Thruston, Charles Mynn
Thruston, Charles Mynn
THRUSTON, CHARLES MYNN. (1738–1812). Continental officer. Virginia. Born in Gloucester County, Virginia, in 1738, Thruston graduated from William and Mary and studied theology in England. Returning to Virginia after ordination in the Church of England, he settled in the Shenandoah Valley. For his service as a militia lieutenant in 1754 he was given title to two thousand acres in Fincastle County, but in 1770 he became so discouraged about the prospects of actually getting this land that he sold his claim for £10 to a former companion in arms named George Washington. The "warrior parson," as he was known, raised a company of volunteers at the beginning of the Revolution, was commissioned a captain, was badly wounded at Trenton, and subsequently was appointed colonel of an "additional continental regiment" on 15 January 1777. Thruston lost an arm at Amboy on 8 March 1777 and resigned from the army on 1 January 1779. After the war Thruston was a judge and member of the legislature. In 1808 he moved to Louisiana and died four years later near New Orleans.
SEE ALSO Additional Continental Regiments.
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