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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. William Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1797 in Louisa County, Virginia. Death: in Kentucky

  2. James Beverly Meriwether: Birth: 1799. Death: 1823

  3. David Meriwether: Birth: 30 OCT 1800 in Louisa County, Virginia. Death: 4 APR 1893 in "Hayfield", Jefferson County, Kentucky

  4. Albert Gallatin Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1802 in Louisa County, Virginia. Death: 22 JUL 1851 in Hickman County, Kentucky

  5. Thomas W. Meriwether: Birth: ABT 1808 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Death: ABT OCT 1865 in Obion County, Tennessee

  6. Catherine Meriwether: Death: ABT 1870 in New Madrid, New Madrid County, Missouri


Notes
a. Note:   N4127 Revolutionary War Service
  William and his two brothers were all officers in the Revolutionary army. William Meriwether in 1778 as an ensign was attached to the Illinois regiment, commanded by Col. George Rogers Clark, consisting of four companies. This detachment consisted of less than two hundred men but on the 4th of July 1778 they captured Kaskaskia; on the 6th of July Cahokia; and on the 24th of February, 1779, Vincennes surrendered. William Meriwether was granted extensive lands below the Falls of the Ohio in return for his services.
  The following seems suspect:
 William Meriwether was captain of militia and received a pension for his services during the Revolutionary War. Was at Valley Forge.
b. Note:   N4120 Louisville Public Advertiser (Louisville, Kentucky), 5 March 1842
  Another Revolutionary Patriot Gone—By the Mills' Point Commercial Herald [Mills Point, Fulton Co., Kentucky], we learn the death of Capt. William Merriwether, in the 86th year of his age, who, for many years, was a resident of this county. Capt. Merriwether entered the service of his country early in the Revolutionary struggle - was at the battle of Monmouth, and other hard fought fields. About the year 1779, he accompanied General George Rogers Clarke to the falls of the Ohio, and assisted that gallant officer in defending the infant settlements in Kentucky from the incursions of the Indians.
  To those who knew Capt. M., it is useless to say that he never turned his back upon a foe, so long as any other dared to stand. He was a patriot of the old stamp, and the love of his country and of her republican institutions, was strong and enduring in his bosom as life itself. He was the father of our friend and fellow citizen, the Hon. D. Merriwether, of this county.


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