Display Patriot - P-239183

Philip LOWE

SAR Patriot #: P-239183

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State of Service: SC/GA Qualifying Service: Lieutenant-Colonel

DAR #: A072064

Birth: 27 Jun 1755 Old Warwick / / RI
Death: 28 Sep 1785 Sunbury / Liberty / GA

Qualifying Service Description:

1775, Commissioned Ensign 2nd Regiment North Carolina Continental Line.
1776, served as a Lieutenant of the 2nd Regiment North Carolina Continental Line.
1778, served as a Major of the 4th Battalion Georgia Continental Line.
1780, served as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
Member Georgia Executive Council
Fought in Third Florida Expedition 1778; Captured at Savannah 1778; Paroled to Sunbury 1779; Re-captured at Pon Pon, South Carolina 1780
Imprisoned at Charleston in Dungeon of Exchange Building - paroled in 1780

Additional References:

White, George, Historical Collections of Georgia.., New York City: Pudney & Russell, 1854, pg 98-105, 113
White, GeorgeStatistics of the State of Georgia.., Georgia. Savanah: W. Thorne Williams, 1849, pg 65.
Heitman, Francis B.Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, Washington DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, pg 359, 641
Ramsaur, WilliamMidway Patriots, 2021

Spouse: Mary Sharpe Jones
Children: Eliza Greene;

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Burial:

Midway Cemetery_(C-0371610)

Location:

Midway / Liberty / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

35348

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

31.806150 / -81.431239

Find A Grave Memorial #:

n/a

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

30 April 2023

Comments:

Image taken and provided by compatriot KSCollins (GA) member 175076
SAR Marker placed in cemetery. Actual burial location unknown.
SAR marker in cemetery to the West of the Stewart-Screven Monument.
Not found in Find-A-Grave - Feb 2025

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

This biography was edited and augmented by PRS staff

Philip Lowe was born on 27 June 1755 in Old Warwick, Rhode Island, the nephew of General Nathanael Greene.

On 20 October 1778, he married Jean Darling. She died not long after, and he married a second time to Mrs. Mary (Sharpe) Jones, a widow. Both marriages took place at the Midway Congregational Church in Liberty County, Georgia. Among the children of his second marriage was Eliza Greene Low, born on 29 September 1785. She would marry David Robarts in 1810.

He was commissioned an Ensign of the 2nd Regiment North Carolina Continental Line in 1775. A year later, he was promoted to Lieutenant of the same regiment. In 1777, he resigned and was commissioned Captain 4th Battalion Georgia Continental Line. Philip spent most of 1777 recruiting for the Georgia Continental Line in North Carolina, then a Major 4th Battalion Georgia Continental Line 1778. He moved to Liberty County, Georgia in 1778. In that same year, he served as a member of the Georgia Executive Council. His military service continued, and he fought in the Third Florida Expedition of 1778. That same year, he was captured at Savannah and would be paroled to Sunbury in 1779. He was recaptured at Pon Pon, South Carolina in 1780 and was imprisoned at Charleston in the Dungeon of Exchange Building. He was again paroled and, in early 1780 became a Lieutenant-Colonel, but would retired from military service later that year.

He returned to Liberty County and was listed as a Rebel in the British Treason Act 1780. He was awarded 800 acres of bounty land for his loyal services.

The Patriot died on 28 September 1785 in Liberty County.

Sources:

The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia, p. 139.
Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, pages. 122, 139, 147, 216.
Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, page 109, 421.
Marriages and Deaths: 1763 to 1820, page 68.
Military Certificates of Georgia, page 107.
Arnold, Ross, and Hank Burnham, Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Vol. 2, Georga. Athens: Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
Ramsaur, William, Midway Patriots, August 2021.

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