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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: [NCWAKE] Total Eclipse of the Sun -- Wake/Johnston Co. NC
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:21:51 -0400


Does anyone know what year the sun was totally eclipsed in the vicinity
of Wake or Johnston Co. NC? Is there a web site that would give this
information?

I have the Revolutionary War Pension Application of James Hall of
Johnston Co., NC. In it he says that he enlisted in the 10th Regiment of
the NC line under Capt. Alsa High.(enlisted for period of nine months).
He could not remember the exact year but said it was the year in which
the sun was totally eclipsed--this was either in the county of Wake or
the county of Johnston in NC.

Part of his enlistment was under Captains Ramsey and Quinn. He was
discharged in SC when his enlistment was up. He later re-enlisted but I
don't know how long after his first discharge occurrred. He re-enlisted
as a substitute for a fellow in Franklin Co. NC..

Does anyone know what year the sun was totally eclipsed in the vicinity
of Wake or Johnston Co. NC? Is there a web site that would give this
information? The pension application says the first enlistment was in
the later stages of the American Revolution--that would make it in the
late 1770s or early 1780s.

Betty Pace

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