of Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1786 for the state census (called John Toney, Jr.) colored" in 1820 [NC:182], and 6 "free colored" in 1830 [NC:404]. bowman or cook for Captain Beeles(?) and the certificate of Benjamin C. Waller, C.C, a justice of York County that Thomas had Navy during the Revolution [Stewart, The history of Virginia's navy of the revolution, showing his age, and enlisted in the town of Falmouth about three years before the Regiment from February to August 1779 with Isham Valentine [NARA, M246, Roll 109, William Case, a "Mulatto," died while serving in the Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-L51X, [Register of Free Negroes, 1805-32, no. Francis Pierce, a "free man of Colour," appeared in Boone Taylor received his final pay of 36 pounds for service in the infantry on 13 May 1783 Jeffrey Garnes was a six-year-old bound by the Lunenburg County court Captain Blount's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment on 1 July 1779 and Statutes at Large, XIII:103]. He served as an ordinary seaman aboard the ship Tempest under Captain S.8560, M805, Roll 355, frame 0409; https://www.fold3.com/image/21420952]. April 1835, about the same time as the Fauquier County branch of the family applied for named Rose and children John and Burdock who were emancipated by order of the North ), 3 January 1786 Bertie County bond. Roll 609 , frame 465 of 618; https://www.fold3.com/image/12745128]. a slave in 1810 [VA:875]. muster of Colonel Eaton, called Joseph Halley, next to Lawrence Pettiford [Clark, Colonial Joseph Wallace, a "free man of color," appeared in Charles Joseph Allen was a "Mullatto" taxable in William Allen's 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.99)]. 1792 [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, VI:697; VI:969; https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1911121]. Digital Collections, LVA]. Thomas James was the six-year-old son of Betty James, a "Free North Carolina, XVI:1019; XVII:193]. Captain Lewis Booker of the 15th Virginia Regiment for two years. Thomas Bunday was a "Mulatto Man" with between twelve and months in January 1779 in the Hertford County Militia under Captain Harris, marched to A relative, Nancy Major, was in the "list of Blacks above the age He was a "Mulatto" taxable in Culpeper County Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. He was born in St. Kitts in the West Indies and moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia. Philip Savoy, a "Man of Colour," appeared in Anne Arundel Charlotte County on 18 August 1815: a Black looking man, five feet six & half 19, 5'4-1/4" high, yellow complexion, a farmer, born in Petersburg [The He was a "F.N." Edmund Absolam, and several other soldiers whose widows or dependents received support may have been the John Going who was taxable in Henry County from 1782 to 1790: taxable on the American Revolution, 150, 546]. 2046 for 4 pounds specie on 12 December 1783 for militia duty during the County, Virginia court issued a certificate to the Treasurer that she had been provided William, Digital Collections, LVA]. For additional information please see About the Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions Database Charles City County on 21 March 1818. Council, II:364, 376]. On 6 September 1827 he received a Revolution in South Carolina in 1775 [NARA, R.8645, M805, Roll 679, frame 0652; https://www.fold3.com/image/15172120]. Harrison's Company, drafted in Surry County, Virginia [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. Montfort received his final pay [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, Muster rolls, pay rolls, and index of the Virginia militia in the War of 1812, United States, Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, United States Colored Troops in the Civil War, Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, United States Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865, United States Military Old Soldiers Home Records, United States, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, United States, Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898, United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, United States, YMCA World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919, Virginians who lost their lives in the World War, United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, Virginia, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919, Virginia war history commission supplement (1923) 4v. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf discharge for three years service on 18 August 1780 from Captain Wm Spiller by was residing in Lenoir County in 1818 when he appeared in the county court to apply February 1822 power of attorney to Tignal Jones to receive the lands for him. 1779 return of spirits provided to the ship [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, three years and served under Thomas Meriwether [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, William Chavers enlisted for 12 months in Brevard's Company of the 3rd Obediah Plummer enlisted as a private in Captain Lilburn Williams' North Carolina, in 1776 and served in Captain William Barrett's 3rd Regiment Expedition [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 883]. Northampton County, North Carolina household of 5 "other free" in 1790) [Orders his father (Andrew Peeleg as he was called), he was taken prisoner by the British. Dudley of King and Queen County who offered a reward for his return in the 21 March 1771 Virginia Henry stated that he had been acquainted with him since 1783 in Wilmington District for 10 pounds specie for service in the militia [North Carolina, XVI:1073]. King William County, yellow complexion [Register & description of Noncommissioned 1792: listed by John DeBaptist in 1787 [PPTL 1782-1813, frames 106, 151, 218, 226, Thomas Bowser, was head of a Kent County, Maryland household of 3 They did not return County certified that two sons of Michael Alesocke, whose Christian names he could not stating that he had entered the service in Henry County [NARA, R.4165, M805, Roll 368, 5'4-1/4" high, black complexion, Indian features, a farmer, born in Norfolk County was listed in the Muster of the Independent Company of Foot raised for the safe guard of in 1798, 3 in 1800 when he was called "Senr." 18:653]. And he was a "Mulatto" taxable in Gloucester County from 1801 to household of 3 "other free" in 1810 [VA:130b] and 2 "free colored" in 1769 [SS 837]. [VA:478]. of the 2nd North Carolina Battalion on 9 May 1776 and was discharged on 10 in Lenoir County in 1810 [NC:300] and 4 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:295]. Digital Collection, LVA]. Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary . Tim Jones was about eighty-six years old on 15 July 1833 when he John Brooks was a Revolutionary War pensioner in North Carolina [Clark, [NARA, M246, roll 34, frame 430 of 587; https://www.fold3.com/image/17098774]. in 1800 [NC:311]. Nathaniel Branham was living in Louisa County on 14 February 1780 when lived there until he was ten years old when he moved to Halifax County, North Carolina. Servt [Troop Returns, box 6, folder 20; http://www.digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/980/rec/2]. Roll 1091, frame 995 of 2235; https://www.fold3.com/image/286702708]. Cumberland courthouse, remained there some time and was then placed under Captain Drury North Carolina, XVI:1188]. 1786-1806, frames 348, 357, 396-7, 459-60; 1807-1850, frame 183, 256]. frames 59, 187, 517, 676]. Francis Jones testified that "he was well acquainted with Allen commanded by John Gibson, and present for the September 1778 muster. Court House, LVA accession no. The records of He was head of an Indian River, Sussex Demseys, William]. Zachariah Archer was taxed in Jonathan Stanley's 1766 Bertie Tax List. household of 4 free males and 4 free females in 1790 [NC:34]. Genealogical Society Journal. service in the Revolution. [Revolutionary Bounty Warrants, Chavis, Samuel, Digital Collections, LVA]. April 1783 he received a certificate from Captain Ab. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf Joseph Case was head of a Currituck County household of 6 "other Revolutionary War from 1 August 1780 to 4 November 1783 [DHS, MS Delaware Regiment Pay 1800 to 1805 [PPTL, 1785-1814, frames 484, 544, 622]. 756 William Dobbins and Charles Dobbins were the sons of Sarah Dobbins who Bowser, testified on 17 October 1833 that Nathaniel Bowser, Thomas Bowser, and Betsy mutilation would procure him a discharge [Virginia Gazette (Hayes); http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/explore.html]. high, forty seven years old, born free in Essex County, a stone mason [Register of He was head of for 30 days on 2 September 1779. and his wife Rachel, "Free Mulattoes," registered the birth of their daughter Froman, Temple, 1818, Digital Collection, LVA]. 1781 [NARA, M246, roll 89, frame 379; https://www.fold3.com/image/9679654]. enlisted in the Revolution for 3 years on 9 January 1777 and was in the muster of Captain in the 3rd South Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomason in He received a was head of a Gates County, North Carolina household 9 "other free" in 1790 Hillsboro for 9 pounds specie on 11 June 1783 for military service in the Revolution Henry Dalton, a "mulatto" and apparently the son of white for a pension at the age of fifty-nine while residing in Wilson County, Tennessee, on 27 court to obtain a pension, stating that he enlisted in Halifax County about 1782. private and was in the muster and payroll of Captain John Gregory's company of the 15th Richard was They were forcibly rescued by the http://www.fold3.com/image/27177003]. He served for In 1772 he was head of a household with Sarah Archer, possibly his wife, in the list of He was called Peter Blizzard of Surry County on 29 October 1788 when he sold 100 acres in Bertie County tax list of Humphrey Nichols [CR 10.702.1, 320, 90]. County, Virginia household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [VA:569]. three years and was entitled to bounty land [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, M804, Roll 1408, frame 696 of 884; https://www.fold3.com/image/24147596]. he gave power of attorney to Samuel Warren, an attorney, to receive the final settlement pension for his services in the Revolution, stating that he enlisted in Brunswick County, Revolutionary War Pension Applications, LVA, digitized]. they were boys, that they were near-neighbors in Duplin County, that they met while both Carolina Regiment. 90]. North Carolina, in 1771 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:61]. He stated that he was born on the Meherrin River in the part of Brunswick The National Archives also has an alphabetical index, numerical register, and survey register that can help you find a warrant in this collection. wife?) He was head of a Robeson County household of 6 "other free" in 1790 [NC:49], 10 estate was divided in Accomack County among his four sisters, Nancy, Betty, Rebecca, and that he enlisted in September 1777 while resident in Mecklenburg County and served until Jinncy was head of an 17, 4'9-1/2 " high, a farmer, born in Annapolis, Maryland, residence: Westmoreland [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. during the Revolution on 7 December 1779 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records, Revolutionary War Records. He was head of a Halifax County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:62]. Jonston, David]. Goff, a "free Negroe," testified that they were married in June 1796, that her He Tankersley offered a reward for their delivery to King George courthouse in the 3 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1034]. And James Wicking or Nicking was 560 for 19 pounds specie at New Bedford County to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. 1077; https://www.fold3.com/image/16260520]. he was born on the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, was drafted into the militia while Aaron, Digital Collections, LVA]. James, a slave the property of Wm Armistead, Gentleman, of September 1780: age 18, 5'3" high, a farmer, born in Caroline County, yellow John Redcross was probably related to on 20 January 1779, was entitled to bounty land for three years service, but had not 1834 when he appeared in Hawkins County, Tennessee court to apply for a pension for He 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.70)]. Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomson and the Pay Roll of the 7th (For land in Kentucky and the Virginia Military District in Ohio). Russell from June 1779 to November 1779 [NARA, M246, frames 668, 677, 683 of 774; https://www.fold3.com/image/9946602]. when he received his discharge for three years service as a seaman in the Revolution on 24 War who failed to report to their camp at Williamsburg in July 1746: a whitish mulatto, of 5 "free colored" in 1820 and 7 "free colored" in 1830. in 1800 [NC:342], and 6 in Cumberland County in 1810 [NC:599]. and upwards and 4 females 16 and upwards in 1776 [Carothers, 1776 Census of Maryland, 1978, c1969 reprint at FS Library fiche 6051260; book 976.9 R22j. Privates, LVA accession no. 665; 1811-22, frames 59, 103, 147] and head of a Fluvanna County household of 8 Includes information on free Black Virginians who served in the Revolutionary War. according to the application for a survivor's pension which his nephews Daniel and Sarah court to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. Johnson Driggers was listed in the 8 March 1754 muster roll of Captain She 1820. Compiled Service Records are also available on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Maryland Regiment on 27 May 1778, was sick in camp at White Plains on 2 September 1778, in He stated that he legislature for a pension for his services in the Revolution [S.C. Archives S108092, reel in the Revolution "to the 10th December on 14 August 1781 [Archives of He registered as a "free Negro" in Goochland County on 12 August 1815: a free 1758 Granville County, North Carolina Tax List of Nathaniel Harris, taxable in 1764 with household of 10 "free colored" in 1820. County Militia in the 1750s adjacent to Thomas Kersey [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the of Wight County on 6 January 1835. Joseph Hawkins was a saddler hired for twelve months in Halifax by Asa Spelman testified that they served in the Priscilla and Jane were 1665-1998; Day, Jesse, 1838]. volunteered in Bute County in 1779: Chas Row, born in Virga, and was listed in Captain Howell Tatum's Company of the 1st North Carolina George Pettiford was about 63 years old on 10 February 1821 when he These lists are mainly centered around 1780, but the dates cover most of the war. and served until the end of the War. He was sized at the Chesterfield County court house sometime after He testified for Malachi Nickens and John Weaver in Hertford County Pa. (accessed 6/17/2018)]. He was in Craven County on 20 March 1787 when he registered his furlough papers bound out by the Southampton County court on 13 December 1759 [Orders 1759-63, 11]. He received a warrant for 200 acres in 1784 which he assigned to Richard Smith on December 1778 and served for three years. Chesterfield Supplement or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession 1800. He stated that he enlisted in 1779 in South Carolina in the regiment commanded by Colonel Mulattoes" from 1809 to 1816 [PPTL 1786-1806, frames 471; 1807-1850, frames 57, 104, He was counted as white in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 1790 [NC:122]. Thomas Cole was listed among seven deserters from Thomas W. Ewell's Southampton County household of 3 "other free" [VA:77]. Jennings on 7 February 1834 and named five of the officers and fifty-two members of the head of a Giles County household of 10 "other free" 1030 for 20 pounds specie for Records of North Carolina, XVI:1117], listed in the roll of Lieutenant William County from 1806 to 1817 [PPTL, 1806-28, frames 35, 135, 163, 235, 341, 390, 596] and head State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1092]. Jacob Warrick, Job Warrick, and Moses Warrick were "Black" He was about 75 years old on 23 December He was "poor soldier Washington, D.C.: NARA, 1985. Forge in the 2nd Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Febecker and injured County in 1696 [DB A-198]. "free colored" in Nansemond County in 1820 [VA:79]. complexion and was free born. John Johns was called the brother of James Johns in March violence. He Lieutenant Wilkinson's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment of Colonel Sylvester Beverly was listed in the payroll of the 1st declaration in Chowan County court to obtain a pension for three years service [NARA, muster of Captain Clement Hall's 1st North Carolina Regiment on 6 February 1778 5'6-3/4" high, a planter, born in Caroline County, Black complexion. "Mulatto" taxable in Culpeper County in 1789 (2 tithes), 1790 and 1796 (a tithe from Bute County who volunteered for nine months [Militia Returns, NCGSJ XV:109]. United States. 27 January 1756 [CR 010.101.7 by NCGSJ XIII:168, 169, 170]. or Size Roll of Troops at Chesterfield Court House, LVA accession no. 1778-1783, certificates 54,483; 54,830; 54,938; 55,184; Public Archives Commission, Delaware Wiggins who was also in Charleston, but was then deceased [NARA, S.7952, M804, 2572, frame Philadelphia where he resided for twenty-seven years [NARA, R.11,569, M804, Roll 2586, Cupid Plummer enlisted as a private in Captain Lilburn Williams' He registered in Princess Anne County on 27 September 1800: Aaron Digital Collection, LVA]. while resident in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, probably in September 1780 (no date but him as a "molatto Free man," which was to be used as a pass to travel to North Virginiathe largest and most populous colonyplayed a major role in winning independence and determining the values and aspirations of the new nation. 1784 [NARA, M881, Roll 1092, frame 2049 of 2281]. Negro taxable in Fredericksburg from 1794 to 1815: taxable on 3 horses in 1803, 2 slaves April 1784 for serving three years in the 2nd Virginia Regiment and received Revolution. Joseph Artis was paid for service in the militia in Wilmington District Adkins, Isaiah. born in Charles City [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & 1895-3085), frame 579 of 619, ancestry.com]. He was in the list of men ordered into service in the Amherst County Militia in 1781 female in the 1767 Granville County tax list of John Pope adjacent to Richard Jones. 1830. 10081833, 10081847, 10081873]. Saul Bowers, "of Craven County," received pay voucher no. David Burnett enlisted in Blount's Company of the 5th North 1782-1832]. 1646 for 9 pounds on Edward Valentine enlisted in the Revolution from Dinwiddie County as a He appeared in Prince William County court on 3 November 1834 at the age of ninety June last" since the soldier was on the pay roll for March 1777 [Virginia Gazette free" in 1790 [NC:48]. January 1777 and served his time [Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants, Mail, Welmore, County who enlisted for nine months from the following March: place of abode Hyde, born County on 8 September 1780 and was sized about the same time: age 31, 5'7" high, which was with a body of negroes above Charleston at a place called as he thinks the Salady Stanley was probably identical to the "Negro Boy named land [NARA S.7352, M804, Roll 2000, frame 1220 of 1277; https://www.fold3.com/image/27992134]. 23816, by http://rLevwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.107)]. Records of State Line unitshoused in the National Archives are abstracted as Compiled Service Records for each individual. of the Chickahominy Shipyard in the 11 September 1779 issue of the Virginia Gazette: Warburton, John]. Addington, Luther F. and Emory L. Hamilton. County, Virginia, from 1792 to 1806 and a planter in the list of "free Negroes & Edward Harris was a "negro" in the 8 October 1754 Muster Roll heirs on 29 August 1820 [North Carolina Archives SS Military papers, folio 355 cited by He was in a list of soldiers whose name appeared on the army He was a soldier born in Isle of 32, 70, 371]. Jack Morris, an orphan, no race indicated, was bound apprentice in pay to 1 August 1783 for military service in the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary in the Revolution on 13 October 1780: age 30, 5'6-1/4" high, a taylor, born and was taxable in Meherrin Parish, Greensville County, Virginia, in 1788 [PPTL 1782-1807; Moses Blango enlisted in Hogg's Company on 20 July 1778 and received a taxable in Powhatan County in 1791 [PPTL, 1787-1825, frame 62], taxable in Rockbridge He may have been one of two and enlisted under Captain John Catlett and joined the regiment under Colonel Holt edition, p. 3, col. 3]. Gazette that he had deserted. His widow Betsy Tolliver applied in 1836. Journal of the American Revolution; The Rise of Virginia's Independent Militia (September 18, 2014) Bruenton, Lewis; Brewinton, Lusis]. and after serving out her passage had children by a Negro which accounts for his being North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Survey Orders "free colored" in Lewis and Rehoboth Hundred in 1820 [DE:308].

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