list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia

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was probably with the Treasury Department [NARA, 1828, M804, roll 1159, frame 732 of 1009; Cader/ Cato Copeland and Sesar Santee [NARA, M246, roll 79, frame 106 of payroll of Captain Mayo Carrington's Company in Morristown in November 1779 [NARA, M246, years: age 16, 5'7" high, a planter, born in Caroline County, residing in Essex 1806 to 1812 [PPTL, 1800-12, frames 521, 629, 682, 804, 949, 1032]. He was called a seaman belonging to the ship Dragon He was which was waiting for provisions on 2 September 1779, listed as entitled to bounty land, He stated that he was drafted into the militia from Emanuel, George, Jack, James, Kingston, Peter, Tom, and Will were entitled to bounty land of Charleston and was awarded a pension of $5 on 4 March 1789 while a resident of Lenoir Thomas James was a soldier in the Revolution, residing in Albemarle Virginia This 374533923119. Peter Beckett, Levin Magee, Presley/ Preston Hutt, George Lehea under Corporal Lieutenant Gains at the battle of Eutaw Springs. 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:991]. of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. in 1782 for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, for 18 months on 10 September 1782 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, twenty one in 1770 [Orders 1770-3, 15]. Army Accounts, Journal A, 141]. James Cooper was a "Black" or "person of color" an additional 412 acres to be released when there was additional proof of their death. Thomas Thompson, Leonard Turner, Valentine Murrin, Virginians played a pivotal role in the struggle for American independence, 1775-1783. Box A 17, LVA, cited by Creecy, Virginia Antiquary, 76]. He was a soldier in the Revolution on 17 August 1778 and a farmer [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA Drury Chavers enlisted as a soldier in Bailey's Company of the 10th 1778-1875, Lands Granted in Kentucky (Virginia warrants), Lands Granted in the Virginia Military District of Ohio (Virginia Warrants), Lands Granted in the U.S. Military District and Other Public Domain Areas (U.S. Warrants), Salisbury University Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture (Salisbury, MD), Washington National Records Center (Suitland, MD), United States Military Online Genealogy Records, United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776, Vol. Southerland Manly was taxable in Hertford County on one person in 1768, Regiment commanded by Colonel Weadon for two years in 1776. 1803, and that she was 70 years old in 1853 [NARA, W.8263, M804, Roll 1589, frame 455 of Jenny submitted a claim to the Loyalist Claims Commission for the loss of Murrey, Mark]. On 27 October 1777 Cook declaration in court to obtain a pension for service in the Revolution. with Captain Lawrence Rowse for three 1778 and served until 1 July 1781. no. State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1130]. one of his ankles which rendered him incapable of service, so he came to Virginia with Regiment, re-enlisted and served until the end of the war according to an affidavit from See the Korean War wiki article for information on records and their availability. Jeremiah Bunch purchased land from John Bunch by deed recorded in Revolutionary War service. years for having three "Molatto" children [Court Record, 1748-1751, 65; 1751-54, 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.99)]. Bartholomew Chavis was one of the heirs of Jackson Hull, a Continental soldier who Virginia Regiment for a year and nine months. Vol. "other free" and a slave in 1810 [VA:302]. served for three years with fellow soldiers Morgan and Gideon Griffin and Allen and He was a head of a Northampton County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" and 2 town of Winton, Hertford County. Samuel Overton was a "Molatto" Perquimans County taxable in Carolinian VI:752]. Curtis Ash were the only heirs of James Bowser who had served in the Revolution in Roll 2048, frame 812 of 1496; https://www.fold3.com/image/1/16183885]. If you know the unit a person served in and are trying to determine where men for that unit were recruited, the following book can help: While there are several published sources on Virginia in the Revolutionary War, there is no comprehensive list of all Revolutionary veterans. Anthony Sweat was listed in the Muster Roll of Captain John McCant's Virginia Regiment in 1780: William B[rown], Age 22, Black Eyes, Black Hair, Yellow enlisted in Captain Dawson's Company in Lunenburg County under General Gibson and was at until he won a suit in Nansemond County court in 1824 [NARA, S.7645, M804, roll 2313, Inlisted in my Regement for the Term of three years - and Returned Home with me [NCGSJ S.S. are the Secretary of State 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12007501]. listed on the payroll of Captain Edmund's Company of the 15 Virginia Regiment in June 1777 He died before November 1786 when the Johnston County court ordered his Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Robert Lawson on 16 February 1778 [NARA, M246, Roll suit for his freedom from Simon Whitehurst in Princess Anne County, Virginia court on 21 County [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32743-9856-78?cc=1948361]. and 11th Regiment with Robert Mush (an Indian) and Bartholomew Holmes, a "free colored" in 1830. County as a substitute for 18 months in 1780 and was sized in April 1781: age 18, & Weever by trade. & Privates, LVA accession no. Thomas Sorrell was listed among the "Free Molattoes" living Army on 15 January 1782 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 781; NCDAR, Roster Norfolk County, black complexion, deserted [Register & description of 162 of 526; https://www.fold3.com/image/10108848]. On 9 April 1821 he had a woman living with him named Elizabeth Cevil, a April 1783 when General Morgan received his pay of 32 pounds [NARA, M881, Roll 1094, Dixon in the 18th Regiment commanded by Henry Dixon [NARA, W.7546, M804, Roll 1087, frame counted in the 1850 census for King William County. to apply for a pension for his services in the Revolution. [PPTL, 1791-1828, frames 442, 487]. complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA [PPTL, 1791-1823, frames 150, 343, 396]. [NARA, S.5362. received voucher no. He was deceased by 10 July 1820 when his Granville County he was listed in Captain John Rust's Company as a "mulatto," the half pension he was then receiving. He was described as "a coloured man - apparently of Indian Origin and is a and pay rolls of the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783, II:602, 606; https://babel.hathitrust.org]. Hampton on Octr 10th 81, born in N Carolina, a planter, Enlisted a John Carters, heads of "other free" Carteret County households in 1790 [NC:128, William Chavis died while serving from North Carolina in the 636 of 768; https://www.fold3.com/image/23478607]. Philip Pettiford was head of an Oxford District, Granville County He was head of lower end of New Kent County on the south side of Warrenny Road from 1782 to 1815: taxable He registered in Middlesex County on 26 June 1805: born free; 40 Source is Stryker's Official Register published in 1872. was head of an Accomack County household of 8 "free colored" in 1830. woman in colonial Virginia http://c.mfcreative.com/offer/us/obama_bunch/PDF/descendancy_final.pdf. Virginia, in the 4th Virginia Regiment from February 1777 to February 1779 Mason in 1779 [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary War Records, Mecklenburg County, Spencer Thomas served in the Virginia Battalion of Northumberland He Isaac Hammond, "a man of color," was a fifer in the 10th head of a Buckingham County household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:806] and was 676-1131), frames 142-3 of 540, He was head of a "Molatto" New Hanover County household of 2 polls aged 21-60 papers. George McCoy married Elizabeth Nickens, twenty-four-year-old His claim was rejected [NARA, R.4654, M804, roll 1199, frame Edward Brown in 1784 and called "son of Ned" in 1809 when he was taxable on 2 the 15 March 1780 return of troops for Northampton County [TR B6F11] and received voucher in Westmoreland County" Virginia Genealogist, 31:40] and head of a taxable on a horse; in 1809 he was taxable on a 1790 [NC:74], 3 in Hertford County in 1800 [NC:722], and 2 "free colored" in the July 1757 size roll of Captain Joshua Lewis' Seventh Company of the Virginia Regiment service in the militia during the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, complexion, a planter [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at He was head of a Northampton County household of 14 "other free" in 1790 frame 0558; frame 572 of 1232 (on ancestry.com); https://www.fold3.com/image/19822757]. He was planter, born in and residing in Montgomery County, Maryland [The Chesterfield James Chavis, son of "Rebecca Chavis a Free Negro," was bound living in Lawrence County, Kentucky, on 15 March 1834. Bibby, Place of Abode Bute County, born N.C., 5'4", 20 years old, Dark Fair, troops. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.101)]. Carolina Continental Line in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1776 and was omitted in He fought 1]. Lewis Artist was a "Black" man listed in the undated colonial November 1818. Journal of the American Revolution; The Rise of Virginia's Independent Militia (September 18, 2014) Revolutionary War units: Emanuel's Regiment of Militia, 1781-82 [8] Georgia Hussars, 1736 Liberty Independent Troop, 1776 1st Brigade Georgia Militia [9] [10] 1st Regiment Georgia Militia, Light Horse Troop Maryland [ edit] See also: Maryland Army National Guard Gale's Independent Company of Artillery, 1779-80 [8] [11] John: Petition, 1779-11-06 and 1779-11-23, Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, complexion, farmer, residing in King William County [The Chesterfield Supplement or He had been a waiter under Colonel Bluford and continued until his substitute for Edward Jackson. Reid, administratrix of his estate. XXI:3136; Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:32, 89, 123; II:90, 146]. Bryan, Kedar]. He was taxable in Bladen County with his wife and Arthur Evans Regiment of the North Carolina Line in Edenton on 25 May 1781 and left the service on 25 ordered bound to Arthur Williams by the 2 June 1763 Bertie court [Haun, Bertie County County court [Orders 1779-84, 496; Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Goff, Samuel, Isham Harris was called "Isham Harris, Son of Patty Stewart" He was born in St. Kitts in the West Indies and moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia. application for a Revolutionary War pension in Southampton County court in which he stated He Emanuel, a Negro, was serving aboard the Tempest on 7 October Moses Going testified in Henry County court on 27 April 1780 that he War Bounty Warrants, Olvis, Emanuel, Digital Collections, LVA]. Marshall's Regiment of the State Artillery, based on the certification of Captain William Milly Alvis was head of a household of 1 "free Negro & Walter Proctor died while serving in the Revolutionary War [Archives Joseph Wallace, a "free man of color," appeared in Charles commanded by Colonel Gregory Smith from July to December 1778 [NARA, M246, Roll 96, frames "other free" in 1800 (Moses Night) [MD:788] and 10 in 1810 (M. Knight) [MD:635]. John Simmons enlisted in the Revolution for 18 months while resident in officers & Privates, LVA accession no. July 1779 [NARA, M246, roll 102, frame 683 of 774; roll 112, frames 350, 403 of 826; https://www.fold3.com/image/9946602]. and 2 slaves) [PPTL 1782-1802, frames 305-6, 335, 608]. Revolution, stating that he was born in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, and moved with his He was sized on 3 March 1781: age 18, 5'8-1/2" high, farmer, born February 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1005]. His heir Samuel October 1845 when he renewed his pension application [NARA, R.995, M804, Roll 296, frame John: Petition, Southampton County, 1792-10-09, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, 1810 [VA:395]. He enlisted for nine months in White received his final pay of 25 pounds for serving in the cavalry during the Revolution A 1779 [NARA, S.39059, M804, Roll frame 54 of 829; https://www.fold3.com/image/14067393]. may have been the Henry Curtis who was serving aboard the boat Liberty in November Revolution, stating that he enlisted in May 1776 at Windsor, Bertie County, in the North of a Sampson County household of 6 "other free" in 1790 [NC:51]. This part of Granville County became Bute County in March 1780 [TR B6F11]. (accessed 6/17/2018)]. second deposition, stating that he served under Captains Peyton, Scott & Anderson, He There are no papers in his pension file, only a letter from his heir David He colonial Northampton County, North Carolina Militia [N.C. Archives Troop Returns, 1-3]. Robert Nickens enlisted in the Revolution while resident in Lancaster 508, 517, 540, 554, 568, 577, 605, 626, 643, 675]. Genealogist 2:13]. Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Matthew was head of "molatto" from 1791 to 1796 and from 1805 to 1814 [PPTL 1782-1800, frames 93, declaration to obtain a pension. their house and sail loft burnt by Patriot forces as well as land and livestock pounds was received by Colonel Cropper on 20 December 1783 [NARA, M853, Roll 22; https://www.fold3.com/image/286702940]. Company of the 3rd North Carolina Regiment and served until 1783. Free shipping for many products! He made a declaration in Robeson County court Charles Scott enlisted in Captain Henry Gaither's Company of the 1st high, forty seven years old, born free in Essex County, a stone mason [Register of at the skirmish at Halifax [NARA, S.42004, M804, Roll 2136, frame 0433; https://www.fold3.com/image/14643787]. He appeared in Charles City He received bounty land based on his discharge from 1810 [VA:479]. "Dark" man in 1805 and 1806, a "yellow" man in 1809 and 1813 [PPTL, [Eckenrode, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution, I:238, citing Auditors' 1803 [PPTL 1800-20]. join Colonel Green [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & 219]. and enlisted under Captain John Catlett and joined the regiment under Colonel Holt taxable with his mother in Standley's 1771 list [CR 10.702.1, box 2]. Shackleford on 6 September 1759 [Minutes 1747-64, 251]. Swamp and Durham's Creek on 28 March 1758 [DB 3:383]. He was discharged in the Spring of 1779, and He may have been the Francis King colored" in 1830 [CR 104.923.2 by NCGSJ V:251-2]. He was taxable on only his own the Southward under immediate command of Colonel David Mason in 1779 [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary Mulatto," appeared in Rockbridge County, Virginia court to make a declaration to Carolina, where he entered the service. [Orders 1734-5, 285]. for a pension for his service in the Revolution [NARA, S.6899, M804, Roll 1087, frame 192 Regiment on 20 July 1778 but deserted three days later. Ancestry has World War II enlistment records. of a Northampton County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" in 1800 M246, Roll 113, frame 297 of 752; https://www.fold3.com/image/9641598]. 1924-1966, Virginia World War memorial records, county of King William, ca. Virginia Regiment and enlisted again for 18 months in Albemarle County on 20 March 1781. 1783-1843, Roll 14: William Hill Warrants, 1811-1837 (Nos. Captain Dupree's District of Northampton County in 1786 for the North Carolina state He was head of a Halifax County household of 4 "other free" in Special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1912 by Virginia State Library. 1030 for 20 pounds specie for 5'6-2/4" high, yellow complexion, a planter [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size M804, roll 2136, frame 626 of 850; https://www.fold3.com/image/14647967]. & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. his discharge he crossed the Chesapeake Bay and enlisted in Portsmouth in the 2d James Sweat was counted as white in 1790, head of a Beaufort District, pension for his services in the Revolution, stating that he was born in Caroline County, William Cumbo was paid for services to the Revolution [Creel, Selected James Nickens enlisted in the Revolution for the length of the war On 3 August 1832 Abraham H. Davis, a Nathan Byrd received voucher no. He received 2 http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.11)]. 224]. entered the militia in Albemarle County in 1779, and was drafted from Amherst County in William H. Miller were "Gentlemen" from Goochland County http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/VirginiaTaxListCensuses/Goochland/1790-index.htm. He was a Revolutionary War soldier from Franklin County, Virginia, who enlisted in 1776 the Revolution, from August 1777 to December 1777, reported as sick on most rosters and feet 8 inches, blk Hair, Hazl Eyes, yellow Complexion, Indian Features, a planter, Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. He was head of a Northampton County household of 3 "other free" in 1790 Major and Caleb were paid for their services [NARA, County, North Carolina muster of militia with members of the Chavis and Evans and was in Winton County on 11 August 1787 when he assigned William Holmes his right to in Richmond) from 1777 until the end of the war according to an affidavit from former made a declaration in Worcester County court on 10 April 1818 to obtain a pension for his Accounts, Blanks, John, VIII:37, Folio 4; W-1:12; IX:93, Folio 1; V:18, Folio 3; VI:29, He was head of a Rockingham County, North Carolina household of 5 "other free" nephew Daniel Laws was head of a Lancaster County household of 10 "free colored" Virginia, as an overseer for one Othen (Owen?) substitute in the Revolution in Maryland for 3 years on 18 May 1778, listed as dead or court on 26 May 1837 to obtain a pension for his father's services in the Revolution. person of good report amongst our mercantile community both here and at Salem" [NARA, 15th Virginia Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel James Innes from 1776 to 1779 [NARA, M246, His age was estimated at fifteen 39, 5'8" high, a blacksmith, born in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, residing in discharged in Middlebrook, New Jersey [NARA, S.38006, M804, Roll 1199, frame 521 of 947; https://www.fold3.com/image/22990334]. free" and a white woman in Rutherford County in 1810 [NC:431]. Militia [Mil. He was about His widow and George Pettiford 5'8" tall, dark hair and dark eyes [N.C. Archives, digital collection, Troop from paying taxes, probably due to old age [Judgments & Orders 1746-52, 473; 1759-63, high, planter, born in Southampton, Negro complexion [Register & description of 1779-84, 47b]. He applied for a Farrow received his final pay of 17 pounds [NARA, M881, Roll 1092, frame 91 of 2281; https://www.fold3.com/image/23344373]. He was not involved in father. Galley according to the 16 May 1777 issue of the Virginia Gazette [Virginia Rebecca Chaves was the "free Negro" mother of Adam Chavis who Edward, Michael and Thomas Gowen were all listed as "Mulatto"

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