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- from Collier notes
Mrs. Ann Vines Hickes, Walker, was living during the year 1860 at the age of 94 years near Diamond Grove in Brunswick Co, VA. She was a paternal aunt of R A Hardaway of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the information on her aunts & uncles were given by him on a visit to his home in Tuscaloosa 3 April 1886. He also stated that she told him she was the niece of Cornelius Collier of Yorktown, VA, that her mother was Judith Collier and that her two uncles, or the two brothers of her mother, were officers in the regiment of which Lawrence Washington was Captain at Porto Bello near Darien. In the epedition of 1740-1742, under Admiral Vernon and Gen. entworth, Lawrence Washington named his estae on the Potomac Mt. Vernon and teh Collier's named their home on the North River Porto Bello. There is such a place above Williamsburg on the river. Mrs Walke said she had four brothers who were officers in the Continental ARmy in 1776 and two of them were captured at Nash's defeat at the Battle of Brier Creek, Burke County, Georgia, where the Continentals alone made any stand.
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