Note 8 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 2)

This statement about Capts. Grant and Lewis having taken part in the battle of the Monongahela, is altogether a mistake. It must have originated in some traditional account, and become confused in some way with Grant’s defeat, three years later, in which Maj. James Grant and Maj. Andrew Lewis both took a prominent part. There is no record of any Capt. Grant in Braddock’s army. Andrew Lewis, though a major, was still in command of his company, and at the time of Braddock’s defeat was on detached service. Gov. Dinwiddie, writing to Maj. Lewis, July 8, 1755, says: “You were ordered to Augusta with your company to protect the frontier of that county;” and, in a letter of the same date, to Col. Patton, the Governor adds: “Enclosed you have a letter to Capt. Lewis, which please forward to him: I think he is at Greenbrier.” Capt. Robt. Orme, aide-de-camp to Gen. Braddock, in his Journal appended to Sargent’s History of Braddock’s Expedition, states under date of April, 1755, that the Virginia troops having been clothed, were ordered to march to Winchester, for arming and drilling, and then adds: “Capt. Lewis was ordered with his company of Rangers to Greenbrier river, there to build two stockade forts, in one of which he was to remain himself and to detach to the other a subaltern and fifteen men. These forts were to cover the western settlers of Virginia from any inroads of Indians.”––L. C. D.