Portal:Military of the United States/Selected biography/17
| Stephen Trigg | |
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| Delegate, Virginia House of Burgesses (1775) Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates (1778, 1780-81) |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | c.1744 Virginia |
| Died | 19 August 1782 Blue Licks, Kentucky |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Christian |
| Residence | Trigg's Station, Kentucky |
Stephen Trigg (c.1744–August 19, 1782) was an American pioneer and soldier from Virginia. Colonel Trigg was killed ten months after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in one of the last battles of the American Revolution while leading the Lincoln County, Virginia militia unit at the Battle of Blue Licks in present-day Kentucky.
Born the son of William and Mary (Johns) Trigg, Trigg mainly worked as a public servant and militia officer during the early years of the frontier counties in southwest Virginia and those portions that would later form Kentucky. He was one of the wealthiest men on the frontier at the time. He was a delegate to the first Virginia Revolutionary conventions and was a member of the Fincastle Committee of Safety that drafted the Fincastle Resolutions, which was the precursor for the Declaration of Independence made by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. He was also elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
