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Col. Nicholas Meriwether (1719/20-1758) was the grandson of Nicholas Meriwether II (October 26, 1665-bef November 20, 1744) and couin of Meriwether Lewis through cousin Thomas and sister Jane and Augustine Warner and an ancestor of Marjorie Merriweather Post http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tmsidb0&id=I102 and reportedly caught Edward Braddock and reurned somewhere later to pick up a coat embroidered in gold from his sister Reference 1. There was another Nicholas Meriwether (1726/36-1772) at the battle. Even though he dies in 1758, he helped in some battles See reference 1