Marlboro County ScArchives Military Records.....Kolb, Peter 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Peter Kolb, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 507, Application #S31799
Peter Kolb, a resident of Jones County, GA, aged Seventy years:

	“He entered the service under the command of Colonel George Hicks, and 
marched from about fifteen miles below the Long Bluff on Pedee River, South 
Carolina, on the first day of May 1779, and in the militia company under 
Captain Council, to Charleston, SC to oppose Lord Howe and was standing sentry 
at a magazine in Charleston in that year when the battle was fought between 
General Lincoln and Lord Howe at Stono and having dear brother, George Kolb in 
the hospital, applicant went home with him by permission. He? put the sick 
brother into a wagon that came from North Carolina after salt and by that 
means, got him home to his father’s residence., where he marched from the last 
of July of that year being a term of three months.”

“Applicant’s next term of service under the command of Colonel Kolb, Major 
Benton, and Captain Standard in the month of September of the same year (1779) 
to march against the Tories on Lynches Creek in the upper part of South 
Carolina, collected the Whigs at Captain Evans and while stationed there, 
applicant was of the company that guarded the Tories at Evans’s that was taken, 
and guarded the Tories to jail at Long Bluff near the river Pee Dee adjacent to 
the place called Society Hill, SC. Five of the Tories were hung at that place. 
Applicant served in this tour? one month.”

“And applicant was afterwards in the same year drafted to serve a tour of three 
months and marched on the first of January (1780) seventeen hundred and eight, 
from his father’s residence to Charleston, SC under command of Col. George 
Hicks and Captain Thomas Ellerbee, where the detachment in which applicant 
marched reached Charleston, it was under the command of General McIntosh and in 
the same lines with the regular army under command of General Lincoln, and in 
service when Charleston capitulated and the American army surrendered. 
Applicant in the month of May 1780, being a prisoner of war, was paroled 19th 
of May in that year as a document herewith exhibited, marked A will show, and 
returned home the last of the same month of May 1780, being a term of five 
months service. Applicant was released from his parole at the expiration of 
twelve months by exchange of prisoners.”

“And applicant again entered the service on the first of June 1781, seventeen 
hundred and eighty-one under command of the same Captain Ellerbee and joined 
the forces under General Marion and Colonel Horry at the High Hills of Santee 
as mounted infantry, and applicant was marched below Santee to the Eutaw 
Springs, Monck’s Corner, was four ___ driving the British and Tories? having 
dislodged the enemy at Monck’s Corner, the enemy retreated from there and took 
possession of Shubrick’s house and applicant was in one engagement at that 
place under Marion and Sumpter, Col. John Postell and Major Benton. ____ ?
prisoners were taken?, four killed? ____ to dislodge the enemy, applicant with 
Marion to the swamps of the Santee ____. There was discharged and went home, 
having served a tour of two months. Applicant again entered the service as 
mounted infantry in the militia under Lieutenant McCall in the ____ detachment 
on Lynche’s Creek under command of Col. Benton to induce our deluded countrymen 
called Tories, who was invited by Gen’l. Marion’s proclamation to join his 
stand and receive pardon, and served in that ____ in the year 1782, one month. 
Applicant was wounded by a ball in his right thigh at the siege of Charleston 
before the surrender, and applicant, whilst in service was occasionally with 
General Marion, Generals Greene and Sumpter, Colonels Washington and Lee. 
Applicant has a record of his age in his father’s handwriting now exhibited in 
Court, applicant never received any written discharges that he remembers, has 
none to show now.


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