Culpeper-Frederick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Waggener, Andrew ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alice Warner http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 August 22, 2008, 4:22 pm Author: Virgil A. Lewis ANDREW WAGGENER. Among the many German emigrants who came to America in the early years of the eighteenth century, were Andrew Waggener and his five brothers. Andrew with one brother, Edward, settled in what is now Culpeper county, Virginia, about the year 1750. They were among the volunteers who joined Colonel Washington in his expedition against Fort Du Quesne in 1754. The following spring they marched with their regiment — the 1st Virginia — to the fatal scene of Braddock's defeat. Among the seven hundred English who lay dead upon the field was Edward Waggener. After this disaster the Virginians hastened to the defence of the frontier, now more than ever exposed to the storm of savage warfare. Andrew Waggener was commissioned Captain and placed in command of the garrison at Fort Pleasant. When the Indians ceased to visit the Valley about the year 1765, Captain Waggener purchased land and settled at Bunker's Hill, then in Frederick county, Virginia, now in Berkeley county, West Virginia. Here he resided until the beginning of the Revolution, when he once more entered the army and served with Washington throughout the war. He bore a Major's commission and was at Valley Forge, Princeton, and Trenton, and saw the British army become prisoners of war at Yorktown. Major Waggener was one of the patentees for whom Washington surveyed land on the Ohio in 1770. His lands were located on what has ever since been known as Waggener's Bottom, on the Ohio river, within the present limits of Mason county. He never settled on these lands, but after the Revolution continued to reside on his homestead at Bunker's Hill. He was a personal friend of Washington and a frequent guest of the first President. Additional Comments: From "The History Of West Virginia" by Virgil A. Lewis, 1889. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/culpeper/bios/waggener157gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb