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moreland county, and Martha Lee, his wife. He was captain in the Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, December 2, 1776; major and aide-de-camp to Gen. Charles Lee, May 26, 177S: retired September 14, 1778; in 17S1 he served with Baron Steuben. After the war he was a delegate to the Virginia house of delegates, 1785-S6-87; member of the con- vention of 1788; and sheriff of Richmond county in 1798. He was grandfather of Gen. R. L. T. Beale, United States congress- man and brigadier-general C. S. A.

Hitc, Isaac, was a son of Col. Isaac Hite, of Winchester, \'irginia. In 1780 he enter- ed the Continental army as ensign, became a lieutenant in 17S2, and served till the peace in 1783. He was known as major, by rea- son of his rank in the militia. He was an original member of the Phi Beta Kappa fra- ternity. He married Nelly, sister of Presi- dent Madison. He died at his residence, "Bellegrove," Frederick county, December 22, 1836, in his eightieth year.

Howard, Benjamin, born in Virginia about 1760; completed preparatory studies; moved to Kentucky; elected to the tenth and eleventh congresses, and served from March 4, 1807, to April 10, 1810, when he resigned; governor of upper Louisiana, 1810-1812: appointed a brigadier-general of the United States army, March 12, 1813, and given command of the eighth military department, embracing the territory west of the Mississippi river; died in St. Louis, Mis- souri, September 18, 1814.

Ballard, Bland, was born at Fredericks- burg, Virginia, October 16. 1761. When he was eighteen years old he emigrated to Ken- tucky, and became* one of its earliest set- tlers. He joined a volunteer force which,

under Col. Bowman, which was attempting tc- free the district of the savages, and served in the expedition into Ohio. A year later he took part in George Rogers Clark's raid against the Piqua towns, and in 1794 he was with General Wayne at the battle of the Fallen Timbers. He was a man of great bravery, and became one of the most re- nowned of Indian fighters. In 1780 he was employed by George Rogers Clark to ex- plore the banks of the Ohio river from the Falls, at what is now Louisville, to the mouth of the Salt river, and thence to the site of the present town of West Point. Ballard^s most harrowing experience was while witnessing the slaughter of his father, mother and two sisters by a party of fifteen Indians. A younger sister escaped after being scalped and left for dead. Ballard was too late to save their lives, but from his place of concealment killed nearly half of the Indians. After peace had been re- stored, Ballard was sent several times as a representative to the state legislature. The county of Ballard, Kentucky, and its capital, Blandville, were named in his honor. He died September 5, 1853.

Henry, William, born in Charlotte coun- ty, Virginia, in 1761 ; in early life he entered the army, and participated in the battles of Ciuilford, the Cowpens and Yorktown, in the revolutionary war, and subsequently re- moved to Kentucky, in which state he took part in many conflicts with the Indians ; on August 31. 1813. he was appointed major- general of Kentucky volunteers, command- ed a division of three brigades in the battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, and also served in the campaigns of Gen. Scott and Gen. Wilkinson ; Gen. Henry was a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of his

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