Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper
unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997).  Reprinted in
Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, Number 7 - January, 1996. p. 103. Jefferson
County.

     William Darke was born in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1736.  
In 1740 his parents moved to Virginia.  He was with Virginia troops at
Braddock's defeat in 1755, and a Captain at the beginning of the
Revolutionary War.  He was taken prisoner at Germantown and released, and
was Colonel commanding at the surrender of Cornwallis.  He, in 1791,
commanded the left wing of St. Clair's army at the defeat of the Miami
Indians.  In the bayonet charge there, his son, Capt. Joseph Darke, was
killed.  He was a Major General of the Virginia Militia. Died in Jefferson
County in 1801.

Darke Braddock Cornwallis 
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Philadelphia-PA VA 

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