Download or read book Henry Pearson Captain in the American Revolution South Carolina written by Dora Davenport Jones and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Pearson and his wife, Frances were the parents of nine children. Records show them living in old 96th District, Greenville County, SC and in Wilkes County, GA. Their son, Leonard Pearson (d.1827) married Virginia Luraney Yarborough (widow of Boyette). Luraney, as a widow married David Wood(s) in 1829 in Marengo County, Alabama. They are listed in the 1850 Census, as living in Panola County, Miss. Later, family members are located in Ellis County, Texas. Some of the original pages are missing in this copy of the original. Descendants are living in Texas, Mississippi and elsewhere.
Download or read book Henry Pearson Captain in the American Revolution South Carolina and Some of His Descendents in Wilkes County Georgia written by Dora Davenport Jones and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution Volume II K Z written by Bobby Gilmer Moss and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution Volume I A J written by Bobby Gilmer Moss and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Henry Drayton written by Keith T. Krawczynski and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhaustive biography, Keith Krawczynski details the political and social career of William Henry Drayton (1742–1779), an ambitious, wealthy lowcountry planter and zealous patriot leader who was at the center of Revolutionary activity in South Carolina from 1774 until his death five years later. Considered the most effective Whig polemicist in the lower South, Drayton served on all his state’s important Revolutionary governing bodies, commanded a frigate of war, was elected chief justice in 1776, co-authored South Carolina’s 1778 constitution, and represented the state in the Continental Congress from 1778 until his demise. Although Drayton was a leading radical and the central figure of the American Revolution in South Carolina, historians have largely ignored his contributions. With William Henry Drayton, Krawczynski removes this fascinating man from the shadows of history. Drayton was an improbable rebel. After receiving his formal education in England, the South Carolina–born Drayton returned to his birthplace as a planter and continued to espouse Royalist ideals. During a later visit to Britain, he was hailed as a champion of British sovereignty. In fact, South Carolina harbored few early revolutionaries, as low-country planters and merchants remained entrenched in the imperial system of trade, backcountry residents strongly identified with the king, and whites feared showing division lest their slaves launch a rebellion. Yet, disgruntled with the king’s increasing infringement on American liberties, Drayton embraced the rebel cause with the zealotry of a recent convert and eventually did more to resist British rule than any other resident of the Palmetto State. Because he entered the Revolution as a supporter of the Crown, Drayton’s life sheds light on why the planter-mercantile gentry rebelled against the mother country on which it relied for its economic status. His energetic attempts to preserve the provincial hierarchy and keep the reins of government firmly in the hands of the local aristocracy also help to explain why South Carolina’s rebellion was more politically conservative than that of other states. By raising the profile of this South Carolina patriot, William Henry Drayton brings new depth to our understanding of the American Revolution.
Download or read book South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution written by Robert Stansbury Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Puts into perspective the choices people faced because of the changing fortunes of the two sides, the civil war that raged in the backcountry and how it affected those who lived through it, and the decisions thrust upon families to flee to new lives in other parts of the empire or to make peace with the state government in hopes of remaining in South Carolina"--Book jacket.
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Revolution as Relating to the State of South Carolina written by John Drayton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Revolution written by William Moultrie and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Revolution written by John Drayton and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume history of the American Revolutionary War concerns war actions in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. It is mainly based on the personal papers of South Carolina patriot William Henry Drayton.
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution with an Historical Essay written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1864 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of South Carolina in the Revolution 1775 1780 written by Edward McCrady and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Carolina and the American Revolution written by John W. Gordon and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independence An estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From the partisan clashes of the backcountry's war for the hearts and minds of settlers to bloody encounters with Native Americans on the frontier, more battles were fought in South Carolina than any other of the original thirteen states. The state also had more than its share of pitched battles between Continental troops and British regulars. In South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, John W. Gordon illustrates how these encounters, fought between 1775 and 1783, were critical to winning the struggle that secured Americas independence from Great Britain. According to Gordon, when the war reached stalemate in other zones and the South became its final theater, South Carolina was the decisive battleground. Recounting the clashes in the state, Gordon identifies three sources of attack: the powerful British fleet and seaborne forces of the British regulars; the Cherokees in the west; and, internally, a loyalist population numerous enough to support British efforts towards reconquest. From the successful defense of Fort Sullivan (the palmetto-log fort at the mouth of Charleston harbor), capture and occupation of Charleston in 1780, to later battles at King's Mountain and Cowpens, this chronicle reveals how troops in South Carolina frustrated a campaign for restoration of royal authority and set British troops on the road to ultimate defeat at Yorktown. Despite their successes in 1780 and 1781, the British found themselves with a difficult military problem—having to wage a conventional war against American regular forces while also mounting a counterinsurgency against the partisan bands of Francis Marion, Andrew Pickens, and Thomas Sumter. In this comprehensive assessment of one southern state's battlegrounds, Gordon examines how military policy in its strategic, operational, and tactical dimensions set the stage for American success in the Revolution.
Download or read book The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies written by David Lee Russell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the American Revolution in the North drew to a stalemate around New York, in the South the British finally came to terms with the reality of defeat. Southern sites like Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Charleston, the Chesapeake and Yorktown were vital to American independence. The origin of the five Southern colonies - Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia - their development, the role of patriot and loyalist Southerner, and critical battles are examined. Included is a discussion of the leadership of the British forces and of the colonial patriots who inspired common citizens to fight for the sake of American independence.
Download or read book True for the Cause of Liberty written by Oscar E. Gilbert and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Persuasively tells the savage partisan war in the Carolina backcountry . . . [during] the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution” (Military Review). Following their defeat at Saratoga in New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a southern strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to “roll up” the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Untrained Patriot militiamen—occasionally stiffened by contingents of the Continental Line—were pitted against Britain’s Cherokee and Creek allies, and Loyalist militia and British regulars led by Gen. Cornwallis and his two ablest subordinates, Patrick Ferguson and the ruthless Banastre “Bloody Ban” Tarleton. In October 1780, the Loyalist militia was virtually destroyed at King’s Mountain. Other defeats at Blackstock’s Farm and Cowpens, and a pyrrhic victory at Guilford Courthouse, gutted the British southern army and drove Cornwallis north to encirclement and surrender at Yorktown. This study uses battlefield terrain analysis and the words of the officers and common soldiers, from pension records and little-known interviews, to bring to life the crucial role of one militia regiment—the Second Spartans of South Carolina—that fought in virtually every action of the vicious backcountry war that decided the fate of America. Or, as one private in the Second Spartans said, expressing admiration for his colonel: “a few Brave Men stood true for the cause of liberty.” “A serious book for those with a serious interest in the southern campaigns of the Revolutionary War . . . Many thanks to the Gilberts for shedding new light on the role of the Second Spartan Regiment.” —War in History
Download or read book The American Revolution From the Rejection of the Stamp Act Until the Final Victory written by John Fiske and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition offers you a complete overview of the American history before the great revolution, the wars after the uprising, and the impact of the revolution itself. This meticulously edited book includes all the documents which are crucial for the history of USA before and after the Revolution and the works that influenced the revolutionary thinking. Contents: The History of the American Revolution: The Beginnings The Crisis The Continental Congress Independence First Blow at the Centre Second Blow at the Centre Saratoga The French Alliance Valley Forge Monmouth and Newport War on the Frontier War on the Ocean A Year of Disasters Benedict Arnold Yorktown Key Speeches and Documents: First Charter of Virginia (1606) Second Charter of Virginia (1609) Mayflower Compact (1620) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1651) The Stamp Act (1765) Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765) Virginia Resolutions Against the Stamp Act (1765) Glorious News, Boston, Friday 11 O'clock, 16th May 1766 Quartering Act of 1765 Townshend Act (1767) Continental Association (1774) Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (1775) Thanksgiving Proclamations (1776, 1777, 1782, 1789) Common Sense (1776) Declaration of Independence (1776) Articles of Confederation (1777) Constitution (1787)
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
