I was looking in the book: Military Certificates of Georgia 1776-1800 on file in the Surveyor General Department, by: Marion R. Hemperley copyright date 1983. I found that Ford Butler was listed as a refugee, according to this book. Does anyone know what this means exactly? I later found (in the Georgia Revolutionary War Soldier's Graves Vol. 2 complied by H. Ross Arnold, Jr. & H. Clifton Burnhan. Laurens -Worth Counties & General Index copyright 1993 Georgia Society Sons of American Revolution) that Ford Butler (listed under Wilkinson Co.) d.1817 served as a private in Captain Wood's Horse Company of Colonel Malmedy's Regiment of the North Carolina Militia and later was in the Georgia Militia under Colonel Elijah Clarke and received bounty land along Rig Shoal Creek in Franklin County. So why would he have been listed as a refugee in the previous book?