King's Mountain

King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain ..., By Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthony Allaire, Isaac Shelby (1881).

Map cross-posted at In Deeds

Pennsylvania Was The Gateway

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Pennsylvania was the gateway and first resting place and the source of Scotch-Irish adventure and enterprise as they moved west and south. The wave of emigration striking the eastern border of Pennsylvania, in a measure deflected southward through Maryland. Virginia, the Carolinas, reaching and crossing the Savannah river... . 

The Journal Of Alexander Chesney

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Firing Upon Fort Sumpter

Fort Sumter (Source)

Source - History Of The 102...Ohio

Enroute To Illinois

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, South ..., By Robert W. Andrews:

"...I met Mr Middleton Brooks, who kept the tavern in Statesburg, who offered me three hundred and fifty dollars and expenses to go to Vandalia, in the State of Illinois, for his father. I had then a 'trotting horse,' which I sold and bought one more fitted for the trip. I left my men in charge of my carpentering business, and, on June 5th, 1825, started for Illinois, passing through Camblin and

Salisbury On A North Carolina Map At LOC

Lancaster, South Carolina and Charlottetown and Salsbury, North Carolina, through Brunswick County, across the Blue Ridge mountains, by the Swannana Gap, into Tennesee; passed through that State and Kentucky, to the Ohio river, which I reached at Hudson's Ferry."

1819 Horseback Journey

The life of John Pendleton Kennedy...:

South Carolina

"In the winter of 1819 Mr Kennedy made a horseback journey from Augusta, Ga., through the western part of South Carolina; the weather was fine, the journey to youthful sympathies cheering; and both observation and fancy gave interest to the experience."

A Woman Rice Planter

A Woman Rice Planter, by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle:

"It is about the South, a particular part of the South, the rice-plantation coast of South Carolina.  In this region, field and water and forest intermingle to form a strange, haunting scene, full of character and mystery.  To dine with a neighbor here, one needs both the horse and the boat; travel has to be amphibious.  And in this region, too, the marks that were made by the old days have been by the new days obliterated less than in most parts of our country."

The author bought her in-laws' plantation, Casa Bianca.  She then bought her family's Cherokee Plantation.

Cherokee Plantation

The Affair At King's Mountain

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Legacy Of The American Revolution

The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British ...:

Also see: Thomas Brown in a Hornet's Nest and The King's Rangers Colonel Brown.

Captain Andrews Born On The 4th Of July

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Captain Andrews' entry at Wikitree.

Directly From Savannah

The Hornet's Nest, A novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter, is concerned with the war "as it was fought in Georgia and the Carolinas...".

When William Few assembled Ethan Pratt and other platoon members near Wrightsborough late in June 1779, he gave them some bad news, directly from Savannah.  Indian Superintendent John Stuart had died earlier that year, and Governor Wright and leaders in London had decided to appoint Thomas Brown as superintendent of the Creeks, Cherokees, Catawbas, and a few smaller tribes along the Atlantic Coast.

Also see Thomas Brown In The Hornet's Nest.

Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter:

Horse Shoe Robinson

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"Its historic features were its chief charm, for it represented careful study of the events of the Revolution at the south, and unfolded a vast amount of information cncerning the temper and character of the people in the districts of central Virginia and the mountainous regions of the Carolinas."

See Mary Musgrove (where the author of Horse Shoe Robinson was identified as John Pendleton Kennedy and not Mark Littleton)

Belestre's Incursions

By a letter from him [Belestre] dated April 29, 1756, it appears that, with a number of French and Indians, he went down the Ohio river, and thence east and south to the Carolinas, and

"marched about 30 leagues through settlements that had been abandoned, at the end of which time he fell in with a village of 30 or 40 houses which were taken and burnt; close by was a small wooden fort that was summoned to surrender; on its refusing to comply it was carried by assault and the garrison put to the sword. The killed and prisoners amounted to about 300; all the oxen and cows having been collected together were killed; 120 horses, which they found, served to carry the large quantity of plunder the Indians got, and in returning they set fire to all the settlements they had left."

Belestre was slightly wounded in one arm and in the shoulder. Returning to Fort Duquesne, he engaged with a party of Cherokees and a few Frenchmen on incursions in the neighborhood of that place and was captured by the English troops on June 17, 1757, and on June 20 was taken for examination before a committee composed of Edmund Atkin, superintendent of Indian affairs, Col. George Washington and George Croghan, deputy to Sir William Johnson.

Source - Scouts Overlooking Fort Duquesne (Site Of Pittsburgh)

We have no account of the manner in which Belestre escaped from the Americans, but the next we hear of him he was in the northern part of New York, commanding a body of 300 men, of whom 200 were Indians. They left Montreal in October 1757 and proceeded among the Iroquois Indians to stir them up to attack the English. Some forts and a village in the Palatine were attacked and destroyed, and the people either carried off or massacred. The official report states that during this time a party of Canadians and Indians ravaged and burned 60 houses of the Palatines, their barns, and other outhuildings, as well as the water mill. Forty English perished, either killed or drowned, and 150 men women and children were taken prisoners. Apparently in 1758 Belestre was promoted to a lieutenancy, for he is referred to as a lieutenant in Montcalm's report of Feb 19, and a few months later in the "Bulletin of the most important operations during the winter of 1757-58," he is called a captain of colonial troops. [Historical Collections, Volume 34]

See another post about Belestre at Braddock's Defeat

The Amulet

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"Very joyous he [Captain Howard] was in these days. The Seven Years' War was fairly over, the treaty of peace concluded, and the surrender of the French forts on the American frontier already imminent, even thus early in the spring of 1763. His own difficult tour of service here at Fort Prince George, the British stronghold on the eastern edge of the Cherokee country, was nearing its close. He, himself, was to be transferred to a post of ease and comfort at Charlestown... ."

British Flag

"The flag rose buoyantly to the tip of the staff. The Indian town of Old Keowee, on the opposite bank of the river, was all astir and now and again the sonorous note of the conch shell, a detail of the matutinal savage worship, blended oddly with the martial resonance of the British drums beating for roll-call as the garrison of Fort Prince George lined up in front of the barracks."

"...[a soldier] was recollecting that her father's predecessor in command, Captain Coytmore, had been treacherously slaughtered by the Cherokees in a conference at the gate of this fort, within twenty paces of the spot where she now stood."

Humphreys' Journey Through Camden, South Carolina

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See David Humphreys' profile at Wikipedia.

The two Rivers, Congaree & Wateree, form the Santee by their conflux about 20 miles below Camden.

Baron De Kalb Portrait - Camden, SC, Museum

At this place we passed Sunday, visited the grave of De Kalb & obtained some information relative to the interesting military transactions which happened in & near it.

Camden does not contain quite so many Houses as Augusta, but they are larger and better built.

Camden, SC, Sign That Mentions Joseph Kershaw

We drank Tea at the House of Col. Kershaw, who was the very first Settler of Camden & who is also the founder of three other considerable Towns.   He had been extremely useful to Gen Lincoln in the War. [Source]

Mountain Story Of Its Heroes

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Bartram's Travels

Also see Thomas Brown In The Hornet's Nest.

The Hornet's Nest, A novel of the Revolutionary War by [President] Jimmy Carter, is concerned with the war "as it was fought in Georgia and the Carolinas...".

Two of the characters, husband and wife Kindred and Mavis Morris were associates of Dr. John Bartram of Philadelphia whose son, William, was going to collect flora and fauna, too.

Bartram:  Then the surveyor team is supposed to come here, and I shall join this British and Indian group, who will be establishing the boundary lines of the territory just ceded by the Indians in Augusta.  Then we plan to return to Savannah, continue my examination of the coastal areas of Carolina and Georgia, and later go farther into the interior of northern Florida and southern Georgia.

William Richardson Davie

Map Of Kings Mountain Battle Showing Catawba River

Rev. William Richardson was a Presbyterian clergyman, who, in the year 1763, resided in the Waxhaw settlement, on the Catawba River, in the present State of South Carolina. He married a lady named Davie, the sister of Archibald Davie, who came from the village of Egremont, near Whitehaven, a seaport on the Irish Sea, in the county of Cumberland, England.

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 Mr. Richardson had no children of his own, and therefore adopted his wife's brother's son, named for himself, William Richardson Davie, who thus became heir to his large estate. He was born at said Egremont, June 20, 1756.

Young Davie was a regular and successful student at Nassau Hall College, Princeton, N. J., where he graduated with honor in the autumn of 1776. Having chosen the profession of law, he began his legal studies in Salisbury, N. C. But in December, 1777, he left his books for a while to engage in the military service of his country. Commissioned as lieutenant of dragoons, he soon rose to the rank of major, and was in Pulaski's legion. He was in the army of Lincoln, engaged in the defence of Charleston; was in the battle of Stono Ferry, near that city, June 20, 1779, where he was badly wounded, and in several other severe actions. He was hastening to join the army of Gates, when that army received a total defeat at Camden, Aug. 16, 1780. While the American forces were mostly driven from the field, Davie, now a colonel, continued to harass the enemy to the utmost, and not without success. [Source]

Ruins Of Charleston

[Volume 9]

The Photographic History of the Civil War: Poetry and eloquence of Blue and Gray