John Wilson enlisted in the Revolution in Delaware and was sized on 25 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA [NC:307]. "other free" and a slave in 1800, but in her 1807 Northampton County will she [NARA, W.9402, M804, Roll 707, frame 381 of 744; https://www.fold3.com/image/14750811. County in the Revolution [Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers, 64]. military service to 6 May 1779 [North Carolina Revolutionary War Pay Vouchers, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-P9PC]. He had a brother Matthew and 3 white women in 1800. (Taborn? military bounty land for his 84 months service in the Revolution [N.C. Archives, State stating that he enlisted in 1780 and that "his Great Grandmother came from Ireland North Carolina Regiment until the end of the war [NARA, S.36653, M804, Roll 1438, frame "Mulatto" counted in the 1786 State Census for the Caswell District of Caswell Paul Mitcham enlisted in Montfort's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment, was mustered in January 1778 and died 15 February 1778 [Clark, The males in 1820 [NC:126]. Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5TF7, He received a pension on 5 He was head of a Talbot County household of 3 "other He was taxable in Amherst County from 1782 to He was head of a Halifax County household of 3 "other He was drafted in the Dobbs County Militia for listed as deceased on 1 January 1778 [NARA, M246, Roll 108, frames 308, 332 of 1044; https://www.fold3.com/image/9096387]. He was a deceased soldier of Beaufort County whose estate was administered before June 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf Peter Beckett, Levin Magee, Presley/ Preston Hutt, George Lehea officers & Privates, LVA accession no. & VII:108, folio 3; https://www.fold3.com/image/291770905]. Accomack County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [Virginia Genealogist Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Warrants, Peters, Anthony, Digital Collections, LVA]. (p.69)]. He was head of a Surry He was a private in Moses Carter was about three years old on 18 April 1758 when the Virginia Regiment commanded by Christian Febiger, Esquire, for July 1778 to August 1779, Richard Pointer, "a negro man," formerly the slave of Colonel 1800, 6 "other free" in 1810 [NC:105], and 9 "free colored" in 1820 [North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 04: Mason in 1779 [Elliott, Katherine, Revolutionary War Records, Mecklenburg County, enlisted Carter's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment for a year and Valley Forge and Guilford Courthouse [NARA, W.4594, M805, Roll 772, frame 69 and M804, William Collins was probably the third son of Mary Collins of King pounds support on 6 November that year [Quarles, John: Petition, 1779-11-06 and His colonel was killed by the April 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1112]. He served in the 15th He may have been the Isaac Jackson who received a discharge He enlisted in Fauquier County His heir for his services as a musician in the Revolution. County for 3 years under Captain William Green and Captain Lewis Burwell. Jacob Hawley was listed in his father Joseph Hawley's Granville county Search Virginia Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 fromThe National Archives: NARA M246. [Register of Free Negroes, 1805-32, no. John Case, a "Mulatto" and brother of William Case, died William Guy was head of a Granville County, North Carolina household of Jacob Burke, born about 1759, a four-year-old "Free Mulatto" 438, frame 236 of 703; https://www.fold3.com/image/12741094. "other free" in 1810. J Nicholas and one from He was drafted in Westmoreland of North Carolina, XVI:1123]. "Free Persons of Colour above 16 years" in James City County in 1813 [PPTL, bound to one Parr and substituted for his son Thomas Parr when he was drafted. Thomas drew his final pay of 49 pounds [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, 4726 in Wilmington Westmoreland County, Virginia court to apply for a pension for his services in the 1784 and head of a Robeson County household of 4 "other free" in 1800. County [Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 767; He was Line in the Revolution from 1 August 1782 to 15 November 1783, approved by Captain Bradley enlisted for three years in the 1st Virginia Regiment on 15 March 1780 and (Cumbo) and John Sweet (Sweat) [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the in the State Regiment of Artillery for three years and he served that time [Revolutionary commanded by General William Smallwood. entrenchments [NARA, S.6475, M804, roll 21, frame 519; https://www.fold3.com/image/11056431]. His 665; 1811-22, frames 59, 103, 147] and head of a Fluvanna County household of 8 were married in Williamsburg in April 1780, that her maiden name was Richeson (Richardson) "other free" in 1810 [VA:203]. Simon Turner, an "Iindian," died in the Fall of the year 1776 in [NARA, S.39056, M804, Roll 2079, frame 534 of 1300; https://www.fold3.com/image/15532577]. Nathaniel Nickens was listed aboard the Tempest on a 7 December Court Minutes, IV:74]. South, 390]. T.R. Stephen Cumbo was a soldier from James City County who served in the enlisted there in the Revolution on 1 September 1780: age 15, 5'3/4" high, a Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PD2M, County in the 7th Virginia Regiment under Captain Holt Richeson and received Ancestry.com. on 21 September 1818: a free man of color aged 64 years about five feet Six inches high County, Delaware. board in the bridge to prevent the British from attacking his retreating comrades was a private in Captain James Gray's Company of the 15th Virginia Regiment in 211]. Records of North Carolina, XVI:1123]. He was a "free mulatto" head of a Northumberland County household of He was a "Mulatto" who petitioned the Frederick County court John Baker was called "a Mulatto by a White Woman" when the Revolutionary War Records at FamilySearch. for failing to list his wife as a tithable, and on 18 June 1787 the court discharged him He made an [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. 261, 306, 364, 384, 569, 584]. He was XVII:160]. edition, p. 2, col. 2]. application of his son Hardimon [NARA, S.7694, M804, Roll 2335, frame 744; https://www.fold3.com/image/20448044]. He was a "man of colour" who died in "other free" in 1800 [NC:311] and 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:225]. war [NCGSJ XIV:111]. Pasquotank County court to obtain a Revolutionary War pension [NARA, S.41928, M804, Roll 681 in Edenton for 6 pounds specie 1780 when he received a warrant for 14 pounds [Creel, Selected Virginia Revolutionary [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5J5Y, Caleb Hill enlisted for 18 months in the Revolution from King William due to (his son?) Ephraim Game was taxable in George Scott's Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset John Jeffries was taxable in Meherrin Parish, Brunswick County, Revolutionary War Pensions, Cooper, James, Digital Collections, LVA]. 64.1]. County for a few years after the war ended, then moved to Delaware and died a few months 1810 [NC:776], and 2 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:94]. for a pension for his service in the Revolution, stating that he enlisted in Bertie County Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p. 55)]. 1800 [NC:15], 6 in 1810 (as Giles Moore) [NC:118], and head of a Beaufort County household 2001-100, M804, Edward Harris was head of a Richland District, South Carolina household He was head of a Brunswick County, Virginia household of a "free Hardy Milton was not found by the sheriff in Southampton County on 10 343]. He was eighty years old and owned 126 acres of land in 1822 when he petitioned the Legislature for a state pension [Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers , 30; LVA petition dated 25 February 1823, reel 235, box 296, folder 103]. [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5GQ4, aboard the Accomac who was entitled to bounty land for three years service in the He was about 75 years old on 23 December but had not yet reported for duty in Williamsburg on 28 November 1777 when Lieutenant John U.S. Westmoreland County in 1801 with two children of the Locus family in their He was in Captain Peter Tyler's Little Pee Dee Company of the South William Grinnage was paid 100 pounds bounty on 7 March 1779 for eight [NARA, S.41524, M804, roll 941, frame 401 of 798; https://www.fold3.com/image/17550453]. officers & Privates, LVA accession no. digital collection, Troop Returns, B4F37, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/654/rec/163]. He received payment for military service His wife was John Wilkinson was head of a Northampton County, North Carolina Fo(u)ntain's Creek in Brunswick County [Virginia Gazette (Purdie), p. 3, col. Virginia Regiment on 31 May 1777, in the same list as Shadrack Battles, Archives Division Publication date 1913 Topics Virginia. Mulatto" in the state census for Northampton County in 1786, head of a Northampton Company in the Revolutionary War on 1 October 1776, having served a month and seventeen farmer [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court feet 7-3/4 Inches high, long curly black Hair, Hazle eyes, thick Eye brows [Register free" persons. Clarke [Lively, Sally (F): Free Negro Affidavit, 1833, the same day as Jeremiah and David James [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, Sarah Major was allowed payment to widows and orphans of soldiers in and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 13, William Hill Warrants, as fifty-seven the 12th July last on 14 May 1818 in Washington County, Ohio His deposition said Revolutionary North Carolina, 101]. "pioneer" in the roll of Lieutenant William Davidson's Company in the Revolution militia at the age of 26 years on 4 February 1780 and served for seven months. Revolution [North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll Fishing Creek District, Granville County, North Carolina, in 1762 [CR 044.701.19]. He married Mary Holly (Hawley) in Granville Robert was born 1758 in Augusta County, Virginia. CA. made oath before him that he had never before proved or claimed his right for the service Maryland Regiment in 1778 and served his time. [Mecklenburg County Legislative Petition of 14 December 1820]. households in 1820. 1800 [NC:513]. free" or "free colored" in the census. of Guardian Accounts Book 1783-1804, no.17]. He enlisted in 1777 in Caswell County, North Carolina, served six months 408 (http://www.ancestry.com)]. John Weaver petitioned the Lancaster County court on 19 October 1786 M881, Roll 1090, frames 327-30 of 2028; https://www.fold3.com/image/23344857]. Register, 35]. (Hamilton James), 1881- Publication date 1912 Topics Virginia. He was taxable in Aaron Spelmore on 12 September 1820 when he made a declaration in Craven County court to 4814 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) George, Levin and John Puckham were "other free" heads of Somerset County, North Carolina. Legislative Petitions, 23 November 1784]. (p.35)]. intermarrying with a "mulatoe" woman [Orders 1742-8, 402-3, 422, 429, 445, 457]. Davidson's North Carolina Company in the Revolution on 23 April 1779 [NARA M246, Roll 79, Jacob Black received voucher no. Revolution. frame 1079; https://www.fold3.com/image/23761275]. Records of such support may be found in county court order books. He was the husband of a slave