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moreland county, and Martha Lee, his wife.
He was captain in the Fifteenth Virginia
Regiment, December 2, 1776; major and
aide-de-camp to Gen. Charles Lee, May 26,
177S: retired September 14, 1778; in 17S1
he served with Baron Steuben. After the
war he was a delegate to the Virginia house
of delegates, 1785-S6-87; member of the con-
vention of 1788; and sheriff of Richmond
county in 1798. He was grandfather of
Gen. R. L. T. Beale, United States congress-
man and brigadier-general C. S. A.
Hitc, Isaac, was a son of Col. Isaac Hite, of Winchester, \'irginia. In 1780 he enter- ed the Continental army as ensign, became a lieutenant in 17S2, and served till the peace in 1783. He was known as major, by rea- son of his rank in the militia. He was an original member of the Phi Beta Kappa fra- ternity. He married Nelly, sister of Presi- dent Madison. He died at his residence, "Bellegrove," Frederick county, December 22, 1836, in his eightieth year.
Howard, Benjamin, born in Virginia about 1760; completed preparatory studies; moved to Kentucky; elected to the tenth and eleventh congresses, and served from March 4, 1807, to April 10, 1810, when he resigned; governor of upper Louisiana, 1810-1812: appointed a brigadier-general of the United States army, March 12, 1813, and given command of the eighth military department, embracing the territory west of the Mississippi river; died in St. Louis, Mis- souri, September 18, 1814.
Ballard, Bland, was born at Fredericks- burg, Virginia, October 16. 1761. When he was eighteen years old he emigrated to Ken- tucky, and became* one of its earliest set- tlers. He joined a volunteer force which,
under Col. Bowman, which was attempting
tc- free the district of the savages, and
served in the expedition into Ohio. A year
later he took part in George Rogers Clark's
raid against the Piqua towns, and in 1794 he
was with General Wayne at the battle of
the Fallen Timbers. He was a man of great
bravery, and became one of the most re-
nowned of Indian fighters. In 1780 he was
employed by George Rogers Clark to ex-
plore the banks of the Ohio river from the
Falls, at what is now Louisville, to the
mouth of the Salt river, and thence to the
site of the present town of West Point.
Ballard^s most harrowing experience was
while witnessing the slaughter of his father,
mother and two sisters by a party of fifteen
Indians. A younger sister escaped after
being scalped and left for dead. Ballard
was too late to save their lives, but from
his place of concealment killed nearly half
of the Indians. After peace had been re-
stored, Ballard was sent several times as a
representative to the state legislature. The
county of Ballard, Kentucky, and its capital,
Blandville, were named in his honor. He
died September 5, 1853.
Henry, William, born in Charlotte coun- ty, Virginia, in 1761 ; in early life he entered the army, and participated in the battles of Ciuilford, the Cowpens and Yorktown, in the revolutionary war, and subsequently re- moved to Kentucky, in which state he took part in many conflicts with the Indians ; on August 31. 1813. he was appointed major- general of Kentucky volunteers, command- ed a division of three brigades in the battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, and also served in the campaigns of Gen. Scott and Gen. Wilkinson ; Gen. Henry was a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of his
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