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[582:A] Or "River of the Woods," as the word signifies, or New River, as it was also sometimes called.
[582:B] Styled by Stuart, in his "Memoir of Indian Wars," Fort Savannah.
[583:A] Memoir of Battle of Point Pleasant, by Samuel L. Campbell, M.D.
[584:A] Dr. Campbell's Memoir of the Battle of Point Pleasant.
[586:A] There may be mentioned General Isaac Shelby, a native of Maryland, who distinguished himself at King's Mountain, and was subsequently the first governor of Kentucky; General William Campbell, the hero of King's Mountain, and Colonel John Campbell, who distinguished himself at Long Island; General Evan Shelby, who became an eminent citizen of Tennessee; Colonel William Fleming, a revolutionary patriot; Colonel John Stewart, of Greenbrier; Colonel William McKee, of Kentucky; Colonel John Steele, governor of the Mississippi Territory, and General George Matthews, who distinguished himself at Brandywine, Germantown, and Guilford, and was governor of Georgia, and United States senator from that State.—Howe's Hist. Collections of Va., 363.
[587:A] Dr. Campbell's Memoir of Battle of Point Pleasant.
[589:A] Thomas Lewis, eldest son of John Lewis, owing to a defective vision, was not actively engaged in the Indian wars. He was a man of learning, and representative of Augusta in the house of burgesses, and voted for Henry's resolutions of 1765; was a member of the conventions of 1776 and 1788. He married a Miss Strother, of Stafford. The second son, Samuel, died without issue. Andrew commanded at Point Pleasant. William, of the Sweet Springs, was distinguished in the frontier wars, and was an officer in the revolutionary army. He married first, Anne Montgomery, of Delaware, secondly, a Miss Thomson, a relative of the poet of "The Seasons." The fifth son, Colonel Charles Lewis, fell at Point Pleasant.
[589:B] Lyman C. Draper, in Va. Hist. Register.