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letters; was found guilty on all and was suspended for twelve months. He at once reopened his charges against Washington and >vas challenged by Col. John Laurens. Washington's aide-de-camp, which resulted in Lee's being severely wounded in the arm. He subsequently addressed a letter to con- gress which caused him to be dismissed from the army and he retired to his Virginia home until the close of the war. While on a visit to Philadelphia he was stricken with fever and died alone and friendless at the tavern at which he was stopping. October 2. 1782. He was the author of "Strictures on a Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans, in reply to Dr. Myles Cooper" (1774); **Mr. Lee's Plan" (1777). He claimed to know the secret of the authorship ot the "Junius" letters and afterwards ac- knowledged himself as the author, which statement called out a number of articles and books in refutation of his claims.

Neville, John, born in Prince William county, 1 73 1, died near Pittsburgh, July 29, 1803. He was in Braddock's expedition, 1755 J settled near Winchester, Virginia, and was sheriff, and delegate to provincial convention. He was at Trenton. Prince- ton, Germantown and Monmouth as colonel of the Fourth Virginia Regiment, and after- wards member of executive council of Pennsylvania. In 1794 he was a United States inspector under the excise law, and aided in putting down the whiskey insur- rection.

Scott, Charles, was born in Goochland county, in 1733. He served under Gen. Braddock in 1755. In 1775 ^^^ raised and commanded the first company of patriots south of the James river ; was commissioned

colonel of the Third Virginia Battalion, Au- gust 12, 1776; was promoted brigadier-gen- eral, April 2, 1777; served with the army in New Jersey, 1777-79. ^i"^ under Gen. An- thony Wayne at Stony Point in 1779. He was taken prisoner at Charleston in 1780 and confined until near the end of the war. He removed to Woodford county. Ken- tucky, in 1785; commanded troops in the Indian outbreaks of 1791-94, and the battle of Fallen Timbers. He was governor of Kentucky, 1808-12. and a town and county in that state were named in his honor. He died in Kentucky, October 22, 181 3.

Morgan, Daniel, was born in Hunter- don county. New Jersey, probably in 1733, of Welsh descent. He worked for his father on an herb farm and received no edu- cation. He removed to Carlisle, Pennsyl- vania, in 1753, ^"d to Charlestown, \'ir- ginia, in 1754, where he obtained employ- ment on a farm. He joined Braddock's army as a teamster in 1755, and at his de- feat he transported the wounded to their hemes. In 1753 a British officer struck him with a sword, and Morgan knocked him down, for which five hundred lashes were laid on his bare back. In 1757 he was with the militia sent to quell an Indian uprising at Edwards Fort on the Cocapehon river. As ensign he took part in the Indian cam- paign of 1758. While carrying despatches to Winchester he became engaged in a fight with Indians in which most of his comrades were slain and a musket ball passed through the back of his neck, removing all the teeth en the left side of the jaw. In 1762 he re- ceived a grant of land in Frederick county, Virginia, and devoted himself to farming, naming his place ''Soldier's Rest." He was

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