Militia Reenactment at 2003 Vardeman Family
Reunion
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Age: 76
Occupation:
Captain in the Pittsylvania County Virginia
militia during the American Revolution.
State: Virginia, Kentucky
Married: abt 1760, Bedford County, VA
# of Children: 7
1775 - Committee of Safety
Sept. 27, 1775 Military records, Peter Vardeman
(Peter Vardeman I, son of Old William Vardeman I
& Margaret Vardeman), Capt. of the committee
of Safety, Sept. 27, 1775. Pittsylvania County,
Virginia.
Source: Virginians in the Revolution, Gwathmey,
page 792.
1775 - Virginia Militia
Sept. 27, 1775 Military records, Peter Vardeman
(Peter Vardeman I, son of Old William Vardeman I
& Margaret Vardeman), nominated Ensign,
Pittsylvania County, Virginia Militia.
Source: The History of Pittsylvania County, Maud
Carter Clement, Regional Publishing Company,
Baltimore Virginia, 1976, page 144.
Source: The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 23,
Number 3, Whole Number 91, July – September, 1979,
pp. 225 – 226.
1777 - Officer in Militia
Feb. 27, 1777 Military records, Pittsylvania Co.,
VA Peter Vardeman (Peter Vardeman I, son of Old
William Vardeman I & Margaret Vardeman),
officer in militia.
Source: Pittsylvania Co., VA, Deed Book 4, p.
293.
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1777 - Officers appointed under Peter Vardeman
Aug. 18, 1777 Military records, Thomas Jones
resigns his commission as Captain of the militia
to Peter Vardeman (Peter Vardeman I, son of Old
William Vardeman I & Margaret Vardeman).
Thomas Hale and Thomas Jones, Jr. are appointed
his Lieutenants and Joseph Jones, his Ensign.
Source: Complete
Index and Abstract of the Henry County Virginia
Order Books #1 and #2 (1777 – 1782), Charles P.
Blunt IV, p. 15
1777 - Oath of Allegience to Virginia
Aug. 30th, 1777 Military records, A list of
Persons who hath taken the Oath of allegiance
before Edmund Lyne, Esqu., August 30th, 1777.
Peter Vardeman (Peter Vardeman I, son of Old
William Vardeman I & Margaret Vardeman)
"I do Swear or Affirm that I do denounce and
refuse all allegiance to George the Third, King of
Great Britain, his Heirs and Successors, and that
I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the
Common Wealth of Virginia, as a Free and
Independent State, and that I will not at any
time, do, or Cause to be done, any matter or thing
that will be prejudicial or Injurious to the
Freedom and Independence thereof, as declared by
Congress, and also, that I will discover and make
know to some one Justice of the Peace for said
State, all Treasons Traiterous Conspiracies which
I know or shall hereafter know to be Formed
against this or any of the United States of
America. So help me God."
Source: The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, Vol. IX, July, 1901, No. 1, pp. 12
& 17.
1779 - Resigns from militia
April 22, 1779 Military records, Thomas Haile is
appointed Captain in the place of Peter Vardeman
(Peter Vardeman I, son of Old William Vardeman I
& Margaret Vardeman), who resigned; Thomas
Jones, 1st Lieutenant; Joseph Jones, 2nd
Lieutenant and John Murphy, Ensign.
Source: The Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, Volume 9, January, 1902, No. 3, page
264.
Source: Roots in Virginia, An Account of Captain
Thomas Hale, Virginia Frontiersman, Nathaniel
Claiborne Hale, page 16
Source: Complete Index and Abstract of the Henry
County Virginia Order Books #1 and #2 (1777 –
1782), Charles P. Blunt IV, p. 64
1780 - Military Records
1780 Military records, Peter Vardeman (Peter
Vardeman I, son of Old William Vardeman I &
Margaret Vardeman), Captain of the Henry County
Militia, sworn into office 1780, Pittsylvania
County, Virginia.
Source: Virginians in the
Revolution, Gwathmey, page 792.
Source: Virginia Militia in the
Revolutionary War, J.T. McAllister, 1989,
Heritage Books Inc., p. 210
1781 - Military Records
April 21 To May 1781 Military records, Peter
Vardeman, served in the American Revolution from
Lincoln County, Virginia, and from Kentucky
County, Virginia, where he was a Private in
Captain Robert Barnet’s Company of Lincoln county
Militia drawn into actual service of the frontier
of Lincoln County under the Command of Co. Jno.
Logan. April 21 – May 1781
Source: George Rogers Clark and His Men Military
Records, 1778-1784, compiled by Margery H.
Harding, The Kentucky Historical Society,
Frankfort, KY, pages 87
1783 - Military Records
Jan. 4th To 13th 1783 Military records, Peter
Vardeman, served in the American Revolution from
Lincoln County, Virginia, and from Kentucky
County, Virginia, where he was a Private in
Captain Robert Barnet’s Company of Lincoln county
Militia drawn into actual service of the frontier
Ensn. John Smiths Party of Militia on Horseback
Guarding the Comm (Audit Accounts Court
Commission) to the Falls of the Ohio 1783.
Source: George Rogers Clark and His Men Military
Records, 1778-1784, compiled by Margery H.
Harding, The Kentucky Historical Society,
Frankfort, KY, pages 198
Provided by David Vardiman
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