Inscription on Gabriel Long's Memorial
in Yowell Meadow Park

Major Gabriel Long (b. 1751) served as Lieutenant in Captain John Jameson's Company, Culpeper Minutemen Battalion which mustered here in the Fall, 1775 and fought victoriously at Great Bridge in December 1775 to rid Virginia of British control.Commissioned Captain of Gabriel Long's Company, Rifle Regiment, Colonel Daniel Morgan's 11th Virginia Regiment, he served all major engagements under General George Washington, the defeat of General John Burgoyne in the Saratoga Campaign, and the Siege of Yorktown. He was selected as Host Officer for General Lafayette's visit to Culpeper in 1824. Major Long died at his home near Stevensburg on February 3, 1827.
Placed in tribute to the memory of the heroes of the American Revolution, who by their sacrifices, established the United States of America, and whose deeds reaffirm our faith in the principles and our Constitutional Republic.

     General Daniel Morgan led patriot forces to a decisive victory at Cowpens, SC, on Jan 17, 1781.  Today the Col James Wood II Chapter conducted a ceremony at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, where Daniel Morgan is buried, to celebrate that victory.  The CMM were represented by Bill Schdwetke, who presented the chapter wreath, marched in the Color Guard, and fired in the musket volleys.

     The ceremony was conducted in the cemetery chapel, then moved outside for the musket volleys, and finished with prayers over Daniel Morgan's grave.

     The highlight of our 2022 Annual Meeting was the installation of our 2022 president and two other officers.  Tom Hamill was elected for a second two-year term, having earlier served as our president 2018-2020.  2020-2022 President Charles Jameson also received the title of "Honorary President" as a recognition of the superb job that he has done the past two years, leading us to our first "Best in Virginia" award since 2004.  Tom Hamill was also installed as Secretary, Bill Schwetke was installed as Registrar and Charles Jameson was installed as Historian.
     Virginia SAR President and CMM dual member Jeff Thomas officiated in the installations.  Also attending were North Regional Chairman Dale Corey, Jerry Hubbard, prospective member Mark Crain, and Fauquier Court House Chapter DAR members Susan Hamill and Cat Schwetke.

     Two new major projects were introduced and approved by the membership.  The first was a celebration of John Marshall's birthday, September 24th,  at his birthplace, Germantown, VA.  Fauquier County has made a nice park to mark his birthpace, and we will pursue placing an SAR monument in the park.

     The second major project was to work wtih the community to host a reunion of the descendants of the 1775 Culpeper Minute Battalion on the weekend of October 25-26, 2025, to mark 250 years since the battalion was formed.

     Mike Lyman now has copies of the Second Editioin of Genealogical, Burial, and Service Data for Revolutionary Patriots Buried in Virginia available for purchase - see the details below.  Mike and others have put a tremendous amount of time into the research behind this book.  Each chapter should have a copy for their Graves Chairman to use.

 I received today 30 copies of the soft back books of the second edition “Genealogical, Burial, and Service Data for Revolutionary Patriots Buried in Virginia” See cover attached.
Twenty five hard cover copies have been ordered and should arrive in a week or so. I plan to bring the inventory to the VASSAR annual meeting in February
Hardbound Books:
1.        We charge members $30 each for hard copy.
2.       Charge members $25 for books going to Libraries.
3.       Charge DAR members the same as our members, $30
 
Softbound books;
Charge members $15 plus additional $5 for postage if mailed
 
Members should contact me if they desire a book be mailed to them. A check for the books should be to VASSAR. A check to me for packaging and mailing should be for $5.00.
My mailing address is Mike Lyman, VASSAR RW Graves Pub Chairman, 21 Summers Lane, White Stone, VA 22578
 
Both the softback and hardback books are for sale at Amazon books - just click here.

 
Mike Lyman

     The CMM Board of Managers met this afternoon in a meeting chaired by the chapter president-elect Tom Hamill to plan our activities for 2022.  Tom laid out a detailed plan with one major change, and that is that we will try holding meetings on the third Tuesday of each month.  After a trial run, thus change will be adopted if successful.  The next meeting is this coming Tuesday, and will not be changed.

     A major decision was made at the meeting to proceed with planning for a Minute Battalion Muster in 2025.  Watch for more news on this effort.