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Brenton says he died after 1785. If there was good evidence Brenton was killed at Blue Licks, it seems the DAR would say as much. I find it hard to believe a notable officer like Brenton would have been killed at Blue Licks and escape the notice of historians such as Hammon. So I think it's safe
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I can't find this source online or at any library accessible to me, but the blurb from Google Books says "he was killed fighting
Indians in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1782." I wonder if C.F. Brenton actually found a source that says as much. By contrast, the
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