Sampson County NcArchives Military Records.....Certifications Of Revolutionary  War Soldiers Who Died In Service At Ashley Hill, South Carolina 1795
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Certifications Of Revolutionary  War Soldiers Who Died In Service At Ashley Hill, South Carolina
Certifications of Revolutionary  War soldiers who died in service at Ashley
Hill, South Carolina

Source: The Secretary of State Revolutionary Military Papers, 1767-1855, indexed
card file at the state archives, from North Carolina Genealogical Society.

H. Holmes, Lieutenant, "Certifies that [name, etc.]." 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, died in camp at Asheley
Hill, South Carolina"

Sampson – "Abel Sessums, a twelve-months soldier, died in camp at Asheley Hill,
South Carolina"

Sampson – "Abraham Wright, a Sergeant, died in camp at Asheley Hill, South
Carolina"

Sampson – "Edward Newman, a twelve-months soldier, died in camp at Asheley Hill,
South Carolina"

Not stated – "Richard Lewis, a soldier, died in service in camp at Ashley Hill,
South Carolina"

Not stated – "Henry Malpuss, a soldier, died in service in camp at Ashley Hill,
South Carolina"

Sampson – "Ephraim Bratcher, a soldier, died in service in camp at Asheley Hill,
South Carolina"

Sampson – "Theophilus Grice, a twelve-months soldier, died in camp at Asheley
Hill, South Carolina"

Not stated – "Jacob Keen was a twelve-month soldier and died in service at
Asheley Hill, South Carolina", no date


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."


Other sources: 

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, Ancestry. Hardy
Holmes is buried in the Thompson-Moore Family Cemetery in Sampson County, North
Carolina, Find A Grave # 101721412.

Letter from Nathanael Greene to Jethro Sumner, 11 November 1782, from
Documenting the American South, citing The State Records of North Carolina, Vol.
XVI. 

Hugh F. Rankin, The North Carolina Continentals, p. 384, 387, 388.


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