Robert Gamble (1754–1810)
Robert Gamble was born on 3 September 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a Virginia regimental officer and married Catharine Gratton (1751–1830). Captured by the British after the Battle of Camden, he was imprisoned for several months. He left military service in early 1783 and resumed his career as a merchant, first in Staunton and then in Richmond. Gamble died from a fall from his horse on 12 April 1810, survived by his wife and their four children.
Orderly Book of Captain Robert Gamble of the Second Virginia Regiment (Richmond: 1892).
Joseph Addison Waddell, Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, From 1726 to 1871, 2nd edition (Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902).
"To George Washington from James Mease, 18 January 1778," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-13-02-0233. [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. 274–275.]
"Letters to Jefferson from Archibald Cary and Robert Gamble," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 6, Number 2 (April 1926), 122–30.
Col Robert Gamble at Find a Grave.
Capt Robert Gamble at FamilySearch.