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From: "Jemima Gee Morse" <>
Subject: [VAMONTGO] HALIFAX, VA., COLONIAL SOLDIERS, FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:34:00 -0400

Excerpt enclosed with copy of Archibald Thompson's French and
Indian War Bounty Warrant from The Library of Virginia, ordered
June 1998.

>From Lloyd DeWitt Brockstruck, "Virginia's Colonial Soldiers."
Baltimore: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1988, pp. preface,
vii; 200-201; 212-213.

(Typist note: I have typed only the names of the soldiers in the
Halifax Co. entry.)


p. 201
The following entries are taken from William Waller Hening's
collection of the laws of Virginia. During the French and Indian
War, the House of Burgesses passed an act for the defense of the
frontier of the colony on 14 September 1758. The soldiers
mentioned in the schedule attached to this act appear below.

Accomack County: . . .
Amelia County: . . .
Albemarle County: . . .

p. 212
Halifax County:

Col. Abraham Maury, for pay to Lt. Thomas Green, and a part of
militia under the command of said Green, as by muster roll,
42.1.0; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Thomas Spragin as a Lt.,
and a party of the militia under his command, as by muster roll,
5.10.0; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Capt. Robert Wooding and
a company of militia under his command, as by mustr roll,
82.19.0; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Capt. Peter Wilson and
a company of militia under his command, as by muster roll,
33.3.4; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay to Lt. James Dillard and a
part of the militia under his command, as by muster roll,
102.4.3; Thomas Calloway, Ens., 0.16.0; Edward Peregoy, John
Lewis, Peter Manin, Johnn Childers, William Simmons, Huncrest
Scarlock, and John Wade, 0.7.0 each.

Col. Abraham Maury, 28 days service in riding to the forts and
settling townships, 14.0.0, and for riding from Williamsburg to
Halifax, with Mr. President's instructions, 150 miles, 2.10.0;
and for 10 days riding to Williamsburg and attending on the
committee to settle militia accounts, 5.0.0.

Capt. Robert Wade, Jr., for his pay and for that of his officers,
and a company of militia, 475.8.6; to Col. Abraham Maury for pay
to Capt. Dillard and his militia company, 414.11.4.

Capt. Thomas Callaway, 6.18.0; Lt. William Edwards, 3.9.0; Ens.
Hugh Harris, 2.6.0; Sgt. James Elkin and Sgt. John Edwards,
2.18.0 each; John Harris, John Rice, Thomas Norton, Thomas Fern,
John Harris, Jr., John Wade, Benjamin Croley, Richard Moore,
ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, John Blevins, Clement Lee, Wells Ward,
Nathaniel Hendley, John Sturd, James Sturd, William Blevins, Jr.,
Josiah Cox, Ningum Prator, Nehemiah Prater, John Blevins, Sr.,
William Asher, and John Gracer, 1.3.0 each; William Rickle,
1.5.0; Joseph Morton, John Lindsey, William Murfee, and George
Young, 0.4.0 each; John Sullivant and William Scales, 0.7.0 each;
Daniel Durbin, Edward Peregoy, William Ratcliff, Silas Ratliff,
and William Satterwhite, 0.12.0 each; John Frederick Pickle and
Daniel Newman, 0.6.0 each; James Blevins, 0.15, 0; John Talbot,
Thomas Wollin, and Pearce Gwin, 0.8.0 each; William Cox and
William Blevins, Sr., 0.9.0 each; John Williams, 0.14.0.

Nathaniel Terry, the balance of his pay for attending militia,
and building three forts, 29.10.0.

Hanover County;
Henrico County;
James City County;
Loudoun County, Louisa County; Lunenburg County . . . .
Excerpt ends at p. 213 .

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