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From: "Jemima Gee Morse" <>
Subject: [VAMONTGO] FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR RECORD FOR ARCHIBALD THOMPSON FROM LOV
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:39:18 -0400


"Le Bateman" <> wrote July 8 2000
To: <>
Subject: Peter Soloman

> A number of years ago I wrote the Virginia Library to obtain a
copy of
> Peter Soloman's French-Indian War Service Records. He enlisted
in Captain
> Robert McKenzie's Company of Virginia Militia at Fort Pleasant
Sussex. They
> told me that they did not have anything before the American
Revolution. The
> National Archives said they did not have it either now what do
I do.
> Sincerely
> Jacob L. Bateman III

Mr. Bateman,
I sent for the French and Indian War record for Archibald
Thompson in 1998 and received a copy of the Land Office Warrant
for Archibald's service. The land grant he got for this service
was in Montgomery Co., and recorded in 1793; the image of the
grant is
available through the Library of Virginia Electronic web site. I
will paste all information I got from the LOV below, and in a
separate post, give selected entries from Brockstruck's "Virginia
Colonial Soldiers," which was enclosed with the copy I received.
The excerpt did not include Sussex, so you could check the
Bockstuck book to see if your Peter Solomon is listed.

As you have the Peter Soloman's French-Indian War service
record, you could write the Library to see if they can find a
record in their French and Indian War Bounty Warrants Reels.

Here's the information I sent to LOV when requesting the copy of
Archibald's service record:

ARCHIBALD THOMPSON DIARY
Transcript by Lula Hankins Hunter
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/archibald/>;
Page 102
December ye 1st 1759 We was Discharged out of the Second
Battallion of the Virginia Ridgement By an Act of Asembly From
under the Comd of *Col pechua and Capt Trockmorton and Lieut
Richardson .

*Per research by Barbara Marsh, "on 14 Sept 1758, the House of
Burgesses passed an act for the defense of the Virginia frontier.
The Virginia regulars, in 1758, were divided into two regiments;
the First Regiment under Col. George Washington, and the Second
under Col. William Byrd. Archibald Thompson, as entered in his
DIARY, was a member of the Second Regiment, serving under Col.
William Peachy, Col. of the Frontier Battalion, and Capt. Gabriel
Throckmorton. He was twenty two years old and unmarried. The
Regiment was discharged by an Act of Assembly on the 1 Dec 1759,
which he noted in his DIARY. . . (Sources: Archibald Thompson
Diary, 101,102, and Bockstruck, Virginia Colonial Soldiers, pp
212, 260, 274.)"

COPY RECEIVED FROM LOV:

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR BOUNTY WARRANTS
Reel 360, Warrant #193 (copy 2 facing pages)
Proof of service for Archibald Thompson, 22 November 1779

1779
Montgomery Nov Court No 193

Archibald Thompson having produced sufficient proof to this Court
that he is entitled to 200 acres of land under the King of Great
Britain's proclamation issued in the year 1763 for military
service for which he never recd. a warrant and ordered that the
same be certified to the Register of the land office for this
state.
(signed) A copy James M. Corkle Cmd.
Warrant for 200 acres issued to Archibald Thompson, November 22,
1779
===============================
Land-Office Warrant No. 193
To the principal Surveyor of any County within the Commonwealth
of Virginia.
This shall be your Warrant to survey and lay off in one of more
Surveys, for Archibald Thompson, his Heirs or Assigns, the
Quantity of Two hundred Acres of Land, due unto the said
Archibald for military service performed by him as a Serjeant in
the late War between Great Britian & France according to the
terms of the King of Great Britain's Proclaimation of 1763. A
certificate of which duly proven is received into the Land
Office.
Given under my Hand, and the Seal of the said Office, on this
Twenty-third day of November in the Year One Thousand Seven
Hundred and seventy nine.
/s/ G. Curr D.R., L.O.".
========================
The Library of Virginia
Reel 93, pp. 499-500
Grants 27, 1792-1793
Archibald Thompson, 200 acres, Montgomery County, 15 February
1793


Thompson, Archibald
15 Feby 1793
200a. On Some waters of the Maiden Spring fork of Clinch.
LOV Land Office Patents and Grants, Card 41
http://198.17.62.51/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0493/T1709?41
Grants 27, p. 499

Henry See , Esquire., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
to all who come there presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye,
that by virtue of part of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number
eighteenth thousand five hundred and seventy two issued the ninth
day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, There
is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Archibald Thompson a
certain Tract or Parcel of land, containing two hundred acres, by
survey, bearing Date the sixth day of March, one thousand seven
hundred and ninety, lying and being in the County of Montgomery
on some waters of the maiden spring fork of Clinch and bounded as
followeth To Wit Beginning at an ash and chestnut on the top of a
hill and running thence South seventy two degrees East . . . at
the end of Puncheon Camp Ridge . . .

To have and hold the said parcel of land with its Apputerances,
to the said Archibald Thompson and his heirs forever In Witness
whereof the said Henry See, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia has hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal
of the said Commonwealth

(page 500)
to be affixed at Richmond on the fifteenth day of February in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineth three and
of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth.
/s/ Henry See

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