Lord Dunmore's War, 1774

United States U.S. Military Colonial Wars, 1607-1763 Lord Dunmore's War, 1774

Lord Dunmore's War, 1774
Participants
Colonies	Native Americans
Virginia	Shawnees Mingos

History

Lord Dunmore's War was fought between Virginian colonists and the Shawnee, Mingo, and Delaware Indians.  The fighting and/or troop movements were in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.

Most men who served in Lord Dunmore's War were between the ages of 16 and 60, born between 1714-1758.  Some were born as early as 1704 or as late as 1762.

• Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, eds, Documentary history of Dunmore's war, 1774 Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society, 1905. FHL Digital
• Virgil A. Lewis, History of the Battle of Point Pleasant : fought between white men and Indians at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River (now Point Pleasant, West Virginia), Monday, October 10th, 1774, the chief event of the Lord Dunmore's War Charleston, West Virginia : The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston West Virginia, 1909 FHL Digital
• Cecil B. Smyth, Jr., Dunmore's War, 1774 : a concise narrative of the 1774 campaign of the Virginia frontiersmen against the Indian tribes of the Ohio Valley El Paso, Texas? : C.B. Smyth?, 1994?975.4 M2sm

Records

Colonies:

• Warren Skidmore with Donna Kaminsky Lord Dunmore's little war of 1774 : his captains and their men who opened up Kentucky & the west to American settlement Bowie, Maryland : Heritage Books, Inc., c2002 FHL 976.9 M2sw

• Virginia

Native Americans:

• Shawnees
• Mingos

General Society of Colonial Wars

The General Society of Colonial Wars was established in 1893. Membership in the society requires that the member be a male at least 18 years of age and be able to show direct lineage to an ancestor who served in the Colonial Wars. See General Society of Colonial Wars for more information on the society and its records.

• General Society of Colonial Wars, Lineage records, no. 1-14199, 1607-1967; supplemental records, 1-13850, 1607-1967; register of members, FHL 209 rolls

• A first supplement to the 1922 index of ancestors and roll of members of the General Society of Colonial Wars 2volumes, Hartford, Connecticut : The General Assembly, 1941 FHL Digital

• A second supplement to 1922 index of ancestors and roll of members, General Society of Colonial Wars Baltimore, Maryland : General Society of Colonial Wars, c1977 FHL 973 D2cw supp. 2

Websites

• U-S-History.com

References

• Family History Library US/Canada Consultants, "Lord Dunmore's War, History,"inLAD Release 4.1, Family History Library, 2004, mjm.