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Birth: 1750 / Gloucester / VA Death: 1837 / Worth / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private. Enlisted on 29 January 1777
Served in Captain Robert Fenner's Company, 2nd NC Battalion commanded by Colonel John Patton
Stationed at Camp White Plains, NC on 29 Sep 1778
Additional References:
“Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution: With an Appendix Containing a Collection of Miscellaneous Records” National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1967, p, 99
Application reports DAR marked a field near Amboy / Turner / GA
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Reverend William Pate b. 1750 d. 1837 TURNER COUNTY, GEORGIA
He enlisted, January 29, 1777, in Captain Robert Fenner's Company of the 2nd North Carolina Battalion commanded by Colonel John Patton.
Buried: Story Cemetery, Amboy, Georgia.
See: (1) Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Reported to D.A.R. in 1929.
(2) D.A.R. Patriot Index, p. 519.
(3) History of Turner County, p. 116, 190.
(4) Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, p. 99.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
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.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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Additional Information:
NOTE: Information is suspect
DAR reports born abt 1775
Find-A-Grave # 134412684 for Rev William Pate states that the individual was a veteran of the War of 1812 since he was born about 1775. If born 1775, William Pate would have only been age 8 when the Revolution ended