Sampson-Statewide County NcArchives Military Records.....Newman, Edward 1782
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North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers Who Died In Camp At Ashley Hill, South Carolina
North Carolina Revolutionary War soldiers who died in camp at Ashley Hill, South
Carolina

Source: Secretary of State’s Office, Box 760-804.1. Revolutionary Military
Papers, 1767-1855, indexed card file at the state archives, PDF file from North
Carolina Genealogical Society. 

H. Holmes, Lieutenant, "Certifies that [name] died in [camp or service] at
Asheley Hill, South Carolina." County may have been where the certification was
provided and possibly, though not necessarily, where the soldier's heirs were
living. These are dated 1795 except as indicated. 

County - Name, type of service

Sampson – John Maclemore, a twelve-months soldier

Sampson – Abel Sessums, a twelve-months soldier

Sampson – Abraham Wright, a Sergeant

Sampson – Edward Newman, a twelve-months soldier

Not stated – Richard Lewis, a soldier

Not stated – Henry Malpuss, a soldier

Sampson – Ephraim Bratcher, a soldier

Sampson – Theophilus Grice, a twelve-months soldier

Not stated – Jacob Keen, a twelve-months soldier

Additional Comments:
Hardy Holmes was a 1st Lieutenant with the 1st North Carolina Regiment who was
still in service in 1782 and 1783. He was probably part of the reconstituted
First Regiment, the only North Carolina regiment not furloughed at the end of 1782.

Ashley Hill was a plantation outside of Charleston along Ashley River Road.
General Nathanael Greene established encampments along the road and at the
plantation as the Americans and the British waited out treaty negotiations and
the British continued to occupy Charleston, which they finally evacuated in
December 1782.

No dates or causes were given for the above soldiers' deaths but it was probably
before January 1783, when most of Greene's soldiers were encamped at James
Island. The cause of death may have been the epidemic of malaria and other
fevers in the Ashley Hill encampments in the summer of 1782: "[O]f the 305 North
Carolinians in camp in mid-September, 107 were ill and between 20 and 30 had
died" (Rankin, 381-2). 

Other sources: 

"U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963," digital images,
Ancestry.com. Hardy Holmes is buried in the Thompson-Moore Family Cemetery in
Sampson County, North Carolina, Findagrave.com, # 101721412.

"Letter from Nathanael Greene to Jethro Sumner, 11 November 1782," Documenting
the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr16-0462),
citing The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. XVI, pp. 666-667.
 
Hugh F. Rankin, The North Carolina Continentals (1971; reprint, Chapel Hill,
N.C.: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2005), 381-2, 384, 387, 388.



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