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DARKE, William, soldier, born in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1736; died in Jefferson County, Virginia, 26 November 1801. When he was four years old his parents removed to Virginia. At the age of nineteen he joined the army, and was with Braddock at his defeat in 1755. At the beginning of the Revolutionary war he was made a captain, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Germantown. Afterward he was colonel commanding the Hampshire and Berkeley regiments at the capture of Cornwallis. He was often a member of the Virginia legislature, and, in the convention of 1788, voted for the Federal constitution. In 1791 he was commissioned lieutenant colonel in a regiment of " levies," and commanded the left wing of St. Clair's army at its defeat by the Miami Indians on 4 November 1791. He made two gallant and successful charges with the bayonet in this fight, in the second of which his youngest son, Captain Joseph Darke, was killed and himself wounded, narrowly escaping death. He was afterward major general of Virginia militia.
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