The journal and order book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware regiment of the continental line ..
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PAPERS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE LVI The Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware Regiment of the Continental Line PART I ""A Journal of the Southern Campaign 1780-1782 PART II 1777""An Order Book of the Campaign in New Jersey, " The brave, meritorious, unrewarded Kirkwood BYEDITED TURNERREV. JOSEPH BROWN SOCIETY OF DELAWARETHE HISTORICAL WILMINGTON 1910 19x0 Press of the Delawarean Dover, Del. — : i I P3$ FOREWORD "Render, therefore, to all their dues; Honour to whom honour is due." So far as Robert Kirkwood is concerned neither the State of Delaware nor the Historical Society of Delaware has obeyed this injunction. One of the most intrepid and fearless men Delaware has produced has received little notice and scanty praise. The MSS. volumes containing his "Journal" and his "Order Book" have been allowed to accumulate dust on a shelf of the library of the Historical Society for thirty-four years. In justice to a brave son of the State they are now published, containingwith the following letter his ancestry: Bloomington, Indiana, July 14, 1876. Dr. Lewis P. Bush Dear Sir When I saw you in Newark a few weeks since you re- quested me to furnish you a statement of any facts in my pos- the and early history of Captainsession in regard to ancestry cheerfully comply,Robert Kirkwood. With this request I givenalthough at this distance of time perhaps little new can be on the subject.

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PAPERS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE
LVI
The Journal and Order Book
of
Captain Robert Kirkwood
of the
Delaware Regiment of the
Continental Line
PART I
""A Journal of the Southern Campaign
1780-1782
PART II
1777""An Order Book of the Campaign in New Jersey,
"
The brave, meritorious, unrewarded Kirkwood
BYEDITED
TURNERREV. JOSEPH BROWN
SOCIETY OF DELAWARETHE HISTORICAL
WILMINGTON
191019x0
Press of the Delawarean
Dover, Del.— :
i I
P3$
FOREWORD
"Render, therefore, to all their dues;
Honour to whom honour is due."
So far as Robert Kirkwood is concerned neither the State of
Delaware nor the Historical Society of Delaware has obeyed
this injunction. One of the most intrepid and fearless men
Delaware has produced has received little notice and scanty
praise. The MSS. volumes containing his "Journal" and his
"Order Book" have been allowed to accumulate dust on a shelf
of the library of the Historical Society for thirty-four years.
In justice to a brave son of the State they are now published,
containingwith the following letter his ancestry:
Bloomington, Indiana, July 14, 1876.
Dr. Lewis P. Bush
Dear Sir
When I saw you in Newark a few weeks since you re-
quested me to furnish you a statement of any facts in my pos-
the and early history of Captainsession in regard to ancestry
cheerfully comply,Robert Kirkwood. With this request I
givenalthough at this distance of time perhaps little new can be
on the subject.
The family from which Captain Kirkwood was descended
the vicinity of Derry in the north ofremoved from Scotland toJOURNAL OFTHE4
the seventeenth century. In 1731Ireland in the latter part of
kirkwood, then a youth of perhapsthe captain's father, Robert
country in company18 or 20 years of age, emigrated to this
of an elder brother,widow and two infant childrenwith the
yearsWilliam, then recently deceased. Robert Kirkwood, some
his arrival in Delaware, married a Miss Sarah McDowell,after
and a member of the religious society ofa native of England
farm about two miles north ofFriends. They lived on a
Andrew Gray, Esq., andNewark—a farm recently owned by
Creek Presbyte-adjacent to the lot on which the White Clay
rian church now stands. They had nine children, eight of
whom were daughters. Robert, the only son, was born in
his childhood nothing is now known but the fact of1756. Of
fondness for reading and study— facthis early manifesting a a
him for ministry.which decided his father to educate the He
where pur-was accordingly placed in the Newark Academy he
sued his classical studies with great diligence and success. On
the commencement of the revolutionary war, however, the
young student at once abandoned his literary pursuits and
the cause of his country.promptly espoused
You informed me in conversation that the manuscripts of
Captain Kirkwood had been deposited in the library of the
Delaware Historical Society by his grandson, Gen. R. K.
Whitely. It is therefore unnecessary that I should attempt any
account of his public services. You are probably aware also
that an interesting biographical sketch of Captain K., by P.
Benson Delany, M.D., may be found in Graham's Magazine
for March, 1846.
Of the family that came over from Ireland with Robert Kirk-
wood the descendants are now very numerous. The widow,
Mrs. Sarah Kirkwood, some time after their arrival in Dela-
ware, married a Mr. Gallagher, then a member, I think, of

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