Robert Kirkwood Jr
BIRTH
1756
Delaware
DEATH
Fort Recovery, Ohio
FAMILY
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Kirkwood, Robert Jr
(1756-1791)
Robert Kirkwood was a Delaware Continental Army officer whose company fought in numerous major engagements from Long Island through the southern campaigns. A veteran of the Delaware Regiment, he later died fighting at the Battle of the Wabash in 1791.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Robert Kirkwood Jr Marker | 6000 Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington, DE 19808 | MARKER |
DIED:
Fort Recovery, Ohio
The exact date and place of Robert Kirkwood Jr’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Robert Kirkwood Jr with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.