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From: Robert Perry Rhea <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Battle of Pt. Pleasant, Rockbridge Co. Va.
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 17:06:15 -0600


Pat & List,

The Battle of Point Pleasant was fought at Pt. Pleasant, Virginia, now
West Virginia, located on the Ohio River. The members of Robert Doack's
company were mostly from that part of Fincastle and Botetourt Counties
that became Montgomery County in 1776, two years after Lord Dunmore's
War. The list below is identical to that published in William Armstrong
Crozier, Ed., VIRGINIA COLONIAL MILITIA, 1651-1776, pages 79-80. I have a
copy of the original list found in the Draper Manuscripts, 3QQ 34, 35, and
dated June 2, 1774. Crozier referred to the same source, but to 3QQ 63.
He did not list the names in the order found in the original document.
There were seven officers and 112 privates in the company. John Reagh was
No. 99, and his brother, Archibald, No. 100. The first name on the
original list was not "John" Stephens, but "Jehu" Stephens, Lieut. Jehu
Stephens became a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. He owned property
adjacent the the Reaghs on Cripple Creek, in that part of Montgomery
County that became Wythe County in 1789. A brief sketch of him is given
in the Draper Manuscripts, 30S 79-80. His daughter, Mary Stephens,
married Robert Reagh, the younger brother of John and Archibald Reagh.
The three along with their sisters, Ann, Isabella, and Elizabeth, were the
children of Robert and Sarah (Bingham) Reagh, and the grandchildren of
William and Elizabeth (Clark) Reagh/Rhea.

Robert Perry Rhea

wrote:
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> Battle of Pt. Pleasant, Rockbridge Co. Va.
> Robert Doak's Company of Militia
>
> John Stephens, Lieutenant William Meek, Sergeant Andrew Thompson, Ensign
> William Doack, Sergeant William Ward, Sergeant James Downy, Sergeant David
> Doack, Jr. John Pierce Samuel Ewing John Stephens Adam Walker Samuel Doack
> John Williams John Nowell Jacob Kinder Andrew Bronstetter Thomas Bell Moses
> Moor John Gilihan Martin Staily Christly Weaver John BuÅ nshell Henry Waggoner
> Michael Grigger Nicholas Cloyne Patrick Johnston Charles Fullen Duncan
> Gullion Jacob Kinsor Michael Kinsor John King William Campbell Bezaleel
> Maxwell David Maxwell John Henderson Francis Catron John Downy Thomas Mead
> Arnold Shell Moses Gordon Samuel Moor George Kinder Hugh Robinson Peter
> Kinder Jacob Dobler Samuel Handly Michael Weaver John Messersmith Barnet
> Messersmith Henry Waggoner, Jr. Peter Grigger Campbell Baily Barny Gullion
> John Gullion Jacob Catron ter Kinsor William King Samuel Campbell John
> Maxwell Robert Stephenson William Litz Fredrick Rap Jacob Catron Adam Catron
> Philip Catron Peter Hedrick John Cattes George Wambler Fredrick Moor Jacob
> Hamilton Thomas Hamilton George Carr William Carr Roger Cats John Crawford
> John Irvine William Litz James Douglass Thomas Rodgers John Lesly George Vaut
> James Mitchell Philip Dutton Alexander Ewing, Jr. Archibald Reagh Samuel
> Paxton Robert Miller George Henly Andrew Vaut Jacob Blesly John Adams Peter
> Catron Michael Staffy Michael Walter Mitchael Wambler Adam Boh Isiah Hamilton
> Francis Hamilton Michael Catron James Carr Ben Rutherford John Vails John
> Diver Robert Stephenson George Douglass James Rodgers Daniel Henderson Samuel
> Henderson Thomas Mitchell John Nuland Alexander Ewing William Ewing John
> Reagh Paddy SaintLorrance Robert Porter William Henly Christly Vaut John Carr
> John Blesly
>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~varockbr/pntplsnt.htm
>
> Patricia L. Hall
>
> Johnson Co. Ks.
>
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