Washington County MD Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Richard July 26, 1801 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Edward Smith MPW6030@aol.com February 6, 2006, 7:20 pm The Maryland Herald, 30 July 1801 Died, On the Twenty-sixth instant,in this Town (Elizabeth - Town,now Hagerstown), Capt. Richard Davis, aged 53 years. He was one of those distinguised characters, who stepped forward at the very commencement of the American Revolution, in a military capacity; that he held a commission as lieutenant in Capt. Michael Cresap's Volunteer Rifle Company, which was raised in 1775, and marched with it from this county to Boston, to reinforce the American army commanded by General Washington, then laying seige to that Town; that he was taken prisoner in 1776, at Fort Washington. On the twenty-eighth his remains were interred with military honours, in the Protestant Episcopal Burial Ground. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb