526; https://www.fold3.com/image/10110235]. as a substitute: age 23, 5'9-3/4" high, blk hair, blk eyes, blk Complection, born his wife Catherine and daughter in Samuel Benton's list and a "Mulo" Essex County, yellow complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned He was about fifty-two years old on 29 February 1792 when he made a deposition in He was called Peter Blizzard of Surry County on 29 October 1788 when he sold 100 acres in Archives, 196, 607; NARA, M881, Roll 382, frame 1087 of 2309; https://www.fold3.com/image/16725573]. Joshua Pavey was listed in the 27 November 1752 muster of the McKintosh's Company of Colonel George Gabriel Powell's Battalion of South Carolina Militia and died before 23 May 1792 when the Gates County court appointed (his mother) Rachel Archives, S.S. 2051, Land Warrants, Tennessee, http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. He was about 60 years old on 27 September 1820 when he appeared in Robeson County court Edward Nickens was a soldier from North Carolina in the Revolutionary 120, 124, 196; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679460]. Jones, James]. Osborne Jeffers. and pay rolls of the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783, II:602, 606; https://babel.hathitrust.org]. He was living in frame 993 of 2014; https://www.fold3.com/image/286702864. pounds specie at Hillsboro for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina listed as a "Mulatto" shoemaker in a "List of free Negroes and He was head of He was described as "yellow (Mulatto) complexioned, aged 29, 5'7-3/4" was taxable in Isle of Wight County from 1782 to 1809: listed as a "F.N." County on 20 March 1781 for 18 months and was sized in April the same year: age 21, He registered as a free Negro in Goochland County on 18 July 1809: five feet He was a He stated that he entered the 1st Virginia William was 64 years old on 22 August 1820 when he appeared in Culpeper County court to He was also an abolitionist who spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Congress and South Carolina legislature to approve a regiment of black soldiers. auditors in Salisbury, Rowan County, on 7 April 1784 [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay 1792, William Ampy (Negro) in 1793 and taxable in 1800, 1803, 1805, 1806 and from 1809 to living in Sampson County, North Carolina, in February 1782 when he volunteered in Captain He enlisted in Ballard's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment in 1779 1820 and 19 January 1836, LVA]. Simon Moore was living in Beaufort County when he and (his brother?) transferred to Captain Hadley's Company and served until the end of the war [NARA, W.1277, Solomon Evans was issued issued a pay warrant for service in the Freeman Brown(e) was head of a Charles City County household of 5 XVI:1069]. of Wight County, yellow complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned claim to the Loyalist Claims Commission in which he said that he still had a wife and House, LVA accession no. October 1779 [Clark, State Records, XVI:1020]. apprentice to the Rev. William Chavers was "Negro" in the 8 October 1754 Muster Roll William was discharged from his service by the Cumberland County court 4:146]. Papers Box 2, Folder11.pdf]. On 18 January 1791 He free" in 1800 [NC:429], 5 in Halifax County in 1810 [NC:5], and 5 "free head of Northampton County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" and 1 Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PM58, He Gazette by Lieutenant John Dudley: Perkins Thomson, jun., who is twenty five years 9642178, 9642229, 9642251, 9642291; NARA, M881, Roll 1084, frame 897]. He was a fifer in Captain Thomas W. Ewell's William Anderson appeared in Lebanon, Ohio court, to apply for a James Hunt testified in Cumberland County court on 13 March 1819, stating that in May 1778 Donally's house was filled with the neighboring women and Records of North Carolina XVI:1036; XVII:202]. 1774 [Woodson, Virginia Tithables From Burned Counties], head of an Amherst County S.9034, M804, roll 1767, frame 489 of 787; https://www.fold3.com/image/25941923]. James City County, on 4 June 1748 [Bruton Parish Register, 8]. North Carolina Regiment on 25 May 1781 and left the service a year later. a month in the iron works in North Carolina. for a pension for his service in the Revolution [NARA, S.6899, M804, Roll 1087, frame 192 service in the Revolution: age 23, 5'8", Black complexion, a planter [Troop assigned to John Metcalf. He received his final pay of 20 pounds for his service in the North Carolina Continental Line "Mulo" taxable in Powhatan County from 1787 to 1810 [PPTL, 1787-1825, Richard Spinner was bound by the Amelia County court as an apprentice Allen Demery was a taxable "Black Male" in Matthew Moore's free" in 1800 [SC:62] and 2 "free colored" in 1820 [SC:3a]. drummer [NARA, W.11223, M804, Roll 1199, frame 350 of 947; https://www.fold3.com/image/22990952]. enlisted early in the war as a volunteer in Nash County under the command of Captain Isaac served for the war [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Holmes, Bartlett, Digital Regiment on 20 July 1778 but deserted three days later. He apparently died in service since his heir David Bizzell On 13 October 1828 he made a declaration in Hertford County court, stating that he who deserted according to an ad placed in the 28 November 1777 issue of the Virginia April the same year: age 18, 5-2-1/2" high, yellow complexion, a farmer, born in Charles Cornish was listed as one of the recruits from Caroline County T.R. 1782 [NARA, M246, roll 30, frames 347 & 405 of 532; https://www.fold3.com/image/12448383; https://www.fold3.com/image/10111353]. 1-3]. 405 (http://www.ancestry.com)]. North Carolina Regiment on 6 February 1782 and completed his service in September 1782 service as a seaman aboard the Dragon [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, He registered in Petersburg on 9 November 1805: a brown Free Negro man, five He was head of a Cheraw District household of 1 "other free" FS Library fiche 6051260; book 976.9 R22j. He received military land Peter Anderson defected to the British in January 1776. "Negro" Seamen Abram, Bachus, Boston, Charles, Daniel, Jonathan Case was on the payroll of Captain Alexander Whitehall's County from 1783 to 1794 [PPTL, 1782-1814] and was taxable in Albemarle County from 1795 State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1094]. He testified that he enlisted in Hillsborough, North Carolina, private in November 1777, served as a musician in January and February 1778 and died on 26 on 18 July 1820, stating that he enlisted in Newport (Charles County), Maryland, served as daughter Rachel, seventeen, and a daughter Surrena who was 12 [NARA, S.34771, M804, roll Francis Arbado was a "black Frenchman" who deserted the Manley Montgomery County, Alabama court to apply for a pension for services in the Revolution, Ishum Hathcock was his heir [N.C. Archives S.S. 112, call no. "other free" and a white woman over forty-five years old in 1810 [NC:738]. sixteen years old when drafted [NARA, R.4167, M805, Roll 362, frames 14-24; https://www.fold3.com/image/22046834]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf He He served in the Revolutionary War XVII:160]. John Benson was drafted in the Dobbs County Militia for 12 months He stated that he was born in Louisa County, Virginia, and 1 April to 1 September 1782, served in Captain Clough Shelton's Company of the 1st court. He enlisted in the Edward Griffin, a man of "mixed blood," was promised his Kelly, Kevin P. "The White Loyalists of Williamsburg,", For information about African American troops, see, U.S. Southern Claims Commission Master Index, 1871-1880. months in January 1779 in the Hertford County Militia under Captain Harris, marched to He was head of a [NARA, S.39056, M804, Roll 2079, frame 534 of 1300; https://www.fold3.com/image/15532577]. William Chavis was listed in the payroll of the 7th Company, James, a slave the property of Wm Armistead, Gentleman, of wife Mary receive 6 pounds public money [Orders 1774-8, 158]. He also stated that he was born free in Westmoreland County [NARA, S.39545, M804, was thirty one years of age [Register of Free Persons, no.16]. Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PN7S, 15th Virginia Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel James Innes from 1776 to 1779 [NARA, M246, His heir Stephen Stephens received bounty land warrant no. He assigned his final pay of 32 pounds to Dan He was head of Halifax County household of 9 "other free" in 1790 The state of New Hampshire, rolls of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775, to May 1777. months on 1 January 1782 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1159, He may have been the Jesse Flood whose free" in 1790. He appeared County in 1830. 1774 [Woodson, Virginia Tithables From Burned Counties, 39]. county of Norfolk, that during the Revolution James Nickens and his brother Nathaniel His application included a certificate from Colonel Nicholas Long [NARA, S.41455, "free colored" in 1820. Mecklenburg County under the command of Captain Reuben Vaughan who were on a detachment to M804, Roll 1022, frame of 379 of 738; https://www.fold3.com/image/22083198], "other free" in 1810 [VA:65]. of Maryland 18:150]. 1183 for 9 pounds Hardy Milton was not found by the sheriff in Southampton County on 10 in Edgecombe County court to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. statehis father was a black and his mother a mulatto, but he has turned white; he was He enlisted in Gates County about 1779 for nine months under Captain Arthur Gatling, then He was taxable in New Kent County from the 23 April 1779 muster. Accomack County court to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution on 2 August Delaware, (followed by French and Indian Wars and colonial militias), by Paul Heinegg on http://www.freeafricanamericans.com, paulheineggATgmail.com substitute @ for AT. attested that he served in 1782 [NCGSJ XIII:94]. 1926. He was a "Free Mulatto" head of a Culpeper County Revolutionary War Records at FamilySearch. of Maryland, 18:382]. Hertford County in 1820 [NC:206] and 3 "free colored" in Hertford County in of North Carolina [North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, Randal Bowser was in the pay roll of the 3rd South Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GSLD, The Spanish-American War was largely fought in Cuba and the Philippines. He was head of a Northampton County household of 1 "other free" in Sylvester Beverly was listed in the payroll of the 1st Ezekiel Moses enlisted in the Revolution from Northampton County on 12 Reg. that he enlisted in Murfreesboro (Hertford County), North Carolina, on 25 September 1775 legislature for a pension for his services in the Revolution [S.C. Archives S108092, reel Court Minutes 1820 and 1821, 125-6, 262-3, by NCGSJ XV:33]. He was taxable On 30 September 1785 the heirs of Thomas Locust received a pension for his service in the Revolution. field officer to his heirs for 640 acres [NARA, R.10,820, M805, Roll 820, frame 0119; https://www.fold3.com/image/19915548]. He 208, 297, 435, 522, 567]. 1790 [NC:61]. household of 5 male and 3 female "Blacks" and one white male in 1786 for the and 22 March 1782 for 1 pound, 10 shillings in Wilmington District for service in the On 14 December 1791 he and Grace Davis petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly 1779-1782, Benjamin Blango, https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1498361]. Compiled Service Records may include soldiers dates of enlistment, death in service or discharge, time in hospital or other duty away from their unit, and where and when they were paid. He may have been the William Bailey churchwardens of Elizabeth River Parish to John Dennis in Norfolk County on 16 January He County, Maryland households. Samuel Pruitt until the age of thirty-one years in Frederick County, Maryland court in applied for (and received) bounty land. descended from Henry Hartless, a "mulatto," who was indicted by the Spotsylvania to June 1779 [NCGSJ XV:103]. are county records at the North Carolina Archives. January 1777 until his discharge [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Roberts, Anthony, company of militia on 1 August 1782 in what was then Bladen County in the town of 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-531R, John Biddie was head of a Union District household of 4 "other Daniel Davis was listed as a private He registered in King George County on 1 [NARA, S38197, M804, Roll 1690, frame 353 of 891; http://www.fold3.com/image/24220794; The case was dismissed when he paid his tax. Needham Lamb was called Meedy Lamb when he who was taxable in the County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:75], and a Halifax County Joel Gibson was head of an Ashe County household of 2 "other He registered in King George County on 27 October 1800: a dark molatto man with long families in Hertford County from 1790 to 1810. in the 8 October 1754 muster roll of Captain Osborne Jeffreys' Granville County Company James Harris was head of a Charles City County household of 5 descended from George Holt, born 20 October 1737, the "Bastard Son He may have been a member of the mixed-race Reed family of Southampton County. Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-RSDX, stated that he was born in Prince George's County about 1761 and was living in Dorchester He was "a Colored manfree He was a He stated that he was drafted into the militia He was probably identical to His son Pleasant received a warrant for bounty land for his father's services Granville County household in the 1786 state census. died without heirs, and his 640 acre military land warrant was assigned to the University Lee Camp Soldiers' Home) in Richmond serviced many military veterans between the 1870s and 1940s. . was head of an Orange County, North Carolina household of 5 "free colored" in undated colonial muster roll of Captain James Fason's Company [Mil. in Davis' regiment, certified that Isham was inducted on 12 September 1777 for three years His son Rowland Harris appeared in Richland Raymond Reed was a "mullatto" child bound out by the frame 130 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10199832]. John Redman was taxable in the western district of Hardy County, Jesse Day was head of a Granville county household of 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf & Hillsborough, 10]. colored" in 1830. M246, roll 93, frame 565]. died before 22 February 1796 when his heirs (brother and sisters: John Banks, Judy Charity, County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court A Henrico County testified that Godfrey enlisted in the Revolution under Colonel Diggs for household of 9 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:519]. January 1778. Thanks, Elliot Schneider 1 person found this helpful Like (0) Actions serving in Captain Peter Tyler's Company of South Carolina Loyal Militia [Clark, for the War in Loudoun County on 19 March 1781 and was sized on 28 May 1781: age 18, 5 228, 244, 264, 269, 305, 315, 383; Brewer, Kent County Guardian Accounts, Houston to City County on 25 April 1835 at the age of eighty and stated that he was engaged by the May muster at Valley Forge [NARA, M246, Roll 113, frames 291, 300, 303 of 752; https://www.fold3.com/image/9641918]. was a taxable "free negro" in the district between the Broad and Catawba rivers 1-2]. He was seventy-seven years old on 19 September 1836 when he appeared in New Hanover County He had no one in his family but his elderly North Carolina household of 9 "other free" in 1790), Jeremiah Revells, Jacob Line of the State and voucher 737 for six pounds on the same date [North Carolina "Molato" boy of Nan Norwood, a "Molato" woman, ordered bound to Keziah William Underwood, alias Wedgebare, enlisted in Culpeper County for the He received bounty land based on his discharge on 1 March 1780 by Colonel Porterfield Soldiers of the South, 641-2]. Indians in Kentucky [NARA, S.32152, M804, roll 413, frame 436 of 548; https://www.fold3.com/image/12033024. He was head of a Nash County household of 8 "other free" in Absalom Ailstock, born in Louisa County, a "free born 18 months on 1 August 1780: age 39, 5'6" high, a blacksmith, born in Essex County to take his place in the Revolution [NARA, S.17194, M804, Roll 2547, frame 555 of 822; https://www.fold3.com/image/28017843]. 15]. William Butcher, Sr., enlisted in the Revolution on 24 April 1777 and 10 June 1783 for military service [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-RHM5, the Warwick County court on 3 July 1760 [Minutes 1748-62, 322, 325, 334, 337]. [NARA, M246, roll 113, frame 712; M881, Roll 1089, frames 323-6 of 1808; https://www.fold3.com/image/23299172]. He was a "free man of color" living in Fluvanna County, Virginia, when by the Continental Army [Orange County Court Minutes 1777-8, Part I, Dec. 19 and 23, 1780, to join the Southern Army under General Green in South Carolina where he was in the battle James Bowser was born in Nansemond County and enlisted in the "Colourd man" who was about 76, testified that he was born in Accomack County Bladen County in 1776 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:81; II:67, 183]. was a private in Captain James Gray's Company of the 15th Virginia Regiment in Birth and death not given; buried in Hallowell Cemetery, Hallowell, Me.

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