Rev. War Pension, Ransome Colquitt, abstracted - Halifax Co. VA


Revolutionary War Service and subsequent pensions of Ransom(e) Colquitt and wife, Susanna(h) 
Baker 


Ransome Colquitt, born in Halifax Co. in 1752 to Jonathan and Tabitha Ransome Colquitt, served 
three years in Captain John Watt's company of Light Dragoons (cavalry) attached to the First 
Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Theodorick Bland. He fought in the battles at Germantown, 
Monmouth Courthouse, Brandywine, and White Marsh. He was discharged in Winchester in 1780, but 
re-enlisted in the same company and served until the end of the war. He was wounded in his 
right arm and also lost an eye when smallpox swept through the encampment.. 

After the war, he returned to Halifax Co., and married Susanna(h) Baker in 1785. They then 
moved just across the border to Rockingham Co., N.C. where they raised 5 children. Ransome 
applied for a military pension in Nov. 1819 and received $90.00 per year. He died Sept. 22, 
1825. 

Then his widow applied for and received a widow's military pension. Both of their pension 
applications are filed together at NARA under her name, Widow's Pension W-6742. Susanna died in 
Kanawha Co., VA. (now W. VA.) in 1845. Her will was probated there in June, 1845. 

This information taken from: 
EARLY FAMILIES OF THE N.C. COUNTIES OF ROCKINGHAM AND STOKES WITH REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE, Vol. 
2, 1981, published by the James Hunter Chapter of the DAR, Madison, N.C. 
Pension records W-6742 filed in NARA, Washington, D.C. 


Submitted by Dr. Elizabeth A. Kaspar <E-Kaspar@wiu.edu>

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