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Spotswood, governor of Virginia. In 1775, probably through the influence of his broth- er-in-law, Patrick Henry, he became asso- ciated with the Hendersons, Boones, and others, in the settlement of Kentucky, and was one of the eighteen men who met near the fort at Boonesborough, in May, 1775, ^^ set up a government. News came of the battle of Lexington, however, and most of the men came back to the defence of the colonies. Family letters indicate that Dan- dridge was for a time attached to Washing- ton's staff; his name does not appear on any staff list, however, and the inference is that he was only temporarily with Wash- ington, he being a cousin of Mrs. Washing- ton. He was made lieutenant in the Fourth Virginia Dragoons, June 13, 1776; captain of Virginia Artillery, November 30, 1776; captain of the First Continental Dragoons, March 15, 1777; and resigned April 14, 1780. After the war, he settled in what is now Jefferson county. West Virginia, about eight miles from Martinsburg. He married about June, 1779, Anne, daughter of Gen. Adam Stephen, of **the Bower," Jefferson county. Virginia. He died at his estate, in April, 1785, leaving an only child. Adam Stephen Dandridge. His widow married Moses Hunter, and reared a large family.

Stuart, David, son of Rev. William Stuart, was born in King George county, Virginia, August 3, 1753, educated at William and Mary College, and studied medicine at Edin- burgh and Paris. He served in the Virginia legislature. He later removed to Alexan- dria, where he practiced his profession of medicine with great success. He was a Federalist and strong friend of Washing- ton. He married Eleanor Calvert Custis,

diiughter of Washington's adopted son John Parke Custis. He was father of Charles Calvert Stuart, of Chantilly, Fairfax county, Virginia.

Selden, William Bos well, born August 31, 1772, son of Rev. William Selden and Mary Ann Hancock, his wife. He was educated as a physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylva- nia, and in Scotland, settled in Norfolk, Vir- ginia, about 1798, and practiced there many years. He married, in 1802, Charlotte Col- gate, born in Kent. England, daughter of Robert Colgate, a university graduate and a friend of William Penn. Dr. Selden died July 18, 1849.

Selden, Wilson Gary, born in 1761, son of Cary Selden, of "Buckroe," in Elizabeth City county, colonel of Elizabeth City county militia. 1767, and magistrate of the county court, and Elizabeth Jennings, his wife. He was educated as a physician by his brother-in-law. Dr. James McClurg, and 1779 was appointed mate in the Marine Hos- pital at Hampton. In June of the following year he became surgeon of a Virginia artil- lery regiment, with which he marched to South Carolina, and was present at the de- feat of Gen. Gates. Having been taken with a dangerous illness, he was ordered by med- ical and other officers of the army to take a sea voyage, and he sailed on a letter-of- marque owned by his brother, and which was captured off the Island of St. Eustatia. He was carried to Antigua, where he was held prisoner until 1782, when he was paroled, but he had not been exchanged when the war terminated. In the records of the War Department in Washington City he is credited with two months' service in the Virginia artillery, on the southern expe-

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