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History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head
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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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