The Magazine was used for the storage of gun powder, food, grain, and other supplies. After the battle on October 11, 1774, it was used to entomb Colonel Charles Lewis and other militiamen who were buried there and on the surrounding battlefield, including Colonel John Field, Captain Thomas Buford, Captain Robert McClenachan, Captain John Murray, Captain James Ward, Captain Samuel Wilson, Lieutenant Hugh Allen, Lieutenant Charles Cameron, Lieutenant Edward Goldman, Lieutenant David Laird, Lieutenant William McCutcheon, Lieutenant Samuel Vance, Ensign Samuel Baker, Ensign Matthew Bracken, Ensign Jonathan Cundiff, George Cameron, Samuel Corley, James Crolwey, John Dinwiddie, Joseph Hughes, James Mooney, Hugh O'Guillion, Jerrard Trotter, Marck Williams, John Frogg, a sutler, and the unknown dead.