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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

Hammond^ LcRoy, born in Richmond county, \*irginia, about 1740; was reared and educated in his native state ; married Mary, daughter of John Tyler, of Essex county ; removed to Georgia, in 1765, and thence to South Carolina, where he engaged in the tobacco business, being a dealer for many years, achieving success therein ; dur- ing the early period of the revolutionary war. he was commissioned a colonel, served in the "Snow*' campaign, and in the cam- paign against the Cherokees, in 1776, in which he displayed great bravery, and sub- sequently his services were in demand as Indian agent, being employed by both con- gress and the state of South Carolina; in 1779 he took the field with his regiment and played an important part in the battle of Stono Ferry, and after the fall of Charles- ton he adopted a desultory mode of warfare, and was constantly engaged in fighting the Loyalists. British and Indians; in J781 he was at the siege of Augusta, afterward art that of Ninety-Six, serving under Gen. Greene, and later, under Gen. Pickens; after the battle of Eutaw he was active in guerilla warfare ; Col. Hammond died about the year 1800.

L}mch, Charles» born in Virginia, son of Charles Lynch, a native of Ireland, from whence he came to this country in boyhood, later settling on a large portion of land situ- ated on the James river, near the Peaks of Otter; Charles Jr. served as colonel of a regiment of riflemen in the revolutionary war, and his services at Guilford, North Carolina, were conspicuous for gallantry; he is said to have originated and enacted the celebrated code called **Lynch Law" during the revolution, in order to punish a band of lawless tories and desperadoes

about Lynchburg, which place was founded ty his brother John ; Col. Lynch, who was a staunch Whig, organized and led a party o» patriots and scoured the country for the desperadoes, and when taken gave them a summary trial at which he sat as judge, em- paneled a jury and executed punishment; he died near Staunton, Virginia, about 1785.

Logan, Benjamin, born in Augusta coun- ty, Virginia, in 1743, son of David Logan, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to this country, settled in Pennsylvania, there mar- ried, and later located in Augusta county, \'irginia, where he died in 1757; upon at- taining his majority, Benjamin Logan re- moved to the Holston river, where he pur- chased lands ; he served in the wars against the Indians, 1764: served in Dunmore's In- dian war. 1774: joined Boone's party of set- tlers en route to Kentucky in 1775 and left the party and settled in what is now Lin- coln county, Kentucky, where with the help of his brother John he built Fort Logan, and removed his family thither the following year, 1776, but settled them for a time at Harrod's Fort, where they would be less ex- posed to Indian attacks; in 1777 his family joined him at Logan's Fort, he having been reinforced by a number of white men ; on May 20. 1777, the fort was besieged by a hundred Indians, the siege continuing for weeks, until the garrison had about exhaust- ed their ammunition and provisions, when Logan, attended by two companions, left the fort under cover of the night, and made a ropid journey of one hundred and fifty miles to the Holston settlement, where he procured powder and lead, and hastily returned, leav- ing his companions to follow with a relief party under Col. John Bowman, who dis- persed the savages; in July, 1779. he was

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