Notes for William Duvall

Notes for William Duvall

!Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation by HW Newman, pgs 475/6:
In 1748 he served as a private in Captain Tobias Belt's Company of Maryland Militia which participated in the French and Indian Wars (Box 1, folio 7, Hall of Records) Although he was fully 53 years of age at the breakout of the Revolution, but being experienced in soldering, he served as Captain of the Frederick County Militia. It has also been said that he was the commander of the barracks at Frederick Towne.
Occupation: Lt. 4th MD Reg, Rev War
In 1818, his son Mareen Duvall, of Jefferson Co., Ohio, made a deposition to support the services of William Elkins, of that Co., for a revolutionary pension, by which he (Mareen) stated that William Elkins came to the house of his father who was William Duvall, a captain of the militia, and from the conversation he remembered between his father and Elkins that he believed Elkins was a Revolutionary soldier. (Pension Claim - William Elkins, S 42703, National Archives).
At one time during the War it was ordered that Captain William Duvall be appointed collector of the fines in Linganore Hundred in place of Abraham Haaff. (MD. Hist. Magazine, vol. 12, p. 19) His land transactions in Frederick County were numerous. The first seems to be 1762, when as William Duvall of Benjamin he purchased from Henry Gordon, of Frederick Co., the tract know as "Gordon's Chance". Sarah Gordon, wife of Henry, waived dower.