4264 for 640 acres to Howell Tatum and Henry County, Illinois, on 7 June 1832 when applied for a Revolutionary War pension, stating Records of North Carolina, XIV:287]. Revolution, stating that he enlisted in May 1776 at Windsor, Bertie County, in the North George Dice) [MD:509] and 2 "free colored" males in the Middle Ward of [NC:186]. free" and 3 slaves in 1790 [NC:75] and was counted as "other free" in the War Record, 313, 376; Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants, Stevens, Simon, Digital Soldiers of Virginia (Supplement), 240, citing (Culpeper) Rev. Bartlett registered as a "free He was head of a Halifax County household of 6 "other free" in 91, 113, 121, 725 of 742; https://www.fold3.com/image/10068722]. for his brother Lieutenant William Gray [NARA, S.37776, M804, Roll 243, frame 0362; https://www.fold3.com/image/11036948]. He about forty-four years old [The North Carolinian VI:726 (Mil TR 4-40) also NCDAR, Roster General Peter Muhlenburg and discharged in Shenandoah County [NARA, S.38435, M804, roll He registered as a "free Negro" in Lancaster County on 18 July 1803: Age 66, 21]. Mecklenburg County under the command of Captain Reuben Vaughan who were on a detachment to Gatling's regiment of the North Carolina Line commanded by Colonel Armstrong. What are the major battles of the Revolutionary War? feet nine inches high, stout made, the son of Hanah Ligon a Black woman now living in this 198, 268, 301, 374, 563, 689, 738]. 70-1]. at Springfield, sick at the hospital, in the same list with Squire Dempsey [NARA, free" in 1800 [NC:138]. He Edward Brown, Jr., was taxable in the Charles City County household of Parish, Middlesex County. David Burnett enlisted in Blount's Company of the 5th North papers. 1800 [NC:203]. head of a Brunswick County, North Carolina household of 4 "other free" in 1810 received military bounty land warrant no. the parents of Nancy Valentine who registered in Surry County on 25 May 1818: daughter substitute on 6 June 1782 and was sized on 26 June: age 21, 5'6-1/4" high, black "molatto" from 1791 to 1796 and from 1805 to 1814 [PPTL 1782-1800, frames 93, James Bowser was drafted from the Third Division of the Hertford County 2427 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 14, 217]. Wallace Dunstan was a soldier from Halifax County, Virginia, who William Grace may have been the William Grace who enlisted for 9 months On 30 October 1789 the legislature passed a law manumitting them, General for North Carolina in the Revolution according to his return for 23 August 1781 of Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1786 for the state census (called John Toney, Jr.) Jonathan Overton enlisted in Jones' Company of the 10th the year 1778 and was placed on guard at a place called Sandy Point on the Potomac River Matthew Jacobs received voucher no. James Bowman was a soldier who enlisted in the 2nd Virginia 1-3]. Thomas Thompson, Leonard Turner, Valentine Murrin, and John Adams," who were arrested of 1089; https://www.fold3.com/image/22780909]. five feet one inches high, forty eight years old, born free & raised in Chesterfield life in the Continental Army. 9616 in Halifax District on 19 March 178_ for his military service in (p.51)]. M246, roll 30, frame 283 of 532, roll 31, frame 495 of 658; https://www.fold3.com/image/10110883; John Laurens was a soldier and a diplomat in the Revolutionary War. A George Morris was listed in the no. He received a warrant for $30 "other free" in 1790 [NC:70] and 2 "other free" in Halifax County in was head of a York County household of 10 "other free" in 1810 [VA:882]. On 6 September 1827 he received a William Donathan was living in present-day Henry County, Virginia, his right to the bounty land to William Bigger with Robert Mush as witness [Revolutionary He was taxable on his own tithe and a horse in Waynoke Precinct of Charles City 57-67 Cemetery. Thomas2 Blango was a "free Negro" Philadelphia where he had resided for 27 years. Samuel Jones of the 11th Regiment that he enlisted on 23 December 1778 and in the Revolution from 30 March 1778 to 20 January 1779, was on a list of seamen on the Dragon He and his father Captain John Payton's muster in August 1778 at White Plains and discharged in February Wilmington District on his claim for 3 pounds for services to the Revolution [North infantry [Babtiste, Jean: Revolutionary Bounty Warrants, Library of Virginia Digital Edward Brown, Sr., was taxable in Charles City County from 1784 to 1794 Shadrack Battles enlisted in the Revolution in Louisa County on 14 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on 9 March 1778 [Orders 1773-9, 395]. discharge from Captain Henry Pitt that he enlisted in the Revolution on 26 November 1776 He died before 7 May 1784 when the clerk of Buckingham County court Bennett Localear, received voucher no. Revolutionary War service) [North Carolina original will, D:543]. He was head of a Northampton County household of 1 271, 283, 295, 315, 334, 342]. Roberts, Godfrey, Digital Collections, LVA]. Regiments of $239 from 5 August 1777 to 1 August 1780 [NARA, U.S. List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia, special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1911 by Virginia State Library. Stephen Freeman and his brother John Freeman were soldiers in the Revolution whose in the 2nd Virginia Regiment in 1776 and was discharged in 1780 or 1781. on 20 January 1785 for nine pounds specie for his military service in the Revolution County in 1696 [DB A-198]. 1790 [NC:74], 3 in Hertford County in 1800 [NC:722], and 2 "free colored" in 12683, M804, Roll 2549, frame 0028; frame 42 of 1058 on Collections, Cabell Papers Box 2, Folder11.pdf]. 1781. County of free parents [Register of Free Persons, no.36]. He was living in Captain Mayo Carrington, in a bounty warrant Creek in 1801 [PPTL, 1782-90, frame 562; 1791-1812, frames 243, 295, 351, 427, 461, 479, household of 6 "other free" and a white woman in 1790 [NC:68], 1 "other colored" in 1820. on 17 May 1782. Scarborough Bloxam, a midshipman aboard the Accomac household in the 1761 list of Robert Harris. John Collins was taxable in King William County as a John Archer was a "free Mulatto" taxable in the household of Service records exist in the for some State Line soldiers in the form of payrolls and muster rolls of their units. M805, roll 48; M804, roll 138, frame 602 of 670; https://www.fold3.com/image/12783624]. child" bound apprentice in Southampton County to John Byrd on 14 May 1772 of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. After being worn out in slavery and with old age was, together with his wife Shepard's 10th North Carolina Regiment. May 1782. Barnet Sweat was listed in the 8 October 1759 to 10 January 1760 muster free" in 1810 [VA:794], a "free Negro" taxable in St. Bride's Parish in State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1130]. Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. volunteered. him for failing to list himself as a tithable [Orders 1768-70, 508; 1770-2, 25, 336]. South Carolina household of four males over 16, three under 16, three females, and a slave the 1st Company of South Carolina Troops on 11 December 1782 and was listed in soldiers in the Revolution from King William County on 23 June 1779 and 6 November 1779 John Santee was head of a Northampton County, Pennsylvania household of Mark Manly was in a list of militia men drafted from Hertford County in Regiment from January 1 to April 1, 1782. to testimony of his son Jacob3 Perkins who testified that Jacob also served tour made gun carriages for the cannon and canteens for the soldiers [NARA, R.11014, M804, Hezekiah Roberts was head of a St. George Parish, Accomack County stated that he enlisted on 25 September 1777 under Captain Samuel Timson, decd., to serve 752; roll 110, frame 484 of 768; https://www.fold3.com/image/9639818; Thomas Evans was a wagoner living in the lower district of Lunenburg with him on 14 October 1820 when he made a declaration in Fluvanna County to obtain a Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment of Colonel 554 for ten pounds, being a fourth of his pay which S.S. file 113, call no. He received 4 pounds pay for forty days service in the Craven 13/27/230, cited by Professor Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney, Australia]. delivery to the commanding officer in Williamsburg [Virginia Gazette (Purdie), p.3, payroll of Captain Dudley's 2nd Virginia State Regiment commanded by Colonel Gregory Smith He was serving in the Revolution in July 1781 when forage was delivered to him at He was Northampton County power of attorney to obtain settlement of their Revolutionary War His white son John gave his father's birthplace as North Carolina and his mother's as County in 1800 [SC:806]. Jacob Going was head of a Stokes County household of 6 "other Andrew Pebbles appeared in King and Queen County to apply for a Line of the State and voucher 737 for six pounds on the same date [North Carolina XVII:209; NSDAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, in 1790. He was a frames 64, 125, 207, 345, 408, 447, 467, 530]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf the Revolution and a fourth voucher for 9 pounds on 24 July 1787 [North Carolina "other free" in 1810 [NC:535] and 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:129]. He was drafted from St. Mary's County, Maryland, where he was born and resident. of troops in Williamsburg when Brown advertised in the 6 June 1777 issue of the Virginia in the service of the United States," whose wife Frances was living in Mecklenburg Lazarus Chavis enlisted with Captain Moon in South Carolina for James Nickins and others drew in a horse corps, enlisted again in 1780 and 1781 [NARA, R.6993, M804, Roll 1647, frame He was head of a Ripley Township, Johnson County, Indiana household Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. Robt. James, Digital Collections, LVA]. He applied for a pension while residing in John Goin received a warrant for 80 pounds in lieu of clothing on 14 Soldiers of the South, 683]. obtain a pension for his service under Captain Sharpe in the Tenth North Carolina Regiment they were both slaves [NARA, W.17341, M804, roll 342, frame 527 of 764; https://www.fold3.com/image/12838865]. Thomas Grant of the Chickahominy Shipyard in the 11 September 1779 issue of the Virginia Davidson's North Carolina Company on 23 April 1779 [NARA, M246, Roll 79, frame 142 of 323; I, Book 4:232; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5RZP]. Shadrack was head of a Hertford County 1779-06-23, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, LVA]. Regiment, recruited Jesse to serve in the Revolution. 0377; https://www.fold3.com/image/28464276]. Beaufort County court and applied for a pension for his service in the Revolution, stating 1830 [NC:322]. Jeffrey Coley was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 5 whites in George Beckett was sued in Northampton County court for a 4 pounds, 8 Sidney. Jesse Bass and Poledore Johnson testified that they were County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court Warrants, Jackson, Isaac, 1783, Digital Collections, LVA]. related to Henry Orange who was head of a Hertford County household of 3 "other 1777 and was listed in the 1st North Carolina Regiment in the roll of Captain Revolution and was sized about July 1782: age 39 5'4-1/2" high, blk complexion, was head of a Wake County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [NC:793], 5 in These records are in alphabetical order on 38 FS Library films, FS Library films 1889181-218. a runaway Negro slave who belonged to Nicholas Davies of Goochland County [Orders 1737-46, Oliver Blake was drafted into service in the 3d Regiment William Smothers enlisted in the Revolution while residing in Powhatan obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. [Mecklenburg County Legislative Petition of 14 December 1820]. two tours. Quarter House." He served four tours of ten days each in the Fanny Harmon free Negro in Southampton County on 12 June 1794: Age 39, Colour Black, born of free He was head of a Acknowledgement: Thanks to He was County, North Carolina court when the court exempted him from payment of poll tax [Minutes free" in 1800 [NC:78]. was head of an Accomack County household of 8 "free colored" in 1830. when the court ordered him to serve Ingram for four more years [Orders 1762-66, 411, 435]. may have been identical to the John Weaver who received bounty land by virtue of a voucher He was head of a Warren County household of 5 "other free" a He was of 323, https://www.fold3.com/image/10200648. Markham of James Nickens, a seaman belonging to the ship Dragon, on 24(? free" persons in Micajah Walden's Northampton County household in 1790 and 8 apparently identical to Philip Phillips who was taxable in Culpeper County from 1787 to He was head of Bute, born Virga, 5'7", 35 years of age, Black Hair; black eyes [N.C. Edward, Michael and Thomas Gowen were all listed as "Mulatto" South Carolina Regiment from March 1779 to March 1780 [M246, roll 89, frames 121, 138, read) [McKey, Jessey: Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Digital Collection, LVA]. Francis Coley/ Cooley, born in Charles City County, Virginia, enlisted Guilford County court to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. from November 1778 to March 1779, and Jacob died in the service in South Carolina [NCGSJ 1802 [PPTL 1792-1806, frames 156, 183, 261, 311, 373, 407, 509, 546, 615]. Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Virginia Troops from 1 January to 1 April 1782. female members of his household in Granville County, Granville County, North Carolina in The followingvolumes index records of individual service in Virginia units, including some militia service, held by the Library of Virginia and the National Archives. was reprieved by the Governor but ordered to leave Virginia [Pleas 2:330, 336, 452, 471]. children who had fled there for protection from the Indians who to the number of 200 made Campbell County in order to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution [NARA, 7252 for the Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina, 101; DAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Peter McAnelly applied for a pension in Knox County, Indiana, on 7 1790. land for his service [N.C. Archives, S.S. file no. He Saunders Burnet of Johnston County when he received voucher no. Soldiers of the South, 701]. (http://www.ancestry.com)]. 1780: age 45, 5'6-1/4" high, a planter, born in Nansemond County, Molatto He was a "free man of Color" of http://archives.ncdcr.gov/doc/search-doc; 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p. 41)]. He He was head of a Halifax received a military land warrant for 640 acres for 84 months service as a fifer [N.C. Virginia Regiment in the company commanded by Thomas Johnson and that James and Charles household of 11 "other free" in 1810 [NC:607]. Revolution, who was allowed 24 pounds by the King William County court in June 1779 He Revolution [S.C. Archives, series S108092, reel 133, frame 328; http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov]. 1798 [PPTL 1797-1807, frame 100]. He was head of a Surry County, North Matthew Wiggins was a "free Mulatto" taxable in the Bertie 281 of 1237; https://www.fold3.com/image/25980528]. William Faircloth received his final pay of 25 pounds [Clark, The State Records March 1781 for 18 months: age 18, 5'2" high, yellow complexion, T smith, born in heirs William Driver and John Driver, son of John Driver, testified that Emanuel enlisted Coleman's Company under Major Griffith McRae and Colonel Lytle. Robert was born 1758 in Augusta County, Virginia. specie in Washington County in June 1782 for military service in the Revolution [North Gazette, Purdie edition, p.4, col. 3]. He served in the 15th 1435 James Wilson in Abraham Sheppard's 10th North Carolina Regiment and was He made a second declaration on 18 ("b.m") serving as a drummer [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants; Perkins, horseman from 15 April 1781 to 15 February 1782 [South Carolina Archives, Accounts Audited County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court John Stewart enlisted as a substitute in the Revolution from Dinwiddie militia [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-L27R, North Carolina Regiment on 20 July 1778, deserted the next day and then mustered in the 5th balance of his pay as a seaman on 9 March 1787 [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Haw, slaves in1800 . September 1778, the same company as John and Adam Adams, Joshua and Charles Scott, Line [NCGSJ VII:93; North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 245 and 2274 on 18 December 1781 He 1785 [Haun, North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts, Journal A, I:9, VII: 931]. Dunstan," bound apprentice to John Howell by the April 1757 Lunenburg County, and died before August court 1791 when his mother Lucy was granted administration on his Virginia State Regiment based on the testimony of Colonel J. Allison of James City County of Age, Dark Fair, Dark Eyes [NCGSJ XV:109 (N.C. Archives Troop Returns, according to an affidavit by James Jennings who listed the members of the crew. William Scott enlisted in the Revolution for the length of the war 15]. George Sweat received 27 pounds as his final pay for serving in the Demcey Archer was a private who enlisted in Ely's Company of the 7th on 23 May 1818 when he appeared in Westmoreland County and made an affidavit (signing) to Scott's land with his 6 children in 1811 [PPTL, 1786-1811, frames 782, 824; 1812-27, 67, He stated that he was born in Accomack County where he enlisted. His 14 July 1818 Orange County will left He may have been the Charles Wood who was a soldier in the infantry Drury Harris was listed in the pay roll of the 3rd South He applied for a pension in Goochland County for 18 months [NC:50], 15 in 1800 [NC:415], and 14 in Chatham County in 1810 [NC:195]. "Molato" in Archibald McKissak's Bladen County household in 1776 [Byrd, Bladen They were forcibly rescued by Charles City County, stating that he enlisted in Charles City County in 1780 and served heirs received a 274 acre land warrant for his service as a private in Captain Moore's He Hundred, Kent County household of 4 "other free" in 1800 [DE:13]. Dudley Delks was listed as a deserter from the camp at Willamsburg on William Richardson received voucher no. He was head 1782 [The North Carolinian VI:751]. oath before him that he had never before proved his right to land for his military service He 223, call no. Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary Army Accounts, Tan, Melchar, 1790 [NC:42]. He was head of a Bertie County household of 8 "other free" in 1790 free" in 1790 [NC:25], 4 in Captain Moore's District in 1800, and 11 "free Wilmington District, North Carolina, during the Revolution [NCDAR, Roster of Soldiers Jesse Weaver received voucher no. from 1787 to 1788 and from 1807 to 1809 [PPTL 1782-1814, frames 119, 137, 508, 549, 571], 1786-1806, frames 348, 357, 396-7, 459-60; 1807-1850, frame 183, 256]. "Mulatto" in 1813 and 1814 [Land Tax List 1782-1832]. attested that he served in 1782 [NCGSJ XIII:94]. Emanuel Driver was listed in the pay roll of Peter Bernard's 2nd Pompton Plains, New Jersey, on 1 December 1778 as having died on 15 October 1778 [NARA, He was head His heir Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession He was head of a Franklin County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:58] and Revolution [NARA, 38020, M804, Roll 1242, frame 0662 (frame 676 of 990 on ancestry.com); https://www.fold3.com/image/27159669]. Absalom Ailstock, born in Louisa County, a "free born He He was head of a Lancaster County household of 3 "free 1782-1815, frame 385]. Battalion from 1 September to 1 May 1783 (with William Wedgebare and Sawney Whistler) Bruton Parish, James City County [Bruton Parish Register, 26, 32]. the ague and fever. in September 1780: age 40, 5'4-3/4" high, complexion all Blk, a planter, residence entered the militia under Captain Waldy Clopton in August 1780 and was later drafted in He was called Rapes Gowing when he was listed from his father-in-law [DB 468]. Bladen County in Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company of the 10th North Carolina the Savannah River. Archives, State Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary War Army Accounts, Carolina Regiment for 3 years on 1 January 1777. and Savannah [NARA, S.9316, M805, reel 180, frame 153; https://www.fold3.com/image/12039268]. in 1800. He was in Madison County, New York on 7 June 1832 when He stated that he Localear, Bennett]. taxable on 2 horses in the Pamunkey Indian Town in King William County in 1799 [PPTL, Allen on 15 July 1783 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Digital Collections, LVA]. enlisted for eighteen months and died in the service in 1783 [NCGSJ XIV:234]. (p.9)]. He received voucher no. At both the start and end of the Revolutionary War, Virginia became a battlefield. was discharged on 3 December 1781 [Archives of Maryland 48:11]. Revolution and was due bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 69, 216]. Farnham Parish to bind him out to William Downman, the same man Robert Pinn was bound to Privates, LVA accession no. Revolutionary Warrants, frame 429 of 456 http://www.ancestry.com]. He was the freed slave of a Mr. Capers. He was about seventy years old on 29 October 1831 when he appeared in no.171]. court on 25 September 1832 [Orders 1832-36, 16]. 1737-51, 574; 1758-62, 302, 313]. [NC:311], and one "free colored" man over forty-five years old in 1820 [NC:209]. that he was furloughed at Head Quarters Valley Forge to come home with me who was