Display Patriot - P-243802 - Charles MCANALLY/MCANNALLY
Charles MCANALLY/MCANNALLY
SAR Patriot #:
P-243802
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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Captain / Civil Service / Patriotic Service
Birth: 11 Sep 1731 / Goochland / VA Death: 07 Aug 1810 / Stokes / NC
Qualifying Service Description:
1776, served as a Captain in the Surry County, North Carolina Militia
General Rutherford's Cherokee Expedition
Justice of Peace
Furnished supplies
Additional References:
Clark, Walter, The Colonial Records of North Carolina: Published Under the Supervision of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, by Order of the General Assembly, North Carolina. Goldsboro: Nash Brothers, 1907, Volume 27, pg 994
North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol 4, No. 3,1978, pg 174
North Carolina Historical Commission, records of the Moraviana in North Carolina, pg 1073, 1093, 1341
Army Accounts, Vol E-G, pg 179 S.115.46 & Vol IV, pg 104, Folio i. and Pay Voucher S115.109
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McNally Road, north of Dodgetown Road
Author: Rev Douglas Arnold Puckett
Charles McAnnally was the son of Charles McAnnally Sr., who was an immigrant to Pennsylvania from Edinburgh, Scotland. Charles married Ruhamer Houston. He moved to Surry County, North Carolina prior to the French and Indian War.
Charles was a captain in the Surry County militia, during the Cherokee Uprising of 1760. That year the Cherokee raided Pilot Mountain and kidnapped Charles eight year old daughter Sarah. As the Indians traveled up the Yadkin River towards the Blue Ridge Mountains, Sarah tore pieces of cloth off her skirt and placed them in bushes and trees. As a result, Charles and his men were able to track down the kidnappers killing some as others ran off. Charles wrapped his daughter in his heavy overcoat, placed her on his horse and they headed back to the Pilot Mountain Settlement.
When war broke out during the American Revolution, the Cherokee sided with the British. Virginia Governor Patrick Henry proposed an alliance of Virginia, North, and South Carolina militias to invade the Cherokee territory. Charles McAnnally, now a Captain, led the Surry County Militia including one son Jesse, into eastern Tennessee. The invasion went without battle as the Cherokee had fled to the mountains of Georgia.
After the war, Charles McAnnally settled in his mansion on his tobacco plantation until his death in 1810 in the eastern part of Surry County which has now become part of Stokes County, North Carolina.
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