Restless Souls and Shallow Graves by Rebecca McNutt

and out of 1125 he killed and captured 1105 English and Tories. Campbell who informs me that he defeated Ferguson at King's Mt. At Guilford I had the opportunity of seeing Col. We got to Hillsborough the fourth day of October about 10 o'clock and that day we marched 6 miles on our way to Guilford. Some think that they are on the way to Charleston. Part of them went to Camden and crossed the Catawba River. Morgan's Light Infantry and we cannot tell how soon we must march from here. we arrived at headquarters about ten miles below Charlotte where Major-Gen'l Smallwood's Regiment was in camp, but we are to join Col. I am well at present thanks be to God for his mercies to me and I hope these few lines may find you and all my dear connections in the same state of health. I have written letters and left them at different places. =Her first husband wrote her in an undated letter: My Dear Wife, I have longed for an opportunity to write to you but have never yet been so fortunate as to have any way to send a letter to you. The names of some of her children need documentation. Robert Arthur, abt 1792 (Catherine Thomas Anderson) below Widowed, she married second to Arthur Glasgow in 'about 1782.' Another source ** says it was his 'thumb, which caused lock-jaw, from which he died in a few days.' Poor gal! The battle took place where McCorkle's wrist was wounded. In Jan 1781, she lost her father, her brother Robert and her first husband, John McCorkle, in the Battle at Cowpens in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Morgan and was promoted from ensign to Lieutenant. She married John McCorkle (1745 - ) in Virginia. Her gravestone says she died Jan 1818, aged 63 years, so she was born in ABOUT 1755. Rebeckah Anderson McNutt, born in Virginia, was the daughter of John McNutt and Katherine Anderson.

Restless Souls and Shallow Graves by Rebecca McNutt