Would anyone know of a place where I could check the movements of British troops in 1782 and 1783? I recently came across a story regarding my ancestor and them, and thought it might give me a clue as to where he grew up if I could find where the Brits were around that time. Thanks, Stephen Pegler Archibald Johnston. the maternal grandfather of the subject, was also a native of North Carolina. During the Revolutionary war, when the soldiers were in his community, he was in danger of being shot, for though but ten years of age [according to the family Bible he was born in 1773], he was almost as large as a grown man. However, he donned his sister's dress and worked in the fields without being molested. During the three days that his life hung in the balance he learned to pray and thereby became a devout Christian the balance of his life, and he did all he could to unite the churches and was a great churchman. When a young man he left his native state and moved to Tennessee where he entered land from the government on which he lived several years then sold out for six dollars, per acre, having paid one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the same.