James Burns, I

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brief biography

James Burns was killed in Indian Attack Fort Donnelly Virginia

excerpt from record of native American raid of Fort Donnelly

The whites' loss was four men killed and two wounded - Prichart, at the tan trough, Alexander Ockeltree, and James Burns, who were on the road to the fort, and James Graham, within the fort. William Blake was wounded in the head, and William Hamilton in the finger. Burns fell dead when shot, Ockeltree ran about three hundred yards and fell, pierced by seven balls.

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Surname has also been reported to be Burnes.

Date and place of death have also been erroneously reported to be May 29, 1775 at "Fort Donnally", Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

links

• http://www.wvculture.org/history/settlement/fortdonnally04.html
• https://hackerscreek.com/norman/CHAPMAN/JACOB.docx
• https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/james-burns_41736160
• http://www.angelfire.com/nf/burnscharles/VA.html
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~zopp/burns.pdf

see also:

• http://www.meadowbluff.com/greenbrier/20212.html

http://www.wvgenweb.org/clay/chapman.htm

http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/greenbrier/history/1889/historyo/g...

In 1776, came William Cavendish, who afterward became the first clerk of Kanawha county. About the same time, came Alexander Ockeltree and James Burns, both of whom were killed at Donnally's Fort.

https://books.google.com/books?id=K1gtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA494&lpg=PA494&d...

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LZPH-NVD

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burns-11784

http://www.wvculture.org/history/settlement/frontierdefense.pdf