Evening journal., 1908-05-30
UNVEIL MEMORIAL
TO DAGWORTHY
CONTINUED From First PaKs.l


Tn a letter Of February Il. 174S to the
Duke Of Newcastle. the Council OF New
Jersey recommended Captain Dagworthy
for preferment in that he was in good
business and left the same TO engage in
Ills Majesty's service and behaved there
In with becoming zeal and resolution
through the course OF that expedition.
Commissioned by Ensland's King.
From contemporaneous events that
are recorded. the evidence is that Dag
worthy received what he desired by visit
ing England. viz: A royal commission
as captain in his majestys service.
In September, 1853. Captain Dagworthy
was in command Of two companies Of
rangers and frontier guard organized ior
the protection Of the border settlements
OF Western Maryland in the French and
Indian war.
I'm the letters Of Governor Sharp Of
the Maryland Colony many and frequent
references are made 10 Captain Dag
worthy and he seems TO have been very
active, enterprising and efficient officer.
While in the performance Of duty IN this
war he had an extended dispute with
Colonel George Washington as TO priority
of rank, which after considerable alter
cation between Colonel George Washing
ton and Captain Dagworthy was cuimi-
mated by Washington making his memor-
able mid-winter trip TO Boston 10 con-
suit General Shirley. which resulted In his
securing precedence Of command. How
ever. Captain Dagworthy continued IN
charge of Fort Cumberland and in Gov
ernor Sharpe's letter was alluded to in
terms of praise for holding his company
together in face Of the greatest privaions
and difficulties. the non-payment Of sal
aries to the troops and poor and INSULT
cient food.
after the erection OF Fort Frederick
as a better protection to the settlers OF
the frontier against attack by the French
and Indians. Dagworthy was placed In
command with the rank of lieutenant
colonel with hve hundred men in his bat
TALON.
I'm l75s Dagworthy and his troops We're
ordered to join the expedition against
Fort Duquesne as the quota of Maryland.
Some of Dagworthy's Maryland men were
present at Major Grants defeat. and by
their bravery. with the Carolina troops,
sustained the action and Lieutenant Col
onel Dagworthy was present at the fall
of Fort Duquesne. November %, lloS
henceforth to be known as Fort Pitt Cnow
P.ttsburg) in honor of the great minister
OF England afterwards Lord Chatham
After its fall a garrison Of 200 men drawn
fem the Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Virginia troops was assigned for its de-
fcnse.
Governor Sharpe appointed a day for
public Thanksgiving and praise; and the
assembly. TO testify their gratitude to
the brave men who had served in their
forces appropriated fifteen hundred
pounds TO be distributed as a gratuity
among them; TO Lieutenant Colonel Dag
worthy 80 pounds; to each captain. II
hounds; lieutenants. Il pounds; ensign,
pounds. and non-commissioner officers
mounds. and the remainder TO be expended
| in the purchase of clothing and suitable
necessaries TO be divided among the pri-
waited.
And later, as a further testimonial TO
pagworthy for his services, the Assembly
of Maryland gave him patents for large
tract Of land. adjacent 10 his own home
tract in Worcester county, which iate
by survey of the boundary line between
Maryland and Delaware, by Charles Ma
son and jeremiah Dixon. two distinguish
ed English mathematicians and astrono
riers, under the decision of Lord Berwick
IN the High Court Of Chancery of Eng
land as to the location Of Cape Henlopen,
became a part Of Sussex county, Della
ware.
Becomes a Deiawarean.
ssFrom henceforth John Dagworthy be
came a resident Of Delaware. and all The
tracts OF land that he owned were re-
surveyed to him under Penn and called
Dagworthys Conquest. containing in
the aggregate twenty thousand three hun
dred and ninety-three acres.
IN 1774, october "A, he was commission
Oh by John Penn as a justice for Sussex
county, Delaware.
"Afterward. John Mckinley, Presiden
ard Commander-in-Chief OF the Delaware
state, commissioned him as a justice Il
tie county of Sussex, dated Wilmington
March g, 1777. CRecord book No. lS foil
3S.. Sussex county, Delaware).
"Dagworthy was appointed one Of tn
Committee OF Safety in Sussex county 10
tn, suppression of the Tory insurrectio7
and in the minutes Of Council for March
l7ls, page lss. he is referred 10 as Briga
der Dagworthy.
General Dagworthy buit capacior
house upon his lands in what is nov
Dagsboro hundred, Sussex county, Della
ware. which town Dagsboro) and hun
1~.4 r.rar, taf,1aG offnr him
Here. surrounded - his family an
retinue of slaves. he dispensed hbsra