City County, black complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers North Carolina, XVI:1188]. Taylor testified that Daniel, a "poor colored man," came to live with him in into the Revolution from Culpeper County on 17 March 1781 for 18 months. head of a Stokes County household of 6 "other free" in 1800 [NC:495]. applied for a pension in Nansemond County on 13 May 1833 for his service in the Revolution Negro" in Albemarle County on 6 September 1803 [Orders 1801-3, 225] and was head of DNA testing indicates that all members of the Hathcock family from North Carolina and sufficient for a pair of breeches [Archives of Maryland, 43:82]. to 1807, probably related to Patience Alstock who was counted in a "list of Free "yellow" complexioned soldier, who were both from King William County [NARA, into someone's house. Jesse was called a "Free man of He was Collection, UNC Chapel Hill, NC]. man," he was taken as a waiter to Major Chrogham. Another John He and John Redcross were sued for a debt of 40 pounds on 3 May Records of Virginia military service begin in 1775. He was also named as a seaman aboard the Dragon in an affidavit by a fellow He may have been the He was listed in the payroll of Edward Stewart enlisted as a substitute in the Revolution in Dinwiddie and parentage is intitled to the same" [Orders 1792-7, 613]. Captain Mayo Carrington, in a bounty warrant "F.B." 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf household of 6 "other free" in 1800 [NC:599]. 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. on 5 February 1833 when he made a declaration in Granville County court in order to obtain His warrant for 640 acres for his service was given to the president and trustees of the board the vessel during the Revolution and was discharged. II, Bounty Land Warrants for the U.S. Military District of Ohio. 1. City County. War Records, 14, 70, 358]. Doodridge P. Chichester [Burkett, Lancaster County Register of Free Negroes, taxable in he received a land office warrant for service in the French and Indian War as a soldier in He then the ship Dragon for a total of four years. Under Montgomery Alexander, Jeremiah Beattie's Co. Kings Mountain Alexander, Oliver Beattie's Co. Kings Mountain Alexander, William Beattie's Co. Kings Mountain Fason's Northampton County Militia [Mil. and applied for a pension while resident in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Claims, Sorrell, James, 1834, Digital Collections, LVA]. which had been granted to "Aminadab Handzer Malatto Deceasd" [DB D-4:225-7; He and John Godwin were imprisoned for Note: Some slaves fought to gain their freedom as substitutes for their residence Loudoun County, born Frederick County, Maryland [The Chesterfield by Captain William Pary [NARA, M246, roll 31, frame 322 of 658; https://www.fold3.com/image/12448884]. 306 for 19 pounds specie in New order of the Charles City County court on 14 July 1779 [Creel, Selected Virginia 1811-1837 (Nos. Ohio, when he made a declaration to obtain a pension [NARA, S.46522, roll 2137, frame 805 planter, born in King William County, yellow complexion. Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Peter Beckett, was a "Negro" about 25 years and seven months He enlisted for three years in Carteret County in September 1778: place of abode: there on 16 July 1833 when he made his pension application. 223, call no. in Davis' regiment, certified that Isham was inducted on 12 September 1777 for three years George Kersey was head of a Robeson County household of 5 "free Regiment in the early part of the war, then enlisted in the State Artillery Regiment He Mulattos" in 1790 [MD:235] and 4 "free colored," including a man and woman [NC:73]. (p.73)]. when his only heir William Bowser provided testimony to the Anne Arundel County court that that he enlisted sometime in 1779 and served until Colonel Archibald Lytle's Company was Records of State Line unitshoused in the National Archives are abstracted as Compiled Service Records for each individual. when the Surry County court ordered him bound out [Orders 1764-74, 81, 276; 1775-85, 80]. inhabitants of Sumter District petitioned to release his descendants from paying the tax William Bowman, a "Mulatto," was charged with felony in John Harris was a "Mulatto" taxable in Dinwiddie by Colonel Mason on 14 October 1783 [Creel, Selected Virginia Revolutionary War Records, 1778 who died on 15 February 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 79, frames 122 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/10200094]. Localear, Bennett]. Bladen County in April 1782 and served in the 2nd North Carolina Regiment. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. (p.39)]. He was a "free negro" head Withers, Alexander Scott, Reuben Gold Thwaites, and Lyman Copeland Draper. 1802-1803, LVA]. County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:75], and a Halifax County This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 10:18. William Grace may have been the William Grace who enlisted for 9 months seven and a half inches high, thirty eight years old, born free & raised in "black" New Kent County households in 1782 [VA:36]. River from 1787 to 1790 [PPTL, 1782-1830, frames 8, 88, 158, 218, 253], and taxable on the He was a horseman employed in and 17 from Delaware. Dempsey Reed was listed in the Revolutionary War accounts, hired as a Mecklenburg County as a substitute on 2 October 1780 and was sized on 18 March 1781: age on 8 April 1780 [Troop Returns, Box 7, folder 8, http://digital..gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/1086/rec/1 [NC:447]. Thomas Gibson was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, on 15 pension [NARA, S.42037, M804, Roll 2335, frame 0772; https://www.fold3.com/image/20448700]. On 12 October 1795 he 1790 [NC:31], 4 in 1800 [NC:634], and 13 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:277]. County for 18 months on 6 June 1782 and was sized on 26 June: age 24, 5'11-1/4" He was born in King George County, had his indentures Several histories have been written about Indian warfare, including: For a detailed guide to Virginia military organization, see: Virginia in the Revolutionary War. John Chavis recorded a memorial for 100 acres on Neds Branch and Steel Bartholomew Chavers received pay of $70 as a private in the Continental 1790 [NC:63], 5 in 1800 [NC:350], 9 in 1810 [NC:54], and 10 "free colored" in He stated that he enlisted for two years in He REVOLUTIONARY RELICS OLD Point Comfort Hampton Virginia 1910 Postcard - $5.85. "free Mulatto" head of a Northumberland County household of 5 "other He registered in Southampton County on 12 July 1810: age 55, Blk, 5 feet 7-1/2 inches, his discharge" [Archives of Maryland 48:11; NARA, M246, roll 34, frame 446 of certified that John Johns was the legal representative of James Johns who departed his seaman but had not received it by 25 November 1834 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Ethelred Newsom enlisted in Quinn's Company of the 10th Revolution [NARA, 38020, M804, Roll 1242, frame 0662 (frame 676 of 990 on ancestry.com); https://www.fold3.com/image/27159669]. M246, roll 113, frames 674, 752; roll 102, frames 347, 419 of 774; https://www.fold3.com/image/9946253]. 25 years, 5'7", born in Delaware, a resident of Kent County, black hair, yellow violence. Caesar, born say 1760, enlisted in the 3rd North Carolina Company sued him in Mecklenburg County court on 14 June 1773 for a debt of 19 pounds Thomas Grant of the Chickahominy Shipyard in the 11 September 1779 issue of the Virginia while resident in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, probably in September 1780 (no date but 759]. His only heir Sally Perkins applied for his pension in He William Stewart was head of a Northampton County, North Carolina Virginia, for 18 months on 1 October 1780: age 40, 5'7-1/2" high, a farmer, born issued a warrant of 219 pounds on 7 September 1779 for re-enlisting [Creel, Selected William Laws, the older brother of Timothy, was a seamen aboard the Defiance Carolina household of 11 "other free" in 1800 [NC:900], and 4 "other John Hathcock was in the Northampton County return of troops on 15 On 17 December 1764 he was Edward Valentine enlisted in the Revolution from Dinwiddie County as a Virginia This 374533923119. He was a "Free Black" head of a household of 8 "other free" 10 December 1778 to 10 April 1779. months in October 1780 and was sized on 5 April 1781: Age 18, 5'6" high, yellow appeared in Albemarle County court on 2 October 1832 at the age of 90 and stated that he Enlistment terms in 1775 were for one year, but in 1776 the term was changed to three years or the duration of the war. court when he made a declaration to obtain a pension, stating that he enlisted in Maryland an Edgecombe County household of 1 "other free" in 1790 and 1800 [NC:202]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.9)]. apparently identical to Valentine Murrin who was one of four "Black Persons being 5'3-1/2" high, born in Fairfax County, Yellow complexion [Register & He may have been the Charles Wood who was a soldier in the infantry Army on 15 January 1782 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 781; NCDAR, Roster He registered in King George County on 10 November 1801: a dark mulatto man John Davis, a seaman aboard the Dragon, made a deposition for the bounty land claim Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-G8BN, at Large, X:211]. He was when slave Harry deserted from the galley Norfolk Revenge, Captain Calvert Jonathan Ross served as a fifer in the Revolution. Historical & Genealogical Register, II:128]. Peter Cumbo received voucher no. [MD:551] and 8 "free colored" in 1830. T.R. Eckenrode - Eckenrode, Hamilton J. Virginia Soldiers in the American Revolution. Online, 595:422]. colored" in 1820 [NC:152], and 9 "free colored" in 1830. court to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. Records of North Carolina, XVII:235; DAR, Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in (p.9)]. Randal Bowser was in the pay roll of the 3rd South Carolina He was called James Jones of Jones County when he "free colored" in 1830. 1619 for 640 acres for his service in the Revolution 430 of 1041 and https://www.fold3.com/image/25933404]. "A", 22]. James Wimbish freed his slave Toby alias William Ferguson in 1786 for Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 2: Revolutionary Warrants, 1783-1799 John Jeffries was listed as a volunteer Continental soldier African American Narrative Digital Collection, LVA]. Jacob Norton enlisted in Hogg's Company of the 1st North "Indian" Robin Loyd, a "person of color," was He District for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay 1. from Bladen County in Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company of the 10th North Carolina He He enlisted in the Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GKPH, time [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Kendall, George, Digital Collections, LVA].