LEXINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR - KELLY, Andrew

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Nancy Poquette <npoq@hotmail.com>  4 Jul 2006

Pension Application Of Andrew Kelly, 
Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1466, Application #R5837:

	“First. That he…Andrew Kelly, volunteered his services, the time he 
cannot recall, but he was 24 or 25 years of age and was born in 1752. It was in 
Lexington District (then Orangeburg) in the state of South Carolina. His 
captain was ?Drager? That he entered the service in said corps for at least 
three months, when he was discharged from the service in South Carolina at 
Captain Drager’s. That during this engagement he, with others, were detailed as 
a life guard to Captain Drager who had killed a Tory. Drager since moved to 
Mississippi, and died there, as he is informed and believes.”

	“Secondly. That he again entered the service of his country as a 
drafted man under the command of Lieutenant Rainey, his neighbor, who 
afterwards moved to Georgia. He cannot specify the time when he served under 
this engagement, at least two months and was one of the guard who guarded the 
Tory women down to Bacon’s Bridge, eighteen miles from Charleston, where they 
were met by the British flag of truce and the women were then taken to 
Charleston. He wants ?naught? for this. His __ ?adjutant? in this corps was 
Morgan. At the expiration of this tour, he was discharged from the service at 
the place he entered, to wit, Orangeburg District, SC.”

	“Thirdly. He again (time not remembered) entered the service of his 
country in SC under Captain ?Gartman? as captain in the regiment or corps of 
Colonel Beard under the command of General Pickens of South Carolina. He was 
drafted this time and served at least two months, when he was again honorably 
discharged. During this engagement, he went as one of 700 troops under the 
command aforesaid to Bacon’s Bridge. It is eighteen miles from Charleston. Went 
to protect General Greene’s army lying several miles off. Declarant went as a 
wagoner and from there and during said engagement, went in a company of twenty-
five wagons to Stono for provisions for Greene’s army…”

	“He was in many other little parties. Once piloted Colonel Washington a 
day and a night through the country. In addition to above, went as one of a 
company to rebuild Congaree Bridge, which had been burned by the British. When 
the British landed at Savannah, his regiment was all called up at a branch in 
Orangeburg District, now Lexington District, SC, and took the oath of 
allegiance to the United States. This branch, in consequence of it, has always 
been called “Swearing Branch…”

	“To the first interrogatory, that he was born on the Atlantic Ocean on 
the voyage of his parents from Germany to South Carolina, on the 11th of 
September 1752.