found: LC database, Feb. 12, 2004(hdg.: Nash, Francis, 1720-1777 ; usage: Gen. Francis Nash, General Nash)
found: Historic Society of Towamencin website, Nov. 4, 2002(Brigadier-General Francis Nash (1720-1771); native of Prince Edward County, VA; lawyer, NC legislator, militia and Continental Army officer; promoted to colonel in 1776, to brigadier general in 1777; d. 7 Oct. 1777)
found: Cyclopedia of eminent and representative men of the Carolinas of the nineteenth century, v. 2:page 444 (Gen. Francis Nash; born May 10, 1720, Prince Edward County, Va.; clerk of the superior court of Orange County, N.C.; member of the provincial congress of 1775; commissioned a brigadier general in 1777)
found: NCpedia WWW site, Dec. 21, 2018(Nash, Francis; born 1742? in Amelia (now Prince Edward) County, Va., died 7 Oct. 1777 near Kulpsville, Pa.; lawyer and Revolutionary general; in 1763 he was appointed clerk of the superior court of Orange County and soon afterwards became clerk of the inferior court of the county; represented Orange County in the colonial Assembly in the sessions of 1764-1765 and 1771 and in the First Provincial Congress in 1774, as well as the borough of Hillsborough in the Assembly in 1773, 1774, and 1775) - https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/nash-francis
