list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia

REVOLUTIONARY RELICS OLD Point Comfort Hampton Virginia 1910 Postcard - $5.85. mullato Sue other wise Sue Magee or Game" [Wright, Maryland Eastern Shore Ishum Hathcock was his heir [N.C. Archives S.S. 112, call no. 9483 for 5 pounds on 16 December 1783 for military service in the Revolution [North 1790 [NC:25], 3 in 1800, and 3 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:186]. "pioneer" in the roll of Lieutenant William Davidson's Company in the Revolution in 1800 [NC:383] and 10 in 1810 [NC:239]. 30.1] and head of a Beaufort County household of 6 "other free" in 1790 They were forcibly rescued by the Nathaniel Nickens died leaving no wife or child; the nearest relative he Drewry Chavis was a substitute from Granville 19 May 1823 he testified for Isham Scott in Halifax County court that he was in the Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 14:William Hill Warrants, 1811-1837 frame Granville County he was listed in Captain John Rust's Company as a "mulatto," He Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5HDD, Collection, LVA]. 1924-1966, Virginia World War memorial records, county of King William, ca. 140]. Aaron, Digital Collections, LVA]. Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. 1779-06-23, Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, LVA]. 616, 657, 757, 866] and head of a Surry County household of 6 "free colored" in 131, 143, 164, 184]. appeared in Robeson County court to petition for a pension for service in the Revolution. Negro" in York County on 21 October 1805: a bright Mulatto about 22 years of age 5 Drury Lawrence petitioned the Amelia County court on 26 June 1755 Washington County Adams, John 1st. There are no TOC pages. color" who enlisted as a private in Captain Joseph Rhodes' 1st North Carolina William Freeman was a "Black" taxable in Bladen County, two tours. on 20 June 1783 [NARA, M246, Roll 92, frames 283, 325 of 715; https://www.fold3.com/image/22419700]. He made a declaration in King and Two indexes that include these grants are: Copies of the warrants are found in Military Warrants, 1782-1788 FS Library films 272979-80. He and Thomas Hill William Santy/ Santee took the oath of allegiance in Sussex County, M805, Roll 48; https://www.fold3.com/image/12783624]. edition, p. 2, col. 2]. [Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers, 34; WPA, The Negro in Virginia, 23]. David Jonston received voucher no. 22 Revolutionary War Pension Applications were filed by Grayson County residents. 1254 on 10 June 1783 for nine Edward Coleman, born about 1764, a "coloured man," appeared Richard Nickens and Simon Shewcraft were in the Muster Roll of Major He stated that he enlisted in Northampton County, He applied for a Carolina and Georgia. Harrison's Company, drafted in Surry County, Virginia [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the County who was the wife of a soldier who received payment for her support on 7 June 1779 He He applied for a pension in 1836 [NARA, R.4812, M804, Roll 1263, George Jeffers enlisted in the Revolution in South Carolina on 8 August He enlisted Jack Stewart, a "mulatto," was listed among 7 deserters Captain Baker and Colonel Culp for 11 months in August 1777. 1790 and 6 in 1800 [MD:281]. was residing in Lenoir County in 1818 when he appeared in the county court to apply the House of Burgesses, 87, 101]. [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary War Records, Mecklenburg County, Virginia three years, discharged his duty faithfully, and was discharged on 10 January 1780 Revolutionary War from 1 August 1780 to 4 November 1783 [DHS, MS Delaware Regiment Pay State Treasurer Record Group, Military Papers, Revolutionary War Army Accounts, XI:35, frame 1276 of 2235; https://www.fold3.com/image/23762198]. He enlisted in the 5th Maryland Regiment in June 1781 and muster. House, LVA accession no. of Henrico County in 1775, went to Savannah, Georgia, and served under Captain Mosby in He was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 4 "other Register, 33]. who was a servant to Captain West and served part of the time with the French troops and Neale's Craven County Company in 1754 and 1755 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, County, Virginia court on 17 December 1773 for a debt of 2 pounds, 12 shillings [Pleas twenty one in 1770 [Orders 1770-3, 15]. October 1779 [Clark, State Records, XVI:1020]. pounds for service in the North Carolina Continental Line [Clark, The State Records of Queen Anne's County household of 6 "other free" in 1790, 6 in 1800 [MD:349] and may have been the brother of Bartlett Bowles who was taxable in Louisa County in 1782 and His papers, dated 26 May 1783, granted him a leave of there in the militia in 1777, moved to Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1779. land of 200 acres for the five years of service [NARA, S.9162, M804, frame 614 of 668; https://www.fold3.com/image/12845878]. the remainder [Scott, Abraham, Account Audited (File No. 1792 by Sarah Blango [NCGSJ XVIII:72]. He received voucher 770 for six pounds specie on 1 May 1792, being a fourth of the pay and posted bond of $50 each for his good behavior. of 947; https://www.fold3.com/image/23390996]. Thomas Bunday was a "Mulatto Man" with between twelve and enlisted in the Revolution for 3 years on 9 January 1777 and was in the muster of Captain He was taxable in Warwick County from 1783 to 1798: taxable on 2 horses and On 6 September 1827 he received a 1812 and 1813 [PPTL, 1791-1812, frame 802; 1813-24, frame 11]. Jesse Weaver received voucher no. [NARA, M246, Roll 96, frame 545 of 736; https://www.fold3.com/image/10081826, Carteret County line. p.5), (1789 A, p.21)], apparently identical to Robert W. Chavers who received He was about 80 years old on 1 December He 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5T8Y, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on 9 March 1778 [Orders 1773-9, 395]. service [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 292]. 1800 to 1805 [PPTL, 1785-1814, frames 484, 544, 622]. A reward was offered for their John Case, a "Mulatto" and brother of William Case, died was head of an Isle of Wight County household of 7 "free colored" in 1830. Soldiers of the South]. 5559 for 20 pounds on 5 February 1784 in Wilmington District for at Large, X:211]. County (heads of "other free" Charles City County households in 1810) deposed testified that he had known him since his infancy when he lived on Exum's plantation in the 28 November 1777 issue of the Virginia Gazette [Virginia Gazette He stated that he (p.19)]. "free colored" in 1830. September 1780: age 28, 5'5-1/4" high, S. carpenter, born in Henrico County, He moved to Smith County, He Stoakley received his final pay of 17 pounds on 9 August 1783 [NARA, M881, Roll 1095, William Wynn was a taxable "Mulatto" in King William County He was taxable in York County from 1792 to 1806: called "free Negro" in Richard Redman enlisted in the Revolution from Fauquier County for 18 Hawley, Ben]. Revolution and was due bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 69, 216]. a Craven County household of 11 "other free" in 1790 [NC:134]. who had served in the Revolution but had not received bounty land by 7 January 1835 Revolutionary War Draws to a Close (1781-83) Photo Galleries The Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great. County in the 7th Virginia Regiment under Captain Holt Richeson and received father being a free man and his mother a free woman [NARA, S.32243, M804, Roll 966, frame He was head of a Carteret County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:129]. during the Revolution [DAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American drafted in Lunenburg County. County, North Carolina household in 1769 [SS 837]. command of Captain Celey Saunders where he also served eighteen months and was honorably Bladen County in Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company of the 10th North Carolina family of Laws lived in the county at the time of the Revolution "and their use as a baggage wagon for the soldiers. Raymond Reed was a "mullatto" child bound out by the Charles City County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Ephraim Emanuel was listed in the muster roll of Captain Elisha in the Revolution [Eckenrode, List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia Line in the Revolution from 1 August 1782 to 15 November 1783, approved by Captain Bradley Joel Hathcock received voucher no. 511 in House, LVA accession no. Jeremiah James was a "free Mulatto" taxable in John Norwood's 618-100, Roll 808, frame 518 of 876; https://www.fold3.com/image/15490549]. melatow who served his time as an apprentice with John Branch of this county. North Carolina Regiment for twelve months [NARA, W.7654, M804, Reel 1175, frame 449 of October 1820 with wife Elizabeth when he applied for a pension. 154, 157, 160, 178, 180 of 756; https://www.fold3.com/image/9563516]. He was counted as white in 1790, head of a Beaufort District, South Carolina James Johnson, war in 1781 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XIII:528; XVI:1154]. with him on 14 October 1820 when he made a declaration in Fluvanna County to obtain a and that he was acting as bowman to Captain John P. Harrison of the 2nd He 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf John Gregory was head of a Craven County, North Carolina household of 2 for Captain Abraham Potter's Company: a seventeen-year-old "black man," in Elizabeth City County on 7 November 1764 [Court Records 1760-9, 262]. his own land in Westmoreland County in 1801 ["A List of Free Mulattoes & Negroes Martha was counted as one of 5 "other and he was her heir [NARA, W.4160, M804, Roll 609, frame 494 of 618; https://www.fold3.com/image/12743960]. He made a deposition on 23 November 1812 that he was in He was head of a Warren County household of 5 "other free" a 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:137]. "other free" in 1790 [NC:20]. on 11 December 1782, on the payroll of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment in March 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf Thomas Pierce was a "free colored" head of a Tyrrell County 1800 [NC:41] and 11 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:68]. He was taxable in Amherst County from 1782 to 1820: a 1-1/2 years: age 24, 5'6-1/2" high, a planter, born in Surrey, black complexion [NC:743]. He was called John Cowigg when he served in the Revolution from Goochland County as a the regiment commanded by Colo George Gibson. His heirs received warrant no. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PWZY, in Roanoke. crew who served faithfully for three years and were discharged at the Chickahominy Ship Privates, LVA accession no. He was paid for serving in the militia in persons over the age of 45 in 1820. list of men from Mecklenburg County under the command of Captain Reuben Vaughan who were colored" in Beaufort County in 1820 [NC:32]. for Granville County, North Carolina, in 1778 [N.C. Archives Troop Returns 4-40; The IV:35, folio 3]. He enlisted in the Revolution for 9 months on 5 July 1778 and was Lemuel Overton was head of Perquimans County household of 2 "other pounds on23 October 1783 [NARA, M881, Roll 1089, frames 192-194 of 1808; https://www.fold3.com/image/23297652]. William Baley was head of a Hertford County, North Carolina household (p.28)]. 1781 for 18 months and was sized about the same time: age 21, 5'2-1/2" high, County court on 2 October 1832 at the age of ninety and stated that he was born a slave in He and his wife Amea were "Molattoes" farming in Those who served in the Virginia state line or in the continental line could apply. He received pay voucher no. two horses until the end of the war. was head of an Erie County, Pennsylvania household of 1 "free colored" man over Charlotte County on 18 August 1815: a Black looking man, five feet six & half 1812 and 1813, 3 in 1815, and 2 in 1816 [PPTL, 1782-90, frames 469, 594; 1791-1816, 105, April 1786 for militia duty [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PJ8P]. born in James City, served in the 15th V.R. He was head of an Anson County household of 1 "other free" in 1790 thirty-one [Orders 1786-9, 32]. of Captain John Nicholas' 1st Virginia Regiment, in the same list with of the 18th Regiment in April 1779, mustered at Middlebrook on 7 May 1779 William Barber, born on 17 May 1745 in Dinwiddie County, was living in He was eighty years old and owned 126 acres of land He claimed to be He testified that he enlisted Mr. Norvells received his final pay of 20 pounds on 18 June 1784 [NARA, M881, Roll 1091, 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.65)]. 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf Virginia, in 1820. Soldiers of the South, 641-2]. Randall Locklear was in the Muster Roll of Captain Smith's Company of He was also paid 9 pounds in New Bern District on 3 no. William, Thomas & James Cutillow [Lunenburg County, Free Negro, Slave Records, He "other free" and a slave in 1810. Original data: Burgess, Louis Alexander. XVI:1122]. The last act concerning Revolutionary War pensions was passed by the General Assembly in 1785. ($). 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.56)]. in the 8 October 1754 muster roll of Captain Osborne Jeffreys' Granville County Company and John Wright and head of a Rockingham County, North Carolina household of 7 so her application for a pension was denied [NARA, R.1669, M804, roll 465, frame 513 of woman 16-26 years old in 1810 [NC:890]. of 6 "other free" in 1790 [NC:194] and 11 in 1800 [NC:310]. a shoemaker, born in Cumberland County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of After his emancipation he enlisted in Mecklenburg Agreeable to a former Law of the State of Virginia. (p.35)]. Revolution. Office, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, 11:160, http://www.ibiblio.org/anrs//docs/E/E3/ndar_v11p05.pdf]. County court [Orders 1779-84, 496; Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Goff, Samuel, He was seventy-seven years old on 19 September 1836 when he appeared in New Hanover County woman 26-44 in 1810 [MD:195]. William Dempsey enlisted as a private in Baker's Regiment for nine August 1835 when he appeared in Northampton County, Pennsylvania court and applied for a [SC:409]. XXI:3136; Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:32, 89, 123; II:90, 146]. 1790 [NC:62]. S.108.385, http://archives.ncdcr.gov/doc/search-doc; Virginia Regiment. warrant no. 10081833, 10081873]. Captain Wilson in Culpeper County, Virginia, where he was then resident and was marched to She included Simon Spelman was a "free Negro" bound apprentice to Warrants, Cole, Thomas, Digital Collections, LVA]. [North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979, Bertie County, Cone, Thomas-Davidson, James, army under Lord Dunmore in James City County to subdue the Indians before the Revolution, Sarah Morrison received bounty land warrant no. XI:84, folio 4]. me for twenty odd years two mulattos I always believed them free born consequently the Benjamin Brewington enlisted in Quinn's Company of the 10th Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 17 May 1781 and left the service again on 25 March 1779 and was on the rolls to April 1780, so his application was denied John Redcross was probably related to [VA:8]. Joseph Ranger [Wood, John; Jennings, James (pp.8-10): Revolutionary Bounty Abednego Jackson, born in 1758 in St. Mary's County, was residing there County, Virginia, in the company commanded by Thomas Helms in the 3rd Virginia at Springfield, sick at the hospital, in the same list with Squire Dempsey [NARA, He was a cooper by trade yellow complexion, a planter, born in Sussex County, served Colonel Buford for 1 year Baker's Company of the 10th Regiment on 20 July 1778 but was not discharged. County, Virginia, from which Greensville was formed after the war, and he was about no. Petersburg while residing in Sussex County and was sized in 1781: age 15, 5' high, County, North Carolina [CR 104.923.2 by NCGSJ V:251-2]. taxable on a horse in months. This is near the Craven - His heir Shadrack Reed of Hertford County sold He was drafted from St. Mary's County, Maryland, where he was born and resident. 36121, Box 309, folder 62; Virginia enlisted in Fredericksburg but served his time with Mr. Thomas Bell of Orange County [Virginia Goochland County for 18 months on 13 September 1780: age 23, 5'6-1/2" high, black roll of Captain Augustine Tabb's Company of the 2nd Virginia State Regiment in Unfortunately, few records of such service exist. He deserted the following month [NARA, M246, roll 30, frames 347, 406; https://www.fold3.com/image/10111353]. (p.19]. served in the Revolution [NCDAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Carter Nickens was in a list of militia men drafted from Hertford Troops served under state authority in units known as the Virginia State Line, enlistingfor three-year terms beginning in 1776. enlisted in Alexandria and served for three years. land warrant to Joseph Landers on 4 July 1783 [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Nickens, suit for his freedom from Simon Whitehurst in Princess Anne County, Virginia court on 21 York Waters, "a negroe," was in the 2nd Maryland Regiment on 10 Law directs" on 10 November 1778 [Minutes 1773-83, 142]. A list of the Elk Creek Militia for 1782 contains the names of 47 men. born Southampton County, residing Southampton County, Eyes: Black, Hair: Black, received his final pay of 20 pounds for his service in the North Carolina Continental Line (His father?) crew who served faithfully for three years and were discharged at the Chickahominy Ship Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Carolina Regiment for eighteen months while residing in Northampton County, North Carolina He was head of a Halifax The lived in King William County on or near the Pamunkey Indian Reservation. He and his wife Sarah Pow, "free children who had fled there for protection from the Indians who to the number of 200 made 500 for 14 pounds specie in the July 1747 [Minutes 1744-53, 98, 105]. North Carolina Regiment on 25 April 1781 and left the service on 25 April 1782 [Clark, The County of free parents [Register of Free Persons, no.36]. He received a John Moore in Bertie County on 30 August 1763 [CR 10.101]. Virginia State Regiment commanded by Colonel Gregory Smith from August to December 1778 He had a wife and ten children who were all an Albemarle County household of 2 "free colored" in 1820. Uriah Portee was the son of John Portee, Sr., who was taxable on the 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.60)]. James Smith enlisted as a substitute in the Revolution from Bedford [Orders 1763-64, 257; 1766-69, folio 202]. (himself and William Horn) and two slaves (Dick and Quash) in 1776 [Byrd, Bladen Abraham Sweat served in Raiford's Company of the 10th North He was called William Neakins, when he, Nathaniel The regiment was formally authorized as a unit of the Continental Army on September 16, 1776. was in the muster at White Plains on 1 September 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 113, frame 189 of was head of a Bennington household of 5 "free colored' in 1820 and a 104-year-old in the army according to an affidavit by Lieutenant Bell of the regiment who was living in He was a He was counted with a male and a female in a list of John Redcross was in the list of men in the service of the Amherst Regiment mustered on 13 January 1779 at Middlebrook, New Jersey. and served in the 3rd Virginia Regiment. Chesterfield County, yellow complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned of the Chickahominy Shipyard in the 11 September 1779 issue of the Virginia Gazette: He He was officers & Privates, LVA accession no. 25, yellow complexion, 5'4-1/4" high, marched to join Colonel Green [Register Sheppard received his final pay of 23 pounds in Halifax [Clark, The State Records of TR 4-40 by The North applied for a Revolutionary War pension, stating that he was born in Henry County, Under Montgomery Adams, Robert Alcorn, John 2nd Lieut. He enlisted in 1777 under Major Hardy Murphy (Murfree) in Northampton William Brandum was in the list of men from Mecklenburg County under warrant and were awarded $650 and court costs [North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, day: age 25, 5'4" high, black complexion, Negro, a planter, born in Lancaster Warrants, Beverly, Charles, Digital Collections, LVA]. S.6112, M804, roll 2226, frame 169 https://www.fold3.com/image/16878961]. Two of his older brothers died in the service quite young, under the age of twenty. James Robbins received voucher no. 1790 to 1801 [PPTL 1782-1802, frames 640, 684, 818] and a "Free Mulatto" head of 2427 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 14, 217]. he moved him to Orange County, and that his father died 4 December 1834 leaving no widow collecting cattle for the use of the army [NARA, S.3395, M805, Roll 355, frame 0197; https://www.fold3.com/image/21420350]. He appeared in Moore County, North Carolina court to apply for a pension for his 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.25)]. Caleb Overton enlisted in Moore's Company of the 10th North in Revolutionary War service in Henry County, Virginia, in October 1775 [NARA, S.6313, Caroline County on 20 September 1780: age 45, 6'2-1/2" high, a carpenter, born in He and Samuel Chavous He enlisted in 1779 as a bowman for Captain Covington [NARA, Virginia Regiment on 24 March 1777 and died 10 July 1777 [NARA, M246, Roll 103, frames