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ANCESTORS (1775-1783)
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This section lists some of the known ancestors that were in the American War of Revolution against England. Others will be added as additional information is obtained. |
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ROBERTSON - WISE ANCESTORS
WISE, John (1721-1780) Great Grandfather,
He was in the South Carolina militia and in July 1780 was captured and charged by English military authorities for aiding and abetting local rebels. John was imprisoned aboard an English prisoner-of-war ship in Charleston Harbor, where he died in September 1780.
WISE, William (1747-1816) Great Grandfather,
He was a private in the Georgia Line, certified by General Elijah Clarke as being entitled to bounty land. He served in South Carolina and Georgia, and later under General (then Captain) Marbury's SC and GA refugee forces
WISE, Jacob (1753-1845) Great Uncle (son of John Wise)
He volunteered at an early period of the Revolutionary War. He participated in several of the many skirmishes that took place in this South Carolina between Whigs and Tories. His house was a long time the rendezvous of the Whigs in this part of the State. He was a soldier in Captain John Hammond's company of the SC militia during the Revolution and was in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians. Next, he was under Capt Frank Sinquefield and Col LeRoy Hammond and was on the Florida Expedition. He had previously fought in the Florida Indian Wars before the Revolutionary War.
STRICKLAND, John (1729-1788) Great Grandfather
Served in North Carolina line.
STRICKLAND, David (1756-1824) Great Uncle (son of John Strickland)
Said to have been a North Carolina Militia Soldier during the American Revolutionary War (1776-1785). This David is believed to be the same person who served in the Halifax Military District, North Carolina Militia.
STRICKLAND, John (1749-1838) Great Uncle (son of John Strickland)
Served in North Carolina line.
VINCE, Joseph Richard (1758-1817) Great Uncle (by marriage to Flora Strickland)
Served as a Private, for 253 days (7 May 1781 to 25 Feb 1782). Another Joseph Vince is shown as a captain in militia 1780-82 and led a group against Tories at the forks of Edisto River. He was wounded in a skirmish at Salley's Cowpens.
OWEN - HUDSON ANCESTORS
HART, Samuel (1735-1805) Great Uncle (by marriage to Bridget Fowler)
Served as a Lieutenant and was wounded in the battle of Saratoga . He was from Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut.
KIMBALL, Levi (1745-1827) Great Uncle (by marriage to Abigail Sisson)
Levi was a drummer.
SISSON, William (1744-1798) Great Uncle (son of William Sisson)
Served as a private in 1781 in Canfield's Militia Regular under Commander Amos Maine in defense of the Hudson. He is listed in the DAR Patriot Index.
VANN - VARNEDOE ANCESTORS
HILL, Abraham (1732-1792) Great Grandfather (son of Abraham Hill)
Served as Private, under Lieut. John Cropper in Virginia troops.
HILL, Abraham (1759-1818) Great Uncle (son of Abraham Hill)
Abraham served in the Revolutionary War as a private from 1 April 1782 to 1 October 1784. He moved to Georgia in 1786.
He "was waylaid and murdered while going from his home in Oglethorpe County to Lexington, Georgia by one James Carter, a young man he had taken into his home, while childless, and treated as a son, and who expected to be heir."
HILL, Henry (1730-1804) Great Uncle (son of Abraham Hill)
Said to have served in North Carolina line.
HINTON, John (1725-1784) Great Uncle (son of John Hinton)
Served as Colonel. Born in England . Settled in Wake, North Carolina.
HINTON, Malachi (1730-1808) Great Uncle (son of John Hinton)
Served as a Lieutenant in American Revolutionary War. At a very young age he left home to live with his brother because he did not fit in with his new stepmother.
HUTTO, John Henry (1753-1817) 1st Cousin (grandson of Isaac Hutto)
Henry Hutto rendered a fine service in the revolution. He enlisted as a Private in the 3rd South Carolina Regiment 4 Nov 1775. The regiment was taken on the Continental Establishment in Sep 1776 and Henry served to 10 Aug 1778 when he was discharged. He re-enlisted as a Corporal under Capt Oliver Towles 26 Mar 1779 and served to the end of the war. He was taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston and later exchanged. He joined Col George Lenington’s company as Sergeant in the SC militia.
He received a Bounty Grant as additional compensation for his services. There is one record of pay indents issued to him for the years 1780-1781 in Book YZ of Stub Indents, p 120, South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol VII, p 220. In Vol V of the same magazine is a printed Muster Roll for 1779 showing Henry in service then.
While Henry was serving in the Army, Ann may have been running the farm as she furnished supplies.
HUTTO, Jacob (1736- ) Great Uncle (son of Isaac Hutto)
He was born in Germany. Records of So. Carolina soldiers indicate he served 41 days in the militia. He apparently was married in 1783 to Ann during the year of the evacuation of Charlteston.
MALLARD, Lazarus (1748-1814) Great Grandfather
During the American Revolutionary War, Gen. Provost of the British army came up from St. Augustine, Florida to Midway, Georgia, and burnt down the Midway Congregational Church and homes. The residents became refugees. Our family record shows Lazarus, his wife Mary, and two sons John and Thomas fleeing to stay with family in South Carolina. It could have been Mary (Boyd) Norman Mallard's family in Charleston area or maybe it was Lazarus Mallard's family in S.C. After the American Revolution, Lazarus received another land grant, this one for 100 acres at Goshen ,(Georgia) for acting as a "refugee soldier" in the war. He already had acreage from earlier land grant and from his marriage.
MITCHELL, John (1748-1804) Great Uncle (son of Thomas Mitchell)
John was an officer in the Revolutionary War. He served as a 1st Lieutenant with the 3rd Georgia Regiment from April 5, 1778 to October 1782. His sword is on exhibition at the Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. It was donated by Mr. Peter Brannan.
In 1784, he asked for 287 1/2 acres in Washington County, Georgia (later became Hancock County) for Revolutionary War service. Also 200 acres in Franklin County on headrights. Revolutionary soldier’s receipts for GA show John Mitchell signed, in 1784, for 400 acres as Lieutenant in the Georgia Line. Records of the Secretary of State show, in 1785, John Mitchell granted 460 acres in Washington County "on bounty".
MITCHELL, Reaps (1756-1803) 1st Cousin (grandson of Henry Mitchell)
He was a Sergeant of the Continental Line from Virginia.
MITCHELL, Thomas Goodwin (1756-1826) Great Grandfather
POOLE : Thomas served in the Revolutionary War in the 11th Virginia Regiment, and was promoted to Colonel of the regiment. After the war, he moved to Hancock County, Georgia and later to Montgomery County , which was cut off into Telfair County . In about 1825 he moved to the new county of Thomas where he died. He owned a large plantation and was also a large slave owner.
Knight's Georgia Revolutionary Records has Thomas Mitchell as a Private, then a Lieutenant, later Captain. He asks for a bounty of 250 acres in Washington County (later Hancock County ). He was known as Thomas Mitchell Elder in Georgia. Thomas County was probably named for him.
RAINES, Nathaniel (1724-1789) Great Grandfather
Although too old to be in the military, Nathaniel served on the "Committee of Intelligence," appointed at a meeting of the committee for Prince George county held at Blandford, 8 May, 1775, "to convey any alarm, as speedily as possible, to the adjacent counties," the same "mode" being recommended to the other counties in the colony:
SHEFFIELD, Arthur (1750-1824) Great Uncle (son of John Sheffield)
He represented North Carolina during the Revolutionary War, later moving to South Carolina and from there to Tennessee where he lived about four miles from Chapel Hill the remainder of his life. He was buried in the Sheffield graveyard four miles from Chapel Hill. A monument over his grave bears this inscription "served in the Revolutionary War as a Captain." Military records may be found in the D.A.R. lineage books vol. 91, p. 312 & vol. 97, p. 299.
SHEFFIELD, West (1747-1830) Great Grandfather
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, compiled by Mrs. Howard H. McCall, p. 152 states that he removed to Georgia before the Revolutionary War and settled in St. George's parish. Served as private in Georgia Troop. Received bounty land grant in Georgia for his service.
VARNADOE, Henry (1748-1840) Great Uncle (son of Leonard Vernadeau)
Henry's career in the two opposing armies surely illustrates how confused the situation was. The two conflicting sides were not clearly drawn and individuals found themselves, motivated by either conviction or self-interest, caught up on one side or the other, or, as in Henry's case, on both. Henry's mother, Sarah Hutto, was a member of a German family who probably remained loyal subjects of His Majesty as long as that was possible. Henry's father, a Frenchman, belonged to an ethnic group that was actively identified with the rebels. The conflict of interests inherit in a civil war such as the Revolution caused him to take up arms against his brothers, so to speak. The Varnadoe brothers probably felt little or no animosity toward each other. Whose militia they served in may have been dictated by purely personal and, perhaps, monetary concerns.
"...Henry, served in the South Carolina Whig militia on three separate occasions. Before the capture of Charles Town by the British in 1780, he served for three months at the Orangeburg courthouse. A year and a half or two years later, he was drafted for the second time. He served for three months. He marched to Eutaw Springs where he was a guard of the baggage wagons during the Battle of Eutaw Springs on September 8, 1781. The third time that Henry was in the militia he was stationed around Orangeburg or at Col. Rumph's residence about six miles outside of town. He served for six months, beginning in July or August, 1782. His service ended in February, 1783, by which time the British and Tories had evacuated Charles Town. The withdrawal of the British concluded the war and left the state in peace.
VARNADO, Isaac (1762- ) Great Uncle (son of Leonard Vernadeau)
Served in the South Carolina Continental Regiment of Artillery as a gunner's mate. SC Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers states that he was a "matross" in 4th Regiment under Capt Wm Mitchell in 1780.
VARNADORE, Leonard (1750- ) Great Uncle (son of Leonard Vernadeau)
Served 167 days in the Whig or rebel militia under Capt William Buxton, Col. Jarden and Col Harper.
VARNADORE, Mathew (1760- ) Great Uncle (son of Leonard Vernadeau)
In September 1778, a year and a half prior to the fall of Charles Town, Mathew Varnedore, one of the younger sons, along with four other men from Orangeburg, enlisted in the Continental Army. He and the others marched to Beaufort Island near Charles Town to join the main body of the southern Continental Army in a brigade commanded by General Sumpter. This command left Charles Town for Cambridge, North Carolina and in that way avoided being captured with the bulk of the army in Charles Town in 1780. Mathew Varnedore spent the next year fighting British troops as far north as Rocky Mount in north-central North Carolina. He returned to spend the winter in South Carolina in the "High Hills of Santee" under General Green. The next fall, in September, 1781, he was wounded in his left knee by a musket ball at the Battle of Eutaw Springs. After being wounded, he was discharged and returned to his father's farm on the Rocky Swamp Creek.
VARNADO, Samuel (1754-1837) Great Uncle (son of Leonard Vernadeau)
Of the six living sons of Leonard Vernadeau, only Samuel and one other failed to leave a record of military service on the rebel side during the Revolutionary War. This is not to say that Samuel Varnadoe escaped the fighting. He did serve in the militia for six months from June 14 to December 14, 1780. However, the militia unit he belonged to was on the losing, the British, side of the war. He served, along with his brother Henry, in Captain John Salley's company of the Tory or loyalist Orangeburg militia. He was stationed near home, in Orangeburg and in the fork of the Edisto River.
WAY, Moses (1734-1786) Great Grandfather
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia shows him as a Lieutenant and then a Captain in the Georgia Militia.
