BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: “I marched & volunteered with others to go to the American Army in Georgia”

Having discussed when John Lauderdale was born (February 1745, according to descendants; or 1747, if the number 37 beside his name on his petition for Revolutionary bounty land in 1784 is his age), I ended my initial posting about him by telling you that my next posting would try to account for what John was doing during the years of the American Revolution, and how he got to Georgia by 1784.