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Francis Nash (1742-1777) —
of North Carolina.
Born in 1742.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1764; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Mortally wounded at the Battle of Germantown, and died October
7, 1777 (age about 35
years).
Interment at Towamencin
Mennonite Churchyard, Near Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pa.
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Cornelius Harnett (1723-1781) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., April 20,
1723.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1777.
Captured by the British in January 1781, and died as a
prisoner, of disease
contracted in captivity, in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., April 20,
1781 (age 58 years, 0
days).
Interment at St.
James' Churchyard, Wilmington, N.C.
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Nathaniel Scudder (1733-1781) —
of New Jersey.
Born in Monmouth Court House (now Freehold), Monmouth
County, N.J., May 10,
1733.
Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1778-79.
Killed while resisting an invading party of the British Army
during the Revolutionary War, at Blacks Point, near Shrewsbury, Monmouth
County, N.J., October
17, 1781 (age 48 years, 160
days).
Interment at Tennent
Church Graveyard, Tennent, N.J.
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Stephen Trigg (1742-1782) —
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., 1742.
Son of William Trigg (1716-1773) and Mary (Johns) Trigg.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779-80.
Killed in the Battle of Blue Licks, in what is now Robertson
County, Ky., August
19, 1782 (age about 40
years).
Interment somewhere
in Nicholas County, Ky.
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John Laurens (1754-1782) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., October
28, 1754.
Son of Henry
Laurens.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1779-80, 1782.
Killed in battle, in Barnwell
County, S.C., August
27, 1782 (age 27 years, 303
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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