HALIFAX COUNTY, VA - MILITARY - Halifax Officers Revolutionary War
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Book Title: A History Of Halifax County (Virginia) By Wirt Johnson Carrington


Halifax Officers
SOME OFFICERS OF HALIFAX COUNTY

    Captain Fleming Bates, Captain Peter Rogers, Captain James Coleman, Captain
George Wiley and Captain George Moore.

    Colonel George Boyd, Colonel William Moore, Colonel Richardson.

    General John Baytop Scott, born in Halifax county in 1761, was sent to
school at Hampden-Sidney, but ran away at the age of sixteen to join General
Light Horse Harry Lee's Legion, and was made lieutenant. In April, 1805, was
made commandant of the district of Mississippi at Cape Girardeau, Mo. (See Army
of United States.) He was captain of the "Silver Grays" in-the War of 1812, and
brigadier general of State troops in Governor Floyd's administration. Was a
member of the Cincinnati and candidate for Congress without opposition when he
died in 1813. He married in Halifax county, 1785, Patsy Thompson, daughter of
William and Rachel Thompson. He had previously married her cousin, Elizabeth
Coleman, sister of Hon. Henry Coleman, of this county. They left no issue. John
B. Scott and his last wife, Patsy (Thompson) Scott, had nine children, all
married and scattered throughout the Southern States.


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