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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Major / Civil Service
Birth: 20 Jan 1739 / Culpeper / VA Death: 22 Apr 1790 / Edgefield / SC
Qualifying Service Description:
Major, SC Militia 1781
Captain, SC Militia, 1777 - 1781; at the Siege of Ninety-Six, SC ( 18 -21 Nov 1775)
Captain, 5th SC Regiment, at the Battle of Fort Sullivan's Island, SC (28-29 Jun 1776)
Commanded Fort Rutledge, SC ( 1775 -1780)
Siege of Savannah, GA ( Sept - Oct 1779)
Fought at the Battle of Eutaw Springs ( 8 Sep 1781)
Justice of the Peace ( 1776 )
Additional References:
South Carolina in the Revolution by Sara Sullivan Erwin pg 62
Roster of SC Patriots in the American Revolution by Bobby Gilmer Moss, 1983, pg 944
Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April 1775 -December 1783 by Francis D. Heitman, pub 1914, pg 552
Order of Battle of the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, Vol I, 1771 -1779, by Patrick O'Kelley, pub 2004, pg 59, 115, 158
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