Gloucester County, VA - Officers Appointed in 1775; William and Mary College Qtrly, Vol. 15-2

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Officers Appointed by the Gloucester Co. (Va.) Committee of Safety
in 1775.

   Jasper Clayton

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 15,
No. 2. (Oct., 1906), pp. 123-124.

Page 123.

              OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE GLOUCESTER CO.
                 (VA.) COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 1775.

    From the "Virginia Gazette," by Alexander Purdie, October 21, 1775.

   At a Committee held for Gloucester County, at the Courthouse of the
said County, on the 13th day of September, 1775:  Present:  WARNER LEWIS,
ESQ., Chairman and 32 members.
   Agreeable to the ordinance of the Convention, the following Gentlemen
were nominated officers in the militia, for the County of Gloucester.
   Warner Lewis, Esq: County Lieutenant.  Sir John Peyron, Baronet
Colonel.  Thomas Whiting, Gent. Lietenant Colonel.  Thomas Boswell, Gent.
Major.
   Captains.  Gibson Cluverius.  John Camp.  Richard Matthews.  George
Booth.  Jasper Clayton.  John Hubbard.  James Hubbard.

Page 124.

John Whiting.  John Billups, sen.  Benjamin Shackleford.  John Willis.
Robert Matthews.  William Buckner.  John Dixon, jun.  Richard Billups,
and William Smith.
   Lieutenants.  Samuel Cary.  Richard Hall,  John Foster.  James Baytop.
Thomas Buckner.  George Green.  William Sears.  James Bentley.  Edward
Matthews.  John Billps, jun.  Dudley cary.  Hugh Hayes.  Churchill
Armistead.  Philip Tabb.  John Foster, jun., and Robert Gayle.
   Ensigns.  Henry Stevens.  William Dawes.  William Haywood.  Thomas
Baptop.  John Fox.  James Laughlin.  William Bentley.  Christopher
Garland.  Peter Bernard.  John Hayes.  Samuel Eddins, Thomas Tabb.
Richard Davis.  Josiah Foster.  George Plummer, and John Gayle.
   Mess. Dixon & Hunter are desired to publish the above in their Gazette.

                                               JASPER CLAYTON, Clerk.