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Birth: 04 Jan 1750 / / SC Death: 22 Jan 1808 / Liberty / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
NSDAR cites
REFUGEE
COL. JOHN BAKER, MILITIA, SC
Additional References:
NSDAR cites
HEMPERLEY, MIL CERTS OF GA, 1776-1800, pg 79
GA MIL CERT IN DOCUMENTATION WITH DAR# 812615
Spouse: (1) Elizabeth Warner; (2) Elizabeth Bennett; (3) Drucilla Hines Children: Susanne/Susan/Sarah
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Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Directly across the street from the Historical Midway Church & Society
Photo: 1 of 1
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
William Way b. 1/4/1750 d. 1/22/1808 LIBERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served in the South Carolina Militia and was at the fall of Charleston. In 1782, he served under Lieutenant Singleton in General Francis Marion's Brigade of South Carolina Troops. In 1777, he signed the Georgia Declaration of Independence in Liberty County and was certified as a refugee soldier by Colonel John Baker.
Buried: Midway Cemetery.
See: (1) Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, p. 26.
(2) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 188, 394.
(3) Marriages and Deaths: 1763 to 1820, p. 122.
(4) Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p. 973.
(5) Some Early Georgia Epitaphs.
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.
Printed in the United States of America
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Athens, GA 30605-3408
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
In early 1752, the congregation of the White Meeting House in Dorchester, South Carolina, petitioned for grants of land in the Midway District of Georgia. On March 24, 1753, Parmenas Way and his family were the third family to arrive in Midway. Among the seventeen families to arrive in Midway in 1754, were several Way families.
These Way families were descendants of two patriarchs – Moses Way (1671 – 1737) and William Way (1671 – 1730), both of whom were born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1696, they moved to Dorchester, South Carolina, and both died before their children migrated to the Midway District of Georgia. Moses Way and Sarah Mansfield had five sons: Samuel, Joseph, Nathaniel, Stephen, and Parmenas Way, who all migrated to the Midway District. William Way and Thankful Sumner had six children, but three sons died in Dorchester, South Carolina. One daughter, Jersuha, and two sons, William and Edward migrated to the Midway District.
William Way married Hannah Dunham (1756 – 1792) in Liberty County Georgia, on January 25, 1787. Their children included: William Way (1790) who married Ann Drusilla Hines.
Early settlers in St. John’s Parish took the lead in Georgia's fight for independence from England. Seven of the Way men died before the Revolutionary War began, but eleven served in military units during the Revolutionary War. All were members of the Midway Congregational Church, died in Liberty County and are assumed to be buried in the Midway Cemetery. But only one, William Way (1762 – 1808), currently has a tombstone marking his grave.
William Way was born in 1750 at St. John’s Parish, a son of Moses Way (1734-1786) and Lydia Mitchell, and a grandson of Parmenas Way. As one of the male inhabitants of Georgia who were of age to be called into military service, he signed an oath of loyalty to the state in 1777 in Liberty County. On August 3, 1777, William Way, along with many residents of Liberty County and other Georgia counties, signed a Petition to the Continental Congress against the appointment of Lachlan McIntosh to the rank of Brigadier General in the Continental Army.
William Way served in the South Carolina Militia, and was at the capture of Charleston in May 12, 1780. In 1782, He served under Lieutenant Singleton in General Francis Marion’s Brigade of South Carolina Troops. He was certified as a Refugee soldier by Colonel John Baker, and received 287 ½ acres for his service.
William Way’s brother, John Way, and his father, Moses Way, also served as soldiers during the Revolutionary War, and his grandfather, Parmenas Way served on the Georgia Committee of Correspondence. 175176
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