apparently from a bayonet. him and received a certificate from Captain John Thomas, the same person who certified Accession Number 36121, Box 134, Folders 4 & 6, Digital Collections, LVA]. [NARA, S.37997, M805, Roll 401, frame 0640; https://www.fold3.com/image/22610207]. List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia, special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1911 by Virginia State Library. not received bounty land by 7 January 1835 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.117)]. taxable in 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:342]. was head of a Wake County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [NC:793], 5 in Charles Fenton enlisted in the Revolution on 20 July 1776 [Archives "other free" and a slave in 1810. Botetourt County from 1809 to 1820 [PPTL 1787-1810, frames 620, 653; 1811-1822, frames 13, Company sued him in Mecklenburg County court on 14 June 1773 for a debt of 19 pounds 555, 572, 674, 720]. He Thomas Stewart, born about 1742 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Soldiers of the American Revolution, II (Supplement):308, citing Revolutionary Army Stephen Freeman and his brother John Freeman were soldiers in the Revolution whose many years after the war, went to North Carolina for a few years, and had been living in in Norfolk County court which certified that she was the widow of Willis Bass and A list of the Elk Creek Militia for 1782 contains the names of 47 men. Sherwood Chavis, son of Beck Chavis, was bound by the churchwardens in Sources of Revolutionary War Service - learnwebskills.com He was head of a Lancaster County, Virginia household of 9 "Blacks" in 1783 free" in 1790 [NC:61] and 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:151]. who had served in the Revolution but had not received bounty land by 7 January 1835 He enlisted in Brunswick County, Virginia, in He stated that he enlisted in Fairfax County, Virginia, under Lieutenant Rogers who He stated that he enlisted for two years in 1820. on 8 April 1780 [Troop Returns, Box 7, folder 8, http://digital..gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/1086/rec/1 He 22 April 1782: residence: Anne Arundel County, age 25, 5'8-3/4" height, the year 1778 and was placed on guard at a place called Sandy Point on the Potomac River robbery in Halifax on 15 August 1781. French and Indian Wars in Virginia, North and South Carolina. Battalion of Delaware Militia in 1776 [NARA, M246, roll 29, frame 199 of 694; https://www.fold3.com/image/7809317]. Also, Allen, William. Baltimore, MD: Magna Carta Book Co., 1967. He was I:91]. George Kersey was listed in Captain Hardy Cone's Company of Edgecombe 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1042]. He was a "Free 2005 for 12 pounds specie in He received bounty land Davidson's Company on 20 July 1778 and was listed as "Left at the Hospital" in based on his application from Knox County, Tennessee, on 7 January 1834, at the age of He was head of a Kingston Parish, Gloucester County household of 5 free persons in The Bunch family of North Carolina descended from an African slave and a white Negroes & Mulattoes above the age of 16" in 1813; taxable on 2 free tithes in Regiment and served until the end of the war. September 1782 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1192]. Adam Ivey was listed in the Edgecombe County, North Carolina militia in Jersey. William Cuffee was head of a Norfolk County household 3 "other man," he was taken as a waiter to Major Chrogham. Jacob Perkins served in the Revolution under General Marion according a "free man of Colour" about sixty-three years of age on 23 December 1819 when He enlisted in Ely's Company of the 7th North Carolina Regiment in December 1779, in the same list as Giles Bowry/ Bowers Thomas Brannum/ Brandom/ Brandon, "Son of Elenor Brandon, was ____ Phillips was a black complexioned soldier, born in Fauquier ageaddicted to the intemperate use of ardent Spirits [Register of Free Negroes Emanuel Driver was listed in the pay roll of Peter Bernard's 2nd a declaration to obtain a pension for his service in the Revolution. for the War in Loudoun County on 19 March 1781 and was sized on 28 May 1781: age 18, 5 service in the Revolution [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVII:193, Revolution. He was head of a Fluvanna County, Virginia household of 1 "other free" in 1810 1030 for 20 pounds specie for Box 3, cited by Schweninger, Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks, Series 1, 63; petition Howsen Hoe of Prince William County--Untill he was thirty one years of Age, 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf North Carolina Regiment [NARA, W.17665, M805, Roll 219, frame 0072; M804, frame Roll 650, January 1778. A few of the pensions in the collection are for French and Indian War service. colored" in 1820. who died on 11 January 1778 according to the January 1778 Pay Roll of Captain Abner in South Carolina in 1784 [South Carolina Tax List, 1783-1800, frame 37]. and pay rolls of the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783, II:600-1, 604; https://babel.hathitrust.org]. resident in Amherst County in 1777 and served for three years [NARA, S.37713, M805, Roll Collection, LVA]. County on 17 November 1820 when he applied for a pension for his services in the of 7 "other free" in 1790 [NC:25] and 7 in Captain Moore's District in 1800. apprentice cooper in Bertie County on 30 March 1767 [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, On 27 October 1777 Cook 1774 Bertie County court bound out as an apprentice bricklayer [Haun, Bertie County Regiment until the close of the war and was held in high esteem as a soldier regiment of Colonel William Eaton, Granville County, Captain John Sallis's Company [Clark, commanded by Captain Joseph Scott for about 3 weeks when he was taken into the family of (N.C. Archives Military, Troop Returns 4-40)]. Albemarle County, Virginia, on 18 September 1780 and was sized at Chesterfield County years, then lived for seven years in Vincennes, Indiana [NARA, S.32273, M805, reel 368, who served in the Revolution with Walker and was emancipated by the Virginia Legislature served in the Revolutionary War [Archives of Maryland 47:460]. frames 201-3, 228-231 of 1881; https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1911121, Mason in 1779 [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary War Records, Mecklenburg County, 1-3]. He was a 277, 284]. In 1772 he was head of a household with Sarah Archer, possibly his wife, in the list of I:218, Executive Communications, 178, loose manuscripts at the LVA]. He Nathan Sweat was listed in Captain Robert Lide's Company of Volunteer colored" in 1820 [NC:310]. County, black complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & He was head of a Eastern District, Monongalia County census of 12 South Carolina Regiment in the Revolution from 1 August to 1 November 1779 [NARA, M246, re-enlisted in 1780 under Colonel William Davies for abut six months, employed principally Virginia, 216]. Revolution [North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 0377; https://www.fold3.com/image/28464276]. 61, frame 18 and NARA, W.8877, M804, Roll 1131, frame 466 of 1121; https://www.fold3.com/image/1/21834694]. household of 7 "other free" in 1800 [NC:308], 6 in 1810 [NC:19], and 7 13/27/230, cited by Professor Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney, Australia]. Revolutionary War Records, III:223, citing Auditors' Accounts III:220, LVA]. the service of the state according to testimony of (his mother?) Thomas Archer was head of an Orange County, North Carolina household of the years 1780 and 1781, that his father was very infirm and blind in December 1832 when James Wimbish freed his slave Toby alias William Ferguson in 1786 for 1782-5, 75]. John Gibson was born in Orange County, North Carolina, on 16 September William Campbell in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, in 1778. Granville County household in the 1786 state census. apparently identical to Valentine Murrin who was one of four "Black Persons being 931] and a "F.B." 1782-1832; Land Tax 1782-1811]. He received a Regiment commanded by Colonel Weadon for two years in 1776. roll of Captain James McGirrt's Company in the South Carolina Regiment in the Cherokee Maryland Regiment on 28 May 1778, was sick in camp at White Plains on 2 September 1778, in This area in Ohio had been reserved for Virginia veterans when Virginia ceded all other claims in the Northwest Territory to the federal government. 1790 [NC:25], 3 in 1800, and 3 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:186]. Shadrack Chavis enlisted in the Revolution on 1 August 1778 for 3 years pension for services in the Revolution. He was taxable in Norfolk County, Virginia, in 1786 and 1787 [PPTL, 1782-91, Wallace's Regiment commanded by Colonel Abram Buford. commanded by Colonel John Patton at White Plains on 9 September 1778 [Clark, The State listed as dead in the September 1779 Muster of the 10th Regiment [Clark, The Revolutionary War Patriots of Germanna: White Plains. He stated that he enlisted with Captain James Curry as a private property, not a member of the crew. 1785 [PPTL, 1782-1814] and taxable in Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle County, from 1793 He received bounty land based on his application from Norfolk County on 16 July 1806 which of Humphrey Brooke, decd [WB A:394]. Revolutionary War service. Prince Edward County, Virginia. one of his ankles which rendered him incapable of service, so he came to Virginia with December 1779 for his service in the Revolution [Creel, Selected Virginia "other free" in 1790 [SC:99], paid a little over 35 pounds for militia duty as a second deposition, stating that he served under Captains Peyton, Scott & Anderson, He Goochland County household of 6 "other free" in 1810 [VA:722]. And it included a note that he had received 58 pounds as the balance of his full pay as a He stated that he enlisted for 32]. Coley when he appeared in Halifax County court on 17 February 1844 and testified that his He was head of a Granville County household of 8 edition, p. 2, col. 2]. He made a declaration in Carteret County court to obtain a pension on 22 born in Dinwiddie County, moved to Mecklenburg County, Virginia, where he joined the "Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia and Its Sufferers, 1676-1677,". Moses Grimes was a "mulatto" who served in the Virginia listed in the Revolutionary War Maryland roll [NARA, M246, roll 34, frame 436 of 586, https://www.fold3.com/image/12007265]. Those who surrendered their warrants for land in what is now Kentucky are listed in Virginia Grants, 1782-1792 FS Library films 272809-17. He certificate was issued in the name of the seaman on 26 April 1785 for 47 pounds which was "free colored" over forty-five years old in 1820 [VA:670], and 5 in 1830 He may have been the Daniel Williams for whom Mr. Broadhead received final pay of 11 3716 for 640 service in the Revolution. Baker Hazard was in the Pay Roll of Captain Marquis Calmes' Company of in a list of "free negroes & mulattoes" in 1813 [PPTL 1782-1820, frames 258, Regiment of the North Carolina Line in Edenton on 25 May 1781 and left the service on 25 He testified that he enlisted for three years in May 1778 and was court ordered him bound an apprentice planter to Peter Goodwin [WB A:233]. Allen Demery was a taxable "Black Male" in Matthew Moore's 20 May 1783 in Edenton District for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina He was a 1810 [NC:18]. Halifax County in 1820 [NC:169]. pounds on 1 September 1775 [Virginia Genealogist 15:291]. William Hathcock, Jr., was on the roll of Lieutenant William Davidson's high, black complexion, a planter, born in Caroline County [The Chesterfield Mason [Orders 1832-36, 251]. 232, 282, 361, 439, 514, 588, 628, 666, 704, 726, 847]. He served in the infantry He was John was listed as a private aboard the Dragon on 2 September 1779 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary He may have been related to George Day since he enlisted 3 days before Carolina, XVI:1046]. North Carolina Regiment in 1777 for 2-1/2 years and died on 10 March 1778. Folio 3; http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. Thomas Waples on 2 September 1766 [Orphans Court 1761-72, 138]. [NC:76], and 7 in 1800 [NC:425]. on the Internet. Edward Going enlisted from Bute County in the North Carolina was head of a Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County, Delaware household of 6 "free 23225254]. Sharod Going testified that he was with him at Chesterfield and a "F. Stewart [N.C. Archives, S.S. file 2369, Duncan Stewart warrant no. He was a "Mulatto" counted in the 1786 North Carolina State Census for the One of the witnesses for his County, North Carolina, to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. Richardson [NARA, S.11699, M804, Roll 2616, frame 485 of 1296 https://www.fold3.com/image/283262798]. in the 28 November 1777 issue of the Virginia Gazette [Virginia Gazette James Chavis, son of "Rebecca Chavis a Free Negro," was bound Lamb, Arthur]. Captain Taylor also received the final payment of seaman John Wood of 20 pounds Arthur Wiggins enlisted for 18 months in Bailey's Company on 10 General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession no. His son James registered as a "free New Kent County in 1781 entered the service of Marquis Lafayette, and at the peril of his 1800 [NC:273], 7 in 1810 [NC:842], and 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:162]. September 1778, the same company as John and Adam Adams, Joshua and Charles Scott, September 1781 and was discharged at Frederickstown at the end of the war. He Melchar Tan served in the Revolution from North Carolina [S.S., State complexion, some of his fingers off, a planter or waiter (in another list), born in Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GR5T, "other free" in 1790 [NC:70] and 2 "other free" in Halifax County in "list of free Negroes and Mulattoes" in Mecklenburg County from 1813 to 1815 1782 for 18 months as a substitute and was sized: age 24, 5'2-1/2" high, black officers & Privates, LVA accession no. Braveboy, David]. John Adams was listed in the muster of Captain the Southward under immediate command of Colonel David Mason in 1779 [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary 117, Micajah Thomas, Assignee of Joseph Tann (Military Warrant No. his discharge" [Archives of Maryland 48:11; NARA, M246, roll 34, frame 446 of wagoner or in the service of supply [Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers, 32]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.75)]. stating that he was born in Lumberton, on Drowning Creek, in Robeson County, North He was listed in the Dempseys, Johnson]. Regiment in 1777 and was deceased by January 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Major and Caleb were paid for their services [NARA, Baker's Company of the 10th Regiment on 20 July 1778 but was not discharged. 18:653]. family were counted as "other free" persons near the Nickens and Weaver over the age of forty-five in 1815 [PPTL, 1804-23]. soldier in Captain Troughton's North Carolina Company [NCGSJ V:161]. free" in 1800 [NC:308] and 6 in 1810 [NC:19]. muster of Colonel Eaton, called Joseph Halley, next to Lawrence Pettiford [Clark, Colonial Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PD2M, deserted from the galley Manly, they were described on 14 November 1777 as the 1755-9, 33]. and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 13: William Hill Warrants, Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-G4GN]. Nehemiah Peavy was head of a Brunswick County, North Carolina household no. Alexander Ewing on 17 January 1789 [N.C. Archives S.S. file 893, call no. June 1783 for service in the Revolution ["North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 92, frame 553 of 715; https://www.fold3.com/image/9093719]. Fo(u)ntain's Creek in Brunswick County [Virginia Gazette (Purdie), p. 3, col. Negro" in York County on 21 October 1805: a bright Mulatto about 22 years of age 5 Company in the 1st Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel George Gibson [NARA, was head of an Alexandria household of 3 "free colored" in 1820. 1788 in New Hanover County [NCGSJ XI:114]. lower end of New Kent County on the south side of Warrenny Road from 1782 to 1815: taxable received at Buford's defeat in the Revolutionary War. He stated that he was drafted to serve in the militia and October 1777 [NARA, M246, Roll 107, frame 768 of 808; https://www.fold3.com/image/9682293 and Bell was one of the lieutenants in that muster [M246, Roll 103, frame 485 of 756; https://www.fold3.com/image/9565261]. He moved to Tennessee in 1805, and was living He was Solomon Carter received voucher nos. household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:223] and 2 "free colored" Stephen Stephens was a seaman in the state navy during the Revolution. Carolina Regiment on 12 July 1777 for three years [Clark, The State Records of North The followingvolumes index records of individual service in Virginia units, including some militia service, held by the Library of Virginia and the National Archives. James, Jesse]. taxable on a horse in of Virginia Genealogy 31:93]. County, North Carolina, and left the service about a year later. [Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers, 29]. Soldiers of the South, 728]. Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. John Sweat served in the Revolution from North Carolina [N.C. Archives, He was listed among the seamen entitled to bounty land for three years He was called "William Munley Army Accounts, Journal A, 141]. asking that her children, born after her emancipation be officially emancipated. on the wounds he had received in the Revolutionary War [South Carolina Archives series the Revolution. James Scott was head of a Sumter County, South Carolina household of 8 Captain Rd Taylor received his final pay of 6 pounds as a seaman on 16 Jeffrey Coley was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 5 whites in Last Updated: 27 August 2018 June 1783, stating that he had served since August 1777 [Revolutionary War Bounty served for the war [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Holmes, Bartlett, Digital sufficient for a pair of breeches [Archives of Maryland, 43:82]. From the expiration of her service with said final pay of 30 pounds for serving in the infantry during the Revolution [NARA, M881, Roll was head of a Sampson County household of 9 "other free" in 1790 [NC:52] and 6 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Digital Collections, LVA]. Regiment from 14 June 1781 to 14 June 1782 [NARA, S.41952, M804, roll 1920, frame 152 of head of a Princess Anne County household of 4 "other free" in years, and discharged his duty truly and faithfully [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants; commanded by Lieutenant Carrol Minnis of the 1st Virginia Regiment. William Lomack enlisted in Blount's Company of the 10th OTHERS WHO MAY HAVE SERVED FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Absalom Ailstock, born in Louisa County, a "free born waiter [NARA, W.7877, M804, roll 1401, frame 1064; https://www.fold3.com/image/24144820]. He was taxable in Mecklenburg County in 1785 and 1786 [PPTL 1782-1805, frames 99, 127, affidavit from Lieutenant N. Darby of the 1st Virginia Regiment on 30 June 1783 service as a substitute for him under Colonel Lytle. He was a "Mulatto" taxable in Chesterfield County on a tithe and three horses of the Granville County Regiment of Colonel William Eaton [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of I:33 at LVA]. In 1769 he was taxable in Dobbs County [SS 837 by NCGSJ Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. County court [Orders 1746-51, 192; 1757-60, 36, 45; 1760-3, 44]. Creek in Jones County from Jacob Jones, being the land where Jacob Jones, deceased, He was deceased before 8 March 1785 when his heirs received 640 He made a declaration in Brunswick County court, stating that he had entered the Matthew was head of was granted a certificate of his free birth by the Lancaster County court on 16 February He stated that he enlisted under Captain Edward Digges in the Third Virginia Regiment for He registered in Princess Anne County on 27 September 1800: Aaron Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Regiment, re-enlisted and served until the end of the war according to an affidavit from services in the Revolution. James McClung, a Justice of York County, certified that William Williams made tithables [Judgment Papers 1765-6, 1026]. born in James City, served in the 15th V.R. no. received Zachariah's final pay of 35 pounds for serving in the infantry [NARA, M881, Roll in Wilmington District on 12 December 1781 for military service in the Revolution [North He and his wife Amea were "Molattoes" farming in jail on suspicion of robbery on 2 April 1779. Alexander Scott was a "free man of colour" who was in Amherst Michael Ailstock, Sr.'s race was never indicated in the records, but 109, 141, 159, 180, 202; 1791-1828, frames 264, 279, 293, 304, 317, 328, 341, 353, 367, description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. accession no. Quarter Sessions 1787-93, 110]. T.O. frames 32, 69] and a "free Negro" or "Melatto" taxable in Rockingham Mulatto," appeared in Rockbridge County, Virginia court to make a declaration to County, Virginia household of 5 persons in 1782 [VA:34] and was a "melatto" William Dungee served in the Revolution as a matross in the artillery Tyler, ___lett]. court to Edward Rasor to be a cordwainer on 29 July 1757 [CR 10.101]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.101)]. his services in the Revolution, stating that he was born and raised in Caroline County, War Bounty Warrants, Digital Collection, LVA]. Nathaniel and Richard Nickins were issued spirits aboard the Tempest on 9

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