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Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Samuel Cartledge b. 1750 d. 1843 COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served in the Richmond County, Georgia Militia and was certified as a Revolutionary War Soldier by Colonel Greenberry Lee. He later received a pension for his services.
Buried: Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery, Leah, Georgia.
See: (1) D.A.R. Historian General card file.
(2) Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. January 1984, p. 18.
(3) Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, p. 213.
(4) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 58, 255.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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Author: DeCody Brad Marble
Samuel Cartledge born on 15 JUL 1750 in Pee Dee River, North Carolina and died 13 JUL 1843 in Columbia County, Georgia
Service Description: CAPT WILLIAM PHELPS, COL BENJAMIN FEW
Samuel Cartledge, Sr. drafted May 1779 in Columbia Co., Georgia. As a Private, he served with Georgia troops under Captain William Phelps & Col. Benjamin Fears - NSDAR #A020097 Campbells History of Baptists in Georgia.
Samuel Cartledge Fold3.com Revolutionary War Military Memorial created by marbledb227
(2) “A History of the Kiokee Baptist Church in Georgia,” page 231, Minister Samuel Cartledge
Stories:
(1) Samuel Cartledge Pension #R1790 transcript by Will Graves
(2) Page 231, Chapter VI – The Denominational History of the Church, Molder of Preachers, from “A History of the Kiokee Baptist Church in Georgia," by James Donovan Mosteller.
(3) “A History of the Baptists in the Souther States East of the Mississippi,” by Benjamin Franklin Riley.
(4) Transcript from Damascus Baptist Church Historic Marker 13816.
Inscription:
Damascus Baptist Church, organized July 29, 1820, was constituted by Samuel C. Cartledge.
Source: Damascus Baptist Church Historical Marker 13816, on 6375 Ridge Road, Appling, Columbia County, Georgia.
Note: First members included, Sister-in-Law, Dilly (Landers) Swann, former widow of his brother Joseph Carltedge and now married to Jonathan Swann. (4th Great Grandmother to DeCody Brad Marble, a Landers Descendant)
Samuel Cartledge's Occupation: Constable, Deacon, Baptist Preacher. Cartledge moved to (Edgefield) South Carolina, where he served as pastor of the Plub Branch Church for about fifty years. Source: Page 231, Chapter VI, of “A History of the Kiokee Baptist Church in Georgia."
Author: William Joseph Tankersley
Pvt. Samuel Cartledge, DAR Ancestor A020097 and SAR Patriot P-129738, was born at Pee Dee, North Carolina in 1750 and died in Columbia County, Georgia, in 1843. He married Elizabeth Lloyd. In his Revolutionary War pension application, R1790V, Samuel indicated that he served in Col. Benjamin Few's Regiment of the Georgia Militia and fought at the Siege of Savannah in 1779. Samuel is perhaps best known as the founding pastor of Damascus Baptist Church, and before that, as the constable who arrested Patriot Rev. Daniel Marshall, founder of the Kiokee Baptist Church in 1772, who was hauled into court in Augusta for holding religious services not in accord with the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. Samuel was said to have been so impressed by the exhortation of Mrs. Marshall upon the arrest of her husband that he was converted, baptized by the Rev. Marshall, served as a deacon for several years, and was ordained in 1789.
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