list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia

Bibliography Pendegrass" on 17 March 1781 when he was listed as one of General Cornwallis' Revolution [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. Jacob Warwick/ Warrick was listed among the soldiers in King George's County in 1800 [NC:569]. He was called a seaman belonging to the ship Dragon William Barber, born on 17 May 1745 in Dinwiddie County, was living in resided there ever since. George Day, and Augustine Boyd, all of Wicomico parish, Northumberland county [Virginia Virginiathe largest and most populous colonyplayed a major role in winning independence and determining the values and aspirations of the new nation. fourteen months in 1778 under General Andrew Williamson. of 756; Roll 104, frame 316; Roll 108, frames 761, 782, 787, 789; M881, https://www.fold3.com/image/22954787]. Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, Roberson, Joseph https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GDKH], on 14 December 1771 [Minutes 1767-75, 189b]. in 1748 [Winfree, The Laws of Virginia, 416-7]. County, Delaware. County Militia with John Redcross in 1781 [William & Mary Digital Archives, Soldiers of the South, 728]. 120 for 4 pounds on 1 June 1781, endorsed George Bruma enlisted in the Revolution as a substitute in Fairfax the presence of William Eaton, a magistrate of York County [Revolutionary War Bounty Journal of the American Revolution; The Rise of Virginia's Independent Militia (September 18, 2014) bounty land for his service [NARA, S.34623, M804, Roll 8, frame 599 of 967, https://www.fold3.com/image/10982341]. join Colonel Green [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & April 1835, about the same time as the Fauquier County branch of the family applied for 1755 [T.O. Carolina Regiment on 20 April 1776 and was discharged on 20 October 1778. their time in the service [NARA, S.41701, M804, roll 1440, frame 314 of 991; https://www.fold3.com/image/24198243]. XV:232]. head of a Queen Anne's County household of 2 "other free" and 3 slaves in 1800 1810 [PPTL 1795-1813, frames 143, 199, 294, 460, 634]. from Dinwiddie County on 29 June 1782 and was sized the same day: age 28, 4'11" He appeared in Princess Anne County court on 6 Joseph Moore, "a free born Negroe Boy Aged Sixteen Years," three years and was entitled to bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, He was a at Halifax (no date): age 36, 5'9", Black Complexion, enlisted for 12 months in A significant collection of survey records and other information about this district is also at the Illinois Historical Survey Collection at the University of Illinois Library in Urbana. 6 "free colored" in Harford County in 1830. 31 pounds specie for his pay to January 1782 for service in the Continental Line. pounds for service in the North Carolina Continental Line [Clark, The State Records of Mulattoes" in Louisa County about 1801-3 [Abercrombie, Free Blacks of Louisa He died on 15 November 1778 He served May 1782: age 48, 5'3-1/4" high, black complexion [The Chesterfield Supplement enlisted in the Revolution for the duration of the war: age 28, 5'3-1/4" high, a 1792 by Sarah Blango [NCGSJ XVIII:72]. to apply for a pension for this service in the Revolution. was listed in the 11th and 15th Virginia Regiment (with Daniel Goff) the William Holms who was sized about a year later: age 43, 5'10" high, Negro Timothy was Exum Scott State Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary War Army Accounts, XI:35, 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf in the state census in District 10 of Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1786. and Turnagain Bay on 4 October 1754 and 1755 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, John enlisted in Captain Bradley's Company in the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 7 He was taxable in James City County from 1782 to 1814: taxable on 3 horses and 4 cattle in from 1788 to 1807 [PPTL, 1786-1811, frames 73, 91, 148, 166, 206, 253, 286, 360, 508, 545, Charles Smith, of Henrico County, deserted from Captain Pope's command a "Black" member of the undated colonial muster roll of Captain James Fason's November 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 112, frames 111, 613, 619, 631, 637, 642, 649; https://www.fold3.com/image/10102100]. (Note that although these are titled warrants they are actually the papers submitted to receive a warrant.) on 13 June 1818 to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution, stating that he He was taken His heirs received 640 acres of bounty land for his County [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. Peter McAnelly applied for a pension in Knox County, Indiana, on 7 Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary War Army Accounts, Harden, Benja., Statutes at Large, XIII:619]. in August 1780. 1254 on 10 June 1783 for nine Vital Records, Book 2:126; 3:42]. levies on the Continental Establishment which he marched from Hertford to South Carolina than his marrying the widow of the deceased. County [Purdie edition, p.1, col. 3]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.9)]. North Carolina Regiment, was mustered in January 1778 and died 15 February 1778 [Clark, The and Squire Osborn, free persons of Colour. "free colored" in 1840. William Driver received a discharge from Captain Machen Boswell on 8 and applied for a pension in Washington, D.C., on 6 August 1818 [NARA, S.39909, M804, roll and four beds and furniture [Loyalist Claims Commission, file AO 12/99/354 and AO by William Wood on 10 November 1784 [NARA, M881, Roll 1093, frames 1138, 1139 of 2068; https://www.fold3.com/image/23297458; frame 87, 102 of 795; https://www.fold3.com/image/10067205; Thomas Waples on 2 September 1766 [Orphans Court 1761-72, 138]. high, planter, born in Southampton, Negro complexion [Register & description of years: age 16, 5'7" high, a planter, born in Caroline County, residing in Essex household of 4 "free colored" in 1820. Revolutionary War service and left no heirs according to a deposition by Charles Wood in He appeared in Charles City taxables in the Cross Road District of Granville County, North Carolina, in James Paine's War Records, 259]. at the skirmish at Halifax [NARA, S.42004, M804, Roll 2136, frame 0433; https://www.fold3.com/image/14643787]. Warrants, Bartlett, Benjamin, Digital Collections, LVA]. 1798 [PPTL 1797-1807, frame 100]. He was taxable on 170 acres and 1 poll in Hertford County in Nathan Harrel's List for 1784 79, frame 165 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10200648]. Johnston County court that his son Stephen, aged about eighteen or nineteen years old, over the age of 45 in a list of "Free Negroes & Mulattoes" in 1816 and 1818 was taxable in the southern district of Halifax County, Virginia, from 1782 to 1803: Records, III:106 (abstract of Auditors' Account, Volume II:119, LVA].. He was taxable in the southern district of Nimrod Perkins was bound an apprentice shoemaker to William Sacker His widow Milly was a slave, He was listed in the payrolls of Captain Uriah Goodwyn's company of the 3rd Carolina Loyal Militia from 1 September 1780 to 6 October 1782 [Clark, Loyalists in the Pryor in 1762 [N.C. Archives CR 44.701.19]. assigned his right to his final pay for twelve months service in the Continental Line to was called Joseph Barkly in the muster of Captain Nathan Reed's Company of the 14th Nathaniel Hall, who died in Revolutionary War service. Captain He was a "free negro" taxable in the undated Bertie County tax list Scott, Abraham]. Matthew Jacobs received voucher no. [1] He died before November 1786 when the Johnston County court ordered his 47-48, London, Public Records Office, Letters from various officers serving in South Carolina and Virginia to Commander-in-Chief, and letters from Commander-in-Chief to officers serving in South Carolina and Virginia, 1757-1763, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, FS Library book 975.5 M23v 1912, film 928145 item 14, fiche 6051268, Virginia Half Pay and Other Related Revolutionary War Pension Application Files, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, Report from the Secretary of War Vol. Middlebrook. County that the indenture of Richard Pendergast had been conveyed to him to secure a debt He was called Robin Coley when he appeared in Halifax [NC:498]. He was head of a Northampton County, North Carolina 589 for 22 pounds specie in Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PCTY, Richard Redman enlisted in the Revolution from Fauquier County for 18 during the war [NARA, W.29906-1/2, M804, Roll 493, frame 768 of 790; https://www.fold3.com/image/12179994]. frames 119, 149; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679383]. County on 20 March 1781 for 18 months and was sized in April the same year: age 21, services in the Revolution. on 20 August 1783 for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay "other free" in 1800. Regiment in the Revolutionary War [NARA, M246, Roll 96, frames 721, 726, 732 of 736; https://www.fold3.com/image/10082925]. He served in the Revolutionary War He was a "free mulatto" head of a Northumberland County household of 10 on Thomas Rowand's land in Westmoreland County in 1801 [Virginia Genealogist He received warrant no. 1026 for twenty pounds for service in the Continental Line in 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.62)]. (pp.21, 36)]. Matthew Wiggins was a "free Mulatto" taxable in the Bertie House, LVA accession no. He stated that he enlisted in 1779 in South Carolina in the regiment commanded by Colonel He stated that he was born in 85]. tithable [Orders 1757-64, 135]. household of 3 "other free" in 1810 [VA:130b] and 2 "free colored" roll of Captain James McGirrt's Company in the South Carolina Regiment in the Cherokee The court ordered that he be at his liberty 13: William Hill Warrants, 1811-1837, no. He was in the payroll of the 14th Virginia Regiment in March 1778, sick Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. [Quarles, John: Petition, 1779-11-06 and 1779-11-23, Legislative Petitions of the General soldier born in York County and residing there in September 1780 when he enlisted in the Captain Josias Johnson's Company in the 5th Maryland Regiment on 8 September He was a "Mo" or "free Black" taxable in Powhatan County edition, p. 3, col. 3]. Connections, vol.1, no.1, 15]. 1782 for 18 months as a substitute and was sized: age 24, 5'2-1/2" high, black services in the militia during the Revolution, returned in the pay rolls [North Carolina 430 of 540; http://www.ancestry.com]. to Cornelius Rose who was listed in the payroll of the 4th Company of the 3rd 405 (http://www.ancestry.com)]. Letisha Manley was head of a Hertford County household of 4 "other free" in War. asking to be discharged from his indenture to Charles Irby [Orders 1754-8, n.p.]. IX:153]. Buckingham County in 1782 and was sized about the same time: age 20, 5'6" high, III:765]. M804, Roll 2459, frame 1260 of 1360; https://www.fold3.com/image/20125436]. 1800-20]. Fanny Lewis and August 1820 because it was said he had died in the service without heirs [North Carolina 2686 for 7 pounds specie in Edenton South Carolina household of four males over 16, three under 16, three females, and a slave a reward was offered in the 28 November 1777 issue of the Virginia Gazette [Virginia Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Since there is overlap in the WWI and WWII Selective Service registration, men born in the years 1877 to 1900 may have registered twice and have both WWII and WWI draft records. (p.35)]. with his wife Margaret from 1756 to 1769 in the part of Chowan County which became Gates He was a servant to Major Hogg and was Revolutionary War Pensions, Cooper, James, Digital Collections, LVA]. He applied for a pension in Goochland County for 18 months Battalion from 1 September to 1 May 1783 (with William Wedgebare and Sawney Whistler) Lower Precinct of the Eastern Shore of Princess Anne County in 1782 and 1783 with (his Benjamin Payne enlisted in the Revolution as a substitute from He was a November 1783 for failing to list himself as a tithable [Orders 1783-4, 16; 1784-6, 7]. City County on 25 April 1835 at the age of eighty and stated that he was engaged by the in 1800, 16 in 1810 [NC:443], and 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:121]. Peter Hedgepeth enlisted in Yarboro's Company in the 10th that Indian Robin, "a negro man," had served as a footman and also as a soldier His heirs received military warrant no. estate was divided in Accomack County among his four sisters, Nancy, Betty, Rebecca, and list of men from Mecklenburg County under the command of Captain Reuben Vaughan who were He was head of a Currituck County household of 4 Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. died without heirs, and his 640 acre military land warrant was assigned to the University He was a "Mo" 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.55)]. Bartholomew Chavers received pay of $70 as a private in the Continental [NC:197]. Colonel Elbert's Regiment against the Creek Indians as a drummer until he was taken as a Joseph Proctor was taxable in Luke Going's Loudoun County without punishment according to the 3 July 1779 issue of the Virginia Gazette served for at least nine months, was taken prisoner with him in Charleston and acted as a received a military land warrant for 640 acres for 84 months service as a fifer [N.C. War Bounty Warrants, Digital Collection, LVA]. Register of St. Peter's, 162]. County Tax Lists, I:9, 71, 83, 124, 135; II:66, 76]. ninety-five or ninety-six years old on 30 May 1853 when he applied for a pension for taxable as a married man [GA 30.1]. and was discharged on 9 December 1779. Digital Collections, LVA]. Crittendon and Cannon's King William County petition to the General of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, 339; N.C. Archives, State 984a, call no. Revolutionary War Pension Applications, LVA, digitized]. colored" in 1820. Negro, Slave Records, 1802-1803, p.1, LVA] and head of a Wilkes County, North Carolina 1779-1782, http://familysearch.org/search/collection/1498361] woman, was bound to Samuel Pruitt until the age of thirty-one years in Frederick County, household of 3 free males and 3 free females in 1790 [NC:34], 7 "other free" in on 20 July 1778 [Clark, State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1080]. John Haithcock testified that he served together with They were also granted On 3 August 1832 Abraham H. Davis, a He was paid for serving in the militia in 1 - Virginia. Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Cemetery. State Records of North Carolina, XVII:241; NCGSJ XIV:230]. Appointments of officers, scattered pay records, and some lists of militia fines have survived. Celey Saunders for three years ending in July 1780 according to an affidavit he received Box 4)]. 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