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1To James Madison from Francis Preston, 30 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
...Representatives, 1793–97, and represented Washington County, Virginia, in the House of Delegates, 1812–14, and in the state Senate, 1817–20. He rose to the rank of major general in the state militia during the War of 1812 (
2Francis Preston to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
by 1799, Preston commanded a regiment in the War of 1812 and eventually attained the rank of major general. He returned to the