New Hanover County, NC - Francis Davis Revolutionary War Pension

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The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension
claim S.8390 based upon the miltiary service of Francis Davis.

He was born in 1756 in Brittan's Neck, Georgetown District, South
Carolina. He enlisted about the winter of 1777 and served two months
as private in Captains William Davis' (relationship not given) and
Fletcher's companies in Colonel Hicks' South Carolina regiment. In 
the summer of 1778 he was commissioned captain and served three 
months in Colonel Hugh Giles' South Carolina regiment. He entered
the service in 1780 and served two or two and one half months as
captain in Colonel Hugh Giles' South Carolina regiment, was at the
seige of Charleston. In a month or two after the surrender of Charleston
he again entered the service and served upwards of four months as
captain with the South Carolina troops under Colonel Francis Mariba,
was in two skirmishes, one at Blue Savannah on the Little Pedee
River and the other two miles up the Little Pedee River. From about
November 1780 he served about four months as private in Captain
William Wright's company with the North Carolina troops under Colonels
Young and Bludworth. In the spring of 1781 he served six weeks or
two months as private with the North Carolina troops under Captain
Charles Ward and Colonel James Kenan.

After the Revolution he lived in New Hanover County and Bladen Counties,
North Carolina.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1833 while
residing in Bladen County, North Carolina.

In 1833 Captain James Devane, a resident of New Hanover County, North
Carolina aged seventy-six years, testified in behalf of Francis Davis,
no relationship given.

In the papers of this claim are no data relative to wife or children
of the soldier.

[His sister, Mrs. Ann Julan Davis Evans married John Devane of New Hanover
County, North Carolina]


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