• Thumbnail for James Mitchell Varnum
    James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army, and a pioneer to the...
    17 KB (1,851 words) - 22:43, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House
    The General James Mitchell Varnum House is an historic house at 57 Peirce Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was...
    3 KB (231 words) - 20:59, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Varnum Continentals
    Guard units from 1918 to 1996. The Varnum Continentals were named after Revolutionary War General James Mitchell Varnum, a founder of the Kentish Guards...
    2 KB (219 words) - 02:20, 31 January 2022
  • Israel Putnam Daniel Shays Arthur St. Clair Thomas Sumter James Mitchell Varnum Joseph Bradley Varnum Francis Vigo Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben George Washington...
    2 KB (151 words) - 00:42, 13 April 2024
  • Charles Albert Varnum (1849–1936), US Army officer and Custer's Chief of Scouts at the time of Little Big Horn James Mitchell Varnum (1748–1789), Continental...
    1 KB (175 words) - 03:08, 7 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for Charles Willson Peale
    Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Mitchell Varnum, and George Washington. In 1771, Washington sat for a portrait with...
    24 KB (2,293 words) - 16:24, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1st Rhode Island Regiment
    was organized on May 8, 1775, under Colonel James Mitchell Varnum and was therefore often known as "Varnum's Regiment." It originally consisted of eight...
    28 KB (3,554 words) - 14:01, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Camp Varnum
    in Europe and the Fall of France. The fort is named for General James Mitchell Varnum of the Revolutionary War. It was built to relocate previously-emplaced...
    5 KB (401 words) - 19:27, 15 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Bradley Varnum
    in Varnum Cemetery in that town. His brother was Major General James Mitchell Varnum who commanded the 1st Rhode Island Regiment from 1775 to 1777, served...
    12 KB (1,226 words) - 02:05, 21 September 2023
  • James Mitchell Varnum (June 29, 1848 – March 26, 1907) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Varnum was born on June 29, 1848, in New York...
    7 KB (624 words) - 18:51, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of original members of the Society of the Cincinnati
    "General James Mitchell Varnum House Armory History". Varnum Continentals. Archived from the original on 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2013-11-02. "James Mitchell Varnum"...
    43 KB (5,700 words) - 12:01, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northwest Territory
    1803. The Supreme Court consisted of (1) John Cleves Symmes; (2) James Mitchell Varnum, who died in 1789, replaced by George Turner, who resigned in 1796...
    67 KB (7,907 words) - 19:01, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Fort Mifflin
    Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum to assume responsibility for the defense of the Delaware. The two Rhode Island regiments of Varnum's brigade were already...
    29 KB (3,673 words) - 02:34, 22 January 2024
  • January 8 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703) January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental...
    25 KB (2,844 words) - 08:51, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valley Forge
    meeting recruitment quotas for white men, spurring Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum to suggest the enlistment of slaves for his 1st Rhode Island Regiment...
    57 KB (6,343 words) - 16:52, 20 April 2024
  • (BSc 1916) – test pilot, namesake of Hill Air Force Base in Utah James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – General in the Continental Army during the American...
    302 KB (30,065 words) - 05:03, 9 April 2024
  • of Olive Branch Lodge No. 47, Sturgis, South Dakota, from 1881. James Mitchell Varnum (17 December 1748–9 January 1789), American legislator, lawyer,...
    343 KB (34,195 words) - 14:23, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of delegates to the Continental Congress
    and Preservation, Senate Office of the Historian. Retrieved May 2, 2019. "James Searle 1733–1797". Penn People. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of...
    95 KB (1,916 words) - 14:29, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Rhode Island
    a column of Continental troops (the brigades of John Glover and James Mitchell Varnum) led by the Marquis de Lafayette. News of the French involvement...
    34 KB (3,891 words) - 20:53, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhode Island
    Stuart (1755–1828) – painter, one of America's foremost portraitists James Mitchell Varnum (1748–1789) – general in the Continental Army during the American...
    176 KB (15,410 words) - 23:47, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dracut, Massachusetts
    9/11 before it was hijacked James Mitchell Varnum, lawyer and general during the American Revolution Joseph Bradley Varnum, politician Beaver Brook Greater...
    24 KB (2,887 words) - 02:20, 19 April 2024
  • provisional army around Boston. James Mitchell Varnum, brother of Royal's former owner, was assigned to command "Varnum's Regiment" by the Rhode Island...
    6 KB (840 words) - 21:52, 30 December 2023
  • Ellery and Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence. James Mitchell Varnum, who graduated from Brown with honors in 1769, served as one of...
    188 KB (16,714 words) - 17:46, 20 April 2024
  • Independence and Governor of Virginia in 1781 (born 1738) January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman...
    16 KB (1,314 words) - 00:58, 26 November 2023
  • Vare. James Mitchell Varnum (1748–1789), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Rhode Island 1780–81 1787. Brother of Joseph Bradley Varnum. Joseph...
    27 KB (3,083 words) - 18:44, 17 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Armory of the Kentish Guards
    appointment. Visit www.kentishguards.org for more information. James Mitchell Varnum, Colonel and First Commander of the Kentish Guards, general during...
    3 KB (272 words) - 21:02, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Society of the Cincinnati
    General and Congressman Philip Van Cortlandt Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum Colonel Axel von Fersen the Younger (French Army) Lieutenant Colonel...
    56 KB (6,558 words) - 16:30, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ohio Company of Associates
    James Mitchell Varnum was elected as a director, and Richard Platt as treasurer. Later directors included Griffin Greene upon the death of Varnum, and...
    11 KB (1,324 words) - 14:27, 30 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for East Greenwich, Rhode Island
    Greenwich Historic District Fry's Hamlet Historic District Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House Kent County Courthouse Massie Wireless Station Richard Briggs...
    30 KB (2,482 words) - 05:14, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of military leaders in the American Revolutionary War
    (North Carolina Line 2nd Brigade) Jacobus Swartwout James Mitchell Varnum Anthony Wayne George Weedon James Wilkinson (brevet to brigadier in 1777, promoted...
    77 KB (7,518 words) - 11:46, 18 April 2024