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WILLIAM GARRARD, [1] eldest child of Gov. James and Elizabeth Mountjoy Garrard, was born in Stafford county, Virginia, April 20th, 1771. He was twelve years of age when his parents removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he was reared and educated. He was for many years clerk of the Bourbon County Court, and was a Representative in the Kentucky Legislature in the years 1793, '96, '97, 198, 199, 1800 and 1822.
In the war of 1812 be was captain of a troop of volunteer state dragoons, of Major James V. Ball's squadron, in the service of the United States. Upon the original muster. roll, which is certified as being "correct," it is found under the head of "remarks" that he and a number of his company were "frost- bitten" while in that service.
He lived for many years in Paris, and in 1826 removed to his farm adjoining "Garrard's Station" or farm, his father's fort or residence, known as "Mount Lebanon," built in 1785 or '86, where he lived until his death, which occurred on Sunday, December 30th, 1838.
On January 20th, 1818, he married Susan Dalrymple Peers, daughter of Major Valentine Peers, an officer of the Revolution, and Eleanor Orr, his wife. She was born at Waterside, Loudoun county, Va., September 7th, 1794. She died at her home near Paris, Ky., March 8th, 1838.
