Display Patriot - P-337195

Daniel ROBERTS

SAR Patriot #: P-337195

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State of Service: GA Qualifying Service: Lieutenant Colonel / Patriotic Service

DAR #: A096913

Birth: abt 1734 / Philadelphia / PA
Death: 17 Nov 1779 / / SC

Qualifying Service Description:

LT, RANGERS
MAJ, LTCOL, 2ND REGT - Died in Service

Additional References:

Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr, and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke

Spouse: Elizabeth Hincksman
Children: Roland;

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Burial:

Midway Cemetery_(C-0371610)

Location:

Midway / Liberty / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

35348

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

31.806180 / -81.431270

Find A Grave Memorial #:

n/a

Marker Type:

SAR

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

24 Apr 2022

Comments:

No memorial entry was found in Find-a-Grave in May 2022
No tombstone, SAR marker only
Marker placed in joint marking sponsored by the Athens, Atlanta, Blue Ridge Mountains, Captain John Collins, Marshes of Glyn, Mount Vernon, and Robert Forsyth chapters of the Georgia Society SAR
The photo displayed courtesy of K Scott Collins, GA SAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Midway Cemetery on US Highway South in Midway, Georgia directly across the street from the church. Take I-95 to exit 76 - at end of the ramp turn west and travel 3.7 miles to U.S. 17 - Turn right and travel <1 mile to the Midway Church
SAR marker is located on the West side of Stewart-Screven Monument

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: William Foye Ramsaur

Daniel Roberts was born in 1734 in Wales. He was appointed to a delegation from St. Johns Parish in 1775 and traveled to Charleston to attend the Georgia Provincial Congress, where he petitioned a trade alliance with South Carolina to boycott British goods.

He was commissioned a Lieutenant of Georgia Continental Light Horse (Dragoons) Calvary, also called St. Johns Rangers, in 1776. The British detained him while carrying a flag of truce at Cockspur Island during the Battle of Rice Boats near Savannah in March 1776.

In 1777, Daniel was promoted to Major when he joined the 3rd Battalion of the Georgia Continental Line, where he served as the Commander of the Georgia Continental Line south of Savannah. As a Lieutenant-Colonel, he fought in the Frederica River naval action in 1778. Along with Colonel Robert Rae, he led a detachment of one hundred soldiers to Frederica, where they captured British seamen from HMS Hinchinbrook.

In 1779, he was a Refugee Soldier in command of Georgians who had resisted the British invasion of the South Carolina Backcountry. He died in military service in Dorchester, South Carolina, in 1779. Georgia Royal Governor Sir James Wright identified him as a "Dissenting Preacher."

Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Daniel Roberts b. 1734 d. 11/18/1779 CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA

He was a member of the Provincial Congress of Georgia and served as a Lieutenant, a Captain, and a Major in the 3rd Regiment of the Georgia Continental Line. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Battalion of Georgia and was named in the Royal Disqualifying Act of 1780.

See: (1) D.A.R. Patriot Index, p. 574.

(2) Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution p. 68, 118, 130.

(3) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution p. 426.

(4) Military Certificates of Georgia p. 109.

Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, 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

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