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Mary, his wife, daughter of Sir John Ran- dolph; he joined the Royal army under Lord Dunmore at the head of a troop of horse that he had himself raised, in 1776, and in the same year he was expelled from his estate, and all his negroes, cattle and personal property fell into the hands of the patriots; in 1777 he joined the rangers, a battalion of horse, and at the close of the following year resigned and went to Eng- land, where he was agent for prosecuting the claims of the Loyalists in Virginia; when the invasion of Napoleon was appre- hended the Loyalist Americans in London offered, with the King's approval, to form themselves into a company, and Mr. Grymes was appointed ensign ; later he returned to the United States, settled in Orange coun- t}, Virginia, and became a wealthy slave- holder and planter; he married, in London, England, his cousin, the daughter of John Randolph, last royal attorney-general of Virginia, and niece of Peyton Randolph, president of the continental congress; Mr. Gr>*mes died in Virginia in the year 1820.

Harrod, James, born in Virginia in 1746; reared and educated in his native state, emi- grated to Kentucky in 1774, and built the first log cabin on the present site of Har- rodsburg; he was a successful agriculturist, an expert with the rifle, and a brave and intrepid soldier, ranking as one of the lead- ers in military affairs, distinguishing him- self at the battle of Point Pleasant in .1774; subsequently he represented Harrodsburg (which was named in his honor) in the Transylvania assembly ; he was in the habit of making solitary excursions into the for- est, and from one of these trips, which was undertaken about the year 1825, when he was about eighty years of age, he never re-

turned, nor was any trace of him ever dis- covered.

Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel, born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, in 1747, son of Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, founder of the Lutheran church in America; with his younger brothers, Frederick and Henry, he was sent to Germany to be educated for the ministry ; he became involved in a difficulty with a tutor, whose rebuke he revenged with a blow: foreseeing expulsion, he en- listed in a dragoon regiment, from which he was soon discharged through the interven- tion of friends; returning to America, he engaged in theological studies under his father, was ordained a minister in the Evan- gelical Lutheran Church in 1768, and was made assistant rector of churches in New Germantown and Bedminster, New Jersey; while there he married Anne Barbara Meyer ; in 1772 he was called to New Wood- stock, Virginia, where many Germans were settled; in order to enforce the payment of tithes, it was necessary that he should re- ceive Episcopal ordination, under which he would come under the provisions of the Vir- gfinia law, although not a member of the Established Church; he went to London, England, where he was ordained, and came to his new charge in Virginia ; he was soon on terms of personal intimacy with Wash- ington and Henry, and he was chairman of the county committee of safety of Frederick county in 1774, and sat in the Virginia con- ventions of March 20 and December i, 1775 ; the same year he was elected cotonel of the Eighth Virginia Regiment; his last sermon ended with the words, "There is a time for all things — z time to preach, and a time to pray, but there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come ;" then pronouncing

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