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      Trimble, James, son of John Trimble, was one of the early pioneers of Augusta county. His father lived on Middle river, not far from Churchville, and seven miles from Staunton. Here, in 1764, they were attacked by Indians headed by a white man named Dickson, who had fled from Virginia to escape punishment for crime. John Trimble was killed, his home burned, four horses were taken and loaded with the plunder of the dwelling; and young James, who was only eight years, and his half-sister, Mrs. Estill, were carried off into captivity. Capt George Moffett, brother of Mrs. Estill, started off in pursuit with eighteen white men, overtook the savages, killed six of them, and rescued his kins-people. James Trimble figured extensively afterwards as a pioneer, and was father of the late John A. Trimble, of Ohio.

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      Robertson, James, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, June 28, 1742, of Scotch-Irish descent. His parents removed to North Carolina when he was a youth, and he received little or no education. When he was seventeen, he went with Daniel Boone's third expedition to the west. He discovered the Watauga river valley, planted some corn, and then returned to North Carolina, after losing his way, and being saved from death, by hunters. The next spring he led sixteen families to the valley, and they raised crops for four years, unmolested by the surrounding Indians. They believed themselves to be within the limits of Virginia, but when the lines were run in 1772, it was found that they were on land belonging to the Cherokees. They made a lease with the Indians, but in the merry-making which followed, a warrior was killed by one of the whites, and trouble was only avoided by Robertson's efforts, and Indians and whites remained at peace until 1776. In July, of that year, the Indians attacked the fort, and were beaten off by Robertson and Sevier, with forty men, after twenty days' fighting. In the spring of 1779, Robertson explored the Cumberland valley, to which he emigrated with a party, leaving Sevier at Watauga. One of his parties made a settlement at what became Nashville, Tennessee, where Robertson's other people joined them. They were soon attacked by the Cherokees, and in a few months had lost fifty-six men. Their crops were swept away by a flood, and they faced starvation, and many of the settlers went back east, reducing the settlement to one hundred and thirty-four persons, while most of those who remained, urged Robertson to leave also. This he refused, saying," Here I shall stay, if every man of you deserts me." With his eldest son, Isaac Bledsoe, and a negro, he made his way to Boone, in Kentucky, from whence he procured ammunition, and returned to Nashville. He successfully resisted an attack by one thousand Indians in April, 1781. After the revolutionary war, he made friends with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, drawing them away from their connection with the British, and also made peace with the Cherokees. Later, the half-breed Creek chief, Alexander McGillwray, made a treaty with the Spanish governor of Louisiana, under which he was to drive out the Americans, and he warred upon them at intervals for a period of twelve years. Robertson frequently rejected overtures from the Spanish governor, who offered him peace and free navigation on the Mississippi, if he would establish Watauga and Kentucky as a government separate from the Union. In 1790 Washington made him brigadier-general, and his military services continued six years longer. He shared with Sevier the honor and affection of the Tennesseans. He was made Indian commissioner, and held that office until his death. his wife Charlotte Reeves, born in Virginia, accompanied him to Watauga on its first settlement, and participated in all his dangers, at time using the rifle against the Indians, with unerring skill. He died in the Chickasaw country, Tennessee, September 1, 1814.

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      Todd, John, born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1750. He took part in the battle of Point Pleasant, Virginia, in 1774, as adjutant-general to Gen. Andrew Lewis. He settled as a lawyer in Fincastle, Virginia, in 1775, with his brothers, he emigrated to Kentucky, and took part in the organization of the Transylvania colonial legislature, and with Daniel Boone, and made an expedition southwest as far as Bowling Green, Kentucky. He settled near Lexington in 1776, and was elected a burgess to the Virginia legislature, being one of the first two representatives from Kentucky county, where he served as county lieutenant and colonel of militia. He accompanied Gen. George Rogers Clark to Vincennes and Kaskaskia, and was given command at the latter place. In 1777 he was commissioned by Gov. Patrick Henry, of Virginia, as colonel, and served two years, organizing its civil government. Col. Todd went to Virginia in 1779, and was next year a member of the legislature, where he procured land-grants for public schools, and introduced a bill for negro emancipation. He returned to Kentucky, and while there, as senior colonel, commanded the forces against the Indians in the battle of Blue Licks, where he was killed, August 19, 1782. Levi, brother of John, was a lieutenant under George Rogers Clark in the expedition of 1778, and one of the few survivors of the Blue Licks; Levi's son, Robert S., was the father of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.

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      Taylor, John, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1752. He became an itinerant missionary of the Baptist church in western Virginia at the age of twenty, and in 1783 removed to Kentucky. He lived at Cedar Creek, and was pastor of the church, till 1795, when he settled in Boothe county. He preached and took part in revivals while clearing and cultivating land, and in his last years, though he declined the pastoral relation, he officiated in a church that he had assisted in organizing at Forks of Elkhorn. He published an account of his religious labors and of the churches that he had aided in founding, under the title of "A History of Ten Baptist Missions." He died in Forks of Elkhorn, Franklin county, Kentucky, in 1833.

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      Robinson, Robert, son of John and Frances Robinson, of Middlesex county, Virginia, was born April 29, 1758, and with his tutor, Francis Hargreaves, ran away from home and joined the English army in 1778, and was lieutenant in the King's "Loyal Americans." After the war, he settled in Nova Scotia and married Dorothea Budd, of Digby, in that province, and died about 1814. His grandson, Thomas Robinson, of St. Johns, New Brunswick, was president of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1880.

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      Robinson, Christopher, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, in 1760, a descendant of Christopher Robinson (1645-92), elder brother of Dr. John Robinson, bishop of Bristol and London, who came to America in 1660 and was secretary of the colony of Virginia. He was educated at William and Mary College, and early in the revolution went to New York, where he received a commission in the Loyal American regiment under his relative, Beverley Robinson. He served in the south, was wounded, and after the war went to Nova Scotia and received a grant of land. He later removed to Upper Canada. He was father of Sir John Beverley Robinson, baronet, K. C. B., chief justice of Upper Canada. He died in York (now Toronto), Upper Canada, in 1798.

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      Trotter, George, born in Virginia, in 1779, son of Lieut.-Col. James Trotter, a soldier in the revolution. He entered the army at the beginning of the second war with Great Britain, as a captain in a volunteer company of dragoons, was wounded in action with the Indians under Col. John B. Campbell, on December 18 of that year; became lieutenant-colonel of Kentucky volunteers in 1813; as brigadier-general he led a brigade from his state, at the battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813. He died in Lexington, Kentucky, October 13, 1815.

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      Tarbell, Joseph, born about 1780; entered the United States navy as a midshipman, December 5, 1798; was promoted to lieutenant, August 25, 1800; served in Preble's squadron during the Tripolitan war. He was included in the vote of thanks to Preble and his officers by act of congress, March 3, 1805; was promoted to master-commandant, April 25, 1808, and commanded the frigate John Adams in 1811-14; he was commissioned captain, July 24, 1813, and served in the defense of Craney Island and James river in June, 1813, capturing three barges and forty prisoners. He was then stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, where he die, November 24, 1815.

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      Trible, David, born in Frederick county, Virginia, about 1782; educated at William and Mary College, studied law, and removed to Kentucky in 1804. He served in the war of 1812, and during two campaigns under Gen. William Henry Harrison. In 1817 he was elected to congress, where he served without interruption till 1827. After retiring from congress, where he served without interruption till 1827. After retiring from congress he engaged in agriculture and iron manufacture, and did much to develop the resources of the state. He died at Trimble's Furnace, Kentucky, October 26, 1842.

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      Taylor, Waller, born in Lunenburg county, Virginia, before 1786; received a common-school education, studied law, served one or two terms in the Virginia legislature as the representative of Lunenburg county, and settled in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1805, as a territorial judge. he was aide-de-camp to Gen. William H. Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, and in the war of 1812-15. On the admission of Indiana as a state, he was elected United States senator, and re-elected, serving from December 12, 1816, till March 3, 1825. He died in Lunenburg, Virginia, August 26, 1826.

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      Waugh, Beverley, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, October 28, 1789, a descendant of Rev. John Waugh (q. v. Vol. I., 354) At the age of fifteen he became a member of the Methodist church at Alexandria, Virginia. From the age of eighteen, until shortly before his death, he kept a journal which made several manuscript volumes, in 1808 he entered the ministry, and at the end of three years he was stationed in Washington City. He was elected by the Baltimore conferences to the general conferences of 1816 and 1820. In 1824, on account of his favoring the election of presiding elders, which the majority of his conference did not approve, he was not a representative. In 1828 he was again elected a member, and chosen assistant editor and book-agent, and removed to New York City. In 1832 he was made principal agent, and in 1836 he was made bishop, in which post he continued, traveling almost constantly, until 1852, when he became senior bishop. After that, his health gradually failed until he died, in Baltimore, Maryland, February 9, 1858.

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      Thornton, Thomas C., born in Dumfries, Virginia, October 12, 1794. He became an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church at the age of sixteen, and was received into the Baltimore conference at the age of nineteen. He was made president of a college in Mississippi in 1841. He left the Methodist church in 1845, and attached himself to the Protestant Episcopal church, but returned to his former connection in 1850. He was the author of "Inquiry into the History of Slavery in the United States," a reply to the anti-slavery arguments of William E. Channing. He died in Mississippi, March 23, 1860.

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      Turner, Nat, born in Southampton county, Virginia, October 2, 1800, was a negro, the property of Mr. Benjamin Turner, of pure African type and considerable mental ability. He had been taught to read and write, and had been highly favored by white people. and had been highly favored by white people. In 1831 he was living in the family of Mr. Joseph Travis, who, according to his own statement, was a kind and indulgent master. Reading of the Bible and about the prophets aroused in him a spirit of enthusiasm and after a time he began to regard himself as a kind of prophet sent to his people. This was the time when the abolitionists were beginning to flood the south with incendiary documents teaching slaughter and rebellion, and Turner's mind influenced by what he read was finally turned to thoughts of mastery and liberation. He got together a band of negroes and on August 21, 1831, began an indiscriminate massacre of white people, not even sparing his master's family and baby. In forty-eight hours fifty-five white persons men, women and children were surprised and killed, and the insurgents, increased to sixty, and flushed with blood and brandy, marched to Jerusalem, the county-seat, to which place many families had fled in terror. But before reaching there they were confronted by a small body of county militia who attacked them and the negroes dispersed. Turner escaped to the woods and after spending nearly two months in hiding, was captured, taken to Jerusalem, brought to trial and hanged. The suddenness and ferocity of the attack naturally spread alarm throughout the south, and militia under command of Gen. William H. Brodnax, assembled under arms to the number of 3,000. This outbreak known as the "Southampton Insurrection" was the most serious that ever occurred in the south and was really contemptible in its dimensions, though much was made out of it by the abolitionists. It resulted in the trial of fifty-three negroes, of whom seventeen were hanged, and some others suspected of complicity were shot. As might be expected at such a time some of the guilty escaped and some of the innocent were destroyed. He died in Jerusalem, Virginia, November 11, 1831.

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      Turner, Charles, born in Virginia, about 1805; entered the United States navy as a midshipman, May 17, 1828, and served in the sloop Vandalia, suppressing piracy, and in the Seminole war in 1834-35. He was in the sloop Peacock, in the East Indies, 1836-38, and had a narrow escape on a reef in the Persian gulf, making it necessary to throw the guns overboard to save the ship. He commanded the store-ship Erie, 1844-47, visited the Mediterranean, African, and Pacific squadrons, and assisted in operations for the conquest of California during the Mexican war. he was promoted to master-commandant, March 22, 1847; served on ordnance duty in in 1849-51; was fleet-captain in the Mediterranean squadron, 1852-53; and commanded the sloop Levant, on the coast of Africa, 1853-56. he was on waiting orders in 1857, and served at the Washington navy yard, 1857-60. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, March 4, 1861.

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      Thornton, Seth Barton, born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1814; was educated in the common schools. After a narrow escape from death by shipwreck he was appointed second lieutenant in the Second United States Dragoons, in June, 1836, and served in Florida against the Seminoles; he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1837, and to captain in 1841. In command of his squadron, he exchanged the first shots with the enemy in the Mexican war at Le Rosia, April 25, 1846, was severely wounded, and captured, with the greater part of his force, after a gallant fight by forty dragoons against five hundred lancers. At the close of the campaign, while at the head of his squadron in advance of Worth's division at San Augustine, near the city of Mexico, Thornton was struck in the breast by a round shot and instantly killed, June 18, 1847.

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      Morris, Samuel, born in Hanover county, Virginia, about 1700, came to be known as the "Father of Presbyterianism in Virginia." Between 1740 and 1743 a few families who had withdrawn from the services of the Established Church met from time to time at his house for worship. Morris, as described in Campbell's "Virginia," was "an obscure man, a bricklayer, of singular simplicity of character, sincere, devout and earnest." He read to his neighbors form his favorite religious works, among them Luther's "On the Galatians," and "Table Talk." He also obtained a volume of Whitefield's sermons, delivered in Glasgow, and read these to his friends on Sundays and at other times, with such effect some "cried out, and wept bitterly." Morris' house became insufficient for the increasing number of worshippers, and with their aid he built what came to be called "Morris' Reading Room." Their exercises were reading only, none daring to attempt extemporaneous prayer. Morris was invited to read sermons in other communities, and thus other reading houses were established. The authorities imposed fines upon those, Morris among them, who absented themselves from the Established Church. When required by the court to declare to what denomination they belonged, they, in their ignorance of such distinctions, not knowing what else to call themselves, gave the name of Lutherans; they were unaware that this name had been taken by a distinct sect, and they afterwards abandoned it. At length Morris and his associates were summoned to appear before the governor and council in Williamsburg. One of them, on his way to obey the summons, stopped at a house where he saw a Scotch "Confession of Faith," in which he recognized doctrines to which he could readily subscribe. The book was given to him, he and his friends agreed to adopt it, and when they appeared before the governor and council, they exhibited the book as setting forth their creed, and the governor (Gooch), who had been reared a Presbyterian, said, "These men are Presbyterians," and recognized their right to the privileges of the toleration act. The proceedings were interrupted by a thunder storm of unusual severity; the council was softened; and this was one of a chain of incidents which Morris and his friends regarded as providentially instrumental in bringing about the favorable issue of their affair. Morris died in Hanover county,, Virginia, in 1770.

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      Maury, James, was born April 18, 1718, son of Matthew Maury, a French Huguenot, who came shortly after his birth to Virginia from Castel Mauron, in Gascony. His mother was Mary Anne Fontaine, daughter of Rev. James Fontaine and Anne Elizabeth Boursiquot, his wife. He attended William and Mary College, and on July 31, 1742, was appointed usher of the grammar school. In February, 1742, he went to England and was ordained a minister. Returning to Virginia he became minister for one year of a parish in King William county and then went to Louisa in Fredericksville parish, which was afterwards in Albemarle county. As a minister he was highly regarded for his piety and learning. He opposed the two penny act of 1757 and brought suit against the collectors of the parish for the full amount of his salary in tobacco. This suit, involving the question of taxation, became historical. It was defended by Peter Lyons, afterwards president of the state supreme court, and opposed by Patrick Henry, who denounced the interference of the King in setting aside the law as treason to the people of Virginia. Mr. Maury lost his suit, but continued to hold the esteem of the people of Virginia. He was till minister of his parish when he died, June 9, 1769. He married Mary Walker, daughter of Captain James Walker and Anne, his wife.

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      Nash, Francis, brother of Governor Abner Nash, of North Carolina, born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, May 10, 1720. He moved to Orange county, North Carolina, at an early age; was clerk of the superior court; held a captain's commission under the English crown, and commanded his company in a battle at Alamance in 1771. He was a delegate to the provincial congress that met in Hillsborough, North Carolina, in August, 1775, received a lieutenant-colonel's commission, and was assigned to one of the two regiments then forming for the continental service. In February, 1777 he was commissioned brigadier-general by the continental congress, joined Washington, and commanded a brigade at the battle of Germantown, there receiving a mortal wound, his death occurring October 7, 1777. The following November congress passed a resolution that a monument costing five hundred dollars be erected to his memory, but the resolution was never carried into effect.

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      Patillo, Henry, born in Scotland, in 1726, came to America at nine years of age, settled in Virginia, and became a merchant's clerk. He studied for the ministry, was ordained in 1758, and removed to North Carolina, where he had charge of Presbyterian churches until his death. He was a member of the North Carolina provincial congress in 1775, and chaplain to that body, and chairman of the committee of the whole. He also taught for many years. His ministry among the negroes was particularly successful. Hampden-Sidney College gave him the degree of Master of Arts in 1787. He published in that year a collection of sermons, edited John Leland's "Deistical Writers," and left in manuscript a catechism, several essays, and a geography. He died in 1801, in Dinwiddie county, Virginia.

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      Jarratt, Devereux, born in New Kent county, Virginia, January 6, 1733, son of Robert Jarratt, a carpenter, and Sarah Bradley his wife. His grandfather had a great admiration for Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, hence the name Devereux. He began preparation for the Presbyterian ministry, but in 1762 determined to take orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, sold his patrimony, and went to England, where he was ordained. He returned to Virginia the next year, and took charge of the Bath parish, in Dinwiddie county, there introducing a system which was regarded as uncanonical and brought upon him much reproach. He denounced gaming and cock fighting, and he was regarded as a Methodist. His first sermon was delivered in the old Saponey church and he soon attracted large audiences by his warm and impassioned addresses. He published three volumes of sermons (1793-94), and a series of letters to a friend, entitled "Thoughts on Some important Subjects in Divinity" (1791). He died January 29, 1801.

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      Woods, William, son of Michael Woods and grandson of Michael Woods, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian who emigrated first to Pennsylvania and then to Virginia and obtained large tracts of land in Albemarle county about 1737, was born in 1738. He became a Baptist when that denomination was struggling against great opposition. In 1780 he was ordained, and founded the old Albemarle Baptist church, near the United States. Thomas Jefferson frequently attended his church, and wrote that "it was a model for a republic," At the request of Jefferson he resigned in 1799 to go to the legislature, and served during the agitation of 1800 over the Virginia resolutions of 1798-99, his name heading the list of states rights Republican voters. During his term a bill was passed to increase the pay of the members, but he refused to accept its privileges. He died in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1819. He married Joanna, daughter of Christopher Shepherd, and his son Micajah, was father of John R. Woods (q. v.).

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      Smith, Daniel, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, about 1740, was one of the first settlers of Tennessee. He filled many public offices; was a major-general of militia; was appointed by Washington as secretary of the territory south of the Ohio river in 1790; was in the convention that formed the constitution of Tennessee, and was United States senator from that state in 1798-99, succeeding Andrew Jackson, resigned; and again from 1805 until his own resignation in 1809. He published the first map of Tennessee and a geography of the state. He died in Sumner county, Tennessee, June 16, 1818.

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      Penn, John, born in Caroline county, Virginia, May 17, 1741, only child of Moses Penn and Catherine, his wife, daughter of John Taylor. He was largely self-educated, and studied law with is relative, Edmund Pendleton, and was admitted to the bar in 1762. In 1774 he removed to Greenville county, North Carolina, and on September 8, 1775, was chosen to the continental congress to supply a vacancy, taking his seat on October 12. He signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was reëlected in 1777 and in 1779. When Cornwallis invaded North Carolina. Penn was given charge of state affairs, with almost dictatorial powers. In March, 1784, he was appointed receiver of taxes for North Carolina, and resigned in the following April, for the reason that the state, while maintaining the cause of independence by resolutions and declaration, refused to furnish the means to secure it. He died in North Carolina, September, 1788.

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      McDowell, Charles, born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1743, son of Joseph McDowell, who emigrated from Ireland about 1730, and after a residence of several years in Pennsylvania settled first in Winchester, Virginia, and subsequently at Quaker Meadows, on Catawba river, North Carolina. His family is distinguished from that of his cousin John by the name of the "Quaker Meadow McDowells." At the beginning of the revolution he was given command of a large district in western North Carolina. On the British invasion in 1780 he organized troops, fortified posts, and in June attacked the enemy on Pacolet river and compelled their surrender; subsequently gained victories at Musgrove Mill and Cace Creek, but after the reverses of the colonists at Savannah, Charleston and Fishing Creek, his army was disbanded, and he resigned his command previous to the battle of King's Mountain. He was state senator in 1782-88, and a member of the lower house in 1809-11. he died in Burke county, North Carolina, March 21, 1815. His wife, Grace Greenlee, was noted for her prudence and daring. Her first husband, Captain Bowman, of the patriot army, was killed at the battle of Ramsons Mill. After her marriage with McDowell, she aided him in all his patriotic schemes, and while he was secretly manufacturing in a cave the powder that was afterward used at King's Mountain, she made the charcoal in her fireplace, carrying it to him at night to prevent detection. After the battle she nursed the soldiers. A party of marauders having plundered her house in the absence of her husband, she and some of her neighbors, pursued, and captured them, and at the muzzle of her gun she compelled them to return her property. She was the mother of a large family. Charles' brother Joseph, born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1756, was familiarly known as "Quaker Meadows Joe," to distinguish him from his cousin of the same name. He served against the frontier Indians previous to the revolution, and under his brother Charles in all the battles in western North Carolina before that of King's Mountain, where he commanded the North Carolina militia, with the rank of major. He was in the state house of commons in 1787-92, was a member of the North Carolina constitutional convention in 1788, and was instrumental in its rejection of the United States constitution. He was elected to congress in 1792, served until 1799, and was active in opposition to the Federal party. He was boundary commissioner in 1797 for running the line between Tennessee and North Carolina; a general of militia; and the recognized leader of the Republican party in the western counties. He died in Burke county, North Carolina.

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      Oldham, William, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, about 1745; was a captain in the continental army. He resigned in 1779 and settled on the Ohio river, where he became a leader against the Indians; served in Gen. Arthur St. Clair's expedition, as commander of a regiment of Kentucky militia, and was killed on the Maumee river, near the present site of Greenville, Ohio, November 4, 1791.

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      Winston, Joseph, born in Louisa county, Virginia, June 17, 1746; his ancestor being one of five brothers, it is said, who came from Yorkshire, England, to Hanover county, Virginia, in the seventeenth century. He received a fair education, and at the age of seventeen joined a company of rangers. While in pursuit of Indians, they were ambuscaded, and young Winston was twice wounded, one of the balls remaining in his body till his death. The Indians drove away the rangers, but Winston escaped and was carried on a comrade's back for three days, till they reached a frontier cabin. He was pensioned by the legislature, and in 1766 removed to Surry county, North Carolina. In 1775 he was a member of the Hillsborough convention, and in February, 1776, he was in the expedition against the Scotch Tories. He was made ranger of Surry county and major of militia, serving against the Cherokees, and in 1777 he was a member of the legislature and of the commission that made a treaty with that tribe on Holston river. In 1780 he was engaged against the Tories, and at King's Mountain he led the right wing, and contributed greatly toward the victory, for which the legislature gave him a sword. After defeating a party of loyalists in February, 1781, he took part in the battle of Guilford in March. He represented Surry county in the state senate for three terms, and when Stokes county was formed was its first senator, and served five times between 1790 and 1812. In 1793-95, and again in 1803-17, he was a member of congress. The county seat of Forsyth county, North Carolina, is named for him. He died near Germantown, North Carolina, April 21, 1815.

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      Wynn, Richard, born in eastern Virginia, about 1750. He enlisted in the revolutionary army, and in 1775 was a lieutenant of South Carolina rangers, and took part in the battle on Sullivan's island. He was given command of Fort McIntosh, Georgia, promoted to colonel, and placed in charge of the militia in Fairfield district, South Carolina. He fought at Hanging Rock, where he was wounded, and was actively engaged during the remainder of the war. At its close he became brigadier-general. He afterward settled in South Carolina, served in the third congress, and by reëlection from 1809 till 1813. He died in Tennessee, in 1813.

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      Long, Gabriel, born in 1751, was an officer in the revolutionary army, fought at Hampton and Norfolk in 1775, served as captain in Morgan's rifle regiment in 1776, and ultimately rose to the rank of major. He led the advance at Saratoga, and began the battle. He was also at Yorktown, and took part in eighteen engagements. He died in Culpeper county, Virginia, February 3, 1827.

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      Maury, Walker, son of Rev. James Maury (q. v.). and Mary Walker his wife, born in Fredericksville parish, Louisa county, July 21, 1752. In 1770 he entered the William and Mary College grammar school on the Nottoway scholarship, and December 12, 1772, was promoted by the faculty to the philosophy schools, from which he graduated in May, 1775, receiving in May, 1774, the Botetourt gold medal for the encouragement of classical learning. He taught school in Orange county, where John Randolph, of Roanoke, was one of his scholars, and as the grammar school at William and Mary College was discontinued in 1779, he removed to Williamsburg, where he conducted a grammar school of his own. This school had, in addition to the principal, four ushers and an attendance of one hundred scholars; and among them besides John Randolph and his brothers Richard, Theodorick and John, who followed him to Williamsburg, was the celebrated Littleton Waller Tazewell, afterwards senator and governor. In 1786 Mr. Maury removed to Norfolk, where he was principal of the academy, and made a profit of two hundred pounds annually, but he did not survive long, dying October 11, 1788. he married Mary Grymes, daughter of Benjamin Grymes and Mary Dawson, his wife. daughter of Rev. Musgrave Dawson. He left ten children.