campbell (born 1745 and died on August 22, 1781) was a Virginia farmer, pioneer, and soldier.
William Mason (1757–1818)
William Mason (22 October 1757 – 7 February 1818) was a militiaman in the American Revolutionary War and a prominent Virginia planter.
William McKendree
William McKendree (July 6, 1757 – March 5, 1835) was the fourth Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the first Methodist bishop born in the United States.
John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General)
John Breckinridge (December 2, 1760 – December 14, 1806) was a lawyer and politician from the U.
Anthony New
Anthony New (1747 – March 2, 1833) was an 18th-century and 19th-century congressman and lawyer from Virginia and Kentucky.
Nathaniel Massie
Nathaniel Massie (December 28, 1763 – November 13, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier.
Robert Love (soldier)
Robert Love (11 May 1760 – 17 July 1845) was an American Revolutionary War soldier from Virginia and a political leader in North Carolina.
James Garrard
James Garrard (January 14, 1749 – January 19, 1822) was a farmer and Baptist minister who served as the second governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804.
Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina.
John Francis Mercer
John Francis Mercer (May 17, 1759 – August 30, 1821) was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Virginia and Maryland.
Wilson Cary Nicholas
Wilson Cary Nicholas (January 31, 1761 – October 10, 1820) was an American politician who served in the U.
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia.
Abram Trigg
Abram Trigg (1750 – unknown) was an American farmer and politician from Bedford County, Virginia.
Daniel Smith (surveyor)
Daniel Smith (October 29, 1748 – June 16, 1818) was a surveyor, an American Revolutionary War patriot, and twice a United States Senator from Tennessee.
Littleberry Mosby
Littleberry C. Mosby Jr.
Abraham Buford
Abraham Buford (July 21, 1747 – June 30, 1833) was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, best known as the commanding officer of the American forces at the Battle of Waxhaws.
Archer Mathews
Archer Mathews (1744 - c. 1796) was an American politician and city founder from Greenbrier County, Virginia.
Arthur Campbell (Virginia)
Arthur Campbell (November 3, 1743 – August 8, 1811) was a soldier in the Indian Wars and the American Revolutionary War as well as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Charles Washington
Charles Washington (May 2, 1738 – September 16, 1799) was the youngest brother of United States President George Washington.
Isaac Bowman
Isaac Bowman (April 24, 1757 – September 9, 1826) was an 18th-century American soldier and militia officer who took part in the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War.
Isaac Ruddell
Captain Isaac Ruddell (1737-January 1812) was an 18th-century American Virginia State Line officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Kentucky frontiersman.
Jack Jouett
John "Jack" Jouett, Jr.
Sampson Mathews
Sampson Mathews (c. 1737- January 20, 1807) was an 18th-century American soldier, legislator, and college founder in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia.
Samuel McDowell
Samuel McDowell (October 29, 1735 – September 25, 1817) was a soldier and early political leader in Kentucky.