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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
The attached Find-a-Grave record does not provide an image of a grave or marker stone, nor does it identify a burial location - October 2021
RC identifies Quaker Cemetery for burial in / Abbeville / SC
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Author: K. Scott Collins
David Kerr b. 2/4/1756 d. 12/16/1835 (OGLETHORPE COUNTY, GEORGIA)
On September 10, 1775, he enlisted for seven years in the Abbeville District, South Carolina Militia under Colonels Pickens and Williams. He was in both engagements at Ninety-Six and the skirmish at Wofford's Old Iron Works. He moved to North Carolina and served there and was in the Battles of Thicketty Fort and King's Mountain, where he was wounded in the arms and ribs. He received a pension for his services.
See:
(1) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution.
(2) Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p. 530.
Source:
Arnold, Ross & Burnham, Hank. Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers. Vol.1. Athens, GA: Georgia Society SAR, 2001. 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.
Author: Frederick Arnold Weyler
David Kerr was born 04Jul1756 in Augusta County VA. According to pension file notes, he married 04Feb1792, Sarah, last name unspecified, in SC. In August 1837, David was deceased and their children were Martha Van Landingham, 64, of Hickman County TN, Rachel Sims, 57, of Talladega County AL, and John Kerr, 54, of Randolph County AL. David Kerr’s sister was a Mrs. Robertson of Pendleton District SC in 1833.
From 1776 to 1781, David Kerr served in various militia deployments. South Carolina pension certificate 30430 was issued 24Feb1836 to David Kerr of Church Hill in Abbeville District @ $80.00/annum with $400.00 arrears. The federal archives hold notes indicating several suspensions and delays in the original application of 1832. The South Carolina auditor’s office certified that Kerr was paid £98.8.7 to settle accounts for his service. He was not allowed a charge for a rifle of £6.8.6. In other notes Kerr was earlier paid at the rate of 20 shillings per day on horse. He was paid 45 pounds to replace a rifle.
Before 07Oct1780 Kerr, in Captain James McCall’s rangers from Thicketty Fort SC, joined Captain Samuel Kerr’s Burke County NC troops at Salisbury. Then at Kings Mountain one ball fractured his arm and one ball in the breast caused David to lose part of one rib. He was not listed with patriot casualties on the 1909 battlefield monument. He was carried from Kings Mountain to Rowan County where he recovered from his wounds until the first of May 1781.
Click the link to view Kerr’s June 1833 Abbeville District pension declaration http://www.revwarapps.org/r5890.pdf
A William Kerr from York District (FPA R1719) was not in the battle of Kings Mountain. He moved to Hall County Georgia.
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