Display Patriot - P-331371 - Charles HINSON/HENSON
Charles HINSON/HENSON
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P-331371
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Author: Lawrence M. Connelley
Charles Hinson states in his Revolutionary War Pension Application of 1832 that he was born on June 21, 1763 in the Chesterfield District of South Carolina. The Chesterfield District was located in northeast South Carolina on the border with North Carolina near Anson County, NC. Hinson passed away in 1847 based upon the presence of his will dated May 10, 1847 which was probated in October 1847.
In 1833, at approximately 70 years of age, Charles Hinson made his Revolutionary War Pension application which exists to this day. Hinson volunteered in June 1780 for three months service in the Militia of Anson County, North Carolina and was involved in two skirmishes, one near Sneedsboro, NC and the other near the Pedee River which flows nearby.
Hinson again volunteered in September 1780 in Anson County as part of Colonel Thomas Wade’s Regiment, engaged in collection cattle and supplies for the American army. Hinson went on to say that he served in this capacity for an additional four months and was discharged in January 1781. He volunteered again in January of 1781 with the Anson County Militia and marched into South Carolina to join up with General Sumter; he was engaged with the British at Scape Hoar Creek and in the Battle of Beatti’s Bridge.
We know from history books that in March 1781, General Thomas Sumter was passing near Scape Hoar Creek in Lee County, SC when he and the British Infantry engaged in a skirmish. The Patriots fired and made a retreat through the woods, came back to the bridge which was burned. Revolutionary War history tells us that in August 1781 the Anson County, NC militia along with other Patriot units engaged the British at Beatti’s Bridge over Drowning Creek in old Richmond County, SC. The firing went on until past midnight when the Loyalist units decided to withdraw.
Hinson again volunteered in September 1781, joining General Rutheford’s Brigade and engaging the Tories in battle near Wilmington, NC. It was during this skirmish that Hinson vividly recalls receiving the news of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA. We know from our history lessons that the British surrender at Yorktown, VA occurred on October 19, 1781 with the signing of the surrender document. Hinson was discharged from the Anson County Militia in December 1781 in Anson County, NC, returning to his civilian life.
Charles Hinson married and lived out his life in Anson County, NC until his death in 1847 at the age of 84. He is believed to have had four children, one of whom was Nancy Ann Hinson Hailey. In his will, Charles Hinson identifies his “beloved daughter” Nancy Hinson Hailey in addition to three grandchildren, one of them named Wesley Hailey. Wesley Hailey, my great-grandfather, eventually settled in Texas after serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
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