Thank you Audrey! I will appreciate anything you - or any of the other members of SCABBEVI can find!! I have looked so long , thought I found him, and then was told no, wrong Regiment!!! So disappointing. Gloria Wells ----- Original Message ----- From: "Audrey Pool" <aep@madnet.net> To: <scabbevi@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [SCABBEVI] SC 3rd Regiment and Thomas Donaldson > Hi Gloria, When you posted this again a few days ago I looked (again) in > my > SC Rev War book; there are DONALDSONS there, but not Thomas. I just > finished a big b-day today for my granddaughter and will have to think > about > this another time. I have a couple of books we used to use years ago when > I > taught genealogy throughout the San Joaquin Valley, here in CA. Will see > if > there is anything in them. Soon, I hope. Audrey > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gloria Wells" <glowells@bellsouth.net> > To: <scabbevi@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:33 AM > Subject: [SCABBEVI] SC 3rd Regiment > > >> Audrey, >> >> Do you have any suggestions on how to find out about the South Carolina >> 3rd Regiment, and its men, a roll call, anything?! >> >> SC 3rd Regiment, Revolutionary War, formed 1775 in the town of >> Ninety-six >> in Abbeville County. On 4 Apr 1776 Thomas Donaldson enlisted in that >> regiment. >> >> I was in the Caroliniana Library, USC, Columbia, SC, one time and told >> one >> of the historians who work there about my search for Thomas Donaldson. >> He >> said the 3rd was riflemen but that their ranks had become so low they >> merged with the SC 5th Regiment to keep going. The 5th formed in >> Charleston, SC. >> >> Finally, after NARA went on computer, I asked - one more time, I had >> asked >> many times before - for proof of service of Thomas Donaldson. They sent >> me copies of 2 sheets of paper, preprinted for 5th Regiment, with his >> name >> on them. >> >> I sent copies of those and lots of other pieces of paper off to DAR and I >> was refused!!! >> >> The genealogist who worked on my papers said if he lived in Abbeville he >> was not in the 5th regiment, he was a minor, and I have not proved >> service. >> What I should do, he said, was find his father and learn where Thomas >> lived during the War. I have looked for Thomas' parents and his siblings >> all these years - I would love to be able to prove Thomas' War time >> residence !!! >> >> I went to Google and learned the South Carolina 3rd Regiment formed at >> Ninety-six and the 5th regiment formed at Charleston! I follow the >> genealogist' thoughts about if Thomas were in the 5th he could not have >> lived in Abbeville. Or visa-versa! >> >> Can you help me?! >> >> Gloria Donaldson Wells >> gdwells@bellsouth.net >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCABBEVI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCABBEVI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >