In Black and White: Cross-Cultural Genealogy

"Battle of Eutaw Springs,"engraved abt. 1859 South Carolina, September 8, 1781 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Update: The North Carolina Continentals The last section I read of this book was Chapter 18, Eutaw Springs. There seems to have been several changes in command for the 2nd North Carolina Regiment. I'm hoping to find another source that can elaborate on where these men were during the battle and what their contributions were. Till then, I'll have to set my notes next to the reading and see if I can make any connections. Nearing the end of this file We've come to the last few documents of Isaac Perkins' pension file. One might think that this is the end; however, it is just the beginning. After the documents are transcribed, in order for them to be purposeful in building Perkins' story line, they must be abstracted and the details put into a chronology. But first, lets take a look at the last three images in the recor...

In Summary: Abstracts of Isaac Perkins' Pension File Part 1: Isaac Perkins: Image 1/35: Cover page N.C., File: S41953 Image 2/35: Isaac Perkins: Service Record Enlisted 16 May 1777/8 for a 3-year term (2 sources with conflicting year of enlistment) Officers: Captain Stevenson and Colonel Sheppard; Captain Clement Hall and Colonel John Patton Private, 2nd Regiment, North Carolina line On N.C. Roll: Pension: $8 per month, beginning 9 June 1818 Certificate of Pension: 30 Nov 1818 Amount due on 4 Mar 1830: $18.06 Died May 23, 1830 Muster Roll: Captain Clement Hall's 2nd North Carolina Batalion Served at White Plains, New York Line 20: "Isaac Purkins": enlisted 16 May '77, term: 3 years Served with Martin Black: line 21: enlisted 16 May '77, term: 3 years Served with Isaac Carter: line 47: enlisted poss. 28 Oct '76 Served with John Carter: line 62; enlisted poss. 1 Jan 1777: tern: "1", for the duration of the war Part 2: Q...

Update: The North Carolina Continentals To date I am half-way through reading Chapter 17: South Carolina, 1781 . The author provides interesting details of military communications and actions, as well as the day-to-day effects of this prolonged war on our North Carolina troops, fighting outside of their state boundaries. It explores their inner conflicts of service to country vs. the needs of their families at home, especially during planting and harvesting seasons, which counted significantly in the continuous rate of desertion. We are coming near to the close of Isaac Perkins' pension application file. Today we'll be examining a collection of communications which causes questions to arise in regard to the identities of several of those who contributed documentation in the attempt to restore Perkins' name to the pension list. As we view the lapse of time just represented here--September 1828-December 1829--we can only imagine the mounting frustration this man and his ...

Washington at Valley Forge E. Percy Moran, 1862-1935, artist Courtesy Library of Congress Update: The North Carolina Continentals Chapter 6, Valley Forge, 1777-1778 This chapter brings to light some answers to questions I had formed from working with a member of the North Carolina Society of the Sons of the American Revolution who had contacted me about participating in the Forgotten Patriots project. In regards to military service in the 10th North Carolina Battalion under the command of Captain Abraham Sheppard, he had mentioned that late in the war the records were ill-kept and many who were not under the direct command of Capt. Sheppard were, in fact, lumped together with other soldiers, leaving it to us these two-hundred thirty-odd years later to sort out. Chapter 6 helped with the sorting. The problems seemed to start with the recruiting officers in Abraham Sheppard's Tenth Regiment who recruited "bodies" to fill the ranks who were often too sickly to...