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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Birth: 05 Nov 1740 / / UK Death: 16 May 1802 / / MD
Qualifying Service Description:
Member, Association of Freemen, Maryland, July 1775
Justice, Dorchester County, MD, 1777-1781
First Major, Lower Batallion, Dorchester County, MD, Militia, 1776
Colonel, Lower Batallion, Dorchester County, MD, Militia, 1778, reappointed, 1781
Additional References:
Maryland Historical Society. Maryland Historical Magazine, Volume 10 (1915), pg 377, "Genealogies of Four Families of Dorchester County"
Jones. History of Dorchester County, Maryland, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkns Company Press, 1902, pg 199, 212, 224, 413, 424
Archives of Maryland. Vol 21: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, April 1, 1778 through October 26, 1779, pg 97
Spouse: Milcah Gale Children: Elizabeth;
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Author: Michael A. Irish
Robert Harrison ( – 16 May 1802 Dorchester Co., MD)
Robert Harrison was born . He died 16 May 1802 in Dorchester Co., MD. His service was as a . Inscription on tombstone: "Died May 16, 1802, aged 60 years. Commissioned Colonel, May 20, 1778." SAR Marker was placed at his grave in 1948-1949 by the Graves Registry Committee, Maryland Society, SAR. {Ref: "Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Dorchester County, Maryland", by Henry C. Peden, Jr., The Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, Fall 1988, p. 130}
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