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S.C. Pension Abstracts of the Rev. War, War of 1812 & Indian Wars
A copy of a file owned by Charlotte Baxter Hensley
and many Thanks to Sloan S. Mason for his copy.
South Carolina Service of Israel BAXTER
R 21696
(Born in North Carolina)
Declaration made in Green County, Mississippi; 10 Sept. 1833 by Israel BAXTER
a resident of Green Co., Miss.; age 71. He made the following declaration:
States he entered the army in 1776 as a substitute for his father, Theophilus
BAXTER, as a private who was drafted in the militia of South Carolina, Georgetown
District at Long Bluff on the Pedee River under Thomas WILLIAMSON and regiment
commanded by Col. COLB. He marched from there to Hadley's Point in S.C. and
served one month, when he was discharged by Capt. WILLIAMSON, which has been
lost. Shortly after his discharge he returned to Cheraw Hill, S.C. and enlisted
in a volunteer company at that place as a private commanded by Capt. Wm.
DEWITT, in the regiment commanded by Col. CALB, General MOULTRIE; from which
place he marched to Parisburg on the Savannah River, then ordered to Charleston,
S.C.. He fought the British at the Battle between the Americans at Coosa
Hatchie Bridge. Col. LAWRENCE then commanding where he was engaged 6 months.
After discharge he returned to Long Bluff and shortly after enlisted as a
volunteer for duration of the war in a Horse Company under Capt. Alexander
MCINTOSH, under Col. COLB and under General MARION; was engaged in skirmishes
against the tories, was taken prisoner by them twice. That he was in service
of the U.S. in the Revolution as a substitute or volunteer as above stated
4 years and 6 months.
States He was born 1762 in neighborhood of Kingston, N.C.. States he was
living on Pedee River, S.C. and from a few miles from what was then called
Long Bluff, remained there 8 or ten years, then moved to Georgia and lived
16 years, then moved to Mississippi territory and now the state of
Mississippi.
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