"And whereas several companies of the militia were lately drawn out into actual service, for the defense and protection of the frontiers of this colony, whose names, and the time they respectively continued in the said service, together with the charge of provisions found for the use of the said militia are contained in the schedule to this act annexed....

"Loudoun County

lsd
To captain Nicholas Minor10000
Aeneas Campbell, lieutenant, 76
Francis Wilks,117
James Willock,115
To John Owsley, and William Stephens,
15 s. each;110
Robert Thomas 10
John Moss, Jun. 4
John Thomas for provisions 5
John Moss, do 28
William Ross, do 2"

On page 217 of the same act under the head of "Fairfax County" appear the following items, the names suggesting that the list was prepared prior to the time of the setting off of Loudoun from Fairfax and for services prior to those above listed:

lsd
"To Nicholas Minor, Captain15120
Josias Clapham, lieutenant, 716
William Trammell, ensign 54
To Captain James Hamilton his pay and
guards subsistence carrying soldiers
to Winchester1041"

The names of many other soldiers are given with the compensation awarded each. It is quite possible that among them were men who resided in that part of Fairfax which, at the time of the passage of the act, had been set off as Loudoun.


CHAPTER IX

ORGANIZATION OF LOUDOUN AND THE FOUNDING OF LEESBURG