Does anyone know what year the sun was totally eclipsed in the vicinity of Wake or Johnston Co. NC? Is there a web site that would give this information? I have the Revolutionary War Pension Application of James Hall of Johnston Co., NC. In it he says that he enlisted in the 10th Regiment of the NC line under Capt. Alsa High.(enlisted for period of nine months). He could not remember the exact year but said it was the year in which the sun was totally eclipsed--this was either in the county of Wake or the county of Johnston in NC. Part of his enlistment was under Captains Ramsey and Quinn. He was discharged in SC when his enlistment was up. He later re-enlisted but I don't know how long after his first discharge occurrred. He re-enlisted as a substitute for a fellow in Franklin Co. NC.. Does anyone know what year the sun was totally eclipsed in the vicinity of Wake or Johnston Co. NC? Is there a web site that would give this information? The pension application says the first enlistment was in the later stages of the American Revolution--that would make it in the late 1770s or early 1780s. Betty Pace

Betty I found this snippet of information Sir Edmund Halley is credited with making the first observations of Bailys beads during the eclipse of 22 April 1715. They were also seen by Maclaurin from Edinburgh during the annular eclipse of 1 March 1737 and by Williams from Revolutionary War America on 27 October 1780 (see Chapter 1) from just outside the path of totality. But it was Francis Bailys widely disseminated description of the phenomenon during the annular eclipse of 15 May 1836 that led to their bearing his name thereafter. http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/eclstuff/observeeclipses/chapter9.htm (bold type by me) (google search = "total eclipse" revolutionary war) However, I also found many documents relating to your James Hall in Johnston N. C.( Rev War- Revolutionary War Pension) on Footnote.com. I just subscribed for a month ($7.95) and thought I'd check. You may have all this already, but it's worth looking at., I think. >Does anyone know what year the sun was totally eclipsed in the vicinity >of Wake or Johnston Co. NC? Is there a web site that would give this >information? > >I have the Revolutionary War Pension Application of James Hall of >Johnston Co., NC. In it he says that he enlisted in the 10th Regiment of >the NC line under Capt. Alsa High.(enlisted for period of nine months). >He could not remember the exact year but said it was the year in which >the sun was totally eclipsed--this was either in the county of Wake or >the county of Johnston in NC. > >Part of his enlistment was under Captains Ramsey and Quinn. He was >discharged in SC when his enlistment was up. He later re-enlisted but I >don't know how long after his first discharge occurrred. He re-enlisted >as a substitute for a fellow in Franklin Co. NC.. > >Does anyone know what year the sun was totally eclipsed in the vicinity >of Wake or Johnston Co. NC? Is there a web site that would give this >information? The pension application says the first enlistment was in >the later stages of the American Revolution--that would make it in the >late 1770s or early 1780s. > >Betty Pace > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message