Lenoir County, NC - Israel BAXTER Revolutionary War Pension

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S.C. Pension Abstracts of the Rev. War, War of 1812 & Indian Wars
Copied by Sloan S. Mason

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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