Sorry. That's one of those things that's in my head that I'm having trouble getting out. I had the same problem with my two sons' birthdays on Oct. 3 and Oct. 8. Patsy says she has told me for the second ‹ and hopefully last ‹ time that it's Rebecca Lewis Daugherty Dodrill, who was the wife of English Bill. It's getting hard to spread misinformation around here without someone calling attention to it. Do you not suppose Benjamin could have been a private before he was a corporal? This was on the frontier before the Revolutionary War. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 ---------- >From: Patsy H Weikart <qmgen@juno.com> >To: dhamrick@neo.rr.com >Subject: Re: [WVWEBSTE] Gen. Andrew and Elizabeth Givens Lewis >Date: Sun, Dec 12, 1999, 12:30 AM > >Dan, >This is your editor again correcting this same name twice in a row - >REBECCA LEWIS DAUGHERTY not MARGARET. >Benjamin Hamrick rank is CPL. not PVT. - line is closed (Pef: DAR >Patriot Index -Vol.2 -page 1294 >Add Robert Givens to the list as a Militia Spy (no additional rank) >-Ref: same vol. -page 1170 >Men served in capacity of Patriotic service that donated to the cause >such as John McMillian - father of Nancy McMillian >Patsy > >On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:49:51 -0500 "HAMRICK,DANIEL" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> >writes: >> >> I >> >> Dear Kith n' Kin: >> Now that it has required a 90-year-old lady to remind me that >> she has >> given a book or compilation called "The Givens and their Kin" to me >> for the >> Anna Dodrill Family Research Center in West Virginia, I went to my >> bookcases, found it and actually opened it. There is a bunch of >> type in >> there. >> The upshot of all of this is that many members of the West >> Virginia >> Gregory and Givens family, among others, are related to Gen. Andrew >> Lewis by >> marriage, notwithstanding the fact that they may have had their own >> descendants. >> (One of the more intriguing things to me about the Lewis >> connection is >> the ancestry of Margaret Lewis Daugherty, wife of William Earle >> ³English >> Bill² Dodrill, the patriarch of the Dodrill clan in West Virginia. >> Elizabeth Given¹s parents are ancestors of the Webster County >> Givens and >> Gregorys. >> Kidding aside, I thought I would quote Marie Hamric Stoneman's >> page >> relating to Elizabeth and Gen. Andrew Lewis. >> This starts on page 15 with Elizabeth's parents. >> >> "Samuel Given, ( )1740. from Ireland to Orange County, Virginia >> (now >> Highland) 1738; importation papers of 28 Feb 1739. names wife Sarah >> and >> Children, proving his and their rights for land; bought Beverly >> Manor -- 311 >> acres from William Beverly of County of Essex 28 Sept 1738. >> >> "Samuel Given and John Lewis, Gentlemen, were appointed by >> Parliament, >> sworn as Justices of the Peace for Orange County, Virginia, in the >> name >> court, 23 Aug. 1739; founder of Old Stone Church, Augusta County, >> Virginia; >> members of the family are buried there ‹ the graves and stones are >> long >> since gone. No one family contributed more to the success of >> Colonial and >> Revolutionary Wars than the Givens and their kindred. --namely-- >> >> ³Capt. John Given >> ³Pvt. Isaac Rose >> ³Capt. Robert Bratton >> ³Robert McFarland, patriot >> ³Jacob Persinger, corporal and pensioner >> ³Lt. Christopher Graham >> ³Pvt. David Frame >> ³Pvt. Benjamin Hamrick >> ³Pvt. William Given >> (and others) >> >> ³Samuel Given married Sarah Cathey in 1718 in County Antrim in >> Ireland. >> >> ³Samuel and Sarah (Cathey) Given had ten children. These as given >> in his >> will were as follows: John, James, William, Martha, Elizabeth, >> Margaret, >> Sarah, Samuel and Jane . . .² >> >> Skipping information on other children, the information on Elizabeth: >> ³v. Elizabeth Given (2) m. General Andrew Lewis in 1949 (at >> Staunton, VA); >> Andrew Lewis ³Hero of Point Pleasant, ² third son of John and >> Margaret >> (Lynn) Lewis. He was with four younger brothers in a company of >> which Samuel >> was Captain at Braddock¹s defeat; he served with the Six Nations at >> Fort >> Stannick in 1768, was engaged in all of the Indian Wars of the west >> down to >> the Revolution, was commanding general of the Virginia Troops at the >> Battle >> of Point Pleasant, 10 Oct 1774, in which he defeated the Western >> Confederated Indian tribes under Cornstalk, the celebrated Indian >> chief. Had >> Lewis and his men, the flower of the Scotch-Irish settlement been >> annihilated by the planned treachery of Lord Dunmore, then liberty >> would >> have been suppressed again as at the time of Bacon¹s Rebellion.² >> >> >> >> dhamrick@neo.rr.com >> Dan Hamrick >> 402 23rd Street NW >> Canton OH 44709 >> Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 >> >> >> >> >> ==== WVWEBSTE Mailing List ==== >> Our website: www.rootsweb.com/~wvwebste/webster.htm >>