Marlboro-Darlington County ScArchives Military Records.....DuBose, Peter October 30, 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com May 27, 2006, 3:58 pm Pension Application Of Peter DuBose, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 857, Application #S21163 Sumter District, SC, 30 October, 1832, Peter DuBose, aged 73 years: “That about the year 1776, before the Battle of Fort Moultrie, he entered the service in the company of Elias DuBose in Darlington District in the said state, then called Cheraw District. That he marched to Charleston and there remained one month, then was discharged. Captain Elias DuBose’s company was in Colonel Powell’s regiment.” “That about two months after his discharge, he entered as a volunteer in the company of Captain Thomas Port in the regiment of Colonel Hugh Giles, and was marched to Seaweed Bay near Haddrell’s Point in the harbor of Charleston. That when the British fleet left the harbor, he in Captain Porter’s company was ordered to Georgetown and then to Little Peedee after rendezvousing about Mar’s Bluffs after the Tories. Was then put under the command of Colonel William Davis and retained about six weeks.” “That after Gates Defeat [per Heitman, August 16, 1780] he was obliged to leave South Carolina to get out of the way of the Tories and repaired to Bladen County, North Carolina, where he did duty under Captain Peter Robinson. He returned to South Carolina and did duty under Colonel Abel Kolb, Colonel Morris Murphy and Colonel Lemuel Benton and Majors William Standard and Tristram Thomas for about three months.” “Then was put in General Francis Marion’s brigade, and after being under him for about a year [9 months, see next date], Marion’s men (one of whom was this applicant) besieged Fort Watson on Scott’s Lake [per Heitman, April 15-23, 1781] for about seven days and nights in constant service. Took the fort and this applicant was started with the prisoners across Little Peedee and from there transferred them and sent them to Hillsborough in North Carolina.” “That he returned and joined the army, and was in the Battle at Wadboo near Monck’s Corner [per Heitman, October 16, 1781], before which however, after being an Ensign and Lieutenant he received a Captain’s commission from Governor Rutledge. Some time before this he was in the Battle on Black Creek [per Heitman, there was a Battle of Black River on October 25, 1780] under Colonel Baker of Georgia. That shortly after the Battle of Wadboo, the news of peace came, then was discharged. He was in the service about five years.” “The only regular officer he knew was General Greene, in whose camp he once was. He knew Colonel Peter Horry, was under him. He also knew Colonel Robert Ellison, Colonel Baxter, and Colonel McDonald under each of whom he has done duty…He has no documentary evidence but refers to the testimony of Silas Hailes below given, who was a soldier under him…” Sumter District, SC-“Silas Hailes…maketh oath that during the Revolution he was well-acquainted with Captain Peter DuBose. That he was a soldier in the company of Captain DuBose in Marion’s brigade. That he was with him at the Battle of Wadboo and has personal knowledge of most of the matters detailed in above declaration.” Richland District, SC, November 30, 1832-“William Brown maketh oath… that he was a soldier in the Revolution with Peter DuBose under General Marion, and that they were in an engagement together in the summer of 1782 at Wadboo Plantation. Said Peter DuBose…acted as captain of a company in the above engagement and performed his duty as a volunteer soldier and deponent further states that the said Peter DuBose continued in the service until the end of the war.” This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/scfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb