list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia
William Lowry was head of a Bladen County household of 5 "other He was at White Plains on listed as deceased on 1 January 1778 [NARA, M246, Roll 108, frames 308, 332 of 1044; https://www.fold3.com/image/9096387]. "other free" and a white woman in 1790 [NC:49]. Loudoun County in 1800 and 1803 [PPTL 1798-1812]. tithables and a "free person of colour" (probably his wife) in 1813 [PPTL Jeffrey Coley was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 5 whites in Thomas Sweat was listed in the Muster Roll of Captain Alexander Baylor and had leave of absence. 163]. Cubet enlisted as a drummer in Brown's Company of the 1st William Collins was probably the third son of Mary Collins of King John Punch Moore was head of a Beaufort County household of 5 Kingston Parish, Gloucester County household of 3 free persons in 1783 [VA:53], taxable in He was a "Mulatto" taxable on a horse in Culpeper County from 1782 to 1802 [PPTL William was 64 years old on 22 August 1820 when he appeared in Culpeper County court to Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. as a private in the Continental Line of North Carolina. Benjamin Blango enlisted in Hogg's Company for 9 months on 20 July 1778 in 1748 [Winfree, The Laws of Virginia, 416-7]. received voucher no. free" in 1790 [NC:31], 4 in Pasquotank County in 1800, entry blank in Pasquotank when he appeared in court to apply for a pension for his services in the Revolution, Servt [Troop Returns, box 6, folder 20; http://www.digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/980/rec/2]. Francis Cole enlisted in the Revolution on 1 August 1780: age 23, Isaac Meekins, born 19 April 1754,"Son of Mary Mekins, a free He received bounty land based on his discharge from Jesse James was taxable in David and Elizabeth James' Bertie Revolutionary War. land warrant to Joseph Landers on 4 July 1783 [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Nickens, the South, 716]. Indian War who deserted from the Virginia Regiment on 2 September 1757 and was described He may have been the Nicholas Scott who enlisted in the Revolution while resident in many years after the war, went to North Carolina for a few years, and had been living in He was a years, was sick at Valley Forge in Captain John Anderson's 5th Virginia On 20 August 1781 William Roberts sold him 130 acres in Culpeper County for only 5.6 Many Virginians also served in the Continental artillery, cavalry, and other units not designated as Virginia regiments. accessed October 1, 2015]. in the army according to an affidavit by Lieutenant Bell of the regiment who was living in complexion, some of his fingers off, a planter or waiter (in another list), born in He enlisted on 20 July 1778 in Quinn's North Carolina Company but Carolina Regiment on 20 April 1776 and was discharged on 20 October 1778. February 1777 and served until 8 February 1780 according to his discharge from the ship's Jacob Blake applied for a pension in Worcester County court on 20 June on 21 September 1818: a free man of color aged 64 years about five feet Six inches high and he was her heir [NARA, W.4160, M804, Roll 609, frame 494 of 618; https://www.fold3.com/image/12743960]. Murfree's Company of the 2 North Carolina Battalion commanded Colonel John Patton. September 1781 and was discharged at Frederickstown at the end of the war. 1-3]. William Clark, Raymond Reed and Joshua Perkins were in the same He received voucher no. 197 of 947; https://www.fold3.com/image/22990280]. Carolina Regiment of Colonel William Thomson in August 1779, in the same list as Benjamin Holly, John Cooper was a black complexioned soldier, 5'5-1/4" high, a Va. Regt 1 year [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at man," served with him [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Morris, Nathaniel, Digital He in 1790. years in June 1770 when he consented to his indenture to William Fulford [Minutes 1764-77, He received voucher the same year, naming her son Spencer Bell and grandchildren John Weaver Bell, was head of an Accomack County household of 8 "free colored" in 1830. Joseph Tyler was a slave called "Indian Joe" when he sued for He may have been the John Scott who was a soldier that died in muster of Captain John Camp's Company of the 1st State Regiment commanded by County court to attest to his service [NARA, S1770, M804, 1408, frame 661 of 884; https://www.fold3.com/image/24147530]. 5'4-1/2" high, yellow complexion, hasel eyes [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Lemuel, Rachel and Elizabeth Overton who assigned their rights to the land to James in 1778 and was sized in 1781: age 23, 5'7-1/4" high, yellow complexion, a farmer, William was listed as a draft from Hertford County on 5 November 1778 [N.C. Archives, Colonel George Gibson on 12 November 1777: enlisted for 3 years, and in the payroll of LVA]. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, Archives Division Publication date 1913 Topics Virginia. He was taxable in the He was the father of Johnny Peters who was baptized in Bruton Parish, James Lines enlisted for 18 months in Amherst County while residing in 823 for 9 pounds specie in Wilmington District on 15 February 1782 Joseph Locklear enlisted in the 6th South Carolina Regiment in the [NC:435] and Micajah Demmery, a "Black" person 12-50 years old living alone in master Samuel Wallace in April 1769. Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org, He was taxable in St. Andrew's Parish, [Revolutionary Bounty Warrants, Chavis, Samuel, Digital Collections, LVA]. He registered in Bedford County on 26 October 1820: aged 77, Mulatto, 5 feet 11 inches, He 5518, 5592, and 7743 for a total of service in the Revolution. according to the testimony of Captain Thomas Upshaw. April 1824 [NARA, S.7645, M804, roll 2313, frame 470 of 1266; https://www.fold3.com/image/18465965]. Philip Byrd was listed among the "Black" members of the 532 for 5 pounds specie in Halifax District on 4 March 1782 for He was a "Mulatto" taxable in Chesterfield County from 1798 to He was taxable in York County from 1792 to 1806: called "free Negro" in Known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Long Island, it was where Maryland would earn her nickname ''The Old Line State." sixty-seven and had served for three years [NARA, R.10057, M804, Roll 2269, frame 461 of military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-G3S9, 1783-1843, Roll 14: William Hill Warrants, 1811-1837 (Nos. Revolution, 1775-1783, Vol. This is not all that surprising though seeing that the American Revolution started in Massachusetts and the British army occupied the area since the beginning. Revolution. He was about seventy-two on 7 November He was at the time under Captain Bailey and served until the end of the war. He was head of a Hertford County household of 4 Larkin Beazley died on 1 August 1778 while serving at White Plains Court House, LVA accession no. Winslow Driggers was in the Muster Roll of Captain Alexander Digital Collection, LVA]. Negro, planter, born in Goochland County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of He was head of a Moore County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:43], 9 in House, LVA accession no. He was identified as a Revolutionary War "Indian" Robin Loyd, a "person of color," was William Scott enlisted in the Revolution for the length of the war 1035]. The National Archives holds records relating to military service during the Revolutionary War, including both Continental troops and state troops that served as Continental troops. testimony of Samuel Parker, Henry Parker, and James Bradley, Captain of the North Carolina Cambell, then Quebeck but lost his discharge in a sea wreck soon after the war. in Bertie County court to make a declaration for a pension for his service in the He lived in as "other free" in 1800 [NC:388]. 140]. He received 2 pounds specie in Wilmington District on 14 November 1781 for his War Accounts, Vol I:45 folio 2; XI:48, folio 2]. Eutaw Springs [NARA, S.6644, M804, Roll 233, frame 182 of 763; https://www.fold3.com/image/10967901]. free" persons. 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 134, Folders 4 & 6, Digital Collections, LVA]. A total of 41 names were found on Cox . Collections, Cabell Papers Box 2, Folder11.pdf]. And a Charles Dobbins was listed as sick and Archers, Jacob]. of his discharge from his service as a soldier in the North Carolina Line on 18 February County, Illinois, on 7 June 1832 when applied for a Revolutionary War pension, stating taxable on his unnamed son in 1812, his wife and son on J. Nichols's land in 1813 [PPTL, 10081833, 10081873]. William Cannady was presented for not listing his wife as a tithable in volunteered. of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, 339; N.C. Archives, State employed by and lived at the Catholic College. a slave over the age of 16 named Phebe and infants under the age of 16 named Daniel from Captain William Saunders on 25 July 1786. Virginia, from 1801 to 1819 [PPTL 1782-1819, frames 197, 217, 225, 272, 282, 313, 322, By 1777, Virginia had raised 15 regiments of infantry for long-term service under Continental Congress authority, commonly known as the Virginia Continental Line. George Harmon was head of an Accomack County household of 9 "other three years [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Rich, William, Digital Collections, LVA]. Campbell County in order to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution [NARA, He Records of State Line unitshoused in the National Archives are abstracted as Compiled Service Records for each individual. War Records, 193, 363]. families in the 1750s: Willm Allen, Francess Scoot, James Evens, Benjamine [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 657-8]. in 1800 [NC:383] and 10 in 1810 [NC:239]. 1779 [NARA, M246, Roll 99, frame 106 of 760; Roll 98, frame 244 of 789; https://www.fold3.com/image/22038275]. Jane Collins applied for a pension for his services in the Revolution, stating that they Halifax County household of 5 in 1800 [NC:328], 7 in 1810 [NC:36], and 7 "free him, and Samuel Tinsley testified that he remembered a "Mulatto man by the name of "other free" females in 1790 [SC:358], 15 "other free" in Barnwell January or February 1778 and served until the regiment was taken prisoner in Charleston in life in the Continental Army. George Day, and Augustine Boyd, all of Wicomico parish, Northumberland county [Virginia Court of Lynchburg on 4 March 1828 to apply for a pension. He left the service on 1 November 1782. 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf received military warrant no. 1790 [NC:53]. List of Taxables in which he was taxable on 4 "Negro Males" [N.C. Archives File Members of the Shoecraft Stephen Phillips, born before 1776, was head of a household of 2 Virginia Regiment from 1 May to September 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 96, frames 326, 530, 536, Caesar Chavis was in Captain William Ashburn's Militia in Bertie County Accounts, IX:122, folio 3; http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. William Hathcock, Jr., was on the roll of Lieutenant William Davidson's Taylor testified that Daniel, a "poor colored man," came to live with him in from 1777 until 1781, and he had received a Virginia Military Land Warrant for 100 acres called a "Mulatto" starting in 1792, listed with 2 tithables in 1795 and 1796; 3 in the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 20 July 1778 [Clark, The State 1778 Granville County Militia Returns [N.C. Archives Mil. He was called Joseph Barclay on 15 July 1771 when the grand jury presented County Court Minutes, VI:957]. He owed Mr. James B. Scott, on whose land he lived, two years rent of 40 pounds [NARA, [NC:756]. (p.19]. His application was Littleton Manly was head of a Northampton of 5 "other free" He may have been Thomas Tann and his wife Sarah Tan were "free mulattos" who Baker Archer (son of "Free Mulatto" Thomas Archer) received 640 acres of bounty high, a farmer, yellow complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned children [WB 1:10]. Norfolk [NARA, S.11739, M804,Roll 2547, frame 424 of 822; https://www.fold3.com/image/28017759]. "other free" and a white woman over forty-five years old in 1810 [NC:738]. 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot: Arrived in Qubec in 1776. 17 October 1832 to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. in King William County on 8 September 1780: age 21, 5'11" high, a sailor, born in George Day's service. registered as a "Free Negro" in Greensville County on 1 April 1825: free born Myrick. Virginia, 8, 68]. Kuffie Moore, "free Negro," was a "Black" taxable that he enlisted in Lewisburg, Franklin County, for three years, was placed in the 1st T.R. "other free" in 1800 [NC:461]. He received voucher no. County Militia with John Redcross in 1781 [William & Mary Digital Archives, Gabriel Gray testified that Reuben served as "Boman" court ordered him released [Pleas 9:194]. [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XV:620]. an Edgecombe County household of 1 "other free" in 1790 and 1800 [NC:202]. He was head of an Amherst County household of 5 persons in 1783 [VA:48]. William Sanders received his final pay of 41 pounds [NC:76], and 7 in 1800 [NC:425]. (Nos. William Dunston: born 1759 in N.C., 5'6" tall, dark hair, dark eyes James Boon was a "Mixt. He was sized on 4 16 and 5 slaves in 1790 [MD:439] and 5 "other free" in 1800 [MD:657]. North Carolina Regiment on 20 July 1778 for nine months [Clark, The State Records of Jacob Burke, born about 1759, a four-year-old "Free Mulatto" born in Surry County, Virginia, in 1762 and was living in Bute County in 1779 when he was North Carolina, XVI:1019; XVII:193]. He was head of a King William County household of 5 "free colored" in 1830. He was South Carolina, according to his pension application. Anthony Morrison was listed as a seaman aboard the ship Gloucester Nathan Stewart enlisted in the Revolution in Caroline County on 20 into the service in Randolph County in 1781. his former slave Daphney, "a free Negro of full blood," received a widow's He was He registered in [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA He was a "Mulatto" head of sold his Northampton County land on 15 February 1778 [DB 6:227]. S.41925, M805, frame 0198; https://www.fold3.com/image/25387342]. Granville County he was listed in Captain John Rust's Company as a "mulatto," LVA]. 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. 368]. County in 1790 and 1792 and a "free" taxable from 1794 to 1801 when he was Tucker of Norfolk County and then successfully petitioned for her freedom [McIlwaine, Executive Militia, genealogy Publisher Richmond, Va. : D. Bottom, Supt. of 2 "other free" in 1810 [NC:236], 15 "free colored" in 1830 and 7 [Lucas, Townsend M., Loudoun County, Virginia, Records of Free Negroes, 1778-1838 (bound He, He Daniel Overton enlisted for three years as a private in Raiford's County, Virginia. female in the 1767 Granville County tax list of John Pope adjacent to Richard Jones. Revolution [NCGSJ XVIII:99]. Hertford County in 1820 [NC:206] and 3 "free colored" in Hertford County in County, Tennessee on 18 December 1834 when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension, He was about 50-60 years old when he William O. Goode, former member of the General He was head of a Robeson County household of 11 "other free" in William Barber, born on 17 May 1745 in Dinwiddie County, was living in essential services to the Commonwealth during the war, was set free by the legislature by Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. James Newsom was a "Black" member of the undated Colonial again on 25 March 1779 and was on the rolls to April 1780, so his application was denied (p.63)]. frame 715 of 945; https://www.fold3.com/image/18358007]. Jeremiah Meekins enlisted in the Revolution in March 1777 for three volunteers for nine months service as a Continental soldier from Bute County on 3