Take anything I said about Absalom Autry with a grain of salt. I was repeating other people's "stuff". I haven't seen the sources cited listing him as a Tory LT. I do know, however, that he (or at any rate *an* Absalom Autry, is also listed on the Georgia militia rolls as a spy in the early 1780s. I have seen that in a published reference. In those days, a spy was what we would now call a scout or ranger... and this is in the period where Georgia still was a sovereign state with many functions still intact that were later given to the national government under the U.S. constitution (1789). I find this reference to Captain Joseph Cravey quite interesting, however. I haven't done any research on the Craveys, but about 2 to 3 years ago my 3-great grandmother Sarah wife of Joseph Davis was finally identified definitely as Sarah Cravey, a daughter of Owen Cravey, Jr. Amongst my Davis relatives, there are any number named Hugh Craven or Hugh Cravey (often rendered as "H.C.")... apparently through time the Cravey had become corrupted to Craven... but there is some reason that so many Davises have been named that same name generation after generation... and maybe some day I'll discover what it was. <G> RW PaWZake@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 05/10/2003 5:22:33 PM Central Daylight Time, RAB55@aol.com >writes: > > > >>Pam's comments reminded me of why Cousin Mayo Bundy listed him as "Absalom >>Tory Officer". He got some very decided letters informing him that "there >>were no Tory officers in my family". I guess he ignored them?? >> >> >More documentation > >From: Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. by >Murtie June Clark: pg 411 >Pay Abstract Nr __, Colonel David Fanning's Regiment, Loyal Militia from >North Carolina, Captain Joseph Cravey's Company, 549-days pay, 1 Mar 1781-30 >Sept 1782 > Nr Rank Name Remarks > 1 Captain Cravey, Joseph > 2 " Smally, Abner > 1 Lieutenant Autry, Absalom 2 " Ellit, >James > 1 Private Back, Abram > 2 " Ellet, Thomas > attest: David Fanning, Colonel > (Note: These men are determined to go to St. Augustine, FL.) > >>From The State Records of NC Vol XXII pg. 196 >THE NAMES OF THE COMPANIES OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, AS THEY WAS COMMISSIONED IN >THEIR DIFFERENT COMPANIES. > 5. Robert Turner, Capt. in N.C. > Absolem Autrey, Lt. in Florida > Wm. King, Ens. joined the Rebels > >Notes from Research Guide to Loyalist Ancestors by Paul J. Bunnell: >paraphrased Many Loyalists fled to Florida while being chased by the Rebels. > About 12,000 Loyalists fled to east Florida. "The Georgians and Carolinians >were not the only Loyalists to flee to Florida." By 1783, there was a >"strong Loyalist community" around St. Augustine. When they left, some went >to Providence Island in the Bahamas, to England, some stayed to live under >the Spanish rule and other found their way back to US and Canada. > >"462 whites ...returned to the US/" > 725 whites...went to Nova Scotia > 1033 whites....went to the Bahamas." > 421 white.. went to... the Caribbean " > 245 whites...possibly went to England" > 61 whites...went to other foreign countries." > >Richard White stated ( in 1998) that Absalom served under Capt. Turner as a >Tory officer in Florida. Stated he was born 1731 or 33 in NC, moved to >Buncombe Co., NC then Rutherford Co, NC and finally settled in Ala 1806-1807 >and died in St. Clair Co., Ala. > > >Pam >