2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
MORGAN, Daniel (1736-1802) Served with the Colonial forces during the French and Indian War; during the Revolution was commissioned captain of a company of Virginia riflemen in July 1775; was taken prisoner at Quebec December 31, 1775; became colonel of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment November 12, 1776 (designated the Seventh Virginia Regiment September 14, 1778); brigadier general in the Continental Army October 30, 1780; at the close of the war retired to his estate, known as “Saratoga,” near Winchester, Va.; commanded the Virginia Militia ordered out by President Washington in 1794 to suppress the Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania. Autograph Endorsement Signed, “I do hereby certify that Captain Braddey’s Resignation was accepted the 11th Day of March 1777. Given under my hand this 27th December 1782. Danl Morgan Brigr. Genl.” on interior of address leaf of a letter written by Capt. N. Pendleton of the 3rd Virginia to Morgan, and it reads in most part: “...There will be a dispute between Captain Stith and myself concerning rank, which it will probably be in your power to determine - It will depend upon teh day of Captain Brady’s resignation in the 7th Regt. which by a certificate of yours appears to have been on the 11th of March 1777...” About VG.
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