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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Most probable site on his land in Currituck County, NC, known as "Indian Ridge"
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Author: Anonymous compatriot
From the papers in the claim of Samuel Ferebee, Sur. File #8466 Revolutionary War, it appears that the soldier was born in Currituck Co., North Carolina, June 20, 1761, and while residing in the said county was drafted in March or April 1779 as Sergeant in Capt. William Russell’s company of North Carolina militia and served until he was furloughed on account of ill health on May 11, 1779. He was commissioned an Ensign on July 20 1779 in Colonel Samuel Jarvis’ Militia Regt. He volunteered on Jan. 6, 1781, as Ensign under Capt. James Phillips and Colonel James Blount served until April 25, 1781, and in April or May 1781, was commissioned a Lieutenant and collected troops for Baron Von Steuben, by order of General Isaac Gregory, in which service he was engaged until Dec. 23, 1781. He was allowed pension on an application executed Aug. 28, 1833, while a resident of Currituck County, North Carolina
After the close of the war, he served in various capacities in North Carolina. He was Collector of State and Continental duties and imports for the port of Currituck in 1794 and 1789. Member from Currituck of the constitutional convention at Fayetteville, N.C., 1789, to ratify the Constitution of the United States. Was the last surviving member of that convention (see Wheeler’s HISTORY, pages 134-135).”
Compatriot # 79798 adds “Small thin man, high tempered. In a fit of anger threw his Army commissions in the fire. Always married on Sunday, and the 14th day of the month. He was a member of the Keheukee Baptist Association. The first wife had red hair, as had all her children; the second wife had black hair, as had all her children.”
A very similar summary of Ferebee’s service can be found among the documents on fold3.com from The National Archives (http://www.archives.gov), NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Roll 0965, Page 40.
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