Person:Philip Eastin (1)

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• The Savage Land Grant of Colonial Virginia

1. ↑ Grave Recorded, in The campaign text book: why the people want a change: the Republican party reviewed: its sins of commission and omission. (Political pamphlet issued by National Democratic Committee: New York, 1880)
   33.

   [In Rikers [sic] Ridge (or Hillis) burying-ground, a monument reads]
   ... "In memory of Philip Eastin, a lieutenant in the Fourth Virginia regiment in the war of the American Revolution, who was buried in this secluded spot in the year 1817, leaving his widow and a large family of children to mourn his loss. 'He sleeps his last sleep, he has fought his last battle.' Honor his memory; he was one of the brave and true men whose gallant deeds gave freedom and independence to our country." ...

2.   Family Recorded, in English, William Hayden. Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783, and life of Gen. George Rogers Clark: with numerous sketches of men who served under Clark, and full list of those allotted lands in Clark's Grant for service in the campaigns against the British posts, showing exact land allotted each. (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1896)
   2:962.