Muster Roll Data Sheet
Personal
ID: VA28739
LName: KENTON
FName: MARK
Suffix:
Ethnicity:
Rank: CORPORAL
Rank Type: NCO
State: VA
Regiment: 1 VA
Division: 5TH DIVISION
Brigade: 1ST VA BRIGADE
Company: COLONEL THEO BLAND
Monthly Status Data
December 1777: |
FIT FOR DUTY |
January 1778: |
FIT FOR DUTY |
February 1778: |
FIT FOR DUTY |
March 1778: |
FIT FOR DUTY |
April 1778: |
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May 1778: |
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June 1778: |
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First Light Brigade (Dragoons)
Muster Roll Data Sheet
Mark Kenton, Jr.
was a Sergeant under
Light Horse Harry Lee
Together they fought at the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown and the Battle of Guilford Court House and he was present at the Hanging of Major Andre. Probably other battles as well.
Sergeant documentation
http://www.wlu.edu/~omcguire/guilford.html
http://www.harwich.edu/depts/history/HHJ/ngreenej.html
http://www.army.mil/CMH-pg/books/RevWar/KM-Cpns/AWC-KM-FM.htm
http://www.nps.gov/cowp/Timeline.htm
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/revwar/timeline.html
http://www.ukans.edu/~ibetext/rev/index.html
1ST DRAGOONS
DIVISION: SUPPORT
BRIGADE: CALVARY ( PULASKI'S)
HISTORY: ORGANIZED JUNE-SEPTEMBER 1776 AT
WILLIAMSBURG, VA FROM RECRUITS FROM EASTERN
AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
ENTERED VALLEY FORGE WITH 136 MEN ASSIGNED AND
115 FIT FOR DUTY, LEFT THE SAME MONTH WITH THE
SAME NUMBERS.
PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS: NORTHERN NEW JERSEY,
DEFENSE OF PHILADELPHIA.
Staff Officers
Colonel
THEODORIK BLAND
Lt. Colonel
BENJAMIN TEMPLE
Major
JOHN JAMESON
Company Officers
Captain
JOHN BELFIELD
Captain
RICHARD CALL
Captain
ALEXANDER DENDRIDGE
Captain
GUTHBERET HARRISON
Captain
LEWELLEN JONES
Captain
HENRY LEE
Staff Officers
Chaplain
THOMAS DAVIS
Quartermaster
JOHN HUGHES
Adjutant
ANDREW NIXON
Paymaster
CHRISTIAN BRAYMAN /BARRYMAN
GREEN
Surgeon
ROSE
Surgeon Mate
PATRICK CARNE
Quartermaster
Sergeant
Sergeant Major
JOHN GORDON
Drum Major
JOHN MCLEAN
Fife Major
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