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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 11 Jan 1756 / Rowan / NC Death: 20 Feb 1845 / Haywood / NC
Qualifying Service Description:
Capts Aaron Lewis, John Jamison, James Dysart; Col William Campbell
Battle of King's Mountain
Additional References:
Pension: *S8713
The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol III, pg 400
United States Rev War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, NARA Roll 5, Vol E, pg 331
Moss, Bobby Gilmer. The Patriots at Kings Mountain. Blacksburg, SC: Scotia-Hibernia Press, 1990; fourth printing, 1999, pg 121
Gwathmey, John H. Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution 1775-1783. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1979, pg 380
Eckenrode, H. J, Archivist. List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia. Richmond, 1913, pg 150
DAR. Roster of soldiers from NC in the American Rev Durham, NC: The Seeman Press, 1932, pg 421, 578
Among names of Wounded on plaque at Kings Mountain NMP, SC
Leonard Hice [a/k/a/ Hyce, Hise] was born 11 January 1756 at Rowan County, North Carolina. He died after September 1839 at Burke County, North Carolina. Leonard was wounded at Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780. He was a soldier in Captain James Dysart’s Company of Colonel William Campbell’s Washington County, Virginia, Militia. He was one of the two man (loader and shooter) marksman teams.
Hice did not receive support from Washington County as did some of the badly wounded. He was away convalescing at Rowan County for two years and was out of sight, out of mind to the Abingdon magistrates. In an 1823 letter, Samuel Newell recalled the Hice wound. Private Leonard Hice appears in the list of wounded on the 1909 monument plaque.
Most Washington County records spell his last name "Hice."
Hice’s pension declaration was at Burke County, North Carolina, where his pension was paid through 4 September 1839. The last date noted in his pension file was 18 June 1840.
His pension application *S8713 is quoted as follows:
Fifthly: I was in a 3 months tour of service under Volunteer Captain James Dysart (who although a Colonel) acted as Captain in Colonel Campbell's Regiment at the battle of King's Mountain in October 1780. When we went into the battle, I was commanded by Captain James Dysart where I was dreadfully wounded. I received two balls in by left arm and it was broken. We were fighting in the woods & with the assistance of my comrades who would push my bullets down, I shot three rounds before I was shot down & I then received a bullet through my left leg. The fourth bullet I received in my right knee [?]2 which shattered the bone on of my right thigh & brought me to the ground. When on the ground, I received a bullet in my breast & was bourn off the ground to a Doctor & on the next day I was discharged by my Captain James Dysart which said discharge was the one lost by Colonel David Newland as shown by his affidavit hereunto appended (A). At the battle of King's Mountain I shot 16 rounds as I think. The reason of thinking so is that on the morning before the battle I run [?]3 100 bullets & after the battle I missed Sixteen. The way that I fought after my left arm was broken was to rest my rifle against a tree & take sight & generally the man I aimed at fell; whether my bullet brought the enemy down or not I cannot say for many were as good marksmen as I, we being mounted Rifleman & I was carried to Dr. Frederick Fisher's near Salisbury, N.C., where I stayed two years before I was able to get home.
State of North Carolina Burke County
This day came Joseph Staren [sic Starn] Senior before me and saith on oath that he saw the said Leonard Hice in the Army at Kings Mountain in Colonel Campbell's Regiment and knows that his arm was broken in the battle. That he had dressed the same – and furthermore saith that he new [knew] the said Hice did serve several towers against the Indians
Joseph Starns *S7600
4th Fourth was served under Captain Neal in Colonel Wm Campbell's Regiment Term of Service four months or over. Went to King's Mountain & was in that battle [October 7, 1780] Furgerson [sic Patrick Ferguson] of the British Army was killed after the battle was over Campbell left him to take care of the wounded for 2 months Captain Neal did not go into the Battle with them for he had lost his horse & Neil's company was commanded a young man of the name of Shelby not Colonel Shelby – in or about 1780 he was a volunteer in this expedition.
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References: http://revwarapps.org/S8713.pdf
Author: Gary Tod Spargo
Leonard Hise was born 11 January 1756 at Rowan County, North Carolina, the youngest of four sons of Johann Georg “George” Heiss, a native of Biberach, Württemburg. Leonard was a private and was drafted each time, but served when called and never sought a substitute. His fifth three month tour commenced 23 September 1780, when Colonel Campbell assembled 200 mounted riflemen, and rode south 40 miles to Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River near present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. They were joined to other regiments from the region including those of Isaac Shelby, John Sevier, Charles McDowell, and others. Their objective was to locate, close with, and defeat a body of about 1,100 Provincial troops and Loyalist militia, led by British Major Patrick Ferguson, who had been marauding and committing numerous depredations on the Patriot inhabitants of the western Carolinas.
This expedition culminated in the Battle of King’s Mountain, South Carolina, 7 October 1780. During this battle, Leonard Hise was hit by two balls in his left arm, breaking the bone, one in his left thigh, and one in his right knee, shattering the bone of his right thigh. Prone on the ground, he received another ball in his “breast.” The following day, he was carried to a doctor at Salisbury, North Carolina, where he gradually recuperated over a period of two years. Subsequently, he returned to the Holston River District of Virginia. In the latter 1780s, he settled at Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and remained for 15 years. He removed to Burke County, North Carolina, where he was living in 1833, at the time he gave his deposition in support of his pension application.
According to the U.S. Census, he was a farmer. He was illiterate and signed his deposition and an affidavit for another man with his “mark,” which was a capital “H.” In 1840, he lived at Haywood County, North Carolina, as a boarder. He died at Haywood County, 20 February 1845, aged 89 years. His place of burial was not recorded.
Circumstantial evidence indicates Leonard was the father of five children who reached adulthood and had families. A documented connection has been made with his youngest son, Leonard Jr. The younger Leonard became a widower late in life, and in 1870, at the age of eighty, remarried. The marriage licenses of North Carolina at that time required the names of the parents of the two betrothed parties. Leonard Jr. was the father of four sons and three daughters who had families. Through the census and his probate documents, connection was documented with the four sons and two of the daughters.
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