Jefferson County WV Archives Biographies.....McGuire, Judge William 1765 - 1820
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Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler

From Biography of John Peyton McGuire
Judge William McGuire, son of Edward McGuire, the founder, was born in 
Frederick county, Virginia, in 1765, and died at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 
1820. He entered the Continental army in 1778 as a cadet, being then in his 
fourteenth year, was promoted ensign in 1780, and was later lieutenant of the 
First Virginia Artillery. He received a severe wound at the battle of Eutaw 
Springs, that troubled him ever afterward and finally caused his death. After 
independence was gained, he entered William and Mary College, studied law, 
became a member of the Virginia legislature, serving from 1797-99, was 
appointed first chief justice of the Mississippi Territory, a position he 
resigned in 1801, and practiced his profession in Winchester, Virginia, until 
1816. In that year he was appointed superintendent of the United States armory 
at Harpers Ferry, and there he died in 1820, from the effects of his old 
wound. He married Mary, daughter of William Little, of Frederick county, 
Virginia, now Jefferson county, West Virginia.



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