DARLINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR PENSION - DUBOISE, Stephen ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed for use in the SCGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette Pension Application Of Stephen DuBoise, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 857, Application #S8311 Rutherford County, Tennessee, 24 August, 1832, Stephen DuBoise, aged 73 years: “That in Darlington County, State of South Carolina, Cheraws District, he was born in the year 1758, and in the year 1775 or 1776, he, at Mars Bluff on Big Peedee, South Carolina, enlisted in the service of the United States as a soldier in a troop of light horse under Captain John Cotraire. In a month after enlistment he rendezvoused at Charleston under Colonel Daniel Horry.” “Some months after declarant reaching Charleston, Colonel Washington, Colonel White and Count Pulaski came to the neighborhood of Charleston with troops of horse and some infantry. Declarant thinks that the army remained at Charleston and in that section of country four or five months and the army was then marched to Savannah under the command of General Marion. After the command had encamped at Savannah three or four weeks, the French fleet under the command of Count ?DeGras? arrived on the coast and after the French troops were landed, the Compt. DeGres took command of the army.” “The British had possession of Savannah before and at the landing of the French, and after the disembarkation of the French forces, the General summoned the British to surrender the city and the British refused and asked a certain length of time to consider of the demand. General Marion and other American officers ?urged the commander and protested against delay and granting the request of the British commander, but DeGras feeling confident in his strength and ability to ___ the British and beat them, then or at any time thereafter, granted the ___ solicited. At the time Colonel Pulaski commanded the whole troop of horse there encamped.” “On the day that the British forces were attacked, before ?Savannah, Colonel Pulaski drew up the horse and gave orders to charge the breastworks against the advice of Washington, White and Horry, but Pulaski persisted in his del___nation and the charge was ordered and after advancing one or two hundred yards on the breastworks, the Colonel received a cannon shot in the thigh and he was littered off the ground and the troops under Colonel White, the senior officer after the fall of Pulaski, was ordered to fall back out of the range of the enemy’s shot and remained there waiting orders from headquarters.” “The troop remained inactive that day-no further attempt was afterwards made by the horse in the lines of the enemy. The troop remained at their encampment before the British lines three or four weeks, and was marched after the of that time, back to Charleston under the command of Colonels White, Washington and Horry, and after encamping there some short time, each Colonel took command of his own troop and scouring the country when their presence was wanted. Declarant was engaged in this service for some time when he was taken sick and was furloughed by his commanding officer and he returned home for his health. This was not long before the capture of Charleston by the British and before the furlough of declarant had expired, hearing of the approach of the enemy, declarant set out to join his troop and on his ?route? between Cheraws and Haley’s Ferry, the declarant was taken prisoner by the Tories. He made his escape from them and returned home, his term of enlistment having expired. Declarant wishes to state in his ____ that he was at the skirmish at Stono and he was present when Colonel Lawrence received a wound in the arm; other skirmishes.” “Declarant would state this without any great precision, thinking it not necessary ____ , that he was a volunteer militia man before this enlistment, two tours under Colonel John Baxter. The first he was marched to Charleston and the second to Hadley’s [Hadrell’s Point], and served in both three months or upwards. And declarant would state that after his term of enlistment had expired, he joined General Marion on Black River after is___ troops in the state of South Carolina, and was with him at the taking of Colonel Tyne and his party of Tories at Black Mingo Bridge, who Marion, to beat his troops, marched to Waccamaw Neck, and news reaching Marion at this place that the Tories were collecting to attack him, to march ?when ordered?, and the troops rode 70 miles to the neighborhood after the Tory encampment and there lay in ambush until the Tories had collected in force under Colonel Jesse Barfield, their commander. Marion, waiting until nightfall, charged the Tories, killed many, took several prisoners and dispersed the rest. Declarant served under Marion during the war. He was an enlisted soldier sixteen months and a volunteer militiaman two years and upwards…”