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    James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army, and a pioneer to the...
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    The General James Mitchell Varnum House is an historic house at 57 Peirce Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was...
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    Guard units from 1918 to 1996. The Varnum Continentals were named after Revolutionary War General James Mitchell Varnum, a founder of the Kentish Guards...
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    Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Mitchell Varnum, and George Washington. In 1771, Washington sat for a portrait with...
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    in Varnum Cemetery in that town. His brother was Major General James Mitchell Varnum who commanded the 1st Rhode Island Regiment from 1775 to 1777, served...
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  • Charles Albert Varnum (1849–1936), US Army officer and Custer's Chief of Scouts at the time of Little Big Horn James Mitchell Varnum (1748–1789), Continental...
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  • Israel Putnam Daniel Shays Arthur St. Clair Thomas Sumter James Mitchell Varnum Joseph Bradley Varnum Francis Vigo Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben George Washington...
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    in Europe and the Fall of France. The fort is named for General James Mitchell Varnum of the Revolutionary War. It was built to relocate previously-emplaced...
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    was organized on May 8, 1775, under Colonel James Mitchell Varnum and was therefore often known as "Varnum's Regiment." It originally consisted of eight...
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  • provisional army around Boston. James Mitchell Varnum, brother of Royal's former owner, was assigned to command "Varnum's Regiment" by the Rhode Island...
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  • James Mitchell Varnum (June 29, 1848 – March 26, 1907) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Varnum was born on June 29, 1848, in New York...
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    1803. The Supreme Court consisted of (1) John Cleves Symmes; (2) James Mitchell Varnum, who died in 1789, replaced by George Turner, who resigned in 1796...
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  • January 8 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703) January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental...
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    Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum to assume responsibility for the defense of the Delaware. The two Rhode Island regiments of Varnum's brigade were already...
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    "General James Mitchell Varnum House Armory History". Varnum Continentals. Archived from the original on 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2013-11-02. "James Mitchell Varnum"...
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  • Ellery and Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence. James Mitchell Varnum, who graduated from Brown with honors in 1769, served as one of...
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    Stuart (1755–1828) – painter, one of America's foremost portraitists James Mitchell Varnum (1748–1789) – general in the Continental Army during the American...
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    and Preservation, Senate Office of the Historian. Retrieved May 2, 2019. "James Searle 1733–1797". Penn People. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of...
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    their arrests, which he denied, but fellow members of Congress including James Madison did not believe his denial. In 1786, Arnold moved to Winchester...
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    meeting recruitment quotas for white men, spurring Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum to suggest the enlistment of slaves for his 1st Rhode Island Regiment...
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    Greenwich Historic District Fry's Hamlet Historic District Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House Kent County Courthouse Massie Wireless Station Richard Briggs...
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  • Washington, D.C., Mary (née Pease) Varnum, widow of James Mitchell Varnum II, his second cousin(and son of Joseph B. Varnum). She was the niece of Calvin Pease...
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  • (BSc 1916) – test pilot, namesake of Hill Air Force Base in Utah James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – General in the Continental Army during the American...
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    a column of Continental troops (the brigades of John Glover and James Mitchell Varnum) led by the Marquis de Lafayette. News of the French involvement...
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    General and Congressman Philip Van Cortlandt Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum Colonel Axel von Fersen the Younger (French Army) Lieutenant Colonel...
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    James Mitchell Varnum was elected as a director, and Richard Platt as treasurer. Later directors included Griffin Greene upon the death of Varnum, and...
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    appointment. Visit www.kentishguards.org for more information. James Mitchell Varnum, Colonel and First Commander of the Kentish Guards, general during...
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  • Independence and Governor of Virginia in 1781 (born 1738) January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman...
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    allegedly baptized General and future President George Washington. James Mitchell Varnum, who graduated with honors in Brown's first graduating class of...
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  • Vare. James Mitchell Varnum (1748–1789), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Rhode Island 1780–81 1787. Brother of Joseph Bradley Varnum. Joseph...
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