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Cemetery is on north side of Cinch Mountain. No details of actual grave location
Author: SFC James Claude Arnold USA (Ret.)
Seth Manes was a private in the company of Captain Williams in the regiment of Colonel Butler. He married Patsey Field.
Author: Jesse McIntyre III
Patriot: Seth Manis P-241069
Reverend Seth McCully Maness was born 5 February, 1762 in Bedford County, Virginia to William Jacob and Keziah Celia Maness. He married Susan (last name unknown). Their marriage was blessed with nine children: William Jacob, George R., Jesse, Elizabeth, Jacob William, John, Tempa, James, and Joseph. Seth was a farmer like his father, William Maness, who enlisted as a line soldier in Colonel Thomas Clark’s Company of the First North Carolina Battalion from 28 July, 1776, to 1 February, 1785.
Seth served three tours of duty as a private in the Moore County, North Carolina state militia during the Revolutionary War. He first served from 1 September 1780 until 1 January 1781. Seth was under the command of Captain Williams in the regiment of Colonel Casswell. Gathering at “Bar Creek”, a tributary of the Deep River, their mission was to intercept small parties of Tories and British who were harassing the local citizens sympathetic to the American cause. After crossing the Cape Fear River and heading toward Wilmington, North Carolina, they entered Raft Swamp near the Peedee River where they skirmished with a Tory named Fannin and his men at Baties Bridge. Eventually, Seth and his party marched back to Moore County, having been gone for four months.
His second tour began in February 1781 volunteering under Captain Williams and Colonel Butler, again pursuing Fannin. Seth’s group attacked Fannin at Lindley’s Mill. Fannin retreated and was chased until Colonel Butler considered it too dangerous to follow them any further. The colonists then guarded Hillsborough until marching home on 1 May 1781.
Seth began his final tour again under the command of Captain Williams and Colonel Butler in September 1781. After marching to Hillsborough, they received word that Lord Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown. Thereupon, Seth and his fellow soldiers returned home. For his service Seth Manes (Manis) was awarded in 1835 a Revolutionary War Pension of twenty dollars a month. His application is on file in the National Archives, S 2739, NC. He died in Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1852 and was buried on his home place, seven miles north of Rogersville, on the north side of Clinch Mountain.
Author: Charles Vernon Casey
The patriot for Charles C. Casey, Charles V. Casey, George W. Casey and Keith V. Casey is Seth Manes.
Seth was born February, 1762, in Bedford County, Virginia. He died in Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1852 and was buried on his home place, seven miles north of Rogersville, on the north side of Clinch Mountain. Seth was a farmer like his father, William Maness, who enlisted as a line soldier in Colonel Thomas Clark’s Company of the First North Carolina Battalion from 28 July, 1776, to 1 February, 1785.
Seth served three tours of duty as a private in the Moore County, North Carolina state militia during the Revolutionary War. He first served from 1 September 1780 until 1 January 1781. Seth was under the command of Captain Williams in the regiment of Colonel Casswell. Gathering at “Bar Creek”, a tributary of the Deep River, their mission was to intercept small parties of Tories and British who were harassing the local citizens sympathetic to the American cause. After crossing the Cape Fear River and heading toward Wilmington, North Carolina, they entered Raft Swamp near the Peedee River where they skirmished with a Tory named Fannin and his men at Baties Bridge. Eventually, Seth and his party marched back to Moore County, having been gone for four months.
His second tour began in February 1781 volunteering under Captain Williams and Colonel Butler, again pursuing Fannin. Seth’s group attacked Fannin at Lindley’s Mill. Fannin retreated and was chased until Colonel Butler considered it too dangerous to follow them any further. The colonists then guarded Hillsborough until marching home on 1 May 1781.
Seth began his final tour again under the command of Captain Williams and Colonel Butler in September 1781. After marching to Hillsborough, they received word that Lord Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown. Thereupon, Seth and his fellow soldiers returned home. For his service Seth Manes (Manis) was awarded in 1835 a Revolutionary War Pension of twenty dollars a month. His application is on file in the National Archives, S 2739, NC.
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