Anson County NcArchives Military Records.....Rickette, William 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension
Revolutionary Soldier WILLIAM RICKETTE S9078 enlisted from Anson County in 
December 1775. He was enrolled as a private for 18 months in Captain John 
Donaldson's company under command of Col. William Thomson's South Carolina 
Regiment. He was on Sullivan's Island when it was under British siege. In  
June or July of 1781 he served three months in Capt. William Brackin's Company 
under Col. Malmady's North Carolina Regiment. During this stint he was in the 
Battle of Eutaw Springs. In Oct. 1781 he spent at least four months in Captain 
James Fare's Company commanded by Col. Thomas Wade during which he had several 
skirmishes with the Tories.

While living in Anson, where he had resided since the Revolution.  RICKETTE  
applied for and was granted pension on Oct. 16, 1832. He was born in Queen 
Anne's, Md. in August 1748. No date of death is given, and there is no 
additional family information.

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