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Note: N14600 He served as a Private and Corporal in Captain Jacob Valentines Company of the Second Regiment of the Virginia Line during the Revolutionary War from 1776 until the close of the revolution in 1783 when he was discharged due to poor health. He joined in Culpeper County, VA and served during the battles of Monmouth, Stony Point, and during the siege of Yorktown under General George Washington. (The war was fought from 1775 until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown on Oct 19, 1781, the treaty was signed on Sep 3, 1783). He applied for and received warrant #3297 for 200 acres on 11 May 1784 at Richmond, Virginia for 3 years service as a Corporal in the Virginia Line, as listed in the Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Book, Page 422.
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