| David
Deaderick II |
David
Deaderick was fourteen years old when his father died, and
as shown by the first census of the United States under the
list given by Colonel Dowall, for Frederick County, Virginia,
1782, we find David Deaderick's name given as head of the
family, being the oldest son. There are five whites and two
blacks as the number of that household.
When the Revolution
commenced, David Deaderick II enlisted, as a Volunteer private,
in the Continental army, at the age of seventeen, and served
three short campaigns. His first service was for three months,
under Captain John Neville, in an expedition against the
enemy in the region of Pittsburgh in 1775.
In the campaign
of New Jersey in 1777, he was Orderly Sergeant under the
command of Captain Charles Mynn Thurston, under General Sterling.
He was Meade's Adjutant of the Eighth Virginia Regiment in
1777, and served part of the time as paymaster of his regiment
of Virginia militia, under Colonel Marquis Calmes, of Frederick
County, Virginia.
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He
was under General
John Peter Muhlenberg, in the Eighth Virginia
Regiment, in the battles at Mon-mouth and Brandywine. This
regiment was commonly called the German Regiment. Selden
Nelson says that on the third campaign David Deaderick was
made a colonel of a Regiment of Virginia Militia. This statement
is probably not true as there is no mention of it in his
wife's application for pension. At one time he was a bugler,
during a hot engagement.
After
his first wife, Ann Knight died in 1787, he moved to Jonesborough,
Tennessee with his son William Haney Deaderick.
David Deaderick
II was called "The Prince of Merchants." "The
business of my father," writes David A. Deaderick,
son of David Deaderick II, in his diary, "after he came
to Tennessee, was that of a merchant, having brought the
first goods to Jonesborough, where he lived and died. He
was noted for his probity and integrity of character, and
had a wide and enviable reputation as an honest merchant,
a public-spirited citizen, and a just man."
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