Virginia's Colonial  Soldiers
References to Foster, Ransome, Beverly or related families

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 2. (Oct., 1906), pp. 123-124.
Page 123.

OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE GLOUCESTER CO. (VA.) COMMITTEE OF SAFETY IN 1775.
From the "Virginia Gazette," by Alexander Purdie, October 21, 1775.

At a Committee held for Gloucester County, at the Courthouse of the said County, on the 13th day of September, 1775:  Present:  WARNER LEWIS,
ESQ., Chairman and 32 members.  Agreeable to the ordinance of the Convention, the following Gentlemen were nominated officers in the militia, for the County of Gloucester.  Warner Lewis, Esq: County Lieutenant.  Sir John Peyron, Baronet Colonel.  Thomas Whiting, Gent. Lietenant Colonel.  Thomas Boswell, Gent.
Major.  Captains.  Gibson Cluverius.  John Camp.  Richard Matthews.  George Booth.  Jasper Clayton.  John Hubbard.  James Hubbard.

Page 124.

John Whiting.  John Billups, sen.  Benjamin Shackleford.  John Willis.  Robert Matthews.  William Buckner.  John Dixon, jun.  Richard Billups,
and William Smith.  Lieutenants.  Samuel Cary.  Richard Hall,  John Foster.  James Baytop.  Thomas Buckner.  George Green.  William Sears.  James Bentley.  Edward Matthews.  John Billps, jun.  Dudley cary.  Hugh Hayes.  Churchill Armistead.  Philip Tabb.  John Foster, jun., and Robert Gayle.  Ensigns.  Henry Stevens.  William Dawes.  William Haywood.  Thomas Baptop.  John Fox.  James Laughlin.  William Bentley.  Christopher Garland.  Peter Bernard.  John Hayes.  Samuel Eddins, Thomas Tabb.  Richard Davis.  Josiah Foster.  George Plummer, and John Gayle.  Mess. Dixon & Hunter are desired to publish the above in their Gazette.

JASPER CLAYTON, Clerk.