![]() ![]() They were responsible for overseeing the measuring, mapping, and recording of deeds for all Virginia state line bounty lands. In 1784, after gaining a surveying certificate from the College of William and Mary, William Croghan and George Rogers Clark were named principal surveyors to the Virginia State Line and moved to Louisville. Croghan traveled with the two Clark brothers to their family’s home in Virginia. Edmund Clark, he witnessed Cornwallis’ surrender. Shortly after his parole as a prisoner of war in 1781, along with Lt. ![]() ![]() He served with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and James Monroe at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775, 23-year-old Croghan sold his British commission to join the American Revolution as a captain in the 8th Virginia Regiment, he crossed the icy Delaware River under the command of General George Washington, and was commissioned Major at the conclusion of the grim Valley Forge winter. He later secured a captaincy for him in the British Army’s 16th Regiment in 1771. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1752, William Croghan arrived in Philadelphia at age 16 to live under the patronage of his uncle, Pennsylvania Indian Agent George Croghan, who established him as an apprentice to a New York merchant. ![]()
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