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- When seven years of age, just after the failure of the Irish Rebellion, he came to the United States with his uncle Adam, but returned to Ireland in 1812. There he joined the Irish Regiment and took part in the Battle of Waterloo (1815), where he was twice wounded and had his horse shot from under him. Soon afterward he returned America and settled at New Market, Va., where he taught school and did surveying. He wrote two books, one of which, "The Irish Emigrant: An Historic Tale Founded on Fact," was published by John T. SHARROCKS, at Winchester, Va., in 1817. On April 27, 1819, Adam DOUGLASS married Nancy PENNEBAKER (or PENNYBAKER) daughter of Benjamin, granddaughter of Capt. Dirk PENNEBAKER of the Revolutionary War, and sister of Isaac PENNEBAKER, US Senator from Virginia. She was born in New Market, Va., 1834, and !
died at Laconia, Ind., Nov 9, 1843. They moved to Laconia, Ind., where both Adam DOUGLASS and his wife are buried in the old Goshen Cemetery one mike north of Laconia on the Corydon road.
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