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About Joshua Younger

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor #: A130307

Joshua Logan Younger was the great grandfather of the four Younger brothers of the James-Younger outlaw gang and the three Dalton brothers of the Dalton outlaw gang as well as U.S. Deputy Marshal Frank Dalton and Bill Dalton (co-leader of the Wild Bunch).

EVENT: 30 JAN 1807

The bearer, hereof, Joshua Younger, was a private in the 12th Regt. of the Continental Establishment until he rec'd a wound which rendered him unfit for further service when he was regularly discharged by me a Colonel of the sd Regt. after which he was placed on the list of Pensionrs. I further testify that he was extimated a good soldier while in the service and that he has from every information which I have been able to obtain maintianed the character of a respectable citizen.

Signed: James Wood, Formerly General of the Continental Army

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Joshua Younger's Timeline

1752
May 11, 1752
Virginia, Colonial America
1772
February 27, 1772
Hampshire, Verginia
1772
1773
February 27, 1773
Hampshire, Virginia
1774
1774
1774
KY, United States
1775
1775
Hampshire, VA
1775
Hampshire County, Virginia
1776
1776
Hampshire, VA