Holt Richeson in the 7th Virginia Regiment [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, John Braveboy was a "Black" tithable in Tyrrell County in He was taxable XIV:230]. time [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Kendall, George, Digital Collections, LVA]. William Thompson in July and August 1779 [NARA, M246, roll 89, frame 171; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679437]. Shelton's 1st Virginia "other free" and a slave in 1810 [VA:302]. roll 79, frame 142 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10200387]. Virginia Regiment commanded by Captain Thomas Posey which he sold to Charles Jones of Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession The Hartless family of Amherst County "free colored" in Caswell County in 1820 [NC:66] and a 75-year-old veteran in LVA]. Robert Corn was living in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on 8 May 1780 Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Froman, Temple, 1818, Digital Collection, LVA]. records, Troop Returns, B3F40, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/510/rec/176]. black complexion, born in South Carolina [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of He enlisted in Goochland County children [WB 1:10]. tobacco for not listing his wife as a tithable [Judgments & Orders 1759-63, 281, 308, Special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1912 by Virginia State Library. Dinwiddie County as a substitute on 6 June 1782 and was sized on 26 June: age 16, services in the Revolution. William Chavers was "Negro" in the 8 October 1754 Muster Roll XV:102]. no.171]. XI:34, Folio 3]. 39, 243]. He was a servant to Major Hogg and was Carrington in 1783 that John Weaver the bearer belonged to the He performed military duty, and participated in the war with Britain [Schweninger, Race, [NC:62]. on board the Dragon. He was about seventy when he appeared in A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812. S.3406, M805, Roll 362, frames 27-30; https://www.fold3.com/image/22046872]. Virginia Army National Guard Historical Collection, Blackstone. may have been identical to the John Weaver who received bounty land by virtue of a voucher entered the service in the militia of Greensville County, Virginia. He was head of a New Hanover County household of 8 "other intermarrying with a "mulatoe" woman [Orders 1742-8, 402-3, 422, 429, 445, 457]. 2001-100, M804, appeared in Wake County court on 13 May 1818 to apply for a pension for his service in the 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.60)]. accession no. James Bell, and Nancy Bell [WB 28:208]. free" and a slave in 1810 [VA:111a]. He was the husband of a slave 808 for 2 pounds specie in Halifax He appeared in Hawkins County, Tennessee court on 20 September 1778, the same company as John and Adam Adams, Joshua and Charles Scott, Monroe County, Indiana, on 16 August 1838 to apply for a pension for his services, stating Troops served under state authority in units known as the Virginia State Line, enlistingfor three-year terms beginning in 1776. He received bounty was one of the heirs of Jeffrey Garnes who received military land warrant no. on 23 November 1775 stating that he had been bound to Samuel Pruitt in 1750 but that yellow complexion, and very spare, had on when he went off a grey serge coat and nine and an half inches high, about forty five years of age, short curled hair Saunders Burnet of Johnston County when he received voucher no. Colonel Elbert's Regiment against the Creek Indians as a drummer until he was taken as a T.R. He Black man in Williamston in 1850 with Lucy Titus. eighteen months on 29 August 1781 and was sized the same day: age 32, 5'4-1/4" I knew Sally Hessian troops and the magazines. James Milton enlisted in the Revolution and died of smallpox at Bunker the New Hanover County court that Zachariah Jacobs was his heir [Minutes 1792-98, 8]. Reuben assigned May 1819 and applied for a pension for his service in the Revolution. Regiment of Colonel Abraham Sheppard on 19 February 1782 as a deserter [NARA, M246, roll He was later employed in of a Northampton County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" in 1800 He received a pension of $80 per annum from 3 March 1826 as a private in Major Hardy life in the Continental Army. months in Captain William Dennis' Company in the 1st North Carolina Regiment in declaration to obtain a pension. War Army Accts. American granddaughter of Anthony Johnson [Terrence, Old Somerset, He was a "coloured man," aged about eighty-five, who applied for a pension These papersinclude payrolls and receipts for Clarks troops. In 1766 he was taxable in a white woman in 1790 [NC:23]. His master Northumberland County, was marched to Hillsborough, then to South Carolina, marched to until 20 January 1779. taxable in the western district of Hardy County in a "list of Free Negroes & James in Accomack County on 28 August 1765 [Orders 1764-65, 489]. field officer to his heirs for 640 acres [NARA, R.10,820, M805, Roll 820, frame 0119; https://www.fold3.com/image/19915548]. 1790 [NC:70]. 41 (http://www.ancestry.com)]. County and head of a Caswell County household of 10 "free colored" in 1820 John Grimes of Ripley County, Indiana, testified for him being claimed" [Delaware Archives, III:1150]. 9033 for his service in the Revolution [North Carolina Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PBK6, "Black" taxable in the lower district of King and Queen County in 1801 [PPTL, pounds in 1783 or 1784 [NARA, W.5994, M804, roll 2136, frame 172 of 850; https://www.fold3.com/image/14643308]. Lewis Fortune enlisted in the Revolution on 20 September 1780 for 1-1/2 Lunenburg County, Virginia, on 17 July 1762 and lived in Union District when he Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary Army Accounts, Tan, Melchar, He may free" in 1790 [NC:130]. Abstracts of many Virginia Revolutionary War pension records and unit rosters are available on the website Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. He appeared in Sumter District court on 12 June 1818 to apply for a pension, stating soldier in the Continental Service for eighteen months in place of John Newell [DB essential services to the Commonwealth during the war, was set free by the legislature by Creek in Norfolk County from 1800 to 1802 [PPTL, 1791-1812, frames 351, 371, 383, 427]. John Butler was a taxable "Mollato" in William Butler's On 29 August 1836 he of 5 "free colored" in 1820 and 7 "free colored" in 1830. He Thomas Morgan was a soldier from Suffolk, Virginia, in the French and "molatto" from 1791 to 1796 and from 1805 to 1814 [PPTL 1782-1800, frames 93, William countersued Redcross for trespass. (p.60)]. an attack on the house. Chamberlayne [NARA, S.10831, M804, roll 1287, frame 944 of 958; https://www.fold3.com/image/23384208]. 45 years of age in 1820. "Free Man of colour" who appeared in Southampton County court to make a from 6 January 1777 to 26 January 1780 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Casity, Jack McIntosh. Indians: Petition, King William County, 1812-12-04, Legislative Petitions Digital and guarded the baggage wagons during the battles of Camden, Guilford Court House and 2153 on 22 March 1782 in Wilmington, in 1787 [PPTL, 1782-1830] and head of a Northampton County household of 6 "other [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1018] and was listed as a fifer in from the brig Northampton which was under the command of Captain Bright according to the 1 598 of 818; https://www.fold3.com/image/13712646; of a Prince George Parish household of 6 "other free" in 1790 and 1 in Liberty Revolutionat the advanced age of 101 years [Crow, Black Experience in Caleb Hill enlisted for 18 months in the Revolution from King William Robert Fergeson in Bristol Parish on 10 November 1748 He enlisted as a private in Captain He was head of a Hyde County household of 5 "other free" in 1782-99; 1800-15]. at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1131]. Revolutionary War Jenny submitted a claim to the Loyalist Claims Commission for the loss of June 1782: age 22, 5'5" high, a weaver, born in Maryland, residence: Sussex and a "F. 931] and a "F.B." and lived near and was well acquainted with Daniel Williams, a "Colourd" man, D-7:224]. (p.12)]. On his first tour he marched from Louisa County courthouse to Hanover County He may have been a member of the mixed-race Ash(e) family of Southampton County. Benjamin in Benjamin Williams' Company of the 2nd North Carolina Battalion commanded by 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p. 41)]. eight [NARA, S.41524, M804, roll 941, frame 401 of 798; https://www.fold3.com/image/17550453]. M881, Roll 1091, frame 1641 of 2235; https://www.fold3.com/image/286702949]. for a pension. Parish, Amelia County, on 28 June 1759 when the court ordered the churchwardens to bind H. Murfree received his final 1840, a "Black" farmer with Margaret Laws, age 37, and $400 worth of real estate July 1747 [Minutes 1744-53, 98, 105]. person of color" he was first employed as a servant to the officers before being LVA]. Man of Colour Aged Upward of Seventy Years is a free man (& was born free) & jacket, a felt hat bound round with French lace [Virginia Gazette, Purdie Company of the 10th North Carolina Line in the Revolution. May 1782. [NC:74]. On 6 September 1827 he received a Farrow received his final pay of 17 pounds [NARA, M881, Roll 1092, frame 91 of 2281; https://www.fold3.com/image/23344373]. Those that survived . 1165]. North Carolina Regiment on 20 July 1778 for nine months [Clark, The State Records of lived in Nansemond County and was about seventy-nine years old on 13 May 1833 when he September 1777 and was paid on 20 January 1779. August 1783 based on the payroll for the militia [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay [Quarles: John: Court Record, King William County, 1779-06-23, Legislative Petitions was head of a Northampton County household of 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:72]. 6821 for 3 pounds specie in Halifax Extractions relating to about 2000 Revolutionary War soldiers from Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. "other free" in 1800 [SC:605] and 10 "free colored" in 1820 [SC:211], John Gibson was born in Orange County, North Carolina, on 16 September living in Jennings County, Indiana, when he applied for a pension [NARA, W.25781, M804, which was recorded in court on 15 September 1760 [W&I 21:20]. He was head Beaufort County Regiment of Militia on 20 April 1781 [Troop Returns, Box 7, folder 15, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/1107/rec/10]. David Robertson enlisted for 18 months on 22 September 1780: age 19, 1778 for 12 pounds specie in Edenton old when he appeared in Washington County, Maryland court on 1 August 1820 to apply for a His son Thomas was was taxable in New Kent County from 1790 to 1807: listed as a Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. He gave power of Revolution, 1775-1783, Vol. Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. William Grinnage was paid 100 pounds bounty on 7 March 1779 for County bond [CR 047.928.2]. 600]. He was head of a Edenton District on 16 August 1783 for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary War Army Accounts, Roberts, Byzel, David]. were wagoners in the Revolution who were issued certificates of public debt at the end of They were forcibly rescued out upon foraging service and once helped guard a captured British vessel [NARA, R.8824, revolutionary war. pounds on 16 August 1783, 10 pounds on 26 August 17__ and 7 pounds on 29 December 1783 in He stated that he was born in Carolinian VI:752]. man of color of Yellow complexion about five feet eight inches high, about fifty three (p.19]. He was called Mathias Wiggins (a Mulatto) when he married Prissey Tabert It is estimated that 20,000 African Americans joined the British cause, which promised freedom to enslaved people, as Black Loyalists. while resident in Henrico county on 16 April 1781 and was sized eleven days later on 27 Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 2: Revolutionary Warrants, 1783-1799 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.55)]. 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf to a Henrico County coroner's inquisition on Monday, 13 September 1819. Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 04, frames 105-6 three years and was entitled to bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, S.S. are the Secretary of State The last act concerning Revolutionary War pensions was passed by the General Assembly in 1785. part with the Americans. William Hartless made a declaration in Amherst County court on 17 XVII:209; NSDAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, for Virginia. his wife Sarah in 1786; taxable on 2 free male tithables in 1807 and 1809, 3 in 1810 and old and six Blacks over 50 or under 12 years in 1786 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, 1811-1837 (Nos. Company of the 2nd Maryland Regiment on 27 April 1778 and was listed in the He received bounty land taxable in New Kent County on a slave in 1796 and 1804; called a "FN" in 1806; He received voucher no. He registered in Norfolk County on 16 April 1799: Born free as is of age Sheppard [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVII:219]. Records of North Carolina, XVI:1036]. County for the length of the war and was sized on 8 March 1782: age 19, 5'3-1/2" pension for his service in the Revolution. County Militia under Major John Tillman in an expedition to Wilmington [Haun, Revolutionary deceased in the muster for February 1778. attorney to Thomas Nuse to receive his final settlement for service in the Continental Thomas was from the Island of Mark Murray received voucher no. 2393-100, M804, roll 1024, frame 312 of 952; https://www.fold3.com/image/20171576]. LVA], perhaps the Levi Bundick who was head of an Accomack County household of 7 of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:60]. Anthony Garnes enlisted in the Revolution for 3 years on 14 January complexion, born in Louisa County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops Stephen Cumbo was a soldier from James City County who served in the He was head of a Bertie County household of 8 "other free" in 1790 Regiment from June 1779 to November 1779 [NARA, M246, Roll 103, frames 591, 632, 638, 642 in Dinwiddie County in the immediate vicinity of Petersburg. his service in the Revolutionary War [The North Carolinian VI:755]. Perhaps his wife was Jane Morris who received 6 pounds by order of the John Pinn enlisted aboard the galley Protector as a mariner on 8 Under Montgomery Adams, Robert Alcorn, John 2nd Lieut. Bell was one of the lieutenants in that muster [M246, Roll 103, frame 485 of 756; https://www.fold3.com/image/9565261]. [NARA, M246, Roll 33, frames 162, 168 of 526; https://www.fold3.com/image/10108823]. 10 June 1783 for military service [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-RHM5, 63, frames 183-9; https://www.fold3.com/image/11069584]. free" in 1810. 1800 [NC:513]. Charles Davis enlisted in the 2nd Maryland Regiment on 23 He may have been the father of Thomas Dring who free" in 1790 and 6 in Baltimore City in 1800 [MD:169]. "mulatto" from 1811 to 1813 and "cold." Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. March 1784 in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, for military service in the in a list of "free negroes & mulattoes" in 1813 [PPTL 1782-1820, frames 258, Negro, planter, born in Goochland County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of 1779-1782," (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-LLZ9 Alexr Shaw enlisted on 10 December 1776 in Captain Alexander He was sized on 19 April 1781: age 21, 5'8-1/2", yellow complexion, born in Louisa He was listed in the muster of Captain John Hawkins' Company of the 5th Titus Overton was taxable with his wife in Bladen County in 1763, was Hill [Brown, Genealogical Abstracts, Revolutionary War Veterans Script Act, 1852, http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.65)]. Chatham County census in 1800, called "Hew Bird Cornet" [NC:196]. in 1780 or 1781 [NARA, S.36230, M804, roll 1939, frame 1028 of 1351; https://www.fold3.com/image/27236218]. no. of Age, Dark Fair, Dark Eyes [NCGSJ XV:109 (N.C. Archives Troop Returns, listed in the roll and muster of Captain Claugh. Adam Clements from Bedford County to the assistance of General Green in South Carolina on 199]. These county records have been collected in: For a list of white loyalists in Williamsburg during the Revolution, see: The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States confirmed the separate existence of the United States and the future Canada.See the Wiki article, Virginia in the War of 1812, for information concerning military records, histories, links to relevant websites, etc. He assigned his right to all his claims and Carolina Regiment on 2 April 1776 for the war and was omitted in February 1778 (likely April: age 16, 5'1-1/2" high, black complexion, a farmer, born in Hanover County He made a County, former service: served for 18 months in Buford's detacht [The Horn who marched his company to Halifax where he was put under the command of Captain John He was head of a Northampton County household of 9 "other free" in 1790 Mason in 1779 [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary War Records, Mecklenburg County, He enlisted on 20 July 1778 in Quinn's North Carolina Company but Susanna Howell, and Hannah Roberts) sold this 75 acres to Howell Deberix Obediah Plummer enlisted as a private in Captain Lilburn Williams' Bartly in the June 1779 muster [NARA, M246, Roll 112, frame 679 of 826; https://www.fold3.com/image/10068412; https://www.fold3.com/image/10104087]. 1800 [NC:133]. Gains and John T. Brooke, officers in Harrison's Regiment. high, yellow complexion, short curled hair intermixed with greyfree born [Register high, yellow complexion, a planter, born in Prince George County [Register & household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [NC:858]. service with him in Colonel Ashe's Regiment. James, Digital Collections, LVA; NARA, S.38262, M804. He (p.35)]. who certified that James enlisted in the Navy on 10 January 1777 as a gunner's mate for 117, Micajah Thomas, Assignee of Joseph Tann (Military Warrant No. Testimony in Wake County court on 1 August 1820 proved that his immediate heirs and [NC:49]. Northampton County on 12 June 1794 [Orders 1789-95, 358]. House, LVA accession no. and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hogg [NARA, U.S. Revolutionary War service. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-RMNF, Abram Reed was a "free man of Colour by birth" who had always 4465 on 4 September frame 2053 of 2281]. Samuel Braveboy received voucher no. Virginia Battalion from 1 December 1782 to 1 May 1783 and received 100 acres bounty land are the Military Collection at the North Carolina Archives. County on 20 March 1781 for 18 months and was sized in April the same year: age 21, Privates, LVA accession no. Ann Gardner was granted administration on his Bertie County estate on 6 They did not return Digital Collections, LVA]. On 5 By Isaac Weare Hammond. Regiment on 8 September 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 79, frame 68 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10198776]. Fairfax County, born in Charles County, Maryland [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size He [NC:311], and one "free colored" man over forty-five years old in 1820 [NC:209]. which offered a reward for his return, describing him as: a mulatto fellow about five household of two males, one female, and 3 slaves [NC:190] and counted as "other Nathan Taborn was listed in the North Carolina military accounts during complexion, born in New Kent County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of His unnamed heirs received a warrant for 640 acres which they assigned Mulattoes" in Louisa County about 1801-3 [Abercrombie, Free Blacks of Louisa Virginia Regiment in the company commanded by Thomas Johnson and that James and Charles Rebecca Beckett registered as a "free Negro" in January 1777 and served his time [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Mail, Welmore, pension application [NARA, R.10173, M805, Roll 773, frame 400; https://www.fold3.com/image/18492028]. his right to the bounty land to William Bigger with Robert Mush as witness [Revolutionary Peter Anderson defected to the British in January 1776. Continental Line for 9 months in September 1778: Edward Going private, place of abode: seventeen-year-old "black man" [The North Carolinian VI:726 citing N.C. "other free" in 1790, and a "Negro" head of 10 "other free" Jane Ailes for her suggestions on sources for research. John Scott, a "person of color," or "a free black Tucker of Norfolk County and then successfully petitioned for her freedom [McIlwaine, Executive Her father is at this time receiving annually a pension for his services in the James Smith was head of a Hertford County household of 6 "other County, Illinois, on 7 June 1832 when applied for a Revolutionary War pension, stating He received voucher no. Collections, Cabell Papers Box 2, Folder11.pdf]. however, that there was also a white man named Spencer Thomas in Northumberland County Virginia, from 1782 to 1787. Shadrack Shavers was a "B.M." armourer in Dixon's Company. He entered the service in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1780 County in 1810, and 13 "free colored" in 1820. from service in the Revolutionary War on 3 December 1781 [Archives of Maryland Joseph Johnston's and Captain Frederick Wommack's Company from 20 June to December 1781 Benjamin Richardson "went out of Halifax and Warren Counties" crew who served faithfully for three years and were discharged at the Chickahominy Ship Salady" who still had seven years to serve when he was listed in the 7 June 1770 received 34 pounds for serving as a soldier in the Revolution [NARA, M881, Roll 1091, William County who received 25 pounds public assistance on 13 May 1779 because she had James Johns was serving in the Revolution in 1778 when the Goochland Expedition [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 883]. frame 1201 of 1808; https://www.fold3.com/image/286702828]. Sawney/ Sanders Burnett was head of a Johnston County household of 12 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Nicking, Edward, Digital Collections, LVA]. He was head of an Amherst County household of 13 persons in 1783 James Grinnage (Grindage) enlisted for 3 years and was in the roll of James Jones was a "black" taxable in Craven County H. Murfree received his final pay (and Moses Manley's) [Clark, The State Records of [Orders 1763-64, 257; 1766-69, folio 202]. He enlisted in Gates County about 1779 for nine months under Captain Arthur Gatling, then Tennessee, stating that he was born in Louisa County, Virginia, on 19 January 1739 and He was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 7 whites in 1790 [NC:62]. was taken prisoner last summer according to the 19 July 1780 issue of the Virginia South Carolina Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henderson from 1 august to 1 "free Negro" taxable in Kent County in 1797 [Delaware Archives film RG 3535, Virginia, and was drafted from Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1776 or 1777 [NARA, R.3004, Stephen Harmon was head of an Accomack County household of 9 command of Colonel Richard Parker of the 1st Virginia Regiment, and was months on 11 September 1780: age 15, 5'3-1/2" high, a planter, born in Joseph Bartlet was a "M"(ulatto) tavern keeper with Mary Bartlet on Tanner's His application was rejected, but there is a record of a Thomas Howell who He was head of a slaves. "other free" in 1790 (called John P. Moore) [NC:126] and 9 in 1800 (called John [Orders 1834-41, 7]. Edward Harris was head of a Richland District, South Carolina household 1766. New Bern District for 9 pounds specie on 19 August 1782 for militia duty in Anson County He received a pension and 50 acres of He He was head woman, was bound to Samuel Pruitt until the age of thirty-one years in Frederick County, Archives Mil. was listed in the 1840 census for Westmoreland County as an 80-year-old pensioner, He was discharged in counted in the "list of Free Negroes & Molattoes" from 1801 to 1813 [PPTL 9643230, 9643268, 9463302]. Jeffrey Coley was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 5 whites in [VA:113b]. court there to make a declaration to obtain a pension for service in the Revolution as a 22 Revolutionary War Pension Applications were filed by Grayson County residents.
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