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Mary Stuart Bain
Washington
Mary Stuart Bain is a direct descendant, on her mother’s side, of Nathaniel Perley who was a member of Captain Daniel Rogers’ Minute Men Company. She is also descended from William Quaintance, whose brother fought in the Revolution.
Information taken from her family’s genealogy indicates that Perley’s company marched from Ipswich to Lexington in 1775 hanging behind the British. They had marched 60 miles, for which Perlev received 10 shillings Mid eight pence. *Ie was then stationed in the Boston vicinity for four days.
John Quaintance enlisted as a private in Fauquier County in January of 1777. He served under Captain Charles Porterfield and in the seventh regiment of the Virginia line under Colonel Daniel Morgan. He participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and he was in winter quarters at Valley Forge.
Maurice Herndon
Sperryville
Maurice Herndon is a direct descendant of Gabriel Green whose family helped to organize the Culpeper Minute Men. Gabriel Green enlisted as an ensign with the sixth Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line on October 12, 1780 and served under his uncle, Colonel John Green. Gabriel Green was later promoted to the rank of second lieutenant on July 15,1781.
Second Lieutenant Green also served with the eighth Virginia Regiment and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization founded by American military officers in 1783. The Society accepts the eldest sons of the officers’ descendants into membership. Maurice Herndon is a member of the Society, and information for this report was taken from his application form.
Ann Keyser
Washington
Ann Keyser’s great-great grandfather, John Suggate Slaughter, joined the Culpeper Minute Men in 1775 at the age of 16. He served under Captain John Ashby of Fauquier until, in 1776, he joined the main army under General George Washington in New Jersey. Colonel Slaughter took part in the battles of Trenton and Princeton before he became one of 500 men chosen to form a regiment of riflemen in 1777.
The regiment was commanded by General Daniel Morgan. “Morgan was ordered to march to the assistance of General Gates-who commanded the Northern Army-where he breasted the Storm at Stillwater and Saratoga and had the honor of being one of that noble army who so gallantly compelled
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