George Rogers CLARK

                   REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN
FOUNDER OF LOUISVILLE, KY
George Rogers Clark was an excellent frontiersman, a skilled Indian negotiator and a superb military commander. Concerned with the safety of settlers exposed to attack from both the British and their Indian allies in the American Revolution, he led an expedition north of the Ohio River to capture British outposts. His military exploits in Illlinois, Kentucky and Ohio helped to secure those regions for the United States.

Tragically, after serving his country faithfully, George in his old age was left to a life of poverty and obscurity. The state of Virginia gave him a sword as a token of thanks, to which he replied, "When Virginia needed a sword, I gave her one. She sends me now a toy. I want bread"

The first person of the name in the parish register is Henry Field , Sr., a member of the first vestry chosen by the freeholders and housekeepers of St. Mark's Parish , at Germanna , in January 1731 . The next is Abraham Field , elected vestryman at the Great Fork Church in 1744 , and served till his death in 1774 , a term of thirty years. He had a son John , who represented Culpeper in the House of Burgesses in 1765 . He was probably the Col. John Field who had served in Braddock's War, and who fell, fighting gallantly at the head of his regiment, at the battle of Point Pleasant . One of his daughters married Lawrence Slaughter , an officer of the Revolution, and who was the father of John Field Slaughter , who married Miss Alexander , of Prince William . Another of Col. John Field 's daughters married Col. George Slaughter , who raised one of the first companies of minute-men in Culpeper ; and after the war moved to Kentucky with George Rogers Clarke , commanded a fort at the Falls of the Ohio , and was one of the founders of the city of Louisville , which was then in the State of Virginia .