Which Company?

2nd Company?

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/post/2016/05/17/which-company-which-regiment

 

Drummers? How many to a company?

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/14/drummers

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Each officer has a story:

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Each one has a story like Daniel Boone without the publicity star making machine of the old Disney and tv series.

 

Here are stories on some of those officers.

 

Stay tuned to this blog.

 

We will be adding more links to each of the officers listed here.

 

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The Captains

There were more Captains but the number of companies were reduced earlier this year of 1757.

 

 

Mercer - Captain George Mercer

 

George Mercer is aide de camp to Colonel George Washington of the Virginia Regiment.

 

He is also Captain of a company we reenactors represent.

 

He makes me think of Marlon Brando's immortal line On the Water Front:

 

"I could have been a contender."

 

He later became Lt Colonel of the 2nd VA Regiment under Colonel Byrd in the Forbes Expedition to "reduce" Fort Duquesne.

 

Then became head of the Office of Stamp Distributor just briefly enough to be horrified by a burning effigy of him.

 

Then he became Lt Gov of North Carolina.

 

And he was in the running to become Governor of a new colony called Vandalia.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mercer_(military_officer)

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/just-one-letter-is-full-of-stories

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/history

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/a-storm-is-coming-mercer-writes-about-it

 

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0284#GEWN-02-08-02-0284-fn-0003

 

 

 

 

Waggener - Captain Thomas Waggener

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/06/fort-pleasant-waggeners-lower-fort

 

 

 

Stewart - Captain Robert Stewart

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He was head of the light horse of the Virginia Regiment in Braddock's Expedition. He and George Washington used Braddock's Sash as a stretcher to carry their wounded 60 year old commander away from the carnage of the battle.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart_(soldier)

 

https://genfiles.com/stewart/setting-the-record-straight-on-major-robert-stewart/the-case-of-lt-colonel-robert-stewart/

 

http://jjduk.blogspot.com/2011/09/captain-robert-stewart-monongahela-1755.html

 

The story of the curt reply and a street of Winchester VA named after him:

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/copy-of-washington-s-men-in-winchester

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William Peachey

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/the-ups-and-downs-for-william-peachey

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McKenzie - Captain Robert McKenzie

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/gw-s-war-in-february-1757

 

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0104

 

 

 

 

The Lieutenants

 

 

Crawford - Lt William Crawford

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2016/10/09/William-Crawford-Burned-at-the-Stake

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_(soldier)

 

 

Smith - Lt Charles Smith

Foreman who supervised building of Fort Loudoun 1756-1758.

Earlier in 1756 Smith first worked under Captain Waggener to build Forts on the Patterson

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/when-one-punch-kills-everyone-is-surprised-yeah

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/construction-timeline-of-fort-

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/a-storm-is-coming-mercer-writes-about-it

 

 

 

 

Gist - Lt Christopher Gist

He accepted a demotion from Captain of a company of Scouts in 1757.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gist

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/you-can-t-just-walk-off

 

 

 

Nathaniel Gist

was with his father Christopher Gist

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Gist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources:

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/history

 

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-04-02-0277

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