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VIRGINIA MILITIA IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
PART II
Virginia's Share in the Military Movements of the Revolution
page 89
ROBINSON, JOHN.--Monroe, Sept. 17, 1832. Born, 1749. Drafted in February, 1780, under Capt. Thomas Wright, of Greenbrier, for the alleged purpose of going against the Indians at Detroit, but was marched by Crytes (?) lead mines to the head of Holston, and thence to Logan Station, Ky., where it was decided that the troops were not to go to Detroit. Marched to McAfee's Station on Salt River, where Capt. James Armstrong was in command. The major under whom affiant served was Andrew Hamilton. Discharged here in August, 1780, his term of service calling for twelve months. Reached home the last of August in Company with twenty-eight others who had been in the same service. Among them were, James Alton, Swift Perry, and EDWARD CORNWELL, all now dead; William Bushor, who moved to Kentucky, and James and John O'Hara and Thomas Alterberry, whom he knows nothing of. Was in no battle. In consequence of being from home he sustained a loss of $1.600 in the depreciation meanwhile of paper money held by him. [p.89