Philip Alfeld,
a descendant of Baker Pegram has provided us with the following:
He joined the 6th Virginia Regiment of Continental Line and was
mustered in at Williamsburg on January 1, 1776. I wonder if he
visited the graves of his grandparents in the Bruton parish
churchyard not far from the muster site. He served as a sergeant
in Captain Fox's company. Baker Pegram crossed the Delaware on
Christmas Day 1776 with Washington and served in the campaigns
of 1776-1777. He was with his regiment at Valley Forge in the
winter of 1777-1778 and he was mustered out at Valley Forge in
February 1778. He spent the remainder of the war as a captain in
the Dinwiddie County militia and commanded his company when the
militia was called out in 1780 to repel Benedict Arnold's raid
along the James River. He was marching his company to Yorktown
in October 1781 when he received news of Cornwallis's surrender
to Washington. Following the war, Baker Pegram remained an
officer in the militia. He ultimately served as a Major of one
of the battalions of the Dinwiddie County regiment in the 1790s.
Thanks
Philip for all the information you have generously shared!
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