Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Orderly Book of Captain Robert Gamble of the Second Virginia Regiment, Commanded by Colonel Christian Febiger, August 21-November 16, 1779
The original of the fragment of the Orderly Book of Captain Robert Gamble, herewith published, was presented to the Vir ginia Historical Society by Hon. Joseph Addison Waddell, Staun ton, Virginia, some years ago. Mr. Waddell obtained it from William H. Gamble, Esq., a descendant of Captain Gamble, and gave some extracts from it in his Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, to which valuable work the editor acknowledges his indebtedness.
The grandfather of Captain Gamble (also named Robert) was a native of Londonderry, Ireland (in the famous seige of which in 1689, a Gamble is said to have lost his life), and was an immi grant to Augusta county, Virginia, about the year 1735. He brought with him his wife and a son, James, born in 1729. Mr. Waddell mentions another son, Joseph, who, he states, was pro bably the ancestor of the Gambles of Ohio and Missouri. James Gamble had issue two sons, Robert and John, and three daughters, Agnes, Elizabeth and Esther, who married, severally, Davis, Mof fett and Bell.
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