A dragoon is a type of cavalryman. Originally dragoons were soldiers trained to ride horses to battle and then dismount to fight. Their name came from the type of musket that they carried. Later they evolved into purely cavalry, not as heavily armed as "horse", but not lightly armed like hussars. The British Army developed a form of light cavalry ("light" and "heavy" refer to the size of the men and the horses; light cavalry was used mostly for scouting and screening movements of the army, heavy cavalry for massed charges) called light dragoons. These are really what the cavalry in the American Revolution were. Bob Hodges -----Original Message----- From: PAT & WOODY ADAMS <jamadam@digital.net> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 30, 1999 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [HODGES-L] Isham Hodges of Marlboro County SC (part 2) >Bob,just what I was looking for!!!!!!! What a help you have been. Do you >know what a dragoon was? I have seen that term many times and have never >been real sure. Thanks, Pat > > > >>My last post had the records about administration of Isham's estate. The >>earliest record we have that I know of is the rrecord of his enlistment In >>the Revolutionary War. Moss's South Carolina Roster states that he was born >>ca. 1750 in Va., enlisted Jul. 8, 1775 in the Rangers under Capt. Samuel >>Wise and Col. Thomson. Taken prisoner Jan. 9, 1779 (when the British >>captured Sunbury, Ga.). Served in the militia during 1780 under Maj. >>Tritram Thomas and Col. Hicks and was a dragoon in the cavalry under Col. >>Maham during 1781 and 1782. >> >>Deed Book A, pp. 45-46 Jan. 22, 1780 Tritram Thomas of Craven Co., Cheraw >>Dist., to Isham Hodges of same for L 1300 5 1/2 A (excepting a lease to >>Joseph Pledger), the se part of a tract granted to Joseph Pledger 15 May >>1771 on ne side of Pee Dee & also anotherr tract of 100A granted to Thomas >>James and conveyed to Isham Hodges by L & R 24 Oct. 1777, then to sd. Thomas >>17 Jan. 1779. Rec. 5 Sept. 1786. >> >>Deed Book A pp. 88-89 Isam Hodges witness to Jan. 2, 1787 deed from Josiah >>David and wife Sarah to Tristram Thomas. >> >>Deed Book A pp. 89-91 Isam Hodges witness to Jan. 2, 1787 deed from Tristram >>Thomas and wife MAry to Josiah David. >> >>Deed Book A pp. 169-70 Oct. 27 1787 Isam Hodges of Marlborough County to >>John Stubbs of same for L 50 80A granted to Jonathan Ashbury 22 Nov. 1721, >>conveyed to Matthew Whitefield 5 Aug. 1773 then to John Pone 20 June 1774 >>then to sd Isam Hodges 4 Jan 1787. Signed Isam Hodges and Mary Hodges. >>Witnesses Dunken McForshen, John Wise. Rec. Dec. 4, 1787. >> >>Deed Book A, pp. 178-79 Mar. 1788 Isom Hodges and wf Mary of Marlborough >>County to William Stubbs of same for L50 sterling 400 A on the east side of >>Pee Dee on Beaver Dam Branch which said branch makes out of Crooked Creek >>granted to Enoch Thompson 4 Nov. 1772 by Gov. Montague, conveyed to sd >>Hodges by Samuel Thompson heir of Enoch Thompson decd. S/ Isom Hodges Mary >>Hodges. Wit: James Busly, John Stubbs, Rec. 4 Mar. 1788. >> >>My posts on Hodges along the Pee Dee in the archives will tell a little more >>about this family. >> >>Bob Hodges >> >> >>==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >>Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >>Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm >>New threaded Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > >James (Woody)& Pat Adams >Rockledge, FL. >E-mail:<jamadam@digital.net> > > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm >New threaded Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ >