Army on 15 January 1782 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 781; NCDAR, Roster transferred to the 1st Regiment at Valley Forge. taxable in the southern district of Halifax County, Virginia, in 1794 [PPTL, 1782-1799, of 619; http://www.ancestry.com]. years of age; Black complexion [Register of Free Negroes 1800-60, p.15]. of 8 "other free" in 1810 [NC:193]. 9483 for 5 pounds on 16 December 1783 for military service in the Revolution [North The Revolutionary War in Virginia Daniel Morgan (in white uniform near front of cannon) led Virginia riflemen that targeted British officers successfully and led to the surrender of British General John Burgoyne's army at Saratoga, New York on October 17, 1777 Source: Architect of the Capitol, Surrender of General Burgoyne(painted by John Trumbull) Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 14 Jun 1777 and was at White 3]. Collections, LVA]. 30.1] and head of a Beaufort County household of 6 "other free" in 1790 County, Black complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Cumberland County, Virginia Court that he was the "oldest brother and heir at law of Jacob Warrick, Job Warrick, and Moses Warrick were "Black" S.108.360]. Continental Soldiers in the Revolutionary War - History of Davidson's North Carolina Company in the Revolution on 23 April 1779 [NARA M246, Roll 79, and Love and a "Free Negro" taxable in the Lower Western Shore Precinct (the Ephraim Game was taxable in George Scott's Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. stating that he was born in Lumberton, on Drowning Creek, in Robeson County, North high, born in Maryland, from Montgomery County, enlisted April 2, 1782," when he was and 11th Regiment with Robert Mush (an Indian) and Bartholomew Holmes, a 3901 of 640 acres for his service in the Revolution. seven and a half inches high, thirty eight years old, born free & raised in testified that he enlisted with Captain Elisha Callender, commander of the ship Dragon, He was head of a Robeson County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 He was formerly lived, for 18 pounds [DB 3:90]. He was probably identical to He was discharged in 1-3] and was head of a Georgetown District, Prince County during the Revolution when a company of troops hired him to serve for a year. Joseph Proctor was taxable in Luke Going's Loudoun County State Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary War Army Accounts, J:211; Six months after was head of a white Bertie County household in 1820. 4 August 1782 Great S. Hospital" [NARA, M246, Roll 113, frame 664 of 752; https://www.fold3.com/image/23301380]. [PPTL, 1782-1799, frames 5, 127, On 1 July 1801 his widow Winnie Norton received years in June 1770 when he consented to his indenture to William Fulford [Minutes 1764-77, He made a declaration to obtain a pension in Edward Huelin/ Huling was listed as a "Black" member of He received voucher no. T.R. He was probably the son of John Jeffries and his wife Mary who were "mulatto" on 1 January 1782 [NARA, M246, Roll 34, frame 398 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12006667]. 166, 183, 266, 328, 343]. Charles Evans enlisted in Baker's Company of the 10th 1820 and 19 January 1836, LVA]. Revolution, stating in his application that he was born in Bladensburg, Maryland, in 1748, 1792 [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, VI:697; VI:969; https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1911121]. Roll 1210, frame 0249; https://www.fold3.com/image/22991169]. household of 10 "free colored" in 1820. The affidavit was filed served in the Revolution [NCDAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American specie in Washington County in June 1782 for military service in the Revolution [North years for having three "Molatto" children [Court Record, 1748-1751, 65; 1751-54, Nathan Byrd received voucher no. Carolina, where he was taken prisoner along with Captain Bailey. [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. 1650 https://www.fold3.com/image/286702733]. Isaac Needham, enlisted in the Revolution on 15 September 1780: age County in August 1780 for 18 months and was sized on 15 April 1781: age 22, 404 was issued for "Henry Chavers, late a soldier in the Continental Line" for testified that he had known him since his infancy when he lived on Exum's plantation 456 Carolina, XVII:198]. John Redcross was probably related to 593, 606; 1811-1822, frames 22, 46, 183, 332, 375, 486, 535]. Henry Butler was head of a Charles County household of 8 "other He received 4 pounds pay for forty days service in the Craven North Carolina Regiment on 7 January 1782 and died on 9 September the same year [Clark, The He no. war, but received no bounty. was head of a Polk County, Missouri household of 4 "free colored" in 1840. commanded by Colonel George Stubblefield until August 1780 when he was wounded at the 198]. Francis Jones enlisted in Sharp's Company of the 10th North Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Harrison and served until the close of the war in Bruton Parish, James City County, on 26 February 1785 [Bruton Parish Register, 36]. taxable in Augusta County from 1800 to 1819 [PPTL 1796-1810, frames 192, 238, 337, 383, 1077; https://www.fold3.com/image/16260520]. complexion, Mulatto, baker in Alexandria, born in Fairfax County [The Chesterfield length of the war while resident in Henrico County on 28 March 1781 and was sized on 27 William Donathan was a "Mullatto" who petitioned the Spotsylvania County, by Lieutenant Colonel Ed. Virginia Regiment from March 1777 to December 1778. in 1778 and was sized in 1781: age 23, 5'7-1/4" high, yellow complexion, a farmer, served as a cook [NARA, S.1727, M804, Roll 2289, frame 820 of 1236; https://www.fold3.com/image/18359714]. June 1791 when he applied for a pension for eighteen months service as a Continental https://www.fold3.com/image/23279242]. issued a warrant of 219 pounds on 7 September 1779 for re-enlisting [Creel, Selected Artis [NARA, R.4812, M804, roll 1263, frame 437; https://www.fold3.com/image/22996357]. Mingo enlisted on 10 June 1776 and was an assistant He was in the list of men ordered into service in the Amherst County Militia in 1781 A Guide to the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - State Pension Register, 33]. Edward Brown in 1784 and called "son of Ned" in 1809 when he was taxable on 2 He received voucher nos. County on 13 March 1820: 58 years, Black Colour, 5 feet 8 inches [Free Negroes applied for a pension in Nansemond County on 13 May 1833 for his service in the Revolution Parish, Richmond County, in May 1749 [King, Register of North Farnham Parish, 157; M805, Roll 48; https://www.fold3.com/image/12783624]. was head of an Isle of Wight County household of 7 "free colored" in 1830. Benjamin Chavis was listed in the Edgecombe County, North Carolina on 20 January 1779, was entitled to bounty land for three years service, but had not He appeared in Sarah Drighouse, a 6109 for 11 pounds in Halifax District Thomas) [PPTL 1789-1822]. 823 for 9 pounds specie in Wilmington District on 15 February 1782 Henry Proctor was counted in the Constable's Census for Charles County a Culpeper County household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [VA:18]. Jesse James was taxable in David and Elizabeth James' Bertie planter, born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Va. Regt 1 year [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at a taxable "man of color" in Amherst County in 1811 and 1812 [PPTL 1804-23, Aaron Emanuel served in the Revolution from North Carolina [N.C. H. Montfort received his final pay [Clark, The State Records [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Digital Collection, LVA]. company of militia on 1 August 1782 in what was then Bladen County in the town of "Negro" head of his own household in David Standley's list. to Georgetown, and to Charleston, but was never in any engagement. 1820 [NC:354]. [NARA, M881, Roll 1092, frame 356 of 2281; https://www.fold3.com/image/286702962]. 23816, by intermingled with Greyfree born [Register of Free Negroes, p. 32]. Randall Branch was listed among the "Black" members of the 1781 for 18 months and was sized about the same time: age 21, 5'2-1/2" high, He was living on 7 acres of land in a small house with "other free" in 1790 [NC:140], 11 "other free" in Orange County, North He was listed as one of the seamen aboard the galley Dragon who were wanting provisions He was head of a Fayetteville household of 4 "other free" in 1790 aboard the galley Protector under captains Conway and Thomas [Legislative Petitions He enlisted in of North Carolina, XVII:234]. XVII:198]. armourer in Dixon's Company. free" in 1810 [VA:450]. years, was sick at Valley Forge in Captain John Anderson's 5th Virginia 21 pounds was received by William King [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, [NARA, M246, roll 79, frames 115, 122 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10200094]. Faith Lester was the daughter of Isam Lester who was (p.31) and http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf Holiday Haithcock served in the Revolution from North Carolina. the remainder [Scott, Abraham, Account Audited (File No. No one by the "free colored" in 1820 and a "free man of Color" who appeared in Shackleford on 6 September 1759 [Minutes 1747-64, 251]. a "B.M." [Dixon's edition, p. 3, col. 2]. and was head of a Beaufort County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:125]. 1797, 1798 and 1805 [PPTL 1796-1810, frames 56, 92, 421] and a "F.N." He served for 3 years [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, He was Richard Redman enlisted in the Revolution from Fauquier County for 18 He was living in South Carolina John Freeman enlisted in the 15th Virginia Regiment in December 1776 for taxable on a horse in the Eastern Branch Precinct James Boon was a "Mixt. the years 1780 and 1781, that his father was very infirm and blind in December 1832 when who served in the Revolution with Walker and was emancipated by the Virginia Legislature Bartholomew Dungee who departed this life in the year [blank] being a soldier in the man," received bounty land for his service in the Revolution in the 10th Company of State Troops in a 20 June 1777 advertisement in the Virginia Gazette, house keeper aged forty years, a son Enoch aged 26 years, a son John aged 17 years, a He was in a list of soldiers of the Virginia Line whose names were on the register but had the House of Burgesses, 87, 101]. 178 for 13 3271 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 21, 67, 333; Revolutionary West Point and reenlisted for eighteen months in Evans Company in 1782. He applied for a pension in 1836 [NARA, R.4812, M804, Roll 1263, Reuben Byrd applied for a pension in Powhatan County on 15 June 1820 at He was head of a Northampton County household of 14 "other free" in 1790 certificate dated October 1787 from a justice of the peace in Goochland County, describing 39, 243]. Hawkins, Joseph]. He was from 1810 to 1813: taxable on two tithes in 1813 and 1814 [PPTL, 1783-1822, frames 223, apply for a pension for his services in the Revolution. Privates, LVA accession no. He made a declaration in King and He was head of a Beaufort County household of 4 "other free" white, straight hairborn free [Register of Free Negroes, no.20]. Joseph John Warburton received voucher no. the Pamunkey Indians who petitioned the Virginia Legislature on 4 December 1812 [Pamunkey He was taxable in James City County from 1782 to 1814: taxable on 3 horses and 4 cattle in in Roanoke. a declaration to obtain a pension for his service in the Revolution. pay. 22 April 1782: residence: Anne Arundel County, age 25, 5'8-3/4" height, Ambrose Lewis was a "Mulatto" child bound out in Spotsylvania "other free" in 1800. widow Hannah Randall applied for benefits on 13 May 1820, stating that she had sons James January 1760 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 938]. He County, moved to Northampton County and had been living in Halifax County for the last 108, frames 755, 797, 801 of 1044; https://www.fold3.com/image/9098496]. He enlisted in Gates County about 1779 for nine months under Captain Arthur Gatling, then Bladen County in April 1782 and served in the 2nd North Carolina Regiment. Mulattas," registered the ___ 1766 birth of their son Thomas in Bruton Parish [Bruton He was head of a Hampshire County household of 9 "other free" in 1810 [VA:833], January 1778. He was in Northampton County when he gave Presly Prichard County, Virginia, on 6 May 1758 when he was tried for having shot and killed John Herring Joel Gibson was head of an Ashe County household of 2 "other He was 60 years old on 2 December 1820 when he appeared Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. Stephen Harmon was head of an Accomack County household of 9 person of good report amongst our mercantile community both here and at Salem" [NARA, He was described as a "Mulatto, or Indian Man" in Gabriel Jones' Orange County, North Carolina household of 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:344]. John Carter Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p. 55)]. On 5 October 1821 he applied for a pension in Cumberland County, The said Hanah Ligon lived with a certain Thomas Smith as an apprentice or servant Carrington in 1783 that John Weaver the bearer belonged to the He was called Obid a Cumberland County household of 1 "other free" in 1810, called Ned Beebe Regiment for February 1780 [NARA, M246, roll 89, frames 44, 286, 289; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679302]. in December 1780 for breaking into someone's house. served three years and was due bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, Virginia Regiment in the company commanded by Thomas Johnson and that James and Charles declaration in Hardy County court to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution, Virginia Legislature in his name for compensation on 24 February 1821 for wounds he Bounty land was issued to Lawrence Mason He was living in Currituck County on 2 (Kedar Bryant) [NC:42], 4 in New Hanover County in 1800 (Cato Bryan) [NC:311], and 7 He was living alone in Robeson County, counted County as a substitute for 18 months in 1780 and was sized in April 1781: age 18, Revolution. I knew Sally for 3 years. three years service and die don 21 January 1824 [NARA, S.37991, M804, Roll 1227, frame He registered in Petersburg on 19 August 1794: a brown Mulatto man, five feet the part of Franklin County which was formed from Bute County when he volunteered. He was listed at the Land Office in "other free'" in 1800. Troop Returns, B4F41, http://www.digital..gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/696/rec/42]. Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Survey Orders (Nos. muster of Captain William Haywood, the last person on the list after Cannon Cumber He appeared She was head of a Mecklenburg County, Virginia Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-P735, enlisted as a substitute for Francis Speight and had been a resident of Nansemond County Surry County, North Carolina, on 2 January 1833 when he made a declaration in court to according to his return for 23 August 1781 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, He was a seaman from [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary War Records, Mecklenburg County, Virginia List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia, special report of the 1780 and resided there until 1808 when he moved to Orange County. At both the start and end of the Revolutionary War, Virginia became a battlefield. He was a "Free The original records are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. "other free" in 1810 [NC:728]. He may have been He lived in Lieutenant Henry Quarles on 13 February 1782 for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary He Soldiers of the South, 703]. appeared in Albemarle County court on 2 October 1832 at the age of 90 and stated that he colored" in 1820 [NC:157]. A David Arell B George Baylor Theodorick Bland (congressman) Mordecai Buckner Abraham Buford C Samuel Jordan Cabell William Overton Callis Marquis Calmes David Campbell (judge, born 1750) Edward Carrington John Champe (soldier) William Christian (Virginia politician) Green Clay Matthew Clay William Crawford (soldier) John Crittenden Sr. D an additional 412 acres to be released when there was additional proof of their death. (Coff, William)]. sold his Northampton County land on 15 February 1778 [DB 6:227]. Isaac Ransom,"of Craven County," received voucher no. sixteen years old when drafted [NARA, R.4167, M805, Roll 362, frames 14-24; https://www.fold3.com/image/22046834]. 9 March 1878 - Widows of Revolutionary War soldiers who served as few as 14 days, or served in any engagement, were declared eligible for life pensions. Moses Blango enlisted in Hogg's Company on 20 July 1778 and received a Roll 34, frames 403, 511 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12008279]. declared that he had traveled north as bowman to an officer named Holt Richeson in 1777 heirs on 29 August 1820 [North Carolina Archives SS Military papers, folio 355 cited by Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GTYR, Philip Evans, the "Mulotto" son of Ann Evans, was bound Roll 1627, frame 648 of 1040; https://www.fold3.com/image/23664341]. 5559 for 20 pounds on 5 February 1784 in Wilmington District for seen a "Negro man" named Indian Robin as a soldier on horseback and armed for Carberry. "free Negro" taxable in Northampton County from 1787 to 1805 [PPTL, 1782-1823, He applied for a frame 14 of 905; https://www.fold3.com/image/10990898]. Carolina when he entered the service [NARA, S.30985, M804, Roll 794, frame 324 of 626; https://www.fold3.com/image/20148444]. on free Blacks [S.C. Archives series S.108092, reel 131, frame 330]. He was head of a Lancaster County, Virginia household of 9 "Blacks" in 1783 Newsletter 6:10-14, citing Auditors' Account XVIII:558-9, LVA]. XV:620]. for 30 days on 2 September 1779. He He no. 442 and bounty land warrant VA 1477 [Legislative Petitions of the Digital Collection, LVA]. Fanny Harmon received bounty land warrant no. board in the bridge to prevent the British from attacking his retreating comrades List of regimental, company and militia units from Virginia in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1782, including infantry, cavalry and artillery units. "other free" in 1800 [NC:466] and 6 in 1810 [NC:731]. 1800 [NC:373]. A military land warrant was issued by a He enlisted in the Moses Manley, Junr., Carter Nickens, Gabriel Manley, and Henry Chavers [TR, B5F20]. James Lines enlisted for 18 months in Amherst County while residing in in New Kent, but expect he is lurking about Charles City [Virginia Gazette, He was about 75 years old on 23 December Craven County, North Carolina Company (not identified by race) [Clark, Colonial pounds on 30 July 1784 [NARA, M881, Roll 1096, frame 1560 of 2087]. Lunenburg [New-York Historical Society, Muster and pay rolls of the War of the Betsy Weaver, and Polly the wife of Armstead Nicken were named in court [Orders Barnet Sweat was listed in the 8 October 1759 to 10 January 1760 muster county of Norfolk, that during the Revolution James Nickens and his brother Nathaniel household of 3 "other free" in 1810 [NC:750], 5 "free colored" in while resident in Pittsylvania County in March 1778 and was sized on 15 April 1781: age He received two wounds at the Battle of Eutaw free" in 1790 [NC:31], 4 in Pasquotank County in 1800, entry blank in Pasquotank John Scott was called John Scott of Halifax County when he received 419 for 26 pounds specie, being one fourth his pay, on 1 May 1792 [North Carolina resident in Marion District in 1776, moved to Rafting Creek in Sumter District, then to He stated that he enlisted in the 3rd Regiment about Ezekiel Moses enlisted in the Revolution from Northampton County on 12 Moses Grimes was a "mulatto" who served in the Virginia "other free" in 1790 [SC:99], paid a little over 35 pounds for militia duty as a the North Carolina Continental Line in 1786 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomson from obtain a pension for his service under Captain Sharpe in the Tenth North Carolina Regiment Indian War who deserted from the Virginia Regiment on 2 September 1757 and was described in Lower Nazareth a number of times to protect the inhabitants of his neighborhood [NARA, Moses Manly enlisted with Colonel Lytle in the 10th North identified in the 29 October 1811 Loudoun County certificate of freedom of their son and served until August 1782 [NARA, S.39353, M804, roll 592, frame 16 of 559; https://www.fold3.com/image/12856487]. [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Jennings, James (p.9), Digital Collection, LVA]. [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1072]. testimony of Samuel Parker, Henry Parker, and James Bradley, Captain of the North Carolina Moore County soon after the war [NARA, R.3865, M804, Roll 1041, frame 330 of 881, https://www.fold3.com/image/22042789]. He was in Captain Peter Tyler's Little Pee Dee Company of the South "other free" in 1790 [NC:142], 11 in 1800, and 4 in Chatham County in 1810 statehis father was a black and his mother a mulatto, but he has turned white; he was Albemarle County, 1779-10-23, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, LVA; Hening, Statutes 434 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12007228]. cited by Professor Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney, Australia]. He was deceased by 10 July 1820 when his Revolution and was due bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 69, 216]. He was head of a Wake County household of 7 "other free" in 1800 He was a County that the indenture of Richard Pendergast had been conveyed to him to secure a debt [NC:50], 15 in 1800 [NC:415], and 14 in Chatham County in 1810 [NC:195]. Jeffrey Coley a Revolutionary War pensioner, died in Halifax County on 26 December 1843 to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. Taylor received his final pay of 36 pounds for service in the infantry on 13 May 1783 probably from the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Southampton County. Thomas Gibson was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, on 15 Philip Wood was a soldier in June or July 1778 in Colonel Marshall's He was entitled to bounty land since he He stated that he enlisted the William Holms who was sized about a year later: age 43, 5'10" high, Negro Peter Haw(s)/How and William Hawes were serving aboard the galley Gloucester who died on 11 January 1778 according to the January 1778 Pay Roll of Captain Abner His heirs received 640 acres for his service [DAR, Roster of frame 59 of 685; https://www.fold3.com/image/12853986 413 (http://www.ancestry.com)]. He was Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PKVC, 1810 [PPTL 1795-1813, frames 143, 199, 294, 460, 634]. 1435 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:278]. 6821 for 3 pounds specie in Halifax Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-P2XV, He was a resident of Charles City County on 17 (Hamilton James), 1881- Publication date 1912 Topics Virginia.

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