1From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Gunning Bedford, 9 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
, 1:85). Thomas Macdonough (Mc Donough; 1747–1795) of Trap (now Macdonough), Del., was the father of Thomas Macdonough (1783–1825), the famous naval officer of the War of 1812. The elder Macdonough, who was elected major of the Delaware Regiment on 22 Mar. 1776 (see ibid., 32), refused GW’s offer of a promotion in order to resume his medical practice in New Castle....