If you have kin from this area, this might be of interest to you. betty in ga ----- Original Message ----- From: <scedgefi-request@rootsweb.com> To: <scedgefi@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:01 AM Subject: SCEDGEFI Digest, Vol 1, Issue 19 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Militia of Capt. Sterling Turner in 1781 (Harriet Imrey) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:18:26 -0400 > From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> > Subject: [SCEDGEFI] Militia of Capt. Sterling Turner in 1781 > To: <SCEDGEFI-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <011e01c6f221$08f64e40$bd4a91d1@CVILLE> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Capt. Sterling Turner's Company of Volunteers on Horseback was recruited > from among his neighbors in the Cloud's Creek and Mine Creek region of > northern Edgefield (currently Saluda Co SC). While returning from a raid > in Saxegotha/Lexington, he and around 30 members of his company camped > near a partially completed log cabin (called "Carter's House") on a > tributary of Cloud's Creek. On 7 Nov 1781, they were surrounded and > outnumbered by Loyalist militia forces under the command of Col. William > ("Bloody Bill") Cunningham, who demanded unconditional surrender. Some > members of Turner's company attempted to return fire. With only two > exceptions, all were either killed in battle or executed after > surrendering. An incomplete muster roll for this company can be > reconstructed from extant service records and pension applications. > > Men present at the Cloud's Creek massacre: > Capt. Sterling Turner > Bartlett Bledsoe (survived and escaped) > Berryman Bledsoe, widow Emilia > John Bledsoe > James Butler, Sr., widow Mary Simpson > James Butler, Jr. > Nathaniel Corley > Zachariah Davis, widow Christiana > Burdett Eskridge/Ethridge, widow Hannah > Peter Foy, widow Hamutel > Matthew Jones > Gideon Nicholson > 2nd Lt. William Sisson, widow Lydia > Smallwood Smith, widow Elizabeth Marable Jones > Hendley Webb (taken prisoner, released) > Burrows Whittle > > Other members of Capt. Sterling Turner's company who had completed their > tour of duty, enlisted in a different company, or were otherwise not > present at Cloud's Creek: > Abner Corley > Zacheus Corley > Robert Davis > Thomas Davis > John Douglas > James Eidson > Daniel Jones > Joseph Nunn > Amos Richardson > Frederick Sisson > John Smith > Hezekiah Watson > > Harriet Imrey > himrey@ntelos.net > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SCEDGEFI list administrator, send an email to > SCEDGEFI-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SCEDGEFI mailing list, send an email to > SCEDGEFI@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCEDGEFI-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of SCEDGEFI Digest, Vol 1, Issue 19 > *************************************** > >