REVOLUTIONARY WAR & VETERANS

 

I could have wrote a big book on just the family in the Revolutionary War. It is that much history on them.

   REVOLUTIONARY 

                         WAR

                    VETERANS

Reuben Allen III 1748-1779 from Shenandoah County, Virginia was one of 67 Virginians who served on the "Commander in Chief Guard". He was part of a Elite Group of Soldiers tasked with depending General George Washington from enemy fire. He was wounded and furloughed in 1779. He died of his wounds.

Reuben Allen II 1721-1751

John Blackburn 1760-1853 Revolutionary War Spouse of 5th GGM

Benjamin Morris 1757-1842 Revolutionary War

Mark Smith Sr 1730-1804 Revolutionary War

Thomas Barton Jr 1750-1823 Was a Militiaman with South Carolina with Roebucks Regiment & Francis Marion Brigade

John Lyon 1740-1813 Revolutionary War

Thomas Bracken 1695-1780 Revolutionary War 6th GGF

Nicholas Bishop III 1761-1843 Revolutionary War 4th GGF

Alexander McGahey 1740-1802 Revolutionary War

Thomas Geddie 1800-1855 Revolutionary War 4th GGF

Samuel Dunlap 1755-1791 Revolutionary War 5th GGF

James Edward Harris Sr 1718-1775 Revolutionary War 

William Blanton Stewart 1762-1848 Revolutionary War 

Leonard Carden 1755-1823 Revolutionary War 

Jonas Parker 1772-1775 Revolutionary War Died April 19, 1775 Battle of Lexington.

James Burchfield 1732-1800 Revolutionary War

Michael Dickson 1731-1825 Revolutionary War

Lt. William Holloway 1734-1784 Revolutionary War, 

Edward C Wade 1726-1790 Revolutionary War 

Robert Wade 1690-1770 Revolutionary War 

William Turner Harper 1763-1851 Private 3rd South Carolina Regiment, 3rd Regiment in Garrison at the Siege of Charleston 1780

Samuel Jenkins Mayfield 1759-1840 Revolutionary War 

John Poole 1758-1839 Revolutionary War Private South Carolina Militia

George Holloway 1708-1778 Revolutionary War 

William Sims 1740-1805 Revolutionary War

James Sims 1720-1802 Revolutionary War

William A Andrews 1726-1770 Revolutionary War Sergeant Continental Army

MPPJohn Stewart 1734-1784 Revolutionary War, Captain Virginia Militia, 1 October 1779

Elisha Ivies 1746-1792 Revolutionary 

John W Gills 1740-1810. Revolutionary War

Payton Madison 1795-1866 Private 39th Infantry Regiment, under Colonel John Williams, wounded at Horseshoe Bend, 2 Nov 1813-1 Nov 1814

James Redus Private 1st Battalion, Class 5th, Company 4th

Richard Seake 1753-1834 Battle of Fort Moultrie, Cowpen & Ninety Six during 1780-1781

Capt Thomas Speake 1718-1774 Service of Maryland Troops 

Capt James Tate Sr 1724-1807 

Thomas E Johnston Colonel Army of The Colonies, 1st Regiment of the United Colonies

Benjamin Maddox 1735-1811 Private McPerson Company, 43rd Regiment

James William Keaton Capt. Virginia

John Lovelace Savage Foster 1761-1821 Col 2nd Virginia Regiment

Peter Joshua Hargett Sr 1745-1798 

William Harper 1763-1851 Private 3rd South Carolina Regiment, Siege of Charleston 1780.

Benjamin Rowe 1758-1849 Private South Carolina Militia

James McCarter 1765-1844 Served Volunteer under Captain Moody in South Carolina Militia. Served under Captain Siddle Pickens Troops. Joined Scouting Party under Captain John Mc

John Joseph Lawley 1750-1832 Sergeant  North Carolina Troops

General John Jaural Stewart 1734-1784 Served as Commissary & Patriotic Service in Virginia.

William Blanton Stewart 1762-1848 Served as a Sergeant 3rd Brigade of Georgia

Jonathan/John Poole 1667-1723 Lt 

John Porter Jr 1759-1833 Colonel 5th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line

Benjamin Rowe 1758-1849 Private South Carolina 

John Grant Rencher 2nd Lt American Army 2nd  Pennsylvania Brigade, 5th Regiment. Was on Muster Roll for Valley Forge, Assigned as a Ensign in the Pennsylvania Flying Camp. Taking prisoner at Fort Washington and exchanged 1777

John Pool 1758-1839 Private in Captain Isaac Mitchell Company, South Carolina Regiment

Jacob Fredric Koch 1740-1795 Lt Col 3rd Battalion in 1777, 7th Battalion 1780, 4th Battalion 1783

John Frederick Madison 1755-1841 

John W Gills 1740-1810 Virginia

John Griffin 1727-1807 12 June 1779 Virginia

John C Williams 1745-1800 Captain

Peter Joshua Hargett Sr 1745-1798

Joshua Sampson 1750-1834

Michael Wallace 1777-1851

James McCarter 1765-1844

John Ball 1649-1731 Lieutenant 

Dennis J Knowles 1787-1877 Georgia Militants 

William Hall 1694-1764 Captain 

John C Shell Jr 1779-1861

Joseph Rupert Brown Colonel

Benjamin Rowe 1758-1849 Private South Carolina Militia

George Bamberg 1786-1836

John William Stewart 1695-1784 Colonel

John Jaural Stewart 1734-1784 General

Thomas Morgan 1623-1697 Captain Company K Pa Infantry

John Mayfield 1725-1782

Abraham Mayfield Jr 1720-1808

John Roebuck Sr 1759-1853 Captain in Spartan Regiment

Burette Clifton Jr 1736-1799 Private in the Virginia Continental Line 

Samuel Jenkins Mayfield 1759-1838 Captain fought under General Greene at Savannah and fought the Cherokees under Nathaniel Jeffries in 1775.

Samuel W Street 1753-1813 

Stephen Mayfield was with the Light Horse Brigade of North Carolina 

Micajah Mayfield Private He enlisted in Virginia in January, 1779, and served as private in Captain Jesse Evans' company in Colonel John Montgomery's Virginia regiment under George Rogers Clark; in the following spring he marched to the Illinois country and after serving one year he was discharged.Immediately after the expiration of this enlistment he again enlisted and served as private with the Virginia troops under General George Rogers Clark and was in the companies of Captains Richard Brashears, George and Helm and was

discharged in March, 1783, at or near what later became Louisville, Kentucky 

John Mayfield Captain Burn’s Company, Sumter’s Brigade, Van Swearengen’s Company, Morgan Rifle Regiment, Continental Troops

Stephen Mayfield Enlisted in the Light Horse Brigade of North Carolina

Thomas Francis Tyre 1718-1787 Captain North Carolina 

John Bears Logan 1760-1841 North Carolina 

Daniel Packard 1742-1775 

Thomas Packard 1732- Private Captain John Ames’s Company, Col Wade Regiment, Col Eliphalet Cary Regiment

Joshua Packard 1730-1808 

Josiah Packard 1723-1793

James Clayton Stribling 1762-1831 Private Served under Captain Palmer, Captain Jolly and Captain Hughes in Colonel Brandon’s South Carolina Regiment, fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain.

John Smith 1691-1783 Captain Virginia Militia 1743, was in George Washington Regiment

Henry Smith Sr 1727-1792 Captain

Aaron Guyton 1761-1841 South Carolina Militia, Fought at Battle of Cowpens and Kings Mountain, Siege of 96, Eutaw Springs under Captain Moses Guyton

Isaac Cundiff 1759-1833 Served in Virginia in 1777

Daniel Smith 1724-1781 Colonel

James Smith 1746-1801 Captain

AbrahamSmith 1748-1808 Captain 

James Sellers 1759-1843

Richard Parker 1705-1755

Ezekiel Evans Sr 1737-1806

Thomas Sims 1769-1854

Daniel Whitener 1750-1833 Captain Fought at Kings Mountain 

George Whitener 1801-1880

George Henry Wolfing 1740-1818 Major Virginia Militia 

Phillip W Lightfoot II Major General Virginia 

Phillip Lightfoot 1643-1708 Colonel

Peter Glatfelter Rhône 1755-1828 Sergeant in Walsh’s Company 8 North Carolina Regiment.

Elisha Withers 1762-1840 Served in 1780 for 12 month’s as Commissary in Furnishing Provision for Soldiers at the Catawba River. Drafted again and served 3 months in Captain Thomas Loftin marching from Lincoln County to Guilford CourtHouse. He again drafted and served under Captain James Little at Eutaw Springs where he and a few others guarded Baggage Wagons during Battles. He again Volunteered under Captain Thomas Loftin and was active in the war. 

Reese T Bowen 1737-1780 Lieutenant under Colonel Campbell, was Killed in Action at Battle of Kings Mountain.

John Henry 1704-1773 Colonel

Patrick Henry 1736-1799 Governor of Virginia. Served in Virginia 

William Henry 1734-1784 Lieutenant Virginia Militia

John Henry 1757-1791 

William Henry 1763-1798 Captain

William Roane 1735-1785 Colonel 2nd Battalion of Minute Men

Mark Smith Sr 1730-1804

Spencer Ball 1706-1767 Colonel

John Armistead Shelton 1713-1777 Captain

Philip Aylett 1767-1831 Colonel

Philip Aylett Jr 1791-1848 General 

Philip Aylett Sr 1767-1835 

William I Aylett 1743-1781 Reverend at Valley Forge, he died at Yorktown.

William C Campbell 1745-1781 Brigadier General

John Black 1755-1849 Cavalry Soldier under General William Campbell 

John Bowen Jr 1735-1769 Lieutenant 

Arthur Bowen 1779-1816 Fought at Kings Mountain 

William Bowen 1742-1804 Captain Cavalry Protecting Frontier People in Virginia and Tennessee. 

Benjamin Bowen 1756-1836 Private

Charles Bowen 1747-1834 Captain Virginia Arthur C Bowen 1744-1816 Captain Virginia 

Henry Bowen 1738-1808 Sergeant 

Robert Pickens Bowen 1740-1817 Captain 

Joshua A Hill 1759-1818

James Henderson Williams 1740-1780. Brigadier General 

William Cochran Sr 1752-1829 

Thomas Richards 1755-1841 South Carolina Regiment

John Henderson 1756-1840 Captain

Thomas Henderson 1762-1841 Rank In-Private Rank Out-Lieutenant South Carolina Troops

James Moore 1740-1779 

Joseph Elias Carroll Jr 1746-1803 served in 1779, 1780 & 1781. Private and Quartermaster-Sergeant under Captain Thomson Henderson. 

John Carroll

Samuel Carroll Sr 1740-1790

Thomas Carroll 1736-1829

John Lyon 1740-1813 Private 5th Maryland Regiment

Hugh Lavender 1754-1834 Private 5th South Carolina Militia Company C

Edward Gatlin 1765-1835

Theophanous Goodwin Sr 1709-1788

Jon Thigpen 173-1780 Major North Carolina Militia Battle of Brier Creek

Joseph Joshua Thigpen Sr 1758-1835 Private North Carolina Militia

Edward Gatlin Captain North Carolina Militia, Killed by Cornwallis Men at Streets Ferry, North Carolina

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Brigadier General Reese Tate Bowen 

Rees Tate Bowen (January 10, 1809 – August 29, 1879) was Brigadier General, a nineteenth-century congressman, magistrate and judge from Virginia. He was the father of Henry Bowen.

Rees Bowen

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

from Virginia's 9th district

In office

March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875

Preceded by

John T. Harris

Succeeded by

William Terry

Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Tazewell, McDowell, and Buchanan

In office

September 7, 1863 – December 4, 1865

Preceded by

Thomas H. Gillespie

Succeeded by

G. W. Deskins

Personal details

Born

Rees Tate Bowen

January 10, 1809

Tazewell, Virginia, U.S.

Died

August 29, 1879 (aged 70)

Tazewell, Virginia, U.S.

Political party

Democratic

Spouse(s)

Marie Louisa Peery

Born at "Maiden Spring" near Tazewell, Virginia, Bowen attended Abingdon Academy and later engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was appointed a brigadier general in the Virginia Militia by Governor Henry A. Wise in 1856 and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1863 to 1865. Bowen was magistrate of Tazewell County, Virginia for several years prior to the Civil War and was presiding judge of the county court a portion of that time. He was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1872, serving from 1873 to 1875 and afterward resumed engagements in agricultural pursuits. Bowen died at his estate called "Maiden Spring" in Tazewell County, Virginia on August 29, 1879 and was interred in the family cemetery on the estate.

" Colonel Campbell commanded the Washington County Military Force, and William Bowen, a company that belonged to Campbell's Command..... In this company Reece Bowen was a First Lieutenant, his son John a Private......  
When the order came for Bowen's company to join the  regiment it found its Captain, William Bowen, sick of a fever, and this situation devolved the command of the company upon Lieutenant Reece Bowen, who led it into the battle of  King's Mountain, and there, together with several of his men, was killed and buried on the field.  His remains were never removed, for the reason that when opportunity was offered for their removal the spot in which he was buried could not be identified.  Campbell's Regiment lost in this battle 35 killed and wounded;  among the killed, other than Lieutenant Reece Bowen, were Captain William Edmondson, Robert Edmondson, Andrew Edmondson, and Henry Henninger, and among the wounded, Charles Kilgore and John Peery, the two latter and Henninger from the Upper Clinch Waters." 

" William Bowen when hearing his brother was downed, went crazy, running to find his brother hoping that it was not too late. As he ran to where his brother had fallen, a sentry yelled, demanding the password of the day. William, so distraught, couldn't make sense of what the man was yelling and actually forgot the password. When they were about to shoot it out, an officer, recognizing William grabbed him, bringing him back to his senses. They hugged, grateful for not having to shoot each other, but distraught about finding his brother. When Rees was found, it was too late, he had died, the only son of 13 children to be lost in an actual battle, fought in the Rev. War. Years before, while on patrol, his baby brother Moses Bowen, died of a simple flesh wound, received in the field. It seems while washing the wound, it was done with river water that had not been boiled and he developed a fever, from which he died in 1776."

The Bowen Family had a lot of Revolutionary War Veterans and who fought at the famous Kings Mountain Battle.

Moses Bowen.                John Bowen Sr.  

Lieutenant Reese T Bowen Sr.      Colonel Henry Reese Bowen.     Colonel Henry S Bowen II.      Private Benjamin Bowen      Captain Charles Bowen.     Captain Arthur C Bowen.      Captain William Bowen.   Colonel John H Bowen.      Captain Robert Pickens Bowen.         Sergeant Henry Bowen.     Lieutenant John Bowen Jr.       

John Grant Rencher was a 2nd Lieutenant American Army 2nd Pennsylvania Brigade, 5th Regiment. He was on Muster Roll and fought at Valley Forge. Was assigned as a Ensign (Jr Officer) in George Washington’s Pennsylvania Flying Camp Battalions. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington and exchanged in 1777.

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Stephen Mayfield was with the Light Horse Brigade of North Carolina 

Micajah Mayfield Private He enlisted in Virginia in January, 1779, and served as private in Captain Jesse Evans' company in Colonel John Montgomery's Virginia regiment under George Rogers Clark; in the following spring he marched to the Illinois country and after serving one year he was discharged.Immediately after the expiration of this enlistment he again enlisted and served as private with the Virginia troops under General George Rogers Clark and was in the companies of Captains Richard Brashears, George and Helm and was

discharged in March, 1783, at or near what later became Louisville, Kentucky 

Aylett Family

Colonel Philip Aylett 

Brigadier General Philip Aylett Jr

William I Aylett was a Reverend at Valley Forge. He died in a battle at Yorktown.

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James Henderson Williams (November 10, 1740 – October 7, 1780) was an American pioneer, farmer, and miller from Ninety-Six District in South Carolina. In 1775 and 1776, Williams was a member of the state's Provisional Assembly. During the War of Independence, he held a colonel's rank in the South Carolina militia. He was killed at the decisive Battle of Kings Mountain.

James Williams

Born

November 7 1740

Hanover County, Virginia Colony

Died

October 7, 1780 (aged 39–40)

Kings Mountain

Place of burial

Gaffney, South Carolina

Allegiance

 United States

Service/branch

South Carolina militia

Years of service

1773-1780

Rank

Colonel

Battles/wars

American Revolutionary War †

In 1776, the Ninety-Six District militia split into Loyalist and Patriot factions. Williams was made a lieutenant colonel of a regiment, but he had to recruit and train the new men. He succeeded in organizing a militia group, but pressure from Britain and her Indian allies meant that Williams always had to leave some troops behind for home defense. Williams led forces of local men into action at nearby Briar Creek and Stone Ferry, and as far afield as the expedition to the Second Battle of Savannah.

On August 19, 1780 he led his detachment into the Battle of Musgrove Mill. The Patriots' success there, even in such a limited engagement and coming so soon after the disaster of Camden, earned him a promotion to colonel.

Main article: Battle of Kings Mountain

Williams led a 100-man detachment to meet up with other militia from the over mountain settlements which were gathering to engage Cornwallis' western force led by Major Patrick Ferguson. He joined with the other units at Cowpens on October 6. The next day these forces won a major victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain, where the out-numbered Americans overwhelmed an 1,100 man Loyalist force, while suffering only twenty-eight fatalities. Col. Williams was one of them.

Williams' original hastily dug grave at the site of the battlefield was later moved. His body was re-interred on the lawn in front of the Cherokee County Administration building, on Limestone Street in Gaffney, South Carolina. It is marked by a large memorial.

The South Carolina Provincial Congress had promoted Williams to the rank of brigadier general, but he died before the commission could be delivered. In 2005, the South Carolina General Assembly confirmed the rank originally bestowed upon him 225 years before. In the same act, Gen. Williams was further honored by renaming the Little River Bridge, "James Williams Memorial Bridge", marking the northeast corner of what had been his plantation.