Pat Roberts told our group of h2Morrison researchers that she had a copy in her files and piles of the Day book of the 6th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War. I believe she explained to us that she had made her copy at the Denver Library.
All of our group seems to have descended from Patrick Morrison who was living in Pittsylvania County, Virginia during the Revolution. Pittsylvania County was a hot bed of Patriotism for freedom from Great Britain. And Patrick had at least four sons. The three older sons joined the 6th Virginia Regiment and went off to war. The youngest son was too young to go with them. William, James, and John remained fought in every battle in the northern part of the Revolution....well perhaps not every battle....they were discharged at the end of their two year enlistment under Captain Peter Dunn at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on 16 March 1778. Unfortunately my knowledge of the battles is not good enough to make blanket statements without doing a bit of research. It is son David who was too young too accompany his older brothers.
I am getting ready to go to the DAR library the first week in May for a conference hosted by the DAR. One of my goals for the three day conference is to see and get copies of the Sixth Virginia Regiment Day Book 1776, 1777, 1778. I have been told that the DAR holds the original book.
Ronald found on line this weekend a book that is in the Brock Collection at the Huntington Library. If you would like to see this digital copy of this book, it is available at:
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/29070
| Physical Collection | Collection and papers of R. A. Brock. Orderly Books of the American Revolution. |
| Part of Object | Orderly book of the 6th Virginia Regiment (Brock Collection) |
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