History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
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page 161 of 250 (64%)
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the services she must have rendered during that period are, of course,
accredited to Fairfax, of which county she was then a part. The few existing or available records of the remaining six years of warfare, as of the entire period, are imperfect and unlocalized and would baffle the most experienced and persevering compiler. The only deductions that have seemed at all noteworthy are here presented: The General Assembly of Virginia, on April 14, 1757, passed an act providing for the appointment of a committee to direct the pay of the officers and soldiers then in the pay of the Colony, of "the rangers formerly employed, and for the expense of building a fort in the Cherokee country," for the pay of the militia that had "been drawn out into actual service, and also for provisions for the said soldiers, rangers, and militia...." In the following schedule are given the names of Loudoun payees and the amount received by each: £ s. d. To Captain Nicholas Minor 1 00 00 Æneas Campbell, lieutenant 7 6 Francis Wilks 1 17 James Willock 1 15 John Owsley and William Stephens, 15s. each 1 10 Robert Thomas 10 John Moss, Jr. 4 John Thomas, for provisions 5 John Moss, for provisions 2 8 |
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