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Stephen, Adam 1730-1791
Military officer; born in Virginia about 1730; was an officer of merit in the French and Indian and other colonial wars, serving with distinction under Braddock.
He was afterwards in command of Fort Cumberland, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Returning from an expedition against the Creek Indians, he was assigned to the defence of the Virginia frontier and made brigadiergeneral.
Commanding a Virginia regiment when the Revolutionary War began, he was made (September, 1776) brigadier-general in the Continental service, and in February, 1777, major-general.
His behavior was exemplary in the battle of Brandywine; but yielding to temptation, he was intoxicated at the battle of Germantown, and was dismissed from the army.
He died in Virginia in November, 1791.