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CAPTAIN SAMUEL HANDLY



   Captain Samuel Handly applied for revolutionary pension while living in

Franklin County, Tennessee, September 7, 1832. He was born in Pennsylvania in

1752. When he was young he moved to Augusta County, Virginia, that section which

later became Rockbridge County. He resided in Wythe County, Virginia, when he

served as follows: In the summer of 1776, three months as orderly sergeant in

Captain John Campbell's Virginia company and was in the battle of Long Island on

the Holston; in the fall of 1776, three months in Colonel Christian's Virginia

regiment, against Cherokee Indians; three months as an ensign in service against

Cherokees; three months as ensign against Chickamauga Indians in Colonel Evan

Shelby's regiment; three months as Indian Spy on frontier; from October, 1780,

four months in Colonel John Sevier's North Carolina regiment and was in battles

of King's Mountain and Boyd's Creek and at burning of Hiwassee Town; two months

as Captain in Colonel John Sevier's regiment.



  After the close of the war he moved to Washington County, N. C., later

Tennessee, then to Blount County, Tennessee, and in 1809 to Franklin County,

where he died, November 24, 1840. He was a member of the Convention which formed

the Constitution of Tennessee.



    Note: Although the above transcript states that he moved to Washington

County, North Carolina, after the War, he was already a resident of that section

when he enlisted in the North Carolina regiment of Colonel John Sevier in 1780.

The transcript also makes no mention of an attack of 56 Cherokees on the company

of which he was captain in 1793. Lieut. Leeper and two others of the company

were killed and Captain Handly was captured. He suffered untold hardships and

torment but his courage and stoicism gained the admiration of the Indians and

they adopted him into their tribe. He was finally released. His story is one of

the most dramatic in Tennessee's annals.



   He married Susan Cowan. Among their children were Samuel, Jr., and William

Claiborne Handly who married Nancy Reeves. When he died he was living in

Winchester, Tennessee.





Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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