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From: teresa stuart de rios <>
Subject: [STEWART] Bledoe-Stewart lines
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:30:21 -0600


Williams Stewart´s application: From Bob Bledsoe

A short time before the battle of Kings Mountain, the applicants brother David Stewart and half brother Loving Bledsoe, who was about 27 yrs. old, were drafted to go in the army. Before the day of rendezvousing, orders came that all should go who were able and the three of them volunteered - it being about the month of September of the year in which the Battle of Kings Mountain was fought (7 Oct. 1780). They commenced their march from Holston up the Doe River and crossed the Yellow Mountain at the Ball place to Kings Mountain under Cols. Isaac Shelby and William Campbell, and Capt. George Maxfield and other officers, and he recollects that at Broad River a council was held among the officers and it was determined to steal a march upon Ferguson at Kings Mountain. Accordingly the horse troops under Cols. Shelby and Campbell went on leaving the foot company and did steal the march on Ferguson and the battle was fought before the foot company showed up. This applicant b!
eing one of the foot co. arrived after the battle was fought and the British and Tories were all taken prisoner and were delivered to the foot company to guard.. The next day we marched to Salisbury and the next night a Courts Martial was held and it condemned 31 or 32 Tories prisoners to hang and the same night we did hang 9 of them but do not know the reason the others were not hanged. . . . . They found Tarleton was near and as they had nearly as many prisoners as men, they had to escape so they burned two wagons of plunder, taken at the battle, and marched towards Salisbury and hung another Tory that day. They went on and near Salisbury met another Company of Carolina Troops Who took the prisoners and they were discharged from that tour. Tour of duty was from the month of September till about November.

There is one more reference to Loving Bledsoe's Rev. War service:
NC Dept. of Archives, Rev. Army Accounts; vol. 1, p. 73 folio 4 reads:

An account of Specie Certificates paid into the Comptroller's Office by John Armstrong: Entry Taker for land in NC, viz.: Number 201 granted strong: Entry Taker for land in NC, viz.: Number 201 granted by Bagge and Hunter to Loving Bledsoe 13 Aug. 1782 the sum of 7 pounds 8 shillings 6 pence; interest 12 shillings 9 pence to 16 Jan. 1784. Total: 8-1-3.

The above two references are abstracted from the book: pub. 1975 by Ronald Donaldson: Donaldson, Ransdell and Allied Families; American Bicentenarion
















5/445, 29 Feb. 1764, John Stewart and wife Susanah Stewart, formerly Susanah Bledsoe to William Robertson of Antrim Parish, Halifax Co., VA for 60 pds. VA money: 300 ac. on east side middle fork, of Tarrarat River, granted to Frederick Fulkerson 9 May 1757, pvd. March Court 1764.


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