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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
ction conferred on no other officer below the rank of general during the war. On one side of the medal was a bust of the hero, with the words: Henry Lee, Legionis Equit.: Praefecto Comitia Americana, and on the reverse is translated: Nothwithstanding rivers and intrenchments, he, with a small band, conquered the foe by warlike skill and prowess, and firmly bound, by his humanity, those who had been conquered by his arms. In memory of the conflict at Paulus Hook, 19th August, 1779. In November, 1780, he was promoted to be lieutenant colonel of dragoons, and his corps is spoken of as the finest that made its appearance in the arena of the Revolutionary War. Washington had it formed expressly for him of equal proportions of cavalry and infantry, both officers and men being picked from the army. Under its victorious guidons rode Peter Johnston, the father of the distinguished soldier, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who joined the legion when only sixteen years old and led the forlorn hop
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
Pet. in 1787. Rebecca his wid. d. 28 Sept. 1813, a. 75. See Wyman, 267. 38. John, s. of Gershom (14), m. Rebecca Hill, 24 Jan. 1765. He and w. Rebecca o. c. Pct. ch. 3 Nov. 1765. Had Rebecca, b. 26 July, bap. 3 Nov. 1765, m. William Cutter (see Cutter Book, 261); Anna, b. 16, bap. 16 Aug. 1767, m. Simon Blanchard; John, b. 26, bap. 29 July, 1770; Zechariah, b. 8, bap. 14 Feb. 1773; Elizabeth, b. 25, bap. 26 Mar. 1775, m. Josiah Polly; Gershom, b. 13, bap. 15 Feb. 1778; Stephen, b.—Nov. 1780; Thomas; Thomas Cutter of W. Camb. m. Nancy (Mary?) Robinson, 20 July, 1809— Lexington Records. Samuel; Amos. At John, the father's, a nurse child d. 26 Sept. 1778—stillborn. He was serg't of Locke's Co. of Menotomy minute-men, 1775; was a miller and rem. to Medford. See Cuter Book, 236-46, &c.; Wyman, 267. 39. James, s. of Gershom (14), rem. to Waltham, and to Rindge and Jaffrey, N. H. His son Samuel m. here Susan Brown, 6 Mar. 1809. See Cutter Book, 246-48, 395. 40. Stephen,<