Gabriel Long
Military Person
1751 – 1827
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Who was Gabriel Long?
Gabriel Long was born to Reuben Long and his only wife Mary Harrison in 1751 in Culpeper County, Virginia. He was of strong Irish stock and of direct descent from the Longs of Wraxall. He came of age during the French and Indian War, in which his father and grandfather were both heavily involved, and he tasted war for the first time in it as a color-bearer and private soldier in the state militia. Long grew to be an excellent marksmen and horse rider and into the frontier soldier he would later become.
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- Born
- 1751
Culpeper County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Virginia
- Died
- Feb 3, 1827
Kentucky
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on July 23, 2013
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