-----Original Message----- From: rdwoodlockatty@earthlink.net [mailto:rdwoodlockatty@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 6:23 PM To: Autry-l-request@rootsweb.com Subject: Absalom Autrey Tory Please add me to the e-mail list. I am a descendant of Absalom Autrey through Charity Autrey and Thomas Jefferson Downing. Query: andrewbalfour.com has published excerpts from Col. David Fanning's Narrative under whom Absalom Autrey served. Absalom was with David Fanning and shot Colonel Andrew Balfour in NC on March 10, 1782 outside his home. The soldiers pursued Balfour into the house and shot him in front of his daughter and sister-in-law after which the women were attacked. At least one of the soldiers was later hanged. Fanning and some of his men escaped to SC. 1. After the war British troops were transported to E. Florida. The oft-quoted British War Office excerpt says "these men were determined to go to Florida". The Balfour site states: After the War, on May 17, 1782 the Act of pardon and Oblivion passed, exempting [Fanning] from pardon in NC. David and his wife were sent to Florida, awaiting deportation to Canada. Did Absalom determine to go to Florida or was it determined for him? Does anyone have the entire War Office Report or the 1782 Act? 2. Given Absalom's very active role in what was regarded as Col. Balfour's murder, was he indicted or refused pardon like Fanning? Was he ever pardoned? Was his land seized as indicated by Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, & Rutherford Counties, N.C.: Tryon Co. estates: Book A1 P. 247? Did he work his way across to Georgia and then return to NC? 3. Absalom's son Cornelius is listed in the 1790 Census in Sampson Co NC with 1 woman but his marriage to Nancy Eaves took place about 10 years later. Could he have been living with his mother or a sister while his father was gone? Interestingly, an Autry/Balfour Descendant marriage took place in 1920 (check Balfour site).