Halifax County NcArchives News.....A Revolutionary Soldier Gone October 31, 1835
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Portsmouth [NH] Journal Of Literature & Politics October 31, 1835
A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER GONE.--Mr. James Harreld, whose death is recorded 
under the obituary head, was born at Halifax, on the Roanoke river, in North 
Carolina, in 1757, and enlisted in the Continental army soon after the battle 
of Bunker Hill. After the battles of Brandywine and Germantown the regiment 
with which he was connected being much cut up, he was drafted into the 2d 
North Carolina regiment, under Col. Patton. He was present at the battle of 
Monmouth, and was stationed at West Point, White Plains, and several other 
places in the State of New York for upwards of three years, until after the 
taking of Stoney Point by Gen. Wayne, in 1779. In the autumn after that event, 
he marched with his regiment and other troops under command of Gen. Hogan, 
about 1000 miles to Charleston, S. C. During this long journey which occupied 
nearly six months, he received no pay except one dollar. Mr. H. recently 
related an anecdote which well illustrates the spirited measures resorted to 
by those who were the promoters of the Revolution.--When the Regiment received 
orders for marching for Charleston, they all strucka their tents except the 
Company to which Sergeant Glover belonged. That Sergeant persuaded the men not 
to move until they received their back pay. The public coffers forbid the 
measure, and the public safety and peace of the army required a court martial 
for Glover, which promptly decided that he should receive his back pay in 
musket balls from a file of soldiers. He was soon after shot near the river 
Great Pedee. The sentence seemed severe; but little public murmuring, however, 
was afterwards heard from the pennyless soldiers.

Mr. Harreld remained in the vicinity of Charleston until its capitulation to 
the English in 1780. After remaining a prisoner of war for several months, he 
escaped from the enemy on board a Spanish schooner, and arrived at Havana, 
where he remained until the peace. After the event he removed to Halifax, Nova 
Scotia, where he married, and remained in the British Provinces until last 
month, Sept. 1835, when he embarked for this place to spend his few remaining 
days with his children who reside here. Arrangements were making or securing 
to him the benefit of the pension act, when the insidious archer claimed him 
as his prey, and leaves his pension to come.

"A pilgrim grey,
"To bless the turf which wraps his clay."

October 31, 1835
Portsmouth [NH] Journal of Literature & Politics


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