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Joseph Eggleston (17541811)

Role

In May 1788 Bushrod Washington wrote Eggleston regarding a debt.

Description

Joseph Eggleston, son of a planter, was born on 24 November 1754 in Middlesex County, Virginia. After graduating with honors from The College of William and Mary in 1776, he was an officer in the Lighthorse Cavalry of Henry Lee III during the Revolutionary War.

Citations

"To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Eggleston, 2 March 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-33-02-0099. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 33, 17 February–30 April 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 116–117.]

"To George Washington from Colonel Theodorick Bland, 1 February 1778," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-13-02-0354. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 13, 26 December 1777 – 28 February 1778, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003, pp. 434–435.]

James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume II: Crane–Grimshaw (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 315.

Joseph Eggleston in Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 16601800 (Ancestry.com).

Joseph Eggleston at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Joseph Eggleston at House History.

Joseph Eggleston Jr. at Find a Grave.

Maj Joseph Eggleston Jr at FamilySearch.