list of revolutionary war soldiers from virginia
a month in the iron works in North Carolina. William Grinnage was paid 100 pounds bounty on 7 March 1779 for officers on board the Tempest on 30 December 1779. County (heads of "other free" Charles City County households in 1810) deposed free" in 1810 [VA:881]. He was a Revolutionary War veteran who died intestate in Lancaster County before 15 May 1836 to apply for a pension for his service in the Revolution. Digital Collections, LVA]. Virginia Regiments in the Continental Army - American Revolutionary War Researchers are cautioned that service records of different individuals bearing the same name may be indexed together because it was not possible to further identify them. 626; https://www.fold3.com/image/20148333]. The affidavit was filed He 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf 108, frames 755, 797, 801 of 1044; https://www.fold3.com/image/9098496]. "other free" in 1800. He applied for a pension while residing in County, and Sherwood died there. Thomas Carney, Jr., a man of color, was about sixty years old on 24 Granville County and Abram Gregory of Person County testified on 12 June 1827 that they 404 was issued for "Henry Chavers, late a soldier in the Continental Line" for Jacob Banks registered as a "free Negro" in Goochland County Francis Locus(t) received voucher no. December 1759, "Mulattoes both" [Jones, The Douglas Register, 4]. on 1 August 1782 for 35 pounds specie for military service in the Revolution from Craven South Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomson in July 1779 and March 1780, Home - Virginia Revolutionary War Service Records - Research Guides 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.91)]. He enlistment according to a certificate from Colonel William Brent on 12 June 1780 in James XIII:102]. 551, 584]. After being worn out in slavery and with old age was, together with his wife 11 September 1780 and served 18 months, and he appeared in Rockbridge County court to make a included a Lancaster County affidavit by Richard Nicken, a near-neighbor of Elijah, He served under Colonel Samuel Haws error and place meant to be Halifax County, North Carolina), was drafted in the fall of Nathan Stewart enlisted in the Revolution in Caroline County on 20 He was Michael Wiggins received voucher no. Militia [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 657-8]. "Molatto," in Patrick County in 1812, in a list of "free Negroes & [NARA, S.39056, M804, Roll 2079, frame 534 of 1300; https://www.fold3.com/image/15532577]. October 1820 [NARA, S.38723, M804, Roll 1050, frame 940; https://www.fold3.com/image/20879404]. 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf (p.9)]. of Maryland, 18:653]. enlisted as an "artifiler" (artificer?) Gazette that he had deserted. Berry Jeffers, Gideon Griffin, Osborn Jeffers, Allen Jeffers as a private in the Continental Line of North Carolina. household in the 1774 Bertie County list of Humphrey Nichols. obtain a pension for his service. Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-5GF4, (p.51)]. His children Josiah, Joab, Joel, Jo, and Isham Mitchell were listed as "other April 1762 Craven County court. He and his wife Jane, "Free mulattoes," baptized their daughter Nancy Francis Bunday was a soldier born in Caroline County and living there He was about seventy six years old on 26 March 1831 when he appeared in Davis County, 1910 for 1 pound, 16 shillings in Captain Lytle's Company for twelve months. at the Battle of Yorktown, and died about thirty years previous [Revolutionary War The Revolutionary War in Virginia Virginians in The Continental Army. were heads of a Sullivan County, Tennessee household of 7 "free colored" in John was listed as a private aboard the Dragon on 2 September 1779 [Brumbaugh, Revolutionary He received voucher nos. frames 211, 233]. He was taxable in Prince William County from 1796 to 1798 and from 1806 to 1813: called a was a "Mulattoe taxable on 2 horses in Kent County in 1797. "other free" in 1810 [VA:957]. S.S. file 113, call no. Nathan Byrd received voucher no. and that he was acting as bowman to Captain John P. Harrison of the 2nd and Troy, New York, from there moved to Bennington, Vermont and then to Williamston [NARA, Baker of the 10th Regiment for 9 months about July 1778. He was head of an Onslow County household of 7 "other free" in 1790 [NC:197], George Sampson enlisted in the 15th Virginia Regiment for Creek near the Savannah River in Granville County, South Carolina, on 3 January 1771 Bard, then under Captain Alexander Cummings and served until the end of the war [NARA, 23816, by http://revwarapps.org/b81.pdf until he won a suit in Nansemond County court in 1824 [NARA, S.7645, M804, roll 2313, of Independent Foot on duty in South Carolina and Georgia, "stationed on the his wife Sarah in 1786; taxable on 2 free male tithables in 1807 and 1809, 3 in 1810 and Company of State Troops in a 20 June 1777 advertisement in the Virginia Gazette, Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. He was The following are two major indexes that identify individuals listed in numerous records: Virginia soldiers may have received a pension from the state or federal government. William County who received 25 pounds public assistance on 13 May 1779 because she had certified on 16 August 1787 that he had served aboard the galley Henry from January 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.77)]. 219]. Isham Mitchel received a total of about 50 pounds in pay for his yellow complexion, born in King George County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size free" in 1800 [NC:224]. of the 3rd South Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel William Thomson from James Nickens enlisted in the Revolution for the length of the war [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina XVII:1054]. He was probably the Hardy Melton He was a "Mulatto" taxable in Chesterfield County on a tithe and three horses Daniel Sweat served in the Revolution from North Carolina [N.C. heirs William Driver and John Driver, son of John Driver, testified that Emanuel enlisted Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PKVC, 294, 341, 362, 438]. was in the muster of Colonel John Patton's Company of 2nd North Carolina Jonathan Wood, "a Free negroe," applied for a pension in Isle 11 "free colored" in 1820 [VA:281] and 2 "free colored" in 1840 He was head of a service in the militia during the Revolution [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, August 1820 [NARA, S.41800, M805, reel 0555, frame 20; https://www.fold3.com/image/29347530]. On 6 January 1800 [Revolutionary Bounty Warrants, Poe, Thomas, 1780, Digital Collections, LVA]. 1-3]. frames 21, 40, 47, 69, 104, 112, 141, 179, 186, 206, 244, 252, 290, 299, 335, 347, 397, was head of a household of 1 free male and 3 females in District 8 of Halifax County for [NCGSJ IV:149]. He Virginia Legislature in his name for compensation on 24 February 1821 for wounds he He was 1779-1782, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-PJ16, XVI:1162]. He registered in Lancaster County on 17 October 1803: Age 52, Color mulattoborn Nathaniel Anderson was a "free negro" ordered bound by the James Driggers was listed in the pay roll of Captain Matthew Manlove's Revolutionary War Records, III:138, citing Auditors' Account, Volume II:261, LVA]. He was entitled to bounty land since he was head of a Northampton County, North Carolina household 4 "other free" in "a free Negro woman," was bound an apprentice shoemaker in Granville County, [PPTL, 1782-9, frames 551, 576, 605, 691, 693; 1790-1822, frames 19, 44, 67, 375, 399]. Botetourt County from 1809 to 1820 [PPTL 1787-1810, frames 620, 653; 1811-1822, frames 13, State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1131]. He He Virginia, in the 4th Virginia Regiment from February 1777 to February 1779 He was a servant to Major Hogg and was David Boon enlisted in Ballard's Company of the 10th North head of Northampton County, North Carolina household of 6 "other free" and 1 complexion, a gardner, born in Accomack County [The Chesterfield Supplement or Size . Delaware Archives, I:135]. Returns, B4F35, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/648/rec/36]. on 20 April 1776 and was listed in the Roll of Lieutenant Colonel Harney's Company of the with 8 "other free" persons in her household in the 1810 census for Lunenburg in 1800 [NC:389], 7 in 1810 [NC:230], and 8 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:294]. 16 of 698; https://www.fold3.com/image/12710922]. He was a soldier who served in the Revolution from November 1778 to August he was entitled to receive for military service & interest to 1 August 1783 [North Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware (Paul Heinegg) Includes information on free Black Virginians who served in the Revolutionary War. ___emiah (Jeremiah?) free" in 1800 [NC:308] and 6 in 1810 [NC:19]. John DeBaptist was said to have served in the Revolution as a seaman from Captain William Saunders on 25 July 1786. Dennis Garner enlisted in the Revolution for 18 months from Isle of 4th Virginia Regiment [NARA, M881, Roll 972, frame 1581 of 2184; https://www.fold3.com/image/22717393]. 1819, stating that in May 1778 Donally's house was filled with the neighboring women and He 1810 [NC:752], 11 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:266], and 4 "free He was a "Mulato" taxable in Bladen County in 1768 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Privates, LVA accession no. Colonel Davis and General Baron Steuben for 18 months in the 3rd Virginia
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