Person:George Whitman (10)

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George Whitman is mentioned in the Revolutionary War Pension Application of his brother, Matthew Whitman, as follows:

He continued in the Service at the station aforesaid until the three months for which he was drafted expired, when he was discharged, and with his officers went to his home in Rockbridge county Virginia where he resided, when he was drafted as before said he thinks he obtained no written discharge as he went home with the officers he was in this service four months including the time marching to Muddy creek and returning home. Some time after he returned home from the service under Capt Gray he removed to Tygarts Vally [sic: Tygart Valley] now in the County of Randolph Virginia at that time in the County of Monongalia Virginia and in the year 1781 as he believes he received a letter from his brother George Whitman then residing in Hampshire County Virginia requesting to go a three months tour as his substitute. he according went on to Hampshire County Virginia and as a substitute for his said joined Capt James Cunninghams Company of Virginia.

1.   Jackson, Ron V. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890.

   Name: George Whitman
   State: VA
   County: Hampshire County
   Township: 07 00
   Year: 1782
   Record Type: Continental Census
   Page: 26
   Database: VA Early Census Index