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From: "LaVeta Townsend" <>
Subject: LIGHTand JOHN TOWNSEND
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:24:19 -0700


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Light and John Townsend- Petition signed by them, 1775

S. C. Historical and genealogical Magazine
Vol. 3, No. 4, Oct. 1901 P. 264-265

Capt. Robert Lide's Company of Volunteer Militia

To the Honorable the Council of Safety of South Carolina

The humble Petition of Sixty of the Inhabitants on the North East Side of Pee Dee River, from Brown's Creek to the Three Creeks, in St. David's Parish

Sheweth

That your Petitioners, conscious of The Injustice of Several Acts of the British Parliament, past in the Reign of his present Majesty, and being desirous to serve their Country by aiding and assisting their Brethren, the good people of this Colony, in their opposition of every foe, as becomes every good Citizen to do, have formed a Company of Volunteers and have chosen Robert Lide, Esqr. to the their Captain. Mr. Thomas Powe to be their first Lieutenant, and Mr. William Watkins to be their second Lieutenant.

Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Honours will be pleased to Issue the requisite Commissions for the above Named Gentlemen as soon as may be, and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.

Phillip Perry
Willis Studdivent
Owent Whittington
Jerrimia Rowell
Joseph Allison
James Coleman
Manuell Cox
Josiah Cox
John Cox
Francis Whittington Jr.
Josha Stroud
Griffen Nunnery
Jacob Blackwell
Samuel (spelled Smauel) Brown
Abel Lewis
Maurice Murphey Jr.
James Harris
Richard Whittington
Ephraim Whittington
Jesse Brown
William Warrington
Jesse Brown


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(Petition Continued)

Michael Mixon
Thomas Sweat
Solomon Studdivent
John Kennedy
James Findlay
Matthew Murphey
Thomas Baker
Francis Kennedy
Alexander Craig
William Sweat
William Cherry
Joseph Dobbs
Isaac Turbeveal
Richard Kerby
Reuben Jenkins
Theodorick Webb
Samuell Moore
Jesse Mixon
Thomas Davis
John Cone
Lordan Purkins
Joseph Harper
Isaac Purkins
Cornelius Mixon
John Rabon
Dale Baker
Charles Rabon
Nathan Sweat
Joseph Owens
William Bodirford
JOHN TOWNSEN **
LIGHT TOWNSEN **
Benjamin Baker
George Cherry
Isaac Wolf
David Lee
Joo. (Jon/Joe?) Heath
Jno. Mixon
Drury Lee

Endorsed: Volunteer Co. Robert Lide, Captain

9th October, 1775

(from the private collection of A. S. Sally Jr.,
see the Sunday News, Charleston, S. C. March 19, `1899)

** Light Townsend, Marlboro County, S. C.

** John Townsend, Marlboro County, S. C.


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