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"John T. Alderman, in a letter to the Sampson Democrat in 1921, stated, "During the great struggle for American independence there were many Tories in the Little Coharie section of the Country ... Fortunately for the Whigs and the better class of all citizens the Tories stood in mortal fear and dread of one man especially. He was a soldier in the Continental army, but secured release from duty to look after affairs which threatened destruction to the lives and homes of the patriots. Capt. John Williams ... collected a company of men upon whom he could rely; he was known far and wide as a fearless patriot whose presence in any community struck terror to the bands of marauding Tories. With his company of faithful followers he rescued many families and homes which had been marked for pillage and destruction by the Tories ... On account of some impediment of speech Williams was sometimes familiarly known as 'Capt. She..."
John lived in what is now Dismal Township a short distance west of Hair's Bridge (where state road 1414 crosses Little Coharie Crrek about three miles northwest of Salemburg.) A Revolutionary War skirmish with the Tories took place near here according to the pension application of John Register, Sr.
Source: John C. Rosser, Jr. Sampson Co. Heritage. Entry #1143
Posted on Ancestry.com by SusanBlevins1952
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