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From: MS LOUISE T OVERTON< >
Subject: [NCORANGE-L] TORIES Captured in Guilford Co. NC
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:19:14, -0500

David FANNING was a Loyalist Colonel, with a small army of soldiers
recruited from the people of central Carolina. These troops terrorized
people far and wide throughout the piedmont of North and South Carolina.
During one of their raids in Guilford County, they killed one of the McADOW
brothers. Later a group of militiamen from Guilford caught Alexander
SHANNON, a local recruit, visiting his family in the community. The
militiamen proceeded to execute SHANNON (1781). Later they discovered that
they might be subject to civil prosecution for murder, three of them
applied to the assembly for a pardon for their action. James McADOW, a
brother of the victim of FANNINGS troops, Henry REED, and William HALL were
the applicants. Their application was approved, the final voice vote
recorded was 50 for and 7 against.

Tories Captured At Battle Of Moore's Creek Bridge
Frederick CRAFTS
William SHANNON
Jeremiah FIELD
Joseph FIELD
Seymore YORK
Stephen PARKER
John DOWNING
John DOAK
James LOW
Robert TURNER
Samuel DeVINEY
William FIELD
Robert FIELD
William ARMFIELD
Stephen SISNEY
David JACKSON
Robinson YORK
Joseph DOBSON
John SIMMONS
Robert ADAMS

Other Tories

Reneca JULIAN
James WALKER
Jacob ELLIOT
Abraham WOODWARD
James WILSON
William DRAPER
John UNDERHILL

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