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Source: Flowering of the Cumberland by Arnow
p. 5
[more description of fort sights and sounds, pigs, geese, dust, gnats, flies etc]
Yet, no matter how often a woman must go to check on the family wash or lend a hand in the bringing in of the bleaching linen at the outset of a summer shower, the heavy fort gate had always to be firmly shut as one went out. Back in 1787 in the same station in which Sally now lived, her husband's father, John Buchanan, sr., had been killed and scalped as he sat with his wife by their fireside. A small band of Indians had been lying in wait, watching for the fort gate to be left open while the able-bodied men were at work in the fields.
Sally, one suspects, closed the gate without thinking each time she passed through and automatically reminded her help to do the same. Most of her life had been spent either in a picketed fort or within running distance of one. She had no memory of a world safe form Indians. Her father, Colonel Daniel Ridley, then living in a forted station of his own around two miles away, had like many other settlers in Middle Tennessee, known many borders before settling on this one.
True, he had been born in Tidewater, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1737, long after it was safe from Indians, but the year 1755 when he was only eighteen had found him deep in the "back parts." A survivor of the Battle of the Wilderness, he had, after the death of General Braddock, been one of the weary marchers from the Monongahela near Fort Duquesne back to the comparative safety of Fort Cumberland. All that was history now. Fort Duquesne had become Fort Pitt, and lately more and more people were calling the place Pittsburgh. The American colonel who had taken over the command on the death of General Braddock was now President Washington.
Colonel Ridley had also fought in the Revolution, though as a borderer he had known many battles and skirmishes undignified by the title of any war. Then, in the midst of the Revolution and while Sally was still a small child, he had taken a push still further west, settling in 1779 in what was then called the Holston Country, or the "back parts" of North Carolina, in time to be know as East Tennessee.
The ending of the Revolution had not brought peace and safety. Indian depredations had continued after the defeat of the Chickamauga in 1779, and in 1784 all the Holston Country had erupted into the bloody turmoil of a civil war when Jon Sevier and his followers attempted to form a state of their own - Franklin. Four years later, the State of Franklin collapsed; by late 1789 Sevier and all his followers had been pardoned. (15) Thus, by 1790 the more thickly settled parts of the Holston Country were at least more peaceful and safer than they had been. Strange, but it was at this time after having survived eleven years of forted life, Colonel Ridley took his family still further west into the most dangerous spot of all - the Cumberland settlements. (16)
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15. NCR, XXII, 728-729, Nov. 30, 1789. Sevier was the last to be pardoned.
16. Featherstonhaugh, Excursion, I, 206.
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Source: Flowering of the Cumberland by Arnow
p. 4
There is nothing to indicate that the pioneer valued security of any kind as highly as do we today, and to many a fort was somewhat like a prison. Neat, active, industrious Sally Buchanan (10) must at times have found the forted life a messy, nerve-racking business. Dusty and hot in summer with no cooling shade save that of the house walls, safety demanded that every great black locust, oak, or even any bush or little cedar big enough to hide an Indian be but. Perpetually crowded with all kinds and conditions of people form newborn black babies or white babies to elderly widows as was Sally's mother-in-law, the acre of ground was filled for most of the daylight hours with noise of humankind and smoke from cooking fires. There was, too, all the gear and plunder demanded by the complex life of such farming families as the Buchanans - ash hoppers, shaving horses, barrels and troughs for the catching of rain water, piles of firewood, a still or so, "necessary house," smokeho!
use and loom house, with all tools, farming implements such as plows, along the saddles, bridles, and everything else an Indian could steal, lodged somehow, somewhere behind the fort walls. No activity was safe outside the picketing, so that the fort yard, cabins, blockhouses, and outhouses were often jammed with wool waiting to be washed, piles of flax straw ready for the break, or green hides soaking in a hollowed-log tanning vat.
Most weekdays of September, 1792, would have found Buchanan's no different from other stations in the neighborhood, filled with the whirr of spinning wheels, rattle and bang of looms, thump and glug of churn dashers, the hustle and bustle and smoke and steam of scrubbing days, (11) and washing days that meant boiling clothes in a great iron kettle set on its three legs over an outside fire. John Buchanan in time had a proper gristmill powered by a stream of water, but during the early years he, like the Hickmans (12) and most other frontier farmers, had the usual horse mill, kept for safety behind the fort picketing - and a cumbersome, creaking thing the wooden mill was, taking up room with the slowly walking horses, not only trampling the earth into mud or dust, but now and then dropping manure; all in all making what Sally would call a "gome."
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10. W, 3XX (18), 5.
11. Ibid
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Source: Flowering of the Cumberland by Arnow
some reference notes
p. xvii
...but prior to 1790 Davidson and Sumner counties were parts of North Carolina; the same counties were parts of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, 1790-1796; it was not until the creation of the State of Tennessee in 1796 that any county was officially a part of Tennessee.
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Source: Flowering of the Cumberland by Arnow
p. 3
Worse than the weather for human comfort were the conditions under which Sally lived, for she, like all the rest of the around seven thousand* men, women, and children along the middle Cumberland, lived in a forted station. Stations varied in shape and size, but Buchanan's to which Sally more than a year ago had come as a bride was about average, the picketed walls enclosing around an acre with a blockhouse at each corner. This small space was shared with seven other families,** some like the Buchanans with slaves, and all living in what must have been rather small log houses as they were side by side in one straight row down the middle of the fort yard.
The forted life known to most who settled the old Southwest was described by many, but whether such a one as Reverend Doddridge*** who spent his boyhood on the frontier of what is now West Virginia, or Colonel William Fleming**** who endured the "hard winter" of 1779-1780 in various Kentucky stations, none had any good word to say for the forted life, save it was the only means of protection from the Indians. Families had on all borders been wiped out because they could not bear the crowding; almost always those on the Cumberland who tired to go it alone in a small weak station sooner or later moved to a bigger one or were ruined. It was only a few weeks now since the Indians had with bullets and fire destroyed Zeigler's Station, north of the Cumberland. A short time before that the whole Thompson family, save Alcey,***** now an Indian captive, had been killed.
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*TP, IV, 81. The total population as of September 19, 1791, was given as 7,042, of which 1,161 were slaves.
**W, 29S, 74-75, and Ibid., 30S, 227-233, give locations and descriptions of Buchanan's and others of the more important stations. W., 30S 526, names several of the families living at Buchanan's
***Samuel Kercheval, A History of the Valley of Virginia, Woodstock, VA, 1833; pagination, 1902 ed., Madison, Wisc. (cited hereafter as Kercheval, Virginia), quoting the Reverend Joseph Doddridge, "Notes on the settlement and Indian Wars of the Western parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania" (cited hereafter ad Doddridge, "Notes" 260.
****Newton D. Mereness, Travels in the American Colonies, New York, 1916 (cited hereafter as Mereness, Travels), "The Journal of Colonel William Fleming," ed. from the Draper Manuscripts of the Wisconsin Historical Society (cited hereafter as Fleming, "Journal", 619-654
*****ASP, Indian Affairs, I, 330. The name is sometimes spelled Elsey or Alcie; she was with Mrs. Peter Caffery and child when captured Feb 25, 1792.
[TP=The Territorial Papers of the United States]
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FYI...thanks Bob...this is Rufus Coates he was trying to connect before...but I also noticed all the Williams and Thomas and Johns in here that don't seem to have any down lines...
Anyone know anything about any of these...
Char
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16. Anstes Gray (Elizabeth Pabodie , William ) was born on 10 Jul 1726 in
Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. She was christened on
18 Sep 1726. She died after 11 Jun 1785.
Anstes married William Coates on 28 Sep 1742 in North Stonington, Connecticut
William was born on 30 Nov 1721 in Stonington, Connecticut He died after
1776.
They had the following children:
77FiHannah Coates was born about 1743 in Stonington, Connecticut 78Mii
William Coates was born on 14 Apr 1745 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut,
United States. 79MiiiJohn Coates was born on 26 Mar 1747 in Lebanon, New
London, Connecticut, United States. 80FivAnna Coates was born on 15 Jun
1749 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States. 81MvEdward Coates
was born on 18 Oct 1751 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States.
+82FviAnstes Coates was born about 1753. She died on 28 Dec 1835.
83MviiThomas Coates was born about 1755/1756. 84MviiiRufus (poss.) Coates
was born about 1758. 85FixPhebe Coates was born about 1761. 86FxMarcy
Coates was born on 6 Sep 1764. She died on 19 Apr 1813.
18. Anna Gray (Elizabeth Pabodie , William ) was born on 14 Mar 1731 in
Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. She was christened on 26 Sep
1731. She died on 10 Jan 1806 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
Anna married John Coates on 14 Dec 1749 in Little Compton, , Rhode Island,
USA. John was born on 8 Jul 1725 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut,
United States. He was christened on 25 Jul 1725 in Stonington, New London,
Connecticut, United States. He died on 22 May 1811 in North Stonington,
Connecticut
They had the following children:
87MiThomas Coates was born on 14 Oct 1750 in Stonington, New London,
Connecticut, United States. He died on 28 Feb 1753 in Stonington,
Connecticut +88MiiEdward Coates was born on 15 Jan 1753.
89MiiiAsahel Coates was born on 8 Sep 1755 in Stonington, New London,
Connecticut, United States. +90FivElizabeth Coates was born on 6 Nov 1756.
91FvRebecca Coates was born on 28 May 1759 in Stonington, New London,
Connecticut, United States. +92MviAmos Coates was born on 17 Oct 1761.
+93FviiRubie Coates was born on 18 Mar 1764.
+94MviiiDavid Coates was born on 18 Dec 1766.
95MixOliver Coates was born on 24 Jun 1769 in Stonington, Connecticut 96Mx
Russell Coates was born on 15 Oct 1771 in Stonington, Connecticut 97Fxi
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Source: Flowering of the Cumberland by Arnow
p. 2
Sally Ridley Buchanan, on the other hand, was wife to one of the leading men of the neighborhood, thirty-three-year-old Major John Buchanan,* and she was also very much a person in her own right. Many remembered her as a courageous, kind, and honorable woman, "much respected by all." Different from most women of the old Southwest who were as a rule smaller and frailer than is the average woman in today's United States, Sally weighed more than two hundred pounds. She was of a strength to match her size, for she could stand in a half-bushel measure, pick up, and shoulder a tow and one-half bushel sack of corn, or 150 pounds.**
It is doubtful if Sally had done such things on this particular Sunday for in the words of the day she was "in the family way" or, more aptly, "big with child." Her first born was expected any time. The last days of pregnancy are not considered among most women a pleasant time, especially for a large woman in hot weather. True, in so far as is known no recording on "Mr. Fahrenheit's thermometer" had that day been taken down at Buchanan's Station, or anywhere else in the old West for the matter of that,*** but as travelers often complained of the heat, even in October, of Kentucky and Tennessee, the day we can be reasonably certain was hot. We know at least the weather was clear with a bright moon that night.
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*Quoted by permission of Dr. William T. Alderson, Tennessee State Librarian and Archivist, from the Mss Book of Arithmetic by John Buchanan, 1781; owned by the Tennessee Historical Society, and housed in the Archives Division, Tennessee state Library and Archives, Nashville (cited hereafter as Buchanan, Arithmetic)
**W,3XX (18), 5, the account of William Martin. See also George William Featherstonhaugh, Excursion Through the Slave States from Washington on the Potomac to the frontier of Mexico with Sketches of popular manners and geological observances, London, 1844 (cited hereafter as Featherstonhaugh, Excursion), I, 205. The author was particularly interested in Sally and described her, but it should be remembered his visit came forty years after the battle when Sally was dead, but he did talk with her father and stepmother.
***Used by permission of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, from The Western Country in 1793 Reports on Kentucky and Virginia by Harry Toulmin, ed. by Marion Tinling and Godfrey Davies, copyright Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 1948 (cited hereafter as Toulmin, Western Country), 75. Toulmin here states that at the time of his visit no temperature recordings had been taken in the West.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Source: Flowering of the Cumberland by Harriette Simpson Arnow
she has another book on the earlier era called: Seedtime on the Cumberland, I have that one coming as well...this is a very well documented book and sorta reminds me of Pope, names a lot of folks and not just a general history about famous people...did that make sense?
Chapter 1, page 1
Sunday, September 30, 1792, was a date so important in the history of what was to be Middle Tennessee that long ago the Tennessee Historical Commission set up a marker bearing the date and other information. The bronze plaque may be seen in Davidson County, Tennessee, near where the Elm Hill Road crosses Mill Creek, a tributary of Cumberland River, but now for much of its course running through suburban Nashville. Tennessee has many such markers, a large number commemorating, as does this one, the scene of a battle. Few, however, bear the name of a woman, and on this one not complete, only "Mrs. Buchanan."
There were many Mrs. Buchanans, but if any of the old ones or their children and grandchildren who heard the stories of pioneer days on the Cumberland could come alive to read the marker, they would know at once the woman referred to was Sarah Ridley Buchanan, more commonly known as Sally, wife of young John Buchanan. Judging from their many stories* of what happened that Sunday evening, some of the old-timers reading the plaque might wish for another name - Jemmy O'Connor; he, too, helped make history. Still, one should not quarrel overmuch at the lack of Jemmy's name on the marker. He seems to have been what one, looking into the past, might call a passer-by. There were many of these; some appear only as names defending a station, saving the life of a companion in an Indian battle, buying a horse, or as the subject of a story told by those who wrote of the old days to Dr. Lyman C. Draper. Such a one was Jemmy O'Connor.
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Headpiece: Indian attack on a Cumberland valley station. (Kendal: Life of General A. Jackson, 1843.)
* W, 30S, 526-527, and ibid, 32S, 358-360, this last the account of Col. Robert Weakley, are among the best.
(W=Manuscript originals in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin - she states "My heavy use of this material, collected by Dr. Lyman C. Draper, takes two forms. Many published journals and other sources cited were taken from the Draper Manuscripts; heavier use was made of the microfilm edition of the manuscripts, issued by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin" The original source is indicated by W, followed by series, volume number, and page when given)Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Samuel Coates of Essex Co. VA had a son, Thomas born in 1760. Thomas married and had a son named James, who ended up in Richmond Co. VA and the line then goes to Edward to Robert Leslie to John Elliott Coates born in 1892. He was my grandfather. Does anyone have info on this line- especially Samuel. All I have on him is a will from Essex CO. Any help would be appreciated. John Bratcher
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper
p. 82
It is not a little remarkable, that three successive night fights should have occurred within a few miles of each other, and the two latter as military sequences of the former. First, the Tory attack on Colonel Thomas, at Cedar Spring, on the evening of the thirteenth of July; then Colonel Jones' surprise of the remnant of this Loyalist party, on the night of the fourteenth; and finally, the attack of Dunlap and Mills, in retaliation, on Colonel McDowell's camp, at Earle's Ford of North Pacolet, on the night of the fifteenth. And in all three of these affairs, the Tories got the worst of it.
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[he doesn't reference this to the text]
McCall's Georgia, ii, 312-13; and MS pension statement of Jesse Neville, one of Hampton party. It may not be inappropriate, in this connection, to add a few words relative to the hero of this courageous exploit. Captain Hampton was a brother of Colonels Wade, Richard, and Henry Hampton, of Sumter's army. He was a very active partisan, and reputed one of the best horsemen of his time. In May, 1775, with his brother, Preston Hampton, he was delegated by the people of the frontiers of South Carolina to visit the Cherokees, and see if, by a suitable "talk," they could not be made to comprehend the causes of the growing differences between the Colonies and the mother country. They met with a rude reception, Cameron and the British emissaries instigating the Indians to oppose their views; and Cameron made them prisoners, giving their horses, a gun, a case of pistols and holster, to the Indians. By some means, they escaped with their lives.
The following year, 1776, while Edward Hampton was, with his wife, on a visit to her father, Baylis Earle, on North Pacolet, the Cherokees made an incursion into the valleys of Tyger, massacring Preston Hampton, his aged parents, and a young grandchild of theirs. Edward Hampton served on Williamson's expedition against the Cherokees, in the summer and autumn of that year; and though only a lieutenant, he had the command of his company, and distinguished himself in a battle with the enemy, receiving the special thanks of his General for his bravery and good conduct on the occasion.
After the destruction of the Hampton family, on the Middle Fork of Tyger, where he resided, he seems to have made his home for a season on a plantation he possessed at Earle's Ford, where his father-in-law, Mr. Earle, resided. That he was the Captain Hampton who led the dashing foray against Dunlap on his retreat to Prince's Fort, is partially corroborated by Dr. Howe, in his History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, p. 542, though erroneous as to the place of the occurrence; but Jesse Neville's pension statement renders the matter conclusive, supplying the first name of his Captain, which McCall fails to give in his details of that affair.
Captain Hampton was killed the ensuing October, at or near Fair Forest creek, in the bosom of his family, by Bill Cunningham's notorious "Bloody Scout." He was in the prime of life, and in his death his country lost a bold cavalier. He was the idol of his family and friends. His descendants in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, are among the worthiest of people. Baylis Earle became one of the early judges of Spartanburg District, and was living in 1826, in his eighty-ninth year - MS statement of Colonel John Carter, Watauga, May 30th 1775; MS letter of Colonel Elijah Clarke to General Sumter, October 29th, 1780; Governor Perry's sketch of the Hampton family, in the Magnolia Magazine, June, 1843, with a continuation, which appeared in the South Carolina papers, in 1843, written by Colonel Wade Hampton, Sr., father of the present Senator Hampton, of that state.
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper
p. 82
The reason, presumably, why Colonel McDowell was over-confident of security was, that he had, the day before, detached his brother, Major Joseph McDowell, with a party to go on a scout, and ascertain, if possible, where the Tories lay; but taking a wrong direction, he had consequently made no discovery.* Not returning, Colonel McDowell very naturally concluded that there was no portion of the enemy very near, and that he and his weary men could, with reasonable assurance of safety, take some needed repose. It was that very night, while Major McDowell was blundering on the wrong route, that Dunlap was able to advance undiscovered, and make his sudden attack.
Before sunrise the ensuring morning, fifty-two of the most active men, including Freeman and fourteen of his party, mounted upon the best horses in the camp, were ordered to pursue the retreating foe, under the command of Captain Edward Hampton. After a repaid pursuit of two hours, they overtook the enemy, fifteen miles away; and making a sudden and unexpected attack, completely routed them, killing eight of them at the first fire. Unable to rally his demoralized men, who had been taken unawares, Dunlap made a precipitate, helter-skelter retreat towards Fort Prince, during which several of his soldiers were killed and wounded. The pursuit was continued within three hundred yards of the British fort, in which three hundred men were securely posted. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Hampton and his men returned to McDowell's camp, with thirty-five good horses, dragoon equipage, and a considerable portion of the enemy's baggage, as the trophies of victory, and without the lo!
ss of a single man. It was a bald and successful adventure, worthy of the heroic leader and his intrepid followers.
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*Statement of Captain James Thompson, of Madison County, Georgia, one of Major McDowell's party, preserved among the Saye MSS
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper
p. 80
McDowell's camp was on rising ground on the eastern side of the North Pacolet, in the present county of Polk, North Carolina, near the South Carolina line, and about twenty miles south-west of Rutherfordton; and Dunlap reaching the vicinity on the opposite side of the stream during the night, and supposing that Jones' party only was encamped there, commenced crossing the river, which was narrow at that point, when an American sentinel fled to camp and gave the first notice of the enemy's presence.* Dunlap, with his Dragoons and Tories, dashed instantly, with drawn swords, among McDowell's men, while but few of them were yet roused out of sleep. The Georgians being nearest to the ford, were the first attacked, losing two killed and six wounded; among the later was Colonel Jones, who received eight cuts on his head from the enemy's sabers. Freeman, with the remainder, fell back about a hundred yards, where he joined Major Singleton, who was forming his men behind a fence; w!
hile Colonels McDowell and Hampton soon formed the main body on Singleton's right. Being thus rallied, the Americans were ordered to advance, when Dunlap discovering his mistake as to their numbers, quickly retreated across the river, which was fordable in many places, and retired without much loss; its extent, however, was unknown, beyond a single wounded man who was left upon the ground.
Besides the loss sustained by the Georgians, six of McDowell's men were killed, and twenty-four wounded. Among the killed were Noah Hampton, a son of Colonel Hampton, with a comrade named Andrew Dunn. Young Hampton, when roused from his slumbers, was asked his name; he simply replied "Hampton," one of a numerous family and connection of Whigs, too well known, and too active in opposition to British rule, to meet with the least forbearance at the hands of enraged Tories; and though he begged for his life, they cursed him for a Rebel, and ran him through with a bayonet. Young Dunn also suffered the same cruel treatment. Colonel Hampton felt hard towards Colonel McDowell, his superior officer, as he wished to have placed videttes beyond the ford, which McDowell opposed, believing it entirely unnecessary. Had this been done, due notice would have all probability have been given, and most of the loss and suffering have been averted.**
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*McCall, in his Hist. of Georgia, asserts that the sentinel fired his gun, but James Thompson, one of Joseph McDowell's party, states as in the text, which seems to be corroborated by the complaint of Col. Hampton, and the general surprise of the camp.
** McCall's Hist of Georgia, ii, 308-12; Saye's MSS.; MS. pension statements of General Thomas Kennedy of Kentucky, Robert Henderson, and Robert McDowell; Moore's Diary of the Revolution, ii, 351, gives the date of the Pacolet fight as occurring "in the night of July fifteenth," and this on the authority of Governor Rutledge, who was then at Charlotte. Judging from Allaire's Diary, it must have been the night before. The particulars of the killing of young Hampton and Dunn are derived from the MS. communications of Adam, Jonathan, and James J. Hampton, grandsons of Colonel Hampton.
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Dates of the American Revolution: 1776 to ?
British - I recall...<g>..
Americans - I got
Patriots - I got
Whigs - ? British or American?
Loyalist - ? British or American?
Tories - ? British or American?
Sounds like the Whigs were British, but the Loyalist were Loyal to who?
Tories sounds British as well...
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper
p. 78
Colonel John Jones, of Burke County, however, objected to a retrograde movement, and proposed to lead those who would go with him, through the woods to the borders of North Carolina, and join the American force in that quarter. Thirty-five men united with him, choosing him for their leader, and John Freeman for second in command, pledging implicit obedience to their orders. Benjamin Lawrence, of South Carolina, a superior woodsman, and well acquainted with the country, now joined the company, and rendered them valuable service as their guide. Passing through a disaffected region, they adroitly palmed themselves off as a Loyalist party, engaged in the King's service; and, under this guise, they were in several instances, furnished with pilots, and directed on their route.
When they had passed the head-waters of the Saluda, in the north-eastern part of the present county of Greenville, one of these guides informed them, that a party of Rebels had, the preceding night, attacked some Loyalists a short distance in front, and defeated them - doubtless the British repulse at Cedar Spring, as already related, and which occurred some twenty-five or thirty miles away. Jones expressed a wish to be conducted to the camp of those unfortunate Loyalist friends, that he might aid them in taking revenge on those who had shed the blood of the King's faithful subjects. About eleven o'clock on that night, July thirteenth, Jones and his little party were conducted to the Loyalist camp, where some forty men were collected to pursue the Americans who had retreated to the North. Choosing twenty-two of this followers, and leaving the baggage and horses in charge of the others, Colonel Jones resolved to surprise the Tory camp. Approaching the enemy with guns, swo!
rds, and belt-pistols, they found them in a state of self-security, and generally asleep. Closing quickly around them, they fired upon the camp, killing one and wounding three, when thirty-two, including the wounded, called for quarter, and surrendered. destroying the useless guns, and selecting the best horses, the Loyalists were paroled as prisoners of war; when the pilot, who did not discover the real character of the men he was conducting until too late to have even attempted to prevent the consequences, was now required to guide the Americans to Earle's Ford on North Pacolet river, where a junction was formed the next day with Colonel McDowell's forces. As McDowell had that day made a tedious march with his three hundred men, they, too, were in a fatigued condition.
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper
p. 77
Such an invasion as Ferguson's, with its terrors and aggravations, and the up-rising of the Tories in the western part of North Carolina, under the Moores, and Bryan, soon led to blows, with all the sufferings attendant on war and carnage. The barbarities meted out to the Americans at Buford's defeat, sarcastically denominated by the Whigs as Tarleton's quarters, very naturally tended to embitter the animosities of the people. The Moores were signally defeated, in June, at Ramsour's Mill, and Bryan and his followers subsequently driven from the country.
A noted partisan of Georgia, Colonel Elijah Clarke, now comes upon the scene. A native of Virginia, he early settled on the Pacolet, whence he pushed into Wilkes County, Georgia, where the Revolutionary out-break found him. He was one of those sturdy patriots, well fitted for a leader of the people - one who would scorn to take protection, or yield one iota to arbitrary power. When British detachments were sent into various parts of Georgia, it became unsafe for such unflinching Whigs as Clarke longer to remain there. He and his associates resolved to scatter for a few days, visit their families once more, and then retire into South Carolina, where they hoped to find other heroic spirits ready to co-operate with them in making a stand against the common enemy. Some small parties had already left Georgia, and passing along the western frontiers of South Carolina, had sought the camp of Colonel Charles McDowell, who was then embodying a force on the south-western borders !
of the North Province.
On the eleventh of July, one hundred and forty well-mounted and well-armed men met at the appointed place of rendezvous; and, after crossing the savannah at a private ford in the night, they learned that the British and Loyalists were in force on their front. Clarke's men concluded that it would be hazardous to continue their retreat on that route with their present numbers. As they were volunteers, and not subject to coercion, Colonel Clarke was induced to return to Georgia, suffer his men to disperse for a while, and await a more favorable opportunity to renew the enterprise. The majority of the party returned.
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes by Lyman C. Draper
p. 71
>From what we have seen, it is not wonderful that the Tories were soon as heartily despised by the British officers as by their own countrymen, the Whigs. But Ferguson was not the man to be diverted from his purpose by any acts of theirs of treachery and inhumanity. The crown had honors and rewards to bestow, and his eye rested upon them. He knew that "the defender of the faith" generally gave much more cash and more honors, for a single year of devoted service in military enterprises, than for a life-time spent in such pursuits as exalt and ennoble human nature.
The horses of Ferguson's men were turned loose in to any fields of grain that might be most convenient. Foraging parties brought in cattle to camp for slaughter, or wantonly shot them down in the woods and left them. As many Whigs as could be found were apprehended, not even excepting those who had previously taken protection. A few had been prompted to take protection, rather than forsake their families, trusting thereby to British honor to secure them from molestation; but they were soon hurried off to Ninety Six, and incarcerated in a loathsome prison, where they well nigh perished for want of sustenance. But most of those, at this time, capable of bearing arms, had retired to North Carolina, or were serving in Sumter's army; so that Ferguson had an excellent opportunity to drill his new recruits, and support his men by pillaging the people. Occasionally small parties of Whigs would venture into the neighborhood - about often enough to afford the enemy good exercise !
in pursuing them while within striking distance.*
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Saye's MSS., and Memoir of McJunkin
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