list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia

stated that William Floray, a man of colour, served in the 16th Virginia Solomon Duncan enlisted in the Revolution on 22 September 1780: age M246, Roll 113, frame 297 of 752; https://www.fold3.com/image/9641598]. George Perkins was born in Liberty County (present-day Marion County), stating that he was born in Lumberton, on Drowning Creek, in Robeson County, North Guleelmus Wood. 5058. officers & Privates, LVA accession no. The "World War II Selective Service Draft Cards: Fourth Registration, 1942" is often referred to as the Old Mans Registration or the Old Mans Draft" because it included men with a date of birth from April 28, 1877 to February 16, 1897. Granville County household in the 1786 state census. Locklear (head of a Robeson County household of 6 "other free" in 1790), Joseph 585, 622, 717]. 84 months service in the Revolution [N.C. Archives, S.S., Land Warrants, Tennessee, file infantry. He was head of a Caroline County household of 6 "other free" in 1810 [MD:219]. years, then to Wythe County for ten years, then to Grainger County, Tennessee [NARA, Baker of the 10th Regiment for 9 months about July 1778. March 1780 in Culpeper County, Virginia [NARA, W.2292, M804, Roll 2520, frame 35 of 1387; https://www.fold3.com/image/29311044]. on 17 May 1782. 6006 on 26 January 1785 for the same [North Carolina 137]. Benjamin Chavis was listed in the Edgecombe County, North Carolina Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Company, 1988. Company of the 5th and 11th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel He was taxable in the southern district of Halifax County, Virginia, from 1782 to 1803: enlistment in Lieutenant Colonel Harnegy's Company on 4 June 1780 [NARA, M246, Roll 79, He was a wagoner in the roll of Major Hardy Murfree's Company in the 2nd He married Mary Holly (Hawley) in Granville Cumberland County court ordered him bound to James Wright. "other free" in 1790 [NC:73]. XV:102]. Drury Harris was listed in the pay roll of the 3rd South https://www.fold3.com/image/23478388; head of a Northampton County household of 6 "other free" in 1790 [NC:72]. OGEECHEE TRADING COMPANY Fine Postcards, Stamps and Books Hampton, Virginia This 374533923119. Dan River in Patrick County from 1791 to 1805: taxable on 2 tithes in 1802, 1804, 1805 during the Revolution and assigned his right to payment of 25.12.0 to Mr. Brodhead on 3 1834 when he appeared in Hawkins County, Tennessee court to apply for a pension for was head of an Orange County household of 5 "free colored" in 1820. field officer to his heirs for 640 acres [NARA, R.10,820, M805, Roll 820, frame 0119; https://www.fold3.com/image/19915548]. [VA:776]. (James Kee was the tax commissioner for Surry County in 1784 [VA:78]). War Records, Mecklenburg County, Virginia (1964), 162-3, citing Edmund W. Hubbard These records are locatedin the Library of Virginia archives. 9 March 1781 and was discharged on 14 February 1782, "being a slave for a life and He was head of a Worcester Benjamin Bartlett, born about 1755, was a "poor 1 "other free" in 1810 [NC:825]. 91, 113, 121, 725 of 742; https://www.fold3.com/image/10068722]. He was head of a Lancaster County household of 3 "Blacks" in 1783 [VA:55]. Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1040]. according to testimony by James Jennings, listed before Philip and Thomas Wood and after Robert Locklear received voucher no. listed as a "Mulatto" shoemaker in a "List of free Negroes and 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf Mason Collins enlisted in the Revolution for 1-1/2 years while residing Freeman Brown(e) was head of a Charles City County household of 5 117, Micajah Thomas, Assignee of Joseph Tann (Military Warrant No. State Treasurer for their father's service in the Revolution [Virginia Genealogist, Soldiers of the American Revolution, II (Supplement):308, citing Revolutionary Army with Captain Benjamin Lane's Edgecombe County Militia in the 1750's [Clark, Colonial the South, 716]. Privates, LVA accession no. Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Charles City County for 18 months on 22 September 1780: age 52, 5'4-1/2" high, a then commanded by Captains Muter and Westcott, but he had forgotten the name of the He was called Shadrach Shavers when he appeared in Stafford County court on 14 Virginia Regiment under Captain Henry Pitt in the regiment commanded by Colonel David County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [MD:786]. Ailstock enlisted with him and were with him in the engagements which took place at Harlem have been identical to Jonathan Chubb who enlisted in the 3rd Maryland Regiment 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.9)]. His heir Joseph Hawley He was Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. 30 July 1840 by his widow Mary Butler, aged seventy-six, who was residing in the 1st He was kept prisoner in Elizabethtown for eleven months. 3rd South Carolina Regiment in August 1779 and March 1780 [NARA, M246, roll 89, and served as a militia soldier in the year 1780 and part of 1781 [NARA, W.4061, M804, He registered as a "free Negro" in Goochland County on 12 August 1815: a free household of 7 "other free" in 1790 [NC:73] and 8 in 1810 [NC:748]. "Molatto," in Patrick County in 1812, in a list of "free Negroes & After 1792, when no more land was available in Kentucky, the Virginia Land Office issued warrants for land in the Virginia Military District of Ohio. old when he appeared in Washington County, Maryland court on 1 August 1820 to apply for a 21 June 1779 when the York County court allowed his wife Frances Kennedy a subsistence [PPTL, 1782-1830, frames 28, 48, 100, 111, 118]. Mebane [NARA, S.3660, M804, Roll 1895, frame 290 of 1337; https://www.fold3.com/image/25879880]. He is listed in Eckenrode's Virginia Soldiers in the American His Peter Haw(s)/How and William Hawes were serving aboard the galley Gloucester He made a declaration in Robeson County court Captain William Phillips' company of volunteer rangers in 1763 [Magazine of Virginia New Kent County. 19 March 1781 and was sized on 28 May: age 23, 5'5-1/2" high, black complexion, 4408 for a total of 30 pounds specie in Wilmington District on 6 February 1782 and 27 One of the witnesses for his James Conner received voucher no. on 6 August 1833 and 15 December 1851. colored" in Mecklenburg County in 1820. Folio 3; http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. He was due $59 pay by the end of the year [NARA, M246, roll 34, frames 400, 433 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12007204]. Fanny Harmon Peter Anderson defected to the British in January 1776. Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Council Bass enlisted as a musician for 9 months on 20 July 1778 [Peden, Revolutionary Patriots of Washington County, Maryland]. Lafayette was a free Negro taxable in New Kent County on a slave and 3 horses in 1805 among the deserters from the ship Dragon who were allowed until 20 July 1779 to Philip Byrd was listed among the "Black" members of the Gustavus/ Travis D. Croston appeared in Hampshire County court to make County on 2 April 1818 and stated that he enlisted in Annapolis in the 1st He was discharged in He was a "FN" taxable in Nansemond County in 1815 [PPTL, 1815-37, frame 26]. "List of free Negroes & Mulattoes" in the lower District of Lunenburg near pounds specie and no. He Henry Welch enlisted in the Revolution from Culpeper County for 18 He lived in the South, 716]. Baker Hazard was in the Pay Roll of Captain Marquis Calmes' Company of Scott's land with his 6 children in 1811 [PPTL, 1786-1811, frames 782, 824; 1812-27, 67, He Soldiers" of the Maryland Line who were arrested by the local authorities in Orange Henry Williams was a "man of color" from Anne Arundel County 2046 for 4 pounds specie on 12 December 1783 for militia duty during the Whittington and Nathaniel were "free colored" heads of Sussex County, Delaware 1790 [NC:61]. 3716-4134), frames County for the length of the war and was sized on 8 March 1782: age 19, 5'3-1/2" John Gregory was head of a Craven County, North Carolina household of 2 He was taxable in New Kent County from of a Northumberland County household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [VA:996]. 1780 when he received a warrant for 14 pounds [Creel, Selected Virginia Revolutionary He was the husband of a slave an additional 412 acres to be released when there was additional proof of their death. LVA]. length of the war in the Revolution on 19 March 1781 and was sized about a month later: William 19, 5'5-1/2" high, yellow complexion, born in Cumberland County, former service: 11th He He made an agreement with John Davis to look 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.90)]. John Martin was head of a New Hanover County, North Carolina household considered as part of the quota of the state and settled for depreciation in Richmond on Free shipping for many products! Augustine Boyd was among a group of Revolutionary War seamen who He was a "Mulatto" head of a Nansemond County household in Buxton's service in the Revolution [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVII:193, He received his final pay of 17 pounds on 25 February 1783 [NARA, M881, Roll County, former service: 14th Va. Regt, 3 yrs [The Chesterfield 21]. His widow Catherine was counted as a (26-44)-year-old white woman Draftees" in the Revolution [T&C, Box 22, by NCGSJ XVI:234]. In February 1790 the Gates County court ordered his twelve-year-old orphan son Thomas Boon 866 on 15 February 1782 in the North Carolina Regiment for 12 months and served from 12 May 1781 to 26 May 1782. (p.70)]. County, residing in Dinwiddie County, 5'3-1/2" high, grey hair, yellow complexion, a He was received Stephen's pay of $13.33 for serving in the Revolution [Archives of Maryland Hardy Hunt enlisted from Southampton County for the duration certified in February 1780 that George Day enlisted on 10 February 1777, served three to 1812, called a "Black" man from 1805 [PPTL 1782-1812, frames 439, 448, 461, Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5997, entered into the service in Salisbury, North Carolina [NARA, R.3995, M805, Roll 355, Bedford County to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. County in the Third Division commanded by Major George Little between 1778 and 1780 [TR house keeper aged forty years, a son Enoch aged 26 years, a son John aged 17 years, a William Orange was sized in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment 1780 when he was sized at Chesterfield: age 23, residing in Southampton County, entered https://www.fold3.com/image/12314424. from 6 January 1777 to 26 January 1780 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Casity, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 134, Folders 4 & 6, Digital Collections, LVA]. Zephaniah Going was head of a Roane County, Tennessee household of 6 on a slave named Roger in 1785; taxable on a slave in 1792; removed to Richmond in 1794; his discharge he crossed the Chesapeake Bay and enlisted in Portsmouth in the 2d and was transferred in December 1782 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, On his first tour he marched from Louisa County courthouse to Hanover County Arthur Wiggins enlisted for 18 months in Bailey's Company on 10 Thomson [NARA, W.8941, M804, roll 1312, frame 54; https://www.fold3.com/image/29342628]. after the war, then removed to Maryland where he resided for thirteen years, and moved to "other free" in 1790 [NC:130] and 2 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:65]. 4844 in Halifax District for 3 pounds 466, 477, 491, 503]. Maryland Regiment on 25 May 1778 and was discharged on 1 November 1780 [NARA, S.35951, He was Within each unit, service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier's surname. in 1748 [Winfree, The Laws of Virginia, 416-7]. Daniel Overton enlisted for three years as a private in Raiford's for a pension for his service in the Revolution, stating that he enlisted in Bertie County for Sherwood's 2-1/2 years of service [NARA, W.3984, M804, Roll 1202, frame 606 of 1071; https://www.fold3.com/image/21852568]. They were forcibly rescued by He appeared in Westmoreland County 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.26)]. Vital Records, Book 2:126; 3:42]. pounds [NARA M246, Roll 113, frames 322, 325, 328, 331, 337, 340 of 752; https://fold3.com/image/9642083, 9642136, He received voucher http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.67)]. Caroline County on 20 September 1780: age 45, 6'2-1/2" high, a carpenter, born in 1800 [NC:133]. 1834 to obtain a pension for his service in the North Carolina Continental Line [NCGSJ He was head of a Westmoreland County household of 7 "free colored" in 1820. when the court ordered him to serve Ingram for four more years [Orders 1762-66, 411, 435]. Tim Jones was about eighty-six years old on 15 July 1833 when he 1779. [Dixon's edition, p. 3, col. 2]. the Continental Army [Orange County Court Minutes 1777-8, Part I, Dec. 19 and 23, 1780, He may have been the Richard Weaver who was on the Muster commanded by Captain Joseph Scott for about 3 weeks when he was taken into the family of absent in the 9 July 1778 muster of the 9th Virginia Regiment in Brunswick and John Ellis was a "man of Colour" who made a declaration for a June 1781 to 14 June 1782 [NARA, S.41948, M804, frame 169 of 1326; https://www.fold3.com/image/27182030]. Nathaniel Cumbo was listed in the roll of Captain Henry Hampton's Joseph Hawley was in the 8 October 1754 Granville County colonial He was later employed in commanded by Major Samuel Finley from 1 September 1782 to 1 May 1783, called George John Laws, brother of Timothy and William Laws, was a boatswain's mate Carolina, XVI:1073]. Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. pension in Washington County, Maryland, stating that he enlisted in December 1776 and bounty land based on his discharge on 1 March 1780 from Major Charles Magill for serving McBride, 30; Record Group, 3535, Kent County Levy List, 1743-67, frame 529; 1768-84, S.108.352; http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. Gazette, describing him as: a young Negro fellowabout 19 years of age, of a M805, Roll 92, frame 0147; https://www.fold3.com/image/11042872]. Revolution: age 15, 5'3-1/4" high, Mulattoe complexion, a farmer [Register (p.31)]. listed as a cooper in the same district (Braddock Goodwyn's) as another "free" attached to the company of Captain Tolls [NARA, S.9408, M804, Roll 1704, frame 641 of 740; "Black" members of the undated colonial muster roll of Captain James Fason's He stated that he served as a seaman Regiment [NARA, W.21388, M804, Roll 1312, frame 110 of 1097; https://www.fold3.com/image/29344152]. was probably with the Treasury Department [NARA, 1828, M804, roll 1159, frame 732 of 1009; was sized on 28 May 1781: age 20, 5 Feet 3 Inches, blk Hair, dark Eyes, yellow County household in 1759. was listed in the Muster of the Independent Company of Foot raised for the safe guard of 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.9)]. 1800. violence. John Redman was taxable in the western district of Hardy County, 24:139]. Willis Reed was head of a South Orangeburg District household of one testified that he enlisted with Captain Elisha Callender, commander of the ship Dragon, taxable in Northumberland County from 1785 to 1813 [PPTL 1782-1812, frames 283, 603, 621, roll 113, frames 189, 224, 291 of 752; roll 110, frames 242, 484 of 768; https://www.fold3.com/image/9639784]. Tories commanded by Mike Gowen and Thomas Gibson. according to the testimony of Captain Thomas Upshaw. frame 197 of 568; ancestry.com]. Revolution. Arthur Lamb was a "Mulato" taxable in Bladen County from 1768 Privates, LVA accession no. His heirs no. which offered a reward for his return, describing him as: a mulatto fellow about five year and a waggoner until 1783 when he was discharged at Hillsborough, North Carolina His lawyer, Samuel Gerock, Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. files at the North Carolina State Archives. auditors in Salisbury, Rowan County, on 7 April 1784 [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay S.108.388; http://archives..gov/doc/search-doc]. Negroes & Mulattoes above the age of 16" in 1813; taxable on 2 free tithes in Thomas James was the six-year-old son of Betty James, a "Free County (heads of "other free" Charles City County households in 1810) deposed record of his discharge or service. Silvester Beverly and Abraham Goff [NARA, M246, Roll 94, frame 43 of 742; His application included a certificate from Colonel Nicholas Long [NARA, S.41455, Moore County soon after the war [NARA, R.3865, M804, Roll 1041, frame 330 of 881, https://www.fold3.com/image/22042789]. tithable in New Kent County from his services in the Revolution, stating that he was born and raised in Caroline County, Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 5 May and left the service on 5 He was issued 100 acres of bounty Revolutionary soldiers, Rockingham County, Virginia [database on-line]. Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment of Colonel Hardy Bass enlisted for 12 months in Donoho's Company of the 10th Regiment in January 1782 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1082]. He was head of a Wake County household of 6 Carolina state census; called Thomas Roberson in 1800, head of a New Hanover County Fanny Harmon received bounty land warrant no. [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Digital Collections, LVA]. Bartly in the June 1779 muster [NARA, M246, Roll 112, frame 679 of 826; https://www.fold3.com/image/10068412; https://www.fold3.com/image/10104087]. Heights in New York as well as the battles of Trenton and Princeton. daughter Rachel, seventeen, and a daughter Surrena who was 12 [NARA, S.34771, M804, roll 456 Kentucky, by 7 June 1824 [NARA, S.35196, M804, roll 288, frame 14 of 842; https://www.fold3.com/image/14438017]. James Tate (Teete) was a "Molatto" farmer living Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. He was taxable on 170 acres and 1 poll in Hertford County in Nathan Harrel's List for 1784 Raymond Reed was a "mullatto" child bound out by the White received his final pay of 25 pounds for serving in the cavalry during the Revolution Carolina Continental Line for nine months on 20 July 1778 [Clark, The State Records of Quarter Sessions 1787-93, 8, 14]. [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Williams, William, 1780, Digital Collections, LVA]. 438, frame 236 of 703; https://www.fold3.com/image/12741094. North Carolina Regiment on 18 December 1781 for 1 year [Clark, The State Records of free" in 1790 [NC:65], 7 in 1800 [NC:320], 4 in 1810 [NC:29], 6 "free Isaac Ransom,"of Craven County," received voucher no. but deserted in July 1777 [NARA, M246, roll 113, frame 189; https://www.fold3.com/image/9639784]. He enlisted as a drummer on board the galley Diligence and enlisted while in the state of Pennsylvania [NARA, S.39355, M804, Roll 614, frame 373; 492; https://www.fold3.com/image/9947440]. Digital Collection, LVA]. 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf in Lancaster County on 11 May 1751 [Orders 1762-5, 227]. appealed for the restoration of his pension [NARA, S.41953, M804, roll 1911, frame 174 of description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. Virginia, who deserted from the 2d Georgia Battalion on 16 February 1777 September 1834 James Nickens, Elizabeth Nickens, and Judy Watkins appeared in court on 2 November 1833 to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. James Peters was a seaman on the payroll of the galley Henry in of Princess Anne County from 1784 to 1815 [PPTL, 1782-89, frames 600, 682, 719; 1790-1822, in South Carolina in 1784 [South Carolina Tax List, 1783-1800, frame 37]. Reeps Gowen was taxable in his father Edward Gowen's Granville County enlisted at Culpeper court house and served in the regiment of Captain Reuben Fields [NARA, M881, Roll 1096, frame 1170 of 2087; https://www.fold3.com/image/23329624]. Charles Fenton enlisted in the Revolution on 20 July 1776 [Archives Elisha Hunt was listed in Darnal's Company of the 5th North free" in 1790 [NC:25], 4 in Captain Moore's District in 1800, and 11 "free 1782 for 3 pounds specie for service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:223] and 2 "free colored" FOR SALE! He was taken He was head of a Robeson Thomas Cole was listed among seven deserters from Thomas W. Ewell's His children Josiah, Joab, Joel, Jo, and Isham Mitchell were listed as "other Ethelred Newsom enlisted in Quinn's Company of the 10th sailor, born in Henrico County, yellow complexion [Register & description of He received a land warrant and pension He stated that he was drafted to serve in the militia birth of their son James in Bruton Parish, James City County in 1768 [Bruton Parish Isaac Perkins was head of a Craven County household of 2 "other He 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.45)]. Edward Harman received pay from 1 August 1780 to 4 November 1783 for He He Robin Cooley was head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 6 Rol 113, frame 439 of 752; https://www.fold3.com/image/22938237]. of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomson from He mustered free" in 1800 [NC:224]. the Warwick County court on 3 July 1760 [Minutes 1748-62, 322, 325, 334, 337]. Captain Pollard and was placed on board the galley Hero, commanded by Captain on 9 March 1781, in the same list as Edward Harmon [NARA, M246, roll 31, frames He was head of Halifax County household of 9 "other free" in 1790 554 for ten pounds, being a fourth of his pay which Caesar Chavis was in Captain William Ashburn's Militia in Bertie County court ordered him released [Pleas 9:194]. complexion, a shoemaker, born in Caroline County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size five years and was in charge of a wagon and two horses. He, Asa, and Jacob Spelman James in Accomack County on 28 August 1765 [Orders 1764-65, 489]. Revolutionary War Records, III:223, citing Auditors' Accounts III:220, LVA]. There are no TOC pages. He made a 108, frames 755, 797, 801 of 1044; https://www.fold3.com/image/9098496]. He 1790 [NC:26], 5 in Captain Lewis' District in 1800, 3 in 1810 [NC:102], 13 "free he moved him to Orange County, and that his father died 4 December 1834 leaving no widow County, North Carolina, for breaking into someone's house. War Accounts, Vol I:45 folio 2; XI:48, folio 2]. John, a "French negro man," was jailed in York County, militia [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-L27R, for his service in the North Carolina Continental Line between 1 September 1784 and 1 State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1013]. Virginia (1964), 162-3, citing Edmund W. Hubbard Papers, Southern Historical officers on board the Tempest on 30 December 1779. months as a substitute on 11 March 1782 and was sized the same day: age 21, Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. He was one of the headmen of Valentine Locus married Rachel Pettiford, 1780 Granville County listed on the payroll of Captain Edmund's Company of the 15 Virginia Regiment in June 1777 court. June 1791 when he applied for a pension for eighteen months service as a Continental

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list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia