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1777, Sep 27 - Captain William Foreman's Defeat

Excerpt from Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D. and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph. D., Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778, 1912. Page 301 [ View @ Google Books ]

A List of Losses in Captain Forman's Company

We the Subscribers do hereby Certify That the within specifyd appraisements are Just & true to the Best of our Judgments & that the several articles were lost in the late unhappy Defeat near McMechen's Narrows on the 27th of Septembr: 1777 as witness hands this 3d. of Octobrr. 1777

Anthony Miller Lieut
David Wilson Ensign

Sworn Before me David Shepherd A List of Loses in Capt. Formans Company

[Additional names of men in Foreman's company, mentioned in Draper MSS., as indicated in press-mark following each name:]

Killed: Capt. William Foreman [2S280]; Hamilton Foreman [2S280]; George Avery [37J25]; Thomas Brazier [2S97; 3S3; 37J25]; Hugh Clark [37J25]; Jacob Greathouse [3S166]; Ezekiel Hedges [2S51]; Moses Lawson [9BB58]; Jacob Ogle [2S51; 3S131]; John Polk [37J25]; William Shens [2S323]; William Williams [37J25].

Captured: Jonathan Pugh [2S97]. [Deceased on 26 Sep 1777].

Escaped: Harry Castleman [37J25]; John Chambers [6ZZ16]; John Cullins [2E67]; William Engle [2S97]; Robert Harkness [3S158, 165]; William Harrod [7NN19]; Solomon Jones [9BB58]; William Linn [6ZZ9; 9BB58]; Daniel McLain [2S280]; Joseph Ogle [6ZZ9]; John Vincent [9BB58]; Martin Wetzel [2E10]; .Daniel McLain [2S280].

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Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D. and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph. D., Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778: compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1912. Page 301; Killed at McMechen's Narrows, Foreman's Defeat: Jacob Greathouse, died: 27 Sep 1777. View @ Google Books