Dr. Richard Everard Meade, Sr.

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Son of General Everard Meade and Mary Thornton, Amelia Co. VA, who in 1776 enlisted and reached rank of Major in the Revolutionary War. Everard Meade served as an Aide-de-Camp to General Benjamin Lincoln, was with him at the surrender of Charleston, SC, and at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. After the war he became General of the Virginia Militia.

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Everard Meade was the third son of David and Susannah (Everard) Meade, was born October 1, 1748. He spent a large part of his young years at school in England, returning to Virginia about 1764. He was a soldier of the Revolution, a Captain in the Second Virginia Regiment, Major and from 1778 to the close of the war aide-de-camp on the staff of General Benjamin Lincoln. He was a member of the Virginia convention of 1788 and one of the notable men of his day. After the war he became Major General of the Militia.