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Published Date: 2010/12/31 21:55:04

DUNMORE WAR
Source: Thwaltes and Kellogg's "Documentary History of Lord Dunmore's War"
Original in Library of the State Historical Society in Wisconsin
submitted by: Brenda Dillon

AUGUSTA COUNTY,VIRGINIA
Page 405

Captain William Nalle's Company of Volunteers

OFFICERS:

William Nalle.....................................Captain
Martin Nelle.......................................Lieutenant
Jacob Pence........................................Ensign
John Bush...........................................Sergeant
William Bush.....................................Sergeant
Bernard Crawford.............................Sergeant

PRIVATES
Shadrick Butler William Feavill Robert Hall Moses Smith Stephen Washburn Israel Meaders Henry Owler John Griggsby Richard Welsh Zacarias Lee John Goodall Benjamin Petty Michael Jordan Bruten Smith James Todd William Spicer James Washburn Charles Brown James Alexander George Rucker Joseph Ray William Scales John Bright Jenty Jackson John Owler	George Fuls/Fultz James Miller George Harman John Chisholm Adam Hansbarger Henry Cook John Breden Thomas Brooke Henry Miner Chesley Rodgers Zapaniah Lee Zachiaus Plunkenpiel Micajah Smith William Smith John Deck John Fry John Williams Joseph Butler James Shelby James Reary Abraham Rue Jacob Null John Null total 54

BOTETOURT COUNTY
Captain John Murray's Company of Volunteers

OFFICERS:
John Murray...........................................Captain (2)
William McKee......................................Lieutenant (3)
Jacob Pence............................................Ensign
John Bush.............................................. Sergeant
William Bush........................................Sergeant
Bernard Crawford.................................Sergeant

PRIVATES
John Nelson Stephen Arnold James Hall John Gilmore John Sedbury William Moore James Arnold Andrew Evans William MacCorkle George Milwood John Lapsly Joseph McBride Thomas Nail Thomas McClure James Walker Ezekiel Kennedy John Jones John Moore William Simpson Thomas Perry/Pearry Peter Cassady Robert Wallace John Eager/Edgar John Griggs George Cummings Thomas Burney James Crawley Daniel Blair Solomon Brundige Daniel Simpson Nicholas Mooney Daniel Fallen/Pullin John McClure Stephen Harris James Gilmore David Wallace Moses Whitby	Hugh Moore James Cummingham John Kelsey James Logan Joseph Gibson William Cochran Presley Gill John Logan Thomas Hadden Hugh Logan John Coller Jonathan Watson John Miligan William Neely James Neeley William Bradley Peter Higgins William Conner James McCalister John McGee William Brown Issac Trimble John Barkley Andrew Wallace Andrew Alden Peter McNeal William Johns John McMurray James Brambridge William Lyons James Simpkins Hugh Logan total 78 (2) Killed at Point Pleasant (3) Assumed command of Company when Capt. Murray was killed

BOTETOURT COUNTY
Page 407

Captain Phillip Love's Company of Volunteers

OFFICERS:
Phillip Love................................Captain
Daniel McNeill..........................Lieutenant
John Mills................................. Ensign
William Ewing..........................Sergeant Major
Fransis McElhaney..................Quarter M.S.
Shelton Taylor..........................Sergeant
James Alexander.....................Sergeant (4)
John Crawford.........................Sergeant

PRIVATES
Robert Owens Samuel Andrews John Todd Samuel Montgomery William Teasy John Dunn Thomas Pierce Thomas Armstrong Abraham DeMonts Charles Byrne Thomas Gilbert Thomas welsh Sr. William Hooper Samuel Savage Joseph Pain Thomas Welsh Jr. Patrick Conner James Simpson William Armstrong Daniel McDonald Abraham Moon Thomas Brown James Neeley	Robert Smith George Craig Richard Wilson William Franklin John Buchanan Charles Davis James McDonald James Franklin William Hanson John McGinnis Richard Collins James M.Guillin John Marks Griffin Harris John Todd Daniel Ormsbey John Robinson William Scott total 50 (4) Wounded at Point Plesant

BOTETOURT COUNTY
Page 408

Captain John Lewis Company of Volunteers

OFFICERS:
John Lewis.......................................Captain
John Henderson..............................Lieutenant
Robert Allet or Eliott.....................Ensign
Samuel Glass..................................Sergeant
William Bryans..............................Sergeant
Peter Huff........................................Sergeant
William Wilson.............................Sergeant
Samuel Estill..................................Sergeant
John Donnally................................Fifer
Thomas Alisbury...........................Drummer

PRIVATES
John Swope Alexander Kelly Edward Eagin James Ellison John Deniston James Stuart John Savage Christopher Welsh James Crawley James Dulin Isaac Fisher Peter Ellenburg Andrew Kissinger Samuel Barton William Clifton Joseph Love Leonard Huff Thomas Huff (6) Samuel Croley William Isum Isaac Taylor Martin Carney Peter Hendricks John Hundley Henry Howard Molastine Peregrine Walter Holwell James McNutt Samuel Burcks Nathan Farmer Gabriel Smithers Thomas Edgar James Carlton Mathew Polug Thomas Canady/Kanady	William Jones Richard Packwood John Authur William Robinson Samuel Huff Edward Wilson Robert Boyd John Reyburn Issac Nichol Philip Hammond James Burtchfield Solomon White Thomas Carpenter (6) Jeremiah Carpenter Solomon Carpenter David Cook John Bowman Jacob Bowman Robert Bowles James Burnsides Dennis Nail Hugh Caperton Mathew Creed Thomas Burnes Adam Cornwell William Boniface William Mann John Carpenter Henry Bowyers Matthias Kissinger Adam Caperton total 78 (6) wounded at Point Pleasant

BOTETOURT

Captain John Stuart's Company of GREENBRIER VALLEY Volunteers
Page 410

OFFICERS:
John Stuart.....................................Captain
(Manuscript torn.........................................)
James Donnally..............................Sergeant
Charles O'Hara..............................Sergeant
Skidmore Harriman......................Sergeant

PRIVATES
Daniel Workman James Pauley James Clarke Robert O'Hara Archibald McDowell William Hogan John Pauley Quavy Lockart Samuel Sullivan Andrew Gardiner John McCandless Thomas Gillispie Thomas Furguson (7) John Crain William Dyer Henry Lawrence John Harris Joseph Currence	Edward Smith Spencer Cooper Daniel Taylor William Clendenin Jacob Lockhart George Clendemin Joseph Day Charles Kennison (7) William Ewing John Burke John McNeal Joseph Campbell John Doherty William O'Hara Samuel Williams total 37 (7) wounded at Point Pleasant

BOTETOURT
Page 410-11

Captain Robert McClennahan's Company of GREENBRIER VALLEY Volunteers

OFFICERS:
Robert McClennahan..................................Captain (8)
William McCoy...........................................Lieutenant
Mathew Bracken........................................Ensign (8)
Thomas Williams ......................................Sergeant (8)
William Craig.............................................Sergeant
Samuel Clarke............................................Sergeant
William Jones.............................................Drummer

PRIVATES
John Harmon James Morrow ,Jr. James Morrow ,Sr. David Cutlip Evan Evans William Stewart James Gilkeson Partick Constantine William Custer Edward Thomas William Hutchinson Edward Barrett Lewis Holmes Richard Williams	James Burrens John Williams Thomas Ellias Charles Howard John Patton Thomas Cooper William McCaslin James Guffy Fransis Boggs John Vaughn John Cunningham George Kinkead James Kinkead total 34 (8) Killed at Point Pleasant

BOTETOURT
Page 411

Captain Henry Pauling's Company of Volunteers

OFFICERS:
Henry Pauling..................................Captain
Edward Goldman...............................Lieutenant (9)
Samuel Baker.................................. Ensign
Obediah H. Trent..............................Sergeant
Robert Findley...................................Sergeant
James Woods.....................................Sergeant

PRIVATES
Robert Watkins William Holley Joel Doss William Thompson Dangerfield Harmon Stephen Holston William Ray Dudley Callaway William Canaday James Wilson John Frazer George Davis John Clark Richard Rollins Michael Looney Thomas McCreary Charles Ellison John Agnew John Gibson David Belew Andrew Rodgers James Donahoo Andrew Harrison George Zimmerman Robert Ferrell Alexander Caldwell William Gelles	Thomas Wilson Mathew Ratcliff William Glass Edward Ross Thomas Ried Joseph Whittaker John Fitzhugh David Condon Richard LeMaster Isham Fienquay John Hutsonb William Mc Callister James King Edward Carther Martin Baker Jeremiah Jenkins James Lynn Phillip Hanes James DeHority total 52 (9) wounded at Point Plesant

FINCASTLE COUNTY BATTALION
Page 412

Captain Evan Shelby's Company of Volunteers
From Watagua Valley, in ?Fincastle County,Va.

OFFICERS:
Evan Shelby.................................................Captain (10)
Isaac Shelby................................................Lieutenant (11)
James Robertson.......................................Saregant
Valentine Sevier........................................Sergeant

PRIVATES
James Shelby John Sawyer John Findley Henry Shaw Daniel Mungle Frederick Mungle John Williams John Carmack (12) Andrew Terrance George Brooks Isaac Newland Abram Newland George Riddle Emanuel Shoatt Abram Bogard Arthur Blackburn Robert Herrill/Handley George Armstrong William Casey Mark Williams John Stewart (12) Conrad Nave Richard Burek John Riley Elijah Robinson/Robertson Reece Price (12) Richard Holliway	Jarrett Williams Julius Robison Charles Fielder Peter Torney William Tucker John Fain Samuel Samples Samuel Fain Samuel Hensley Hugh O'Gullion Benjamin Grayum Andrew Goff Joseph Hughey Barnett O'Guillion Patrick St. Lawrence John Bradley Bazaleel Maxwell total 49 (10) Assumed chief of command on the field after Colonels Lewis,Fleming, and Field had fallen (11) Took command of his father's company, who had assumed command of the field (12) wounded at Point Plesant

FINCASTLE COUNTY
Page 400

Captain William Campbell's Company ( 13)

OFFICERS:
William Campbell.......................................Captain

PRIVATES
Philemon Higgins Benjamin Richardson Joseph Newberry John Johnston Stephen Hopton Richard Woolsey John Lewis Auldin Williamson William Hopton Coorad Sterns	John Neal William Richardson Richard Lyhnam William Chamo John Boles total 16 (13) There were 39 men in Captain Campbell's Company, but the names of only 15 of them have been preserved.

FINCASTLE COUNTY
Page 420 ( also Collins' History of Kentucky Vol 2 p 517

Captain James Harrod's Company of KENTUCKY Pioneers

OFFICERS:
James Herrod......................................Captain (14)

PRIVATES
James Blair James Herrod Thomas Herrod James Harlan John Crawford Jared Cowan John Clark John Crow Azariah Davis John Cowan Robert Gilbert David Glenn William Fields Silas Harlan Evan Hinton James Hamilton James Knox James McCulloch Isaac Hite Azariah Reece Jacob Sandusky Alexander Petrey James Sodousky Benjamin Tutt John Shelp David Williams John Wilson James Wiley Thomas Glenn James Brown Abraham Chapline total 32	(14) In the Spring of 1774, Captain James Herrod, a Pennsylvanian by birth, collected at the mouth of Grave Creek, now Moundville, Marshall County, West Virginia, a party of 31 young men, for the purpose of making a settlement in Kentucky. Descending the Ohio to the mouth of the Kentucky river, they thence journeyed through the wilderness to the Big Spring, now in Mercer County. Here they were engaged in the founding Herrodsburg, the oldest town in Kentucky, when they were discovered by Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner who had been sent by Lord Dunmore to warn John Floyd, Deputy Surveyor of Fincastle County,Virginia, which then included all of Kentucky,together with his assistants, then at the Falls of the Ohio, that an Indian War was begun.Harrod and party abandoned their settlement, and proceeded to Holston Valley, where he and 27 of his men joined the Fincastle Battalion, and with Christian, arrived at Point Plesant the evening after the battle -V.A.L.

THE INDEPENDENT COMPANIES

Of the Independant Companies-- the Dunmore County Volenteers, the Culpeper
Minute Men, and the Bedfore County Riflemen---but one roster, that of the
latter has been preserved.

Captain Thomas Buford's Bedford County Riflemen
Page 409

OFFICERS:
Thomas Buford...................................Captain (15)
Thomas Dooley...................................Lieutenant
Jonathan Cundiff...............................Ensign
Nicholas Meade..................................Sergeant
William Kenedy.................................Sergeant
John Fields.........................................Sergeant
Thomas Fliping................................. Sergeant

PRIVATES
Abraham Sharp Absalom McClennahan William Bryant William McCollister James Scarbara John McClennahan James McBride John Carver Adam Lynn Thomas Stephens Thomas Hall William Hamrick Nathaniel Cooper John Cook Mr. Waugh John McGlahlen John Campbell William Campbell Robery Boyd Thomas Hamrick William Kerr Garrott Kelley James Ard William Deal John Bozel	John Welsh William Overstreet Robert Hill Samuel Davis Zachariah Kennot Augustine Hackworth William Cook Uriah Squires James Boyd James Dale Robert Ewing Fransis Seed William Hackworth John Roberts Joseph White Joseph Bunch Jacob Dooley Thomas Owen John Read John Wood total 52 (15) Died of wounds the night after the battle at Point Pleasant

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