Henry FIELD

                   Taken from Field Genealogy, Vol I  by Frederick Clifton Pierce Historian and Genealogist. Lieut. Henry Field was born in Culpeper county, Virginia.  It is thought that his wife died first as she was not mentioned in his Will. Will of Henry Field.-- Legatees, daughters Elizabeth and Judith Field, sister Greenwood. Dated Nov 17, 1777.  Proved in Culpeper, Va., Mar 16 1778 Revolutionary Claims, p. 90. Section I.  Be it enacted, etc., That the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Francis and Judith Taylor the latter being the child and sole representatives of Henry Field (formerly a lieutenant in the Continental line of the Revolutionary army, and who died while in service) a sum, equal to the half pay of said Field as lieutenant for the term of seven years, in pursuance of the desolation of Congress of twenty-fourt h of August, 1780.  Approval June 30, 1834