CAPTAIN SAMUEL WAPLES
A SUSSEX COUNTY NATIVE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Accomack County, Virginia,
September 3 1834:
Captain Samuel Waples, a
native of Sussex County, Delaware, a son of Paul Waples and
his wife Temperance
Derrickson Waples of Sussex County Delaware, died at his home in
Accomack county, Virginia, on the 11th of August, 1834.
Captain Waples was 84 year of age.
He joined the army of The
United States in the Revolutionary War, as a Lieutenant in the
9th Virginia
Regiment, and marched from Accomack with his regiment in the late
part of the year
1776. He was a veteran of
Brandywine and Germantown battles, in the latter he was taken
prisoner,
and confined in a
Philadelphia jail. He effected his escape by posing as a Quaker,
found in Philadelphia the boarding house he once was a member of as
an apprentice , run by widow Jones, and with her help, made the camp
of the American Army at Valley Forge , and served to the end of the
war as a recruiter with character as a gentleman, a brave officer,
and firm patriot .
He then settled in the
county of Accomack where he married to Anne Custis, the 12th
of February, 1778 and raised a family of six children, losing a
daughter, the last born, at birth. Anne Custis was a daughter of
Thomas and his wife, Cassandra Elizabeth Wise Custis, of Accomack
County Virginia.
Abstract July 2017, Harrison
H, from the September 3 1834, New York American newspaper.
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