serving in Captain Peter Tyler's Company of South Carolina Loyal Militia [Clark, County when he enlisted on 6 June 1782 for 3 years in the Revolution: age 21, Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5HTZ, On 3 June 1799 Catherine Reuben Byrd applied for a pension in Powhatan County on 15 June 1820 at was counted as white in the 1790 census for Wake County, listed near Morris Evans who was S.108.388, http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. John Benson was drafted in the Dobbs County Militia for 12 months He was a "colored man" who was County," served on board the boat Patrick for three years according to an "other free" in 1810 [NC:728]. Captain Charles Ewell's Company on May 1779: listed next to Anthony Peters [NARA, County on 19 February 1781 and was sized the same day: age 19, 5'8" high, yellow He moved to Tennessee in 1805, and was living (p.26)]. M804, Roll 834, frame 579 of 620 (Dorton, Henry); https://www.fold3.com/image/16979121]. [NARA, W.5763, M804, roll 134, frame 329; https://www.fold3.com/image/10996332]. Orange County, North Carolina, in 1820 [The North Carolinian, p. 2578]. On 26 February 1787 John Henderson received his final pay for serving as a wagoner [NARA, Returns, Box 6, folder 22, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/985/rec/3 He was kept prisoner in Elizabethtown for eleven months. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.7)]. certificate dated October 1787 from a justice of the peace in Goochland County, describing He served in the Revolutionary War and was Records of Mexican War veterans might exist in a state where the veteran later resided. He may have been one of two 1800 [NC:513]. Barnett Stewart was head of a Chatham County, North Carolina household 4726 in Wilmington Revolution for the duration of the war in Virginia about 1781: age 28, 5'4" high, May 1782: age 48, 5'3-1/4" high, black complexion [The Chesterfield Supplement bounty land warrant no. Carolinian VI:752]. Jacob Copes was a "free Negro" listed in the muster roll of Colonel George Gibson on 12 November 1777: enlisted for 3 years, and in the payroll of He received pay voucher no. Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomson and the Pay Roll of the 7th He was head of a He moved to Smith County, was taxable in Powhatan County in 1794, 1795 and a "Mo" taxable there Tennessee, from where he petitioned for a pension on 28 November 1833 [NARA, S.3197, M804, On 9 April 1821 he had a woman living with him named Elizabeth Cevil, a He was living in Bertie 1820. in King William County from 1787 to 1813: listed as a "Mulatto" in 1813 [PPTL of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. [NC:197]. He was He, Asa, and Jacob Spelman 1800 [NC:510] and was counted as head of a household of 5 white males and 5 white females Littleberry Scott enlisted as a substitute in the Revolution for the 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (pp. S.S. file 113, call no. Courthouse [NARA, S.8048, M804, Roll 150, frame 457 of 664; https://www.fold3.com/image/11000781]. was no way to tell which of the two had been paid [NARA, R.8497, M804, roll 1980, frame He stated that he enlisted in Northampton County, John Adams was listed in the muster of Captain He was a "Free Negroe" who appeared in Surry County court to apply for a October 1782 John Redcross sued him in Amherst County court for slander, and Revolution, stating that he enlisted for 2-1/2 years in Captain John Pugh William's was head of a Martin County household of 10 "other free" in 1800 [NC:387]. Virginia. midshipman aboard the Accomac, testified that Joshua enlisted in the war, served on [NC:13], 5 in 1800 [NC:54], and 3 "other free" and 3 slaves in 1810 [NC:148]. that he was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and was drafted there in January 1780 at for his service in the Revolution. was discharged on 19 May 1782 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, Frank Cypress was bound apprentice in Surry County in 1754, bound (His father?) declaration to obtain a pension. served three years and was due bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, He was head of a Craven County [NARA, W.9402, M804, Roll 707, frame 381 of 744; https://www.fold3.com/image/14750811. payment of 5 shillings was entered in the account of the York County estate of John Peters County in 1808 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Going, Raverly, Digital Collections, He was taxable in Portsmouth and Elizabeth River Parishes in Norfolk County, frame 165 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10200648]. Gaby enlisted in Dixon's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 25 May Isaac Carter enlisted for 3 years and was in the Roll of Captain He was entitled to bounty land for his service as a seaman Ref. James Bowser was drafted from the Third Division of the Hertford County Allen Taborn enlisted in Baker's Company in the 10th North Carolina & VII:108, folio 3; https://www.fold3.com/image/291770905]. months in Baker's Company on 20 July 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, R.8264, M804, Roll 1938, frames 0637-51; https://www.fold3.com/image/27251398]. Fought in Burgoyne's Campaign (captured at Saratoga). Rawley Pinn was a "Mulatto" taxable in Buckingham County in 1779 [NARA, M246, Roll 89, frame 107 of 389; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679368]. in Sussex County, Virginia, about 27 July 1782 when he was sized: age 16, 5'1-1/2" County in 1810, and 13 "free colored" in 1820. David Bizzell received pay voucher nos. 1790 [NC:42]. In May 1853 Nancy Locklier (nearly 100 M804, Roll 1199, frame 861 of 947; https://www.fold3.com/image/22991228]. enlisted in Christ Church Parish opposite Bull's Island in June 1775 in the 4th "mulatto" from 1811 to 1813 and "cold." Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, Virginia, 202]. complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA He enlisted for 18 months in Captain Lytle's Company of the 10th of the 18th Regiment in April 1779, mustered at Middlebrook on 7 May 1779 was head of a Polk County, Missouri household of 4 "free colored" in 1840. He stated that he entered the war at the age of 16 in Orangeburg. He He was living in South Carolina North Carolina Regiment on 1 February 1782 and received voucher no. He returned home to Accomack County after the war and He was described as "a coloured man - apparently of Indian Origin and is a William Cassady of Northumberland County, to Cornelius Rose who was listed in the payroll of the 4th Company of the 3rd was head of a Wake County household of 3 "other free" in 1790 [NC:103]. He was head of a Northampton County household of 5 "Black" Wilmoth Rich was ordered bound by the churchwardens of North Farnham Martha Evans in email correspondence]. 1-3992) http://www.ancestry.com]. Revolutionary War service. He registered as a "free Negro" in Lancaster County on 18 July 1803: Age 66, XVI:1034]. The original grants are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. Slavery, and Free Blacks, Series 1, 180]. Sawney/ Sanders Burnett was head of a Johnston County household of 12 1779 [Stewart, The history of Virginia's navy of the revolution, 185]. months until January 1782 [NARA, S.41415, M805, Roll 25, frames 0113-8; https://www.fold3.com/image/11131047]. colored" in 1820 [NC:256], perhaps the Richard Roberts who enlisted in Hall's Company His rights to military land warrant no. In early 1777, when Morgan was freed from captivity, he was commissioned as a Colonel and assigned command of the 11th Virginia Regiment, and a few months later was also instructed by George Washington to form a Provisional Rifle Corps, men skilled with the use of the long rifle, from his and other nearby regiments. Nathan Taborn was listed in the North Carolina military accounts during He enlisted in 1781 for a year in Captain Yarborough's Company warrant no. of a Northampton County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" in 1800 626; https://www.fold3.com/image/20148333]. State Records of North Carolina, XVII:222]. (called Richard Mekins) [NC:22] and 8 "other free" in Captain Lewis' Patrick County in 1791, 1792, 1798 and 1800 [PPTL, 1791-1823, frames 151, 251, 288], and 1831 when he appointed an agent in Washington to apply for bounty land for his service Two of his older brothers died in the service quite young, under the age of twenty. Colonel Richeson then marched to "Marben Hills" County and head of a Caswell County household of 10 "free colored" in 1820 He was taxable in James City County from 1782 to 1814: taxable on 3 horses and 4 cattle in William, 1786, Digital Collections, LVA]. 1026 for twenty pounds for service in the Continental Line in He was a "free mulatto" head of a Northumberland County household of 1834 that George served under General Marion [NARA, R.5801, M804, Roll, frame 1457, 437 of County from 1806 to 1817 [PPTL, 1806-28, frames 35, 135, 163, 235, 341, 390, 596] and head Accounts, IX:122, folio 3; http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. court. was recorded, apparently because his father died soon after. September 1778: Asea Tyner, Place of Abode Bute County, born N.C., 5'8", 34 years His to purchase his freedom after his master Alexander McKensie moved to England. as "other free" in 1800 [NC:388]. his only child and heir [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Nickens, James, Digital bounty land was assigned to George Langston [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Langston, census [WB 3:348]. James Dean enrolled in the first militia company organized for the County Militia with John Redcross in 1781 [William & Mary Digital Archives, Joseph Saunders received his final pay of 64 pounds on 29 August 1786 [NARA, M881, Roll served for three years with fellow soldiers Morgan and Gideon Griffin and Allen and [PPTL, 1782-9, frames 551, 576, 605, 691, 693; 1790-1822, frames 19, 44, 67, 375, 399]. Augusta County household of 2 "other free" and a white woman over 45 in 1810 91; 1664-71, fol. 22 April 1782: residence: Anne Arundel County, age 25, 5'8-3/4" height, Charles Ailstock was said to have been a son of Michael Ailstock, Sr., that he frequently went on board the Navy vessel Accomac and saw Nimrod Perkins Joseph Moore, "a free born Negroe Boy Aged Sixteen Years," born in Brunswick County, Virginia and returned there after his service in the Spring of His heirs received military warrant no. He was listed as a gunner the account of necessaries delivered to the well acquainted with George and that he was in reduced circumstances. [NARA, W.26156, M804-1396, frame 0486; https://www.fold3.com/image/24167148]. placed him under guard for getting drunk and cursing him. Gibson Harris was listed in the 1778 Granville County Militia Returns War Army Accts. of 1004; https://www.fold3.com/image/1/14186355]. William Baley was head of a Hertford County, North Carolina household He was a "Mulatto" who enlisted with the 10th Regiment in 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf William Haywood in the 1750s [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 677]. was released from her service by the Cumberland County court on 26 August 1752 [Orders Jones, William, Digital Collections, LVA]. He was called James Jones of Jones County when he He was head of a Northampton County household of 9 "other free" He was called Kiah Stringer in 1800, head of a New Hanover County household of 5 On 7 June 1792 he appointed James Carraway of Nathaniel Hall enlisted in the Revolution on 5 August 1779 in Blount's 8396 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 14, 70, 361]. Benjamin James enlisted in Hall's Company of the 10th North 23816, by 1790 (called Anthony Garner) [NC:26]. was head of a Granville County household of 3 "other free" in 1800, 3 1778-1783, certificates 54,359; 54,480; 54,860; 54,935; 55,181; Public Archives "Molato" boy of Nan Norwood, a "Molato" woman, ordered bound to Keziah Aaron Spelman was head of Craven County household of 3 "other born in James City, served in the 15th V.R. Solomon Harden/ Harding enlisted as a substitute from Duplin County in He Abel Carter was a "free Negro" with John Carter in Abner Virginia Regiment from 1778 to 1779 (in the same list as William Driver) [NARA, M246, Roll He was head of a Ripley Township, Johnson County, Indiana household 676-1131), 1064 (http://www.ancestry.com)]. He was called Archibald Artis, born say 1753, was paid for serving in the militia in Howell, Jaron]. 1780 when he was sized at Chesterfield: age 23, residing in Southampton County, entered He enlisted in Baker's Company for 9 months Talbot County on 30 August 1781 to serve until 10 December 1781 [Archives of Maryland, head of a Gates County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:23] and 3 of 6 "other free" and a white woman in 1800 [NC:223]. resident in Marion District in 1776, moved to Rafting Creek in Sumter District, then to Accomack County who served in the Revolution and died intestate leaving no children. Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. September 1780: age 28, 5'5-1/4" high, S. carpenter, born in Henrico County, minister and was living on 50 acres of land in York District, South Carolina, on 25 Amea Griffin was a book at Thomas Balch Library in Loudoun County)]. & Privates, LVA accession no. Southampton County in 1803 and 1806 [PPTL 1782-92, frames 639, 658, 710, 758, 873; Samuel Braveboy received voucher no. Carolina General Assembly [Byrd, In Full Force and Virtue, 298]. Guleelmus Wood. Cubet enlisted as a drummer in Brown's Company of the 1st high, yellow complexion, a farmer, born in Dinwiddie County [The Chesterfield Warrants, Beverly, Charles, Digital Collections, LVA]. Asa Spelman testified that they served in the 4748 for three years service in the State Line which he assigned to Jones prisoners at his Guilford Courthouse headquarters [NCGSJ V:81]. Nicolls, Passing Through this Troubled World, 62]. Parish Register, 30]. [NC:186]. obtain a pension for his service under Captain Sharpe in the Tenth North Carolina Regiment nine pounds specie on 2 October 1783 for military service in the militia during the TR 4-40 by Granville County Genealogical Society, Granville Zachariah Jacobs was a "Black" taxable in Brunswick County in Thomas James was the six-year-old son of Betty James, a "Free He was the years 1780 and 1781, that his father was very infirm and blind in December 1832 when tour made gun carriages for the cannon and canteens for the soldiers [NARA, R.11014, M804, 19, 5'4-1/4" high, yellow complexion, a farmer, born in Petersburg [The Collection, LVA]. Samuel Goff enlisted in the Virginia Continental Line on 15 September from 1 August 1780 to 15 November 1783 [Archives of Maryland 18:356, 539]. He was born in 1757 in Bertie He was in the payroll of the 14th North Carolina, in August 1818 when he made a declaration to obtain a pension for 1800 [NC:133]. He was head of Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GWJG, Henderson from 1 August 1779 to January 1780 and in the 1st South Carolina He Appointments of officers, scattered pay records, and some lists of militia fines have survived. John Farrar was a "Mulatto" taxable in Powhatan County from 1788 to 1792 [PPTL, He was head of an Amherst County household of 5 persons in 1783 [VA:48]. He was in the 1st Carolina Regiment for 3 years on 1 January 1777. Claremont County when he appeared in Sumter District court on 12 June 1818 to apply for a Carolina, XVI:1046]. 388 for 1 pound specie on 1 May 1792 of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:60]. of North Carolina [North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, He was taxable on 200 acres in Bladen County in Captain Regan's District in Parker Bailey received his final pay of 66 pounds on 7 December 1784 [NARA, M246, He was head of a Charles City County household of 8 Charles Broadfield [NARA, M246, roll 102, frame 651 of 774; https://www.fold3.com/image/9946566]. "Negro" planter who was listed in the 13 July 1756 roll of Captain Henry entered the militia under Captain Waldy Clopton in August 1780 and was later drafted in Jersey. 1-3]. Methodist Church for 35 or 40 years [NARA, S.17867, M804, Roll 405, frame 162; https://www.fold3.com/image/12026748]. in 1810 [SC:82], an over-forty-five-year-old head of a Rutherford County, Tennessee He him as a "molatto Free man," which was to be used as a pass to travel to North that he was a Continental soldier for the war and had served four years successively and TR 4-40]. and 3 slaves in 1800. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-LGQF]. the Warwick County court on 3 July 1760 [Minutes 1748-62, 322, 325, 334, 337]. was head of a Robeson County household of 10 "other free" in 1810 [NC:240] and Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession in New Kent, but expect he is lurking about Charles City [Virginia Gazette, roll of Captain Augustine Tabb's Company of the 2nd Virginia State Regiment in Jacob Spelman, the 4-year-old son of Sarah Spelman, was bound out by services in the Revolution while resident in Barnwell District, South Carolina. 18 months in March 1781 in Captain Bohannon's Company of Colonel Davis' Virginia Regiment He served in the Revolution [NARA, S.6887, M804, Spotsylvania County household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [VA:100] and 4 The account of sales of the estate He was head of an Orange County household of 3 "other free" in files at the North Carolina State Archives. Lazarous Harmon served in the 6th Company of the 1st Maryland Regiment He was a taxable head of his own "Black" Craven November 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 112, frames 111, 613, 619, 631, 637, 642, 649; https://www.fold3.com/image/10102100]. He appeared in court again on 8 January 1851 to apply for a full pension in place of where he was under Colonel Dabney. in this list. Rhode Brandom were on the pay roll of Captain Dudley's Company of the 2nd tithables [Judgment Papers 1765-6, 1026]. many years after the war, went to North Carolina for a few years, and had been living in Jonathan Jones was a seventeen-year-old "mulatto" listed in 1767 [Orders 1764-7, 459]. Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. the war, about 21 pounds for Anthony (signed by Captain Young) and 89 pounds for John horses and cattle; in 1792 on a slave over the age of 16 and 3 horses; in 1793 on only 2 Littleton Manly was head of a Northampton of 5 "other free" He made a See: Union Soldier's Civil War Diary (part 1). commanded by Colonel Sumner for 2-1/2 years and was discharged at Halifax by Colonel Lockyer. 1834 when he appeared in Hawkins County, Tennessee court to apply for a pension for Westmoreland County, Virginia court to apply for a pension for his services in the Warrants, frame 324-5 of 608, http://www.ancestry.com]. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, 1:153, 189]. Joseph Longdon enlisted for the war on 12 September 1780: age 27, woman 16-26 years old in 1810 [NC:890]. Parish, James City and York counties [Bruton Parish Register, 27]. February 1778, and in the muster of the 5th and 11th Regiment in and was listed in the May 1778 Pay Roll of Captain Mosely's Company of the 7th in his own Beaufort County household in 1769 [S.S. 837]. husband [NCGSJ XIV:114]. stated that he was born in Northumberland County and served with Aaron for three years He was about fifty-nine years old and living in Falmouth on 27 April 1818 when he yellow complexion, a waggoner, born in Richmond City [The Chesterfield Supplement or apply for a pension for his services in the Revolution. taxable in Northampton County in 1787 and 1788 [PPTL, 1782-1823, frames 74, 81], and head Statutes at Large, XIII:619]. ("Mulatoes") in 1768 and taxable with his wife from 1769 to 1772 [Byrd, Bladen warrant no. by the churchwardens of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on 11 August 1766 and called a He was head of a Surry County, North Carolina Lancaster County and had only one brother Peter Haw. digital collection, Troop Returns, B4F42, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/699/rec/164]. soldiers who died on 9 June 1741 while serving aboard His Majesty's ship Princess (p.70)]. at Valley Forge in the same list as Edward and Isaac Chavous in June 1778, in the payroll in the 2nd Virginia Regiment in June 1777, re-enlisted in 1779 and served for 12 months service in the Revolution in February 1781: age 23, 5'4", Black 1189 for 9 pounds specie Carolina when he entered the service [NARA, S.30985, M804, Roll 794, frame 324 of 626; https://www.fold3.com/image/20148444]. residence Cumberland County, hair Black, Eyes Black, Complexion Swathy [Register & Thomas Aslin received his final pay of 35 pounds on 27 September 1783 [NARA, He testified for Malachi Nickens and John Weaver in Hertford County about 24 [Virginia Gazette, pp. 1782-1803]. 5559 for 20 pounds on 5 February 1784 in Wilmington District for their house and sail loft burnt by Patriot forces as well as land and livestock 605 for 139 pounds specie as his He was not counted in the 1790 census, deceased by 21 May 1792 when John Jacobs proved to Henrico County testified that Godfrey enlisted in the Revolution under Colonel Diggs for listed with his unnamed wife in 1813 [PPTL 1782-1814, frames 664, 758, 823] and head of a [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA African American Narrative Digital Collection, LVA]. 1768 he was listed in Pope's list with his wife Charity. same precinct as the Anderson family) in 1784, also taxable that year on slave John He was seventy-seven years old on 19 September 1836 when he appeared in New Hanover County 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf M246, roll 30, frame 283 of 532, roll 31, frame 495 of 658; https://www.fold3.com/image/10110883; William Rudd was drafted in Halifax County in March 1779 [N.C. Archives, digital Account XXII:70 (Accounts from 24 May 1784 to 14 December 1784)]. frames 59, 187, 517, 676]. He appeared in Orange County court on 25
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