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North Carolina Participants in the American Revolution
Part 4 of 7
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Elijah Duncan Sr - The DUNCAN name was sometimes spelled Dunkin or Dunkun in the early records documentating his life. We are fortunate that Elijah was a Revolutionary War soldier and applied for pension benefits. After obtaining copies of these papers from the National Archives, we find that Elijah was born in April 1757 in Fairfax Co, VA. This birth was recorded in a Bible in the possession of John Davis of Virginia. He states that he enlisted in 1776, he thinks, but it being so long ago he was not certain of the year. He enlisted from Caswell Co, NC and served in the 10th, 9th, and 5th regiments of the North Carolina Cont'l line regular troops for 18 months before getting a man to finish his enlistment. Although he received a written discharge it has been lost. In 1783, Elijah received a land grant along the Dan River in NE Caswell Co, North Carolina. He soon sold this land but remained in the area until about 1788. During this time he probably met and married his wife. Unfortunately we have not found a marriage record for them and her name is very difficult to read on the documents that we have found. Our best deciphering is Cate, though some Duncan researchers have interpreted it as Cole. Cate and Elijah soon became the parents of three daughters; Nancy born about 1781, Abbey born about 1783, and Catherine born about 1785. A son, Richard was born about 1787, followed by another daughter, Jane, and a son Elijah Duncan Jr. In 1800, Elijah Duncan Sr. moved to Rutherford Co, NC and from there to Smith Co, Tenn in 1807. When he sold his property he used the letter "A" laying on its side for his mark. Elijah may have had Quaker roots, as the custom of laying down your mark when selling property was a practice utilized by many Quakers. Smith County later became DeKalb Co in Tennessee. He remained there for the next 33 years. When he was 76 years of age, Elijah applied for a pension for Revolutionary War Service and was awarded $60 per year. A copy of Elijah's will is filed in the DeKalb County Will Book A, page 23. It is water-stained and difficult to read. This will was proved in court first Monday in January 1841, DeKalb Co, Tenn. A later document found in the archives states that Elijah's wife, while living when the will was written, was deceased at the time of his death. It states that Elijah died in the year 1840 on the 14th day of December. That he left no widow but the following children and only heirs viz Elijah Duncan, Jane Gambel formerly Jane Duncan, Nancy Barr formerly Nancy Duncan, Catharine Owing formerly Catherine Duncan, Abby Davis formerly Abbey Duncan and Richard Duncan. Submitted by: Bartholow
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Abraham Elledge, b. Pension #S10625, application July 1833, Lawrence Co., AL, Abraham Elledge age 73 entered service in 1781 in Edgefield Dist., South Carolina. private in Capt. Stirling Turner's company Richland Creek in said district when Gov. Pickens ordered the company of Capt. Turner to converge with Captain John Ryan frim near Augusta, GA in command and went down to Orangeburg Dist. and disbursed a parcel of Tories who fled at the first fire and Capt. Ryan was shot through the shoulder near Orangeburg near the Edisto River. They returned to the place called "Ridge" and and drew lots for the horses they had taken from the Tories and one fell his lot and he later sold it for ten dollars. Then he returned to his station at Richland Creek. The Tories came and killed one of the ...can't read and they went in pursuit and came upon them, disbursed some and killed and captured some. He recounted his other activities until he reenlisted in 1782 under Capt. Michael Watson. where he served six more months fighting Tories until Capt. Watson was killed by the Tories. Abraham was discharged by the new Captain Butler. Abraham said he was born the 21 March 1860 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He moved to Pendleton District, SC and was there about twenty years before moving to Lawrence County, Alabama. Submitted by: Cynthia Snider
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ELMS, Charles The following obituary appeared in the "Raleigh Register" on Feb. 2, 1836 (microfilm RRw #13, State Archives): In Mecklenburg county, 6th inst. Mr. Charles Elms, sen., a soldier of the Revolution during the whole struggle for Independence, and participated in many of the important engagements, as several honorable scars will testify--in the 78th year of his age. In one long sentence, the Raleigh Register summed up the military service and the loss of an eye during the Revolution by Charles Elms who is listed as Charles Elloms, Elumms, Ellums, or Elms in various records. However, it takes many sentences to provide the background for the assertions in Charles' obituary. The most dramatic record of his "honorable scars" comes from a granddaughter. Just like stories of the War Between the States that are passed down through the families today, the Revolution had its share of stories of bravery and hardships that made history come alive. On June 3, 1914, Mrs. Margaret Elms Britton was accepted for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution under the service of her grandfather, Charles Elms. Her application [#109359] provides an account of her grandfather’s injury during the Battle of Eutaw Springs. She writes: "Charles Elms fought in under Greene at the Battle of Eutaw South Carolina September 8, 1781 - Greene’s army was opposed by Stewarts. At that battle my Grandfather was shot in the eye and left as dead upon the Battlefield. While lying there, surrounded by dying and dead comrades an English soldier gave him a shake saying, ‘we got this one,' but true to that bravery so characteristic of our patriot of that distressing time, young Elms did not make much of his personal misfortune and replied, ‘it’s no great get.' " This remark is the closest we get to knowing the man whose descendants share the same droll sense of humor. The earliest record of Charles is from a military roll of Cap. Clement Hall's Company in the 2nd NC Battalion, commanded by Col. John Patton. Charles Ellumms appears on the roll taken in White Plains on 9 Sept 1778. It states that he enlisted on 28 Oct 1776 for a period of 2 1/2 years. (Card #37450017; microfilm at Rowan County Library, Salisbury, NC and also recorded in North Carolina State and Colonial Records, Vol. 13, p507.) He again enlisted in April 1781 for a period of 12 months in Captain Rhodes 10th Regiment. ( NC State and Colonial Records, Vol. 16, p1053.) This second term might have been spent as a substitute for another man. On July 3, 1781, William Beasley was issued a certificate in Oxford, North Carolina for having produced a substitute named Charles Ellums to serve in the military in his place. (NC Genealogical Society Historical Journal, p154, August 1982.) Charles began a series of applications for bounty land and a pension. In 1802, an affidavit was filed in Rowan County stating the following facts: ‘I do hereby certify that Charles Ellums served as a soldier in the continental line in this state, during part of the last war, that he served under the command of Capt. Jacob Turner, to whose company I was Lieutenant, that Cap.t TURNER was killed & the said Charles Ellums was wounded with loss of his eye whilst in the service of the United States. Given from under my hand this 19th Mar 1802.’ (Unsigned) On Reverse: Affidavits Mar Term 1802. It was signed by six men. (Rowan County CRX -Miscellaneous Records-Pension Records, 1802 - File #, Box 68-NC Archives). Several other sources refer to Charles' loss of an eye during the war. In an 1820 letter to Dr. Hendersen entreating him to buy Charles' certificate for 228 acres of bounty land as soon as it was issued, Calvin Jones mentions that Charles lost an eye in the war. [Military File #137 of Charles Elloms in NC Archives.) In 1873, John Rosser of Memphis, Tennessee wrote to Lyman Draper about his childhood in Mecklenburg County. He remembered Charles Elms as a pensioner living in Pineville who had lost an eye in the battle of Eutaw Springs (Draper's MS Thomas Sumter Papers, 13 VV 7-8, York County Genealogical Historical Quarterly, Summer 1989, p12.) Charles must have become very frustrated at having to repeatedly prove his claim to land and a pension. In his 1835 will, this frustration is apparent with the words that " I do confirm the following to be my last will and testament filing a plea in the recollection of the many struggles and difficulties I with my companions in arms during our revolutionary war, waded through and [illegible] when we bled freely to procure a government of laws. I now beg of those of my fellow citizens who may survive me and may have an agency in the execution of the law to lend me their aid to support my rights and privileges which I humbly conceive the laws are intended to secure to us and to our prosperity." (Mecklenburg County, NC Wills from NC Archives) CHARLES' LIFE AFTER THE REVOLUTION On August 17, 1785, Charles and Miles Bobbit signed a 500 pound bond for Charles' marriage to Rebecah Withers, daughter of Reubin and Celia Zills Weathers in Warren County, NC. In the 1790s, Charles and Rebecah followed her family to Mecklenburg County, NC where they remained until their deaths in 1834 and 1836. Both are buried in Ft. Mill, South Carolina at Flint Hill Baptist Church which was chartered in 1792 by a group of people who had once lived in Warren County, NC. Charles' tombstone reads: "A Soldier and Patriot of the Revolution of 1776 who departed this life 6th January 1836."
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b. in Ireland 1746; d. Washington D.C. 10 Jan 1805. His place of residence during the war was Duplin Co., NC. He represented Duplin Co. in the Halifax Convention in 1776, served as Captain in the First Battlion, NC Volunteers, and fought in the Battle of Elizabethtown, NC in 1781. He was buried in Georgetown Cemetery, but was later his remains were removed and re-interred in the Congressional Cemetery. He married in 1770 Dorcas MUMFORD at Richlands, Onslow Co., NC. Their children were: 1. Catherine, b. 26 Dec 1771; mar. 1802 to Gaines Rowe 2. David,
b. 5 Apr 1774; mar. 1802 to Sarah Street 3. Lucy, b. 14 Mar 1776; mar. Joseph
Dickson 4. Joseph b. 19 Feb 1779; mar. (1) 1802 to Susan Dickson; (2) 29 May
1829 to Jane Stallings 5. Elizabeth, b. 28 Feb 1781; mar. Aaron Morgan 6. Jane,
b.10 Mar 1785; mar. as (2) wife 5 Jan 1809 Isaac Wright 7. Mildred, b. 19 Jul
1789; mar. as (2) wife Joseph Dickson Submitted by: Barbara Shore
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Sergeant Samuel GILSTON, North Carolina Line I hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Samuel GILSTON, who Served as a Sergeant in the first North Carolina Regiment, to which he was transferred in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, at the Valley Forge encampment, that he served a considerable time in that regiment and I have understood and believe he died in service---April 23, 1801. Ho TATUM, Capt, late of the first No Carolina Regt. NC Archives, NC Assembly Papers, Nov-Dec, 1801, Box 3, Petitions--Revolutionary Service Submitted by: LCManica@aol.com
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was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1750 and died in Wythe Co, VA in March of 1811. He served as Captain and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. He was married ftwice. His first wife was Mary Craig whom he md in Ireland before coming to the US and into Mecklenburg Co, NC. Their children were: Submitted by Claire Graham Morelli Jan. 1999
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HENRY, Captain John was born in S.C.
and was the son of an Irishman who migrated to that state in the last century.
John Henry served in the War of the Revolution, was captain of a company in
the American army and fought at the Battle of Cowpens, where he was made a prisoner
and was afterwards exchanged. He also fought at Kings Mountain with Distinction.
He died in North Carolina about 1835. There is a monument to him on Jonathon's
Creek near Waynesville, N.C.
Submitted by Janet Smith
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Joseph HOSKINS was a Captain in the Guilford County Militia in the Revolutionary War at the time of the Battle of Guilford Court House as shown by the application on 21 Febraury 1834 of Samuel RAYL, then living in Jefferson Co., Tennessee. RAYL stated "In the month of March 1781 day not recollected This Declarant was drafted at Guilford Court House by Captain Joseph HASKINS for a term of three months as a private soldier...Being a wheelright and Blacksmith, this Declarant was detailed from Captain HASKINS' company immediately after he was drafted..."(1) At the Battle of Guilford Court House, Cornwallis' lines were lined up even with Joseph HOSKINS house on both sides of it. The American troops had three lines, the first line consisting of North Carolina militia about 1/4 mile from Cornwallis' troops. Immediately between the two armies were Joseph Hoskins' cleared fields that had been previously planted in corn. When the British advanced, the American first line gave way, and most of the fighting took place east and a little north of Joseph HOSKINS land.(2) Joseph HOSKINS house was used by Cornwallis as his headquarters for the staging of the battle, and later as a hospital for the wounded of both sides. Evidence indicates approximately 100 casualties were buried immediately behind the house. Joseph HOSKINS house still stands, and the interior has been restored to how it may have appeared in 1781.(3) It is located in Tannebaum Park, just outside the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and maintained by the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department. Joseph HOSKINS b. 1751 Chester Co., PA d. 24 July-31 Aug. 1799 Guilford Co., NC; married Hanneh EVANS, children: 1. Elizabeth HOSKINS m. Willilam DENNIS 15 Sep. 1800 2. John HOSKINS b. ca. 1780; m. Mary; d. ca. 1859 3. Hannah HOSKINS m. Caleb JESSOP 27 July 1803 4. Eli HOSKINS b. 4 July 1785; m.1. Amy GOSSETT; m.2. Sarah SWAIN 22 Nov. 1836; d. 2 June 1852 Guilford Co., NC 5. Ann HOSKINS b. 10 July 1788; m.1. Jesse BALES/BEALS; m.2. Elias JESSOP 5 July 1820; d. 20 Mar 1875 Henry Co., IN 6. Joseph HOSKINS 7. Ellis HOSKINS b. 1796; m. Sarah (Sally) McCUISTON 6 Dec. 1821; d. 12 Mar. 1873 Guilford Co., NC 8. Mary HOSKINS m. Fleet HUNT 5 Oct. 1819 Notes: (1) The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 14, No.1, Number 35, Fall 1986, p. 6. (2) Charles E. Hatch, Jr. The Battle of Guilford Courthouse (Washington D.C.: Office of History and Historic Architecture, Eastern Service Center, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, 1971). (3) City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department, Tannenbaum Park Site of The Historic Hoskins House, (Greensboro, NC: City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department). Submitted by: Fredric Z. Saunders
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Thomas JAMES was born c1750 in New Hanover Co., NC. He died after
1793 in Duplin Co., NC. He married Elizabeth Hinton Rand, 14 Jan 1783. She was
born c1762 in Wake Co., NC and died after 1817 in Duplin Co. NC Submitted by: Barbara A. Shore
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Darling JONES b. 7/22/1764 Orange (Wake) Co NC d. 10/9/1848 Washington Co. (now Carter) TN. He was the first son of Lewis Jones Sr (an early Watauga settler) and Elizabeth ARNOLD. * Hero of Kings Mountain (re: Watauga Settlement)...said to have killed Col. Ferguson "Rogersville Review, Dec 19, 1940") * Hero in the battle of Monk's Corner under Col. Evan Shelby's NC regiment. Jones rec'd a land grant from NC for 259 acres in Washington Co. TN (then NC) for his duty in the war. Jones received a land grant from NC for 259 acres in Washington co. (then NC) TN for his duty in the war. Haynes MILLER purchased the log cabin once lived in by Darling and Nancy HUFF that stood on Barton St. between two railroads. Haynes willed the cabin to the Girl Scouts of Johnson City. It stands as the Girl Scouts Lodge at their camp off Broadway St. There is a picture of Nancy standing in front of the cabin in 1898 when Nancy was in her late nineties. At the time she was the oldest Revolutionary War pension in the country. Darling first married Nancy J. NELSON (d/o William Nelson and granddaughter of Henry and Jane Nelson). They were div. in 1804. He fathered several children by a widow Ann RADER, who he did not marry. He married second Nancy HUFF in 2/18/1832 (b. 1816 Carter TN d. 7/6/1902 Jonesboro TN) -- Submitted by: Jenny Terry
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