| Josiah Abshier was head of an Anson County household of 6 "other
free" in 1810 [NC:57] and 3 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:12]. He was
a corporal who received a pension of $345.97 [Crow, Black Experience,
97]. |
| Caleb Archer was head of a Hertford County household of 5 "other
free" in 1790 [NC:26] and 9 in 1800 in Captain Lewis' District. He
was allowed 26 pounds pay for service in the Revolution from 10 November
1777 to 10 August 1778 [Haun, Revolutionary Army Accounts, vol.II,
Book 2, 280]. On 7 June 1792 he appointed James Carraway of Cumberland
County his attorney to receive his payment for services in the Continental
line in 1778 and 1779 [NCGSJ VIII:98]. |
|
Evans Archer was head of a Hertford County household of 3 "other
free" in 1790 [NC:25], 3 in 1800, and 3 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:186].
He was sixty-nine years old on 27 September 1823 when he applied for
a Revolutionary War pension in Hertford County Court, stating that
he enlisted in Portsmouth, Virginia, for eighteen months until January
1782 [M805-25, frame 0001]. In 1835 he was listed as a Revolutionary
War pensioner in a report to Congress [Clark, State Records of North
Carolina, XXII:571]. |
|
Archibald Artis died before November 1782 when Stephen Powell
was granted administration of his estate in Johnston County, North
Carolina Court on a bond of 200 pounds. The account of sales of
the estate totalled a little over 43 pounds [Haun, Johnston County
Court Minutes, III:232]. He was mentioned in the Revolutionary War
pension application of Holiday Haithcock which had a testimonial
by William Bryan, a Justice of the Peace: ... that in the times
of our Revolutionary War free negroes and mulattoes mustered in
the ranks with white men in said State
..This affiant has frequently mustered in company with said
free negroes and mulattoes ...That class of persons were equally
liable to draft - and frequently volunteered in the public Service.
This affiant was in the army a short time at Wilmington at the time
Craig was near that place and remembers that one mulatto was in
his company as a common soldier whose name Archibald Artis - Sworn
to and subscribed this 21 day November 1834.
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John Artis enlisted in 1781 in Abraham Shepard's Tenth Regiment,
Colonel Hall's Company. He left the service on 1 November 1782 [Clark,
State Records of North Carolina, 17:190, 16:1007, 15:609]. |
|
James Baltrip was a Continental soldier from Bute County who
enlisted on 3 September 1778: 5 feet 4" high, 20 years old, dark hair,
dark eyes [NCAr:Troop Returns by NCGSJ XV:109]. |
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William Barber, born on 17 May 1745 in Dinwiddie County, was
living in Surry County, North Carolina, on 2 January 1833 when he
made a declaration in court to obtain a Revolutionary War pension.
He stated that he was living in Halifax County, Virginia, when called
into the service and moved to Surry County about 1805 [M805-48]. He
was head of a Surry County, North Carolina household of 8 "other free"
in 1810 [NC:697] and 6 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:670]. |
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Elijah Bass, son of John Bass, b.1716,
and grandson of Edward Bass, b. 1672 Norfolk County, Virginia,
enlisted in the 10th Regiment of the North Carolina Line
as a substitute for Ebenezar Riggan on 10 February 1781 and was
killed in the battle of Eutaw Springs on 8 September 1781. His
widow, Mary Bass, married Benjamin Richardson with Philip Pettiford
as bondsman [NARA, W.4061, M804, Roll 2038, frames 533, 528. |
|
Samuel Bell was living in Sampson County, North Carolina, in
February 1782 when he volunteered in Captain Coleman's Company under
Major Griffith McRae and Colonel Lytle. He marched to Wilmington,
to Georgetown, and to Charleston, but was never in any engagement.
After the war, he lived in Sampson County until about 1807 when he
moved to Robeson County where he applied for and was granted a pension
on 31 August 1832 [M804-0207, frame 0489]. He was head of a Sampson
County household of 10 "other free" in 1790, 15 in 1800 [NC:509],
5 in Robeson County in 1810 [NC:234], and 2 "free colored" in Robeson
County in 1820 [NC:309]. |
|
Edmund Bibby was listed among the Continental soldiers from Bute
County who enlisted for nine months on 3 September 1778: Edmon Bibby,
Place of Abode Bute County, born N.C., 5'4", 20 years old, Dark Fair,
Dark Eyes [NCAr:Troop Returns, Box 4, by NCGSJ XV:109]. He was the
son of a "Mulatto" woman named Mary Bibby [Chamberlayne, Register
of Bristol Parish, 36; CR 44.701.19; CR 015.70001; Bute County WB
A:218, 226, 227, 232, 233]. |
|
Martin Black enlisted for three years in Stevenson's Company
of the North Carolina Continental Line on 16 May 1777. He was in Valley
Forge and West Point and reenlisted for eighteen months in Evans Company
in 1782 [M805-92, frame 0147]. He was head of a Carteret County household
of 2 "other free" in 1790 [NC:128] and an Onslow County household
of 4 "other free" in 1800 [NC:143]. |
|
Benjamin Blango was a soldier from Beaufort County whose estate
was administered before June 1792 by Sarah Blango [NCGSJ XVIII:72].
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Elisha Boon enlisted in Baker's Company
in the 10th North Carolina Regiment for nine months on 20
July 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina,
XVI:1018]. He was head of a Northampton County household of 4 "free
colored" in 1820 [NC:218]. He was about sixty one when appeared in
Wake County court on 13 June 1818 to apply for a pension for his
service in the Revolution, stating that he enlisted early in the war
as a volunteer in Nash County under the command of Captain Isaac
Horn who marched his company to Halifax where he was put under the
command of Captain John Baker of the 10th Regiment for 9
months about July 1778. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky, by 7 June
1824 [NARA, S.35196, M804, roll 288, frame 14 of 842] |
|
Lewis Boon, "bastard Mulatto of Patt
Boon," was bound apprentice in Bertie County, North Carolina, in
1774. He enlisted in the Revolution for 9 months in Baker's Company
on 20 July 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina,
XVI:1018]. He was head of a Northampton County, North Carolina
household of 9 "other free" in 1800 [NC:429], 5 in Halifax County in
1810 [NC:5], and 5 "free colored" in Halifax in 1820 [NC:142]. He
appeared in Halifax County court to apply for a pension for his
service in the Revolution, stating that he enlisted in Bertie County
for nine months in July 1778 in Captain Blount's Company. He was
born in 1757 in Bertie County, moved to Northampton County and had
been living in Halifax County for the last forty years [NARA,
S.6683, M804, Roll 288, frame 247 of 842]. In 1850, Sidney Weller,
minister & resident of Halifax County, NC, wrote a letter to the
Pension office on behalf of the (unnamed) children of Lewis Boon,
asking if Boone had received a pension. No response is in the file.
On Aug. 13, 1896, a petition written to the Dawes Commission by
William Boone (1854-1931) of Warren Co, NC, stated that Lewis Boone
was his grandfather, and that Lewis' daughters were William's
mother, Caroline Boone, and Darcas Richardson. (D. Williams
research) |
|
John Braveboy was a "Black" tithable in Tyrrell County in 1755
[T.O. 105, box 1], head of a Beaufort County household of 1 "other
free" and 6 slaves in 1790 [NC:127], 1 "other free" in 1800 [NC:4],
and 1 in 1810 [NC:116]. He volunteered as a soldier in Carteret County
in 1778 [The North Carolinian VI:728]. He enlisted on 27 August 1778
for three years in Captain Ballard's Company in the North Carolina
Continental Line but was listed as a deserter a little over a year
later on 29 October 1779 [Clark, State Records, XVI:1020]. |
|
Jacob Braveboy was called a "bastard Mulattoe aged about 15"
by the May 1774 Bertie County court when it ordered him bound as an
apprentice bricklayer [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, IV:74].
He enlisted for two and one-half years as a private in Fifth Regiment,
William's Company of the N.C. Continental Line on 9 May 1776 and was
discharged 10 November 1778 [N.C. Historical & Genealogical Register,
II:181]. He was head of a Martin County household of 3 free males
and 3 free females in William Barden's District no. 5 for the state
census in 1787 and head of a Martin County household of 10 "other
free" in 1800 [NC:387]. |
|
John Brooks was a Revolutionary War pensioner from North Carolina
[Clark, State Records of North Carolina, XXII:571]. He was head of
a Robeson County household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:367] and
7 in 1810 [NC:147]. He claimed to be ninety-five or ninety-six years
old on 30 May 1853 when he applied for a pension for service in the
Revolution and was still living in Robeson County on 22 March 1858
when he applied for (and received) bounty land [Pension File S-6732]. |
|
David Burnett enlisted in Blount's
Company of the 5th North Carolina Regiment on 2 April 1776 for the
war and was omitted in February 1778 (likely deceased) [Clark, State
Records, 1013; Crow, Black Experience in Revolutionary North
Carolina, 98; A History of African Americans in North Carolina,
36-7]. He died without heirs, and his 640 acre military land warrant
was assigned to the University of North Carolina [North Carolina and
Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Roll 14:
William Hill Warrants, 1811-1837 (Nos. 676-1131), frames 142-3 of
540, ancestry.com]. |
| Moses Byrd
enlisted as a musician in Lewis' Company of the North Carolina
Continental Line in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1776 and was
omitted in January 1778. He mustered again in Taylor's Company for
2-1/2 years in January 1779. H. Montfort received his final pay
[Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1012, 1024, XVII:
192]. He was a "Mulatto" taxable in Southampton County in 1802 [PPTL
1792-1806, frames 156, 183, 261, 311, 373, 407, 509, 546, 615]. |
|
Isaac Carter enlisted for 3 years and
was in the Roll of Captain Clement Hall's Company in the 2nd
North Carolina Battalion commanded by Colonel John Patten at White
Plains on 9 September 1778 with Isaac Perkins, Martin Black, Cader/
Cato Copeland and Sesar Santee [NARA, M246, roll 79, frame 106 of
323] He was head of a Craven County household of 5 "other
free" in 1790 [NC:131]. |
| Henry Chavis was
in a list of militia men drafted from Hertford County in the Third
Division commanded by Major George Little between 1778 and 1780 [TR
B5F20]. He was taxable on 170 acres and 1 poll in Hertford County in
Nathan Harrel's List for 1784 [GA 64.1]. He was a soldier who served
in the Revolution from November 1778 to August 1779. His widow Peggy
made a deposition in Hertford County on 14 July 1792 to obtain his
pay. William Manly attested to her statement [NCGSJ VIII:214].
Voucher no. 404 was issued for "Henry Chavers, late a soldier in the
Continental Line" for 20 pounds on 1 May 1792 [North Carolina
Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782] |
| Solomon Chavis was
head of a Halifax County household of 2 "other free" in 1810
[NC:13]. Jer. Nelms received his final pay of 28 pounds for service
in the North Carolina Continental Line [Clark, State Records of
North Carolina, XVII:198]. |
| William Chavers
enlisted for 12 months in Brevard's Company of the 3rd North
Carolina Regiment in 1781 and left the service on 12 April 1782
[Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1036]. He was head
of a Wake County household of 6 "other free" in 1800. |
| Francis Coley/ Cooley,
born in Charles City County, Virginia, enlisted there in the militia
in 1777, moved to Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1779. He
volunteered for six months in Halifax County and then settled in
Brunswick County, Virginia, as an overseer for one Othen (Owen?)
Myrick. He moved to Smith County, Tennessee, from where he
petitioned for a pension on 28 November 1833 [NARA, S.3197, M804,
Roll 609, frame 465 of 618]. He was listed in the state census for
North Carolina in the 6th District in 1786. |
| James Coley born
in Charles City County, Virginia, served in the Revolution in
Virginia and then enlisted in Halifax County, North Carolina. He
lived in Montgomery County, Tennessee, about twelve years and then
moved to Humphreys County, Tennessee, where he appeared in court to
apply for a pension on 18 September 1833 [NARA, S.3188, M804, Roll
643, frame 218 of 651]. He was head of a Halifax County, North
Carolina household of 7 whites in 1790 [NC:62]. |
| Robin Cooley was
head of a Halifax County, North Carolina household of 6 "free
colored" in 1830. He was called Robin Coley when he appeared in
Halifax County court on 17 February 1844 and testified that his
sister Sally Coley, widow of Jeffrey Coley a Revolutionary War
pensioner, died in Halifax County on 26 December 1843 and he was her
heir [NARA, W.4160, M804, Roll 609, frame 494 of 618]. |
| Cato Copeland was
head of a Craven County household of 1 "other free" in 1790 [NC:134]
and 2 in Halifax County in 1810 [NC:12]. While a resident of Halifax
County he applied for and was granted a pension for three years
service in the 2nd North Carolina Regiment [NARA, W.17665, M805,
Roll 219, frame 0072; M804, frame Roll 650, frame 294 of 579]. It's
stated in his pension file that his name was actually Cader
Copeland. (DW) On Nov. 21, 1842, his widow, Nancy (Mitchell), a
resident of Halifax County, applied for a Widow's Pension, and
presented a copy of their marriage record which stated they had
married on December 11, 1778. |
| Gibson Cumbo
received pay for serving in the Bladen County militia in 1785 [Haun,
North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts, Journal A, I:9, VII:
931]. Gibby was head of a Robeson County household of 1 "other free"
in 1790 [NC:50], 5 in 1800 [NC:372], and 6 in 1810 [NC:231]. |
| Allen Demery was a
taxable "Black Male" in Matthew Moore's Bladen County household in
1770 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:50; II:174] and head of an
Anson County household of 7 "other free" in 1790 [NC:35] and 5 in
1800 [NC:203]. He enlisted in Brevard's Company of the 10th North
Carolina Regiment on 25 May 1781 and left the service on 25 May 1782
[Clark, Colonial and State Records, 16:1047]. |
| Johnson Dempsey
received voucher no. 2428 on 26 August 1783 for 7 pounds specie pay
in Edenton District for military service in the Revolution [North
Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782]. He was head of a
Bertie County household of 7 in 1800 [NC:40], 5 in Halifax County,
North Carolina, in 1810 [NC:16], and 8 "free colored" in Halifax
County in 1830. |
| Burwell Evans
enlisted in Montfort's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment
on 20 July 1778 for nine months [Clark, The State Records of North
Carolina, XVI:1053]. He married Mary Mitchell, 22 February 1797
Granville County bond with William Roberson bondsman. Pay Vouchers
No. 1254, and Nos. 156 & 514, issued from Hillsborough District
Auditors Office in Apr. 24, 1782, and June 10, 1783. He
was head of a Nash County household of 1 "other free" in 1790
[NC:70] and 2 "other free" in Halifax County in 1810 [NC:18]. Wife
Polly Evans petitioned in Wake County Court, November 1820 for a
years support as the widow of Burwell Evans, which also stated that
he had died intestate and that the Court had appointed an
Administrator in August 1820. |
| Morris Evans
enlisted in Armstrong's Company of the North Carolina Line in 1781
and served until 1 October 1782. He assigned his final pay of 32
pounds to Dan Hunter in Warrenton in 1786 [Clark, The State Records
of North Carolina, XVI:1054, XVII:209; NSDAR, Roster of Soldiers
from North Carolina in the American Revolution, 8, 206]. He received
voucher no. 333 for 8 pounds specie in Warrenton on 1 May 1792,
being one fourth his pay [North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers,
1779-1782]. He was counted as white in 1790, head of a Wake County
household of 1 male over 16, 2 under 16, and 8 females [NC:103], 7
"other free" in 1800 [NC:761] and 7 "free colored" in 1830. A brief
obituary in the September 2, 1834 issue of the Raleigh Register,
stated that Morris died August 25, 1834 in Wake County. |
| Dempsy Underdew/ Underdue
was counted as white in 1790, head of a Halifax County household of
1 male over 16, two under 16, and four females [NC:63]. He was a
private in the Continental Line who assigned his right to 640 acres
in Tennessee to Nicholas Long in Halifax County on 25 July 1795 [DB
17:810]. His widow may have been Polly Underdew, head of a Halifax
County household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:346]. |
| Charles Gibson was
"a Molata" taxable in Orange County, North Carolina in 1755 [N.C.
Archives, T&C Box 1, p.19]. He was living in Wayne County, North
Carolina, in August 1818 when he made a declaration to obtain a
pension for Revolutionary War service. He claimed that he enlisted
for nine months in the Tenth Regiment at the courthouse in
Northampton County, North Carolina. However, there was no record of
his discharge or service. He applied for a pension from Hawkins
County, Tennessee, stating that he was born in Louisa County,
Virginia, on 19 January 1739 and entered into the service in
Salisbury, North Carolina [NARA, R.3995, M805, Roll 355, frames 55,
62]. He was head of a Hawkins County Household of 6 "free colored"
in 1830. |
| Thomas Gibson was
born in Randolph County, North Carolina, on 15 November 1763. When
he was eighteen years old, he volunteered in Guilford County and
served for two years. He was allowed a pension while a resident of
Randolph County [NARA, S.8560, M805, Roll 355, frame 0409]. |
| John Hammond was
head of a Cumberland County household of 5 "other free" in 1800. He
stated that he was about 98 years old on 24 May 1852 when he
appeared in Robeson County court to petition for a pension for
service in the Revolution. He stated that he enlisted in Cheraw
District, South Carolina, and resided in Anson County after the war
until 1807 and then moved to Robeson County. Levi Locklier and Elias
Paul testified for him [NARA, S.8654, M804, Roll 1176, frame 681 of
902]. |
| Gibson Harris was
listed in the 1778 Granville County Militia Returns for Captain
Abraham Potter's Company: a seventeen-year-old "black man,"
occupation: planter [The North Carolinian VI:726 (Mil. TR 4-40)]. J.
Craven received his final pay of 41 pounds for his service in the
army [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVII:216]. He was
head of a Surry County, North Carolina household of 12 "other free"
in 1810 [NC:684]. |
| Sherwood Harris
was head of a Wake County household of 6 "other free" in 1800
[NC:770] and 10 in Granville County in 1810 [NC:864]. George
Pettiford testified for the pension application of his widow Patty
Harris that he was acquainted with Sherwood when they both served in
the Revolutionary War. Both settled in Granville County, and
Sherwood died there. On 23 November 1797 a warrant for 228 acres was
issued for Sherwood's 2-1/2 years of service [NARA, W.3984, M804,
Roll 1202, frame 606 of 1071]. |
| Aaron Hathcock
enlisted in Quinn's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment for
two years on 22 June 1779 and was allowed pay until 5 June 1781 for
his services in the Revolution [Clark, The State Records of North
Carolina, XVI:1080; Haun, Revolutionary Army Accounts, vol. II, Book
1, 273]. He was head of a Northampton County household of 5 "other
free" in 1800 [NC:449] and 4 "other free" in 1810 [NC:728]. |
| Henry Hawkins
enlisted in Ballard's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment
for nine months on 20 July 1778 [Clark, The State Records of North
Carolina, XVI:1080]. He was head of a Halifax County household of 3
"other free" in 1790 [NC:61], 7 in 1800 [NC:318], 8 in 1810 [NC:23],
and 9 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:151]. He made a deposition on 23
November 1812 that he was in the service with Nathan Scott and that
Scott died in the hospital in Philadelphia [N.C. Archives, LP 262,
by NCGSJ VI:15]. |
| Joseph Hawkins was
a saddler hired for twelve months in Halifax by Colonel Nicholas
Long, Deputy Quartermaster General for North Carolina in the
Revolution, according to his return for 23 August 1781 [Clark, The
State Records of North Carolina, XV:620]. He was allowed voucher no.
8289, for 12 pounds in Halifax District for military service on 16
June 1783, voucher no. 3149 for 11 pounds on 8 March 1784, and
voucher no. 4687 for 11 pounds on 14 July 1781 [North Carolina
Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782]. He was head of a Halifax
County household of 9 "other free" in 1790 [NC:64], 5 in 1800, and 5
"other free" and 1 slave in 1810 [NC:27]. Left a will in Halifax
County dated April 23, 1817 in which he named 5 children: Elizabeth,
Mary, Nancy (Boseman), Joseph Jr., and Samuel C. Hawkins. |
| Peter Hedgepeth
enlisted in Yarboro's Company in the 10th North Carolina Regiment as
a musician in 1781 for 12 months and was discharged on 7 May 1782
[Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1083]. He was head
of a Wake County, North Carolina household of 5 "other free" in
1790. He was living in Wake County on 21 March when he gave William
Fearel power of attorney to collect his final settlement for his
service in the Revolution [NCGSJ X:235]. |
| There's plenty more names out there for African
American-Native American Revolutionary War Soldiers from NC.
See the entire list at
Free
African Americans by Paul Heinegg |
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