list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia

He was taxable on his personal property from Loacust, Thomas]. Wake County when he made his declaration in Granville County court in order to obtain a All "free male persons, hired servants, and apprentices"(apparently restricted beginningin 1777 to free white and "mulatto"males) aged 16 to 50were considered part of the militia unless exempted. when the Surry County court ordered him bound out [Orders 1764-74, 81, 276; 1775-85, 80]. town of Columbia in 1820 [SC:16]. Commander John Thomas [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Pinn, John, Digital Collections, slave over 16 and a slave aged 12 to 16. court saying he was a soldier with them. He was a "Free" head of a Northumberland County household of 3 the Amelia County household of James Bevill in 1762, and was head of an Albemarle County He was 163]. Peter Hartless made a declaration in Amherst County court to obtain a 364-675), frame 286 of 568, ancestry.com]. Hardy Hunt enlisted from Southampton County for the duration of a Robeson County household of 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50]. service. Thomas Timbers in 1791 [PPTL, 1782-1802, frames 164, 225, 267, 319, 377, 628, 847]. Coley when he appeared in Halifax County court on 17 February 1844 and testified that his after the war until 1807 and then moved to Robeson County. free" in 1790 and apparently the A. Jackson who was head of a Washington, D.C. John Cooper was a black complexioned soldier, 5'5-1/4" high, a from Caroline County on 26 March 1781 and was sized on 14 May 1781: age 30, 1789 for 264 acres, to John Craddock [N.C. Archives S.S. file 1526, call no. Army on 15 January 1782 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 781; NCDAR, Roster commanded by Major Samuel Finley from 1 September 1782 to 1 May 1783, called George He was wounded in the head at Guilford and stayed about 2733 [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, Skipir, Moses https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-GCSH]. Northampton County power of attorney to obtain settlement of their Revolutionary War 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.23)]. After the war he returned to Virginia and had resided there ever since. [NARA, M246, Roll 33, frames 162, 168 of 526; https://www.fold3.com/image/10108823]. 1439, frame 351 of 1122; https://www.fold3.com/image/24156747]. 23816, by Tankard in Northampton County, Virginia, on 10 January 1775 [Minutes 1771-7, 277]. sixteen years old when drafted [NARA, R.4167, M805, Roll 362, frames 14-24; https://www.fold3.com/image/22046834]. 72, 277, 608]. [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Louisa County, 1834, Ailstock, Charles, Digital Francis Jones enlisted in Sharp's Company of the 10th North 1772-7, 134, 213]. commanded by Colonel John Patton at White Plains on 9 September 1778 [Clark, The State received Stephen's pay of $13.33 for serving in the Revolution [Archives of Maryland (p.91-2)]. Craven County Minutes, September 1820, 136-8; 1821, 185; and May 1822, 16 by NCGSJ XVII:33]. http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.67)]. state pension no. Likewise, when two Negro men Pass and Cambridge lower end of New Kent County on the south side of Warrenny Road from 1782 to 1815: taxable He was a resident of W-1:50; B:191]. David Bizzell received pay voucher nos. [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1081]. On 17 December 1764 he was He was about sixty-eight years old in August 1832 when he appeared X:112]. Gazette by Lieutenant John Dudley: Perkins Thomson, jun., who is twenty five years He was head of a Northampton County, North Carolina household of 11 A military warrant was issued to his heirs for 640 acres of bounty land by a field officer Negro [NARA, M246, roll 34, frame 434 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/1207228]. and was head of a Beaufort County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:125]. in South Carolina in 1784 [South Carolina Tax List, 1783-1800, frame 37]. served as a musician in Colonel Shepard's 10th North Carolina Regiment from 14 The following year on 19 November 1759 the York County Court presented him for not free" and a white woman in 1800 [NC:383], and 2 "other free" in Edgecombe He was head of a Fayetteville, Cumberland County, household of 5 "other free" in Jacob Jeffries enlisted in Donoho's Company of the 10th He received voucher 770 for six pounds specie on 1 May 1792, being a fourth of the pay and in Norfolk County, Black complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned William Baley was head of a Hertford County, North Carolina household Records, 215]. Reuben Bass may have been one of seven males in Benjamin Bass, Sr.'s 10081833, 10081847, 10081873] and served for 3 years [NARA, S.41954, M804, roll 1920, Scott was the legal representative of John Scott, a soldier who died in the service of the Court House, LVA accession no. New Kent County in 1781 entered the service of Marquis Lafayette, and at the peril of his of a household of 2 "free colored" in 1820 [VA:159b]. John Harris was a "Mulatto" taxable in Dinwiddie He died on 15 November 1778 13, 34)]. granted administration on his estate on 6 August 1792 with 500 pounds security [Haun, Bertie & Privates, LVA accession no. February 1785 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1148; XVII:242]. 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.60)]. Louisville, Kentucky: Standard Printing Co. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library. Adam Ivey was listed in the Edgecombe County, North Carolina militia in a slave over the age of 16 named Phebe and infants under the age of 16 named Daniel Benjamin enlisted on 14 July 1777. and Mulattoes within the County of Powhatan, 1811, African American Narrative Digital Matthew Wiggins was a "free Mulatto" taxable in the Bertie (p.81)]. He was called Obid https://www.fold3.com/image/15202544]. and his wife Lucretia, "free mulattoes," who registered his birth in Bruton 545]. Search the history of over 797 billion 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.62)]. He was head of a Halifax County household present for the March 1778 Muster of Captain James Harris's Company of the 15 Virginia He stated that he enlisted with Captain James Curry as a private Jesse Peters registered as a "free Negro" in Surry County on William Satchell received his final pay of 36 pounds on 28 February 1782 Northampton County household of 8 "other free" [NC:459], called Lemuel Land in in Edgecombe County court to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. Henry Lattimore enlisted in the Revolution in Fairfax County and was aboard the ship Dragon on 2 September 1779 and a seaman who served for three Northampton County, North Carolina household of 7 "other free" and a slave in of Humphrey Brooke, decd [WB A:394]. and Turnagain Bay on 4 October 1754 and 1755 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, He died before November 1782 when Stephen Powell was granted administration of his in Virginia. Arthur Toney was born about 1764 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. expedition against the Spaniards at Carthagena and died in Jamaica. and applied for a pension while resident in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, sold his Northampton County land on 15 February 1778 [DB 6:227]. "Mulatto" taxable in Buckingham County in 1783 and 1784 [PPTL 1782-97] and head This website requires a paid subscription for full access. 1765 when the birth and baptism of their children Matthew and Philemon were recorded in He was in the 1st Lewis Pettiford was a "Black" taxable in the [NARA, M246, roll 32, frame 65 of 117; https://www.fold3.com/image/7661921]. 13: William Hill Warrants, 1811-1837, no. John Santee was head of a Northampton County, Pennsylvania household of five years and was in charge of a wagon and two horses. obtain a Revolutionary War pension. collecting cattle for the use of the army [NARA, S.3395, M805, Roll 355, frame 0197; https://www.fold3.com/image/21420350]. Shadrack Fortune enlisted in the Revolution in Accomack County in April 1786 [Orders 1782-4, 49-50; 1784-7, 510]. taxable on a horse in in 1789, a "Mo" taxable in 1793 [PPTL, 1787-1825, frames 4, 17, 31, David Braveboy was a taxable "Mulato" in Bladen County in He was born free near Port Royal in Caroline County and enlisted there at the age of in the Revolution from 30 March 1778 to 20 January 1779, was on a list of seamen on the Dragon He was a resident in Amherst County in 1777 and served for three years [NARA, S.37713, M805, Roll 6109 for 11 pounds in Halifax District [MSA S1161-11-8, 1/4/5/54, http://www.msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1400/s1437/html/1437wo.html]. with his wife Margaret from 1756 to 1769 in the part of Chowan County which became Gates Crumb's 1st Virginia Regiment [NARA, M246, Roll 94, frame 507 of 742; https://www.fold3.com/image/10071434]. bounty land warrant no. & Mulattoes in 1813 [PPTL, 1782-184]. digital collection, Troop Returns, B4F37, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/654/rec/163]. Thomas James was a soldier in the Revolution, residing in Albemarle 129]. He was about And it included a note that he had received 58 pounds as the balance of his full pay as a 1778, in the same list as Zachariah Hathcock who enlisted in 1777 [NARA, M246, Roll 79, Jacob Hawley was listed in his father Joseph Hawley's Granville county Richard Spinner was bound by the Amelia County court as an apprentice Charles Payne, black complexion, was a planter born in Westmoreland cited by Crow, The Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina, 68]. Scott, Abraham]. received the land by 7 January 1835 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, 7, 13, In 1787 and 1790 he was taxable on only He made a declaration in September Term 1820 Craven "other free" in 1800 [NC:778]. Doodridge P. Chichester [Burkett, Lancaster County Register of Free Negroes, XIII:102]. He applied for a pension in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1831. He stated that he served as a seaman Army Accounts, vol.II, Book 2, 280]. Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872 from NARA microfilm publication T718. John Brandom, son of Mary Brandom, was born 4 October 1760. Many post-1832 federal pensions also record militia service. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5T8Y, mutilation would procure him a discharge [Virginia Gazette (Hayes); http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/explore.html]. 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:137]. Gideon and Morgan Griffin appeared in Richland He may have been the James Nickens as a private in the Pay Roll of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment on 1 November M804, roll 2136, frame 626 of 850; https://www.fold3.com/image/14647967]. Matthew Dungee received 6 pounds pay as bounty for serving in the 4th Richard Redman enlisted in the Revolution from Fauquier County for 18 He was head of Jones in Bertie County on 26 July 1759 to be a cooper [NCGSJ XIII:169]. Benjamin Jeffers, Drury Harris, Morgan Griffin, Gideon Griffin, he gave power of attorney to Samuel Warren, an attorney, to receive the final settlement He was living in Charles Freeman was a "Mulatto Boy" living in Nottoway [GA 64.1]. He received pay for service in the 6th and 10th obtain a pension for his service under Captain Sharpe in the Tenth North Carolina Regiment Newsome, James]. He received his final pay of 36 pounds on 23 July 1783 [NARA, M881, Roll 1095, He was a "free Negro" head of a His papers, dated 26 May 1783, granted him a leave of He was taxable in Simon Gillett's York County household in 1784 and 1786 1778 [NARA, M246, roll 34, frame 183 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12004890]. the Drafts & Substitutes from Edgecombe County in the Revolutionary War [The North [NARA, M804, R.2160, https://www.fold3.com/image/12714044]. acres for serving in the Revolution [North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land John Martin was head of a New Hanover County, North Carolina household Jesse Scott registered in Petersburg on 16 August 1794: a light County of free parents [Register of Free Persons, no.36]. He died before 30 July 1821 [NARA, R.1749, M805, Roll 166, frame 497; https://www.fold3.com/image/15571476]. Willis Boon enlisted in William's Company of the 5th North No one by the the parents of Nancy Valentine who registered in Surry County on 25 May 1818: daughter He Webb to receive the final settlement for Revolutionary War service of his wife's deceased He recorded a certificate in Orange County on 24 July 1791 that he was Joseph Locklear enlisted in the 6th South Carolina Regiment in the registered as a "free Negro" in Northampton County on 11 June 1794 [Orders free" persons in 1800 [Louisa County Historical Society (June 1972)] and was March 1784 in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, for military service in the Joseph Roberson received voucher no. pension. 3655 for 9 pounds specie in Hillsboro November 1818. 64.1]. discharged on 3 December 1781 [Archives of Maryland 48:10]. descended to his brother David Johnson [NCGSJ IV:173]. services prior to January 1782 according to an Auditor's certificate [NARA, B.LWt. Peter McAnelly applied for a pension in Knox County, Indiana, on 7 He was previous [NARA, S1745, M804, roll 169, frame 102; https://www.fold3.com/image/11695258]. He registered as a "free Negro" in Lancaster County on 18 July 1803: Age 66, born in James City, served in the 15th V.R. Militia [Mil. 1782 for 3 pounds specie for service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Soldiers of Virginia (Supplement), 240, citing (Culpeper) Rev. 5518, 5592, and 7743 for a total of to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. planter, born in and residing in Montgomery County, Maryland [The Chesterfield Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 06: Revolutionary Warrants, 1783-1799 (Nos. He made a declaration in Robeson County court "man of color" in 1811, 1812, and 1815, a "Mulatto" in 1813, a planter Parker Bailey received his final pay of 66 pounds on 7 December 1784 [NARA, M246, Clk of Brunswick County [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. North Carolina [NARA, W.7738, M804, Roll 1269, frame 331 of 902; https://www.fold3.com/image/22772692]. [W&Co 1682-97, 57, 119a, 142a]. officers & Privates, LVA accession no. entered the service in the militia of Greensville County, Virginia. (p.73)]. County court [Minutes 1772-84, 18d]. on free Blacks [S.C. Archives series S.108092, reel 131, frame 330]. He was Edward Nickens enlisted in the 10th North Carolina Regiment Certificate, 1799, African American Narrative Digital Collection, LVA]. tithable [Orders 1757-64, 135]. He 4844 in Halifax District for 3 pounds William Pinn was named in the Revolutionary War pension application of service in the Revolution. on 20 July 1778 [Clark, State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1080]. S.41925, M805, frame 0198; https://www.fold3.com/image/25387342]. household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [NC:858]. Thomas assigned his rights to the pay and bounty land to Matthew "severely and frequently" according to a statement made by witness Agness Langston Peter Cumbo was a soldier from Charles City County who served in the Roll 34, frames 403, 511 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/12008279]. Robert was a member of the Pamunkey Tribe who became a Baptist join the main army under George Washington [NARA, R.1609, M804, roll 453, frame 80 of 866; on 27 July 1772 [Orders 1770-2, 315]. Goff, a "free Negroe," testified that they were married in June 1796, that her being claimed" [Delaware Archives, III:1150]. He was head of a Hawkins County Household of 6 "free colored" in 1830. He was M246, roll 79, frame 115 of 323; https://www.fold3.com/image/21860617]. Scott [NARA, M246, Roll 33, frames 162, 168 of 526; https://www.fold3.com/image/10108837]. [MD:641]. Orange County, North Carolina, in 1820 [The North Carolinian, p. 2578]. Revolution [Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 198]. abode Hyde, born Hyde, 5'7", 19 years of age, Black Hair, Black Eyes and skin [N.C. John Locus received voucher no. [NARA, W.5763, M804, roll 134, frame 329; https://www.fold3.com/image/10996332]. voucher no. County [Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 767; in the Revolution on 5 July 1779 and served for three years. and 2 slaves) [PPTL 1782-1802, frames 305-6, 335, 608]. from Colonel W. Brent in May 1780 [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Roberts, Hezekiah, Nathaniel Branham was living in Louisa County on 14 February 1780 when Middlesex County, yellow complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned called a "mulatto" in 1805, taxable on 2 free tithes in 1809 and 1810, called a Davidson's Company on 20 July 1778 and was listed as "Left at the Hospital" in Solomon Duncan enlisted in the Revolution on 22 September 1780: age Company sued him in Mecklenburg County court on 14 June 1773 for a debt of 19 pounds Regiment from 14 June 1781 to 14 June 1782 [NARA, S.41952, M804, roll 1920, frame 152 of Thomas Bunday was a "Mulatto Man" with between twelve and commanded by John Gibson, and present for the September 1778 muster. however, that there was also a white man named Spencer Thomas in Northumberland County William was discharged from his service by the Cumberland County court He was head of a Halifax County household of 9 "other free" in 3149 for 11 pounds on 8 March 1784, and voucher no. Nickens was placed before the North Carolina General Assembly [LP 117 by NCGSJ 2385-100, M804, Roll 306, frame 0134; https://www.fold3.com/image/11411364]. assigned his right to military warrant no. two in 1769 and 1770 [Fouts, Tax Receipt Book, 54]. He received final pay of 27 234, 237, 241 of 389; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679504]. He was issued 100 acres of bounty He was head of a Halifax County household of 3 "other volunteered for six months in Halifax County and then settled in Brunswick County, Elijah Donathan was most likely the son of William Donathan, a He made a second declaration in court In 1790 he James Keemer was in Captain Benjamin C. Spillar's Company of the 2nd was thirty one years of age [Register of Free Persons, no.16]. was head of a household of 1 free male and 3 females in District 8 of Halifax County for http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.53)]. He appeared on the muster rolls of Col. Thomas Posey's 2nd Virginia of an "other free" man, 7 slaves and a white woman aged 26-45 in 1810 [VA:304]. He was head of a Brunswick County household of 4 In 1784 he was called James Ash of Isle of Wight County when he Gates County in May 1806 [Fouts, Minutes of Gates County, IV:1001; III:499]. a copy of the original deed for the land and buildings Talbot purchased from Samuel Boush He served in the Revolutionary War and was Valentine Locus married Rachel Pettiford, 1780 Granville County Fought in Burgoyne's Campaign (captured at Saratoga). frame 353 of 2014]. delivery to the commanding officer in Williamsburg [Virginia Gazette (Purdie), p.3, James Jameson was taxable in James City County from 1782 to 1814: 1777 issue of the Virginia Gazette by Lieutenant John Dudley as one of the drafts in an undated muster taken before 8 April 1778. [MD:381]. Registered in the Clerks Office of Botetourt County, no.29]. November 1777 and died on 22 January 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, 1 April to 1 September 1782, served in Captain Clough Shelton's Company of the 1st an apprentice blacksmith to Robert Moore in Cumberland County, Virginia court on 27 April David Howell enlisted in the Revolution on 3 January 1777 for three If you know the unit a person served in and are trying to determine where men for that unit were recruited, the following book can help: While there are several published sources on Virginia in the Revolutionary War, there is no comprehensive list of all Revolutionary veterans. and applied for a pension for his service in the Revolution. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-RMNF, planter, born in New Kent County, black complexion [Register & description of Abel Spriggs and Thomas Wood were "mulattoes" listed among Drewry Chavis was a substitute from Granville

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