William McCarter

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He was listed with his first wife and six children in the 1790 Fedral Census of Ninety-Six District, Abbeville County, South Carolina.

William McCarter filed a pension application for his Revolutionary War services in the South Carolina militia. His pension papers give a detailed story of his military service in the Revolutionary War. It reads as follows:

'The State of South Carolina) York District ) 'On this 10th day of October A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Wm. D. Master one of the Judge of the Superior Court of the said State, William McCarter, aged seventy four years who being duly swor according to Law doth on his oath Make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congres passed 7 June 1832.

'That as well as he can recollect in the year 1775 he entered service of the United States as a militia soldier under the command of Col. Thomas Neil, Capt. John Miller's company against the Cherokee Indians that he was about on duty this tour about two months. That he then resided in South Carolina in the present district of York. That he was in several engagements there with the Indians in the Indian Towns.

That he next served in the 1779 or thereabout a tour of duty at Orangeburgh, South Carolina that he was drafted to serve this tour commanded by Col. Thos. Niel & Major Hawthorne in Capt. Byers Company. Here he joined the tour three months, raiding ______ in the same place.

'The next tour of service was during the Revolution at the Four Holes in South Carolina where he went by command of Col. Hill & Howe Militia Colonel who forwarded to him a Commission as Captain of the Militia. That under the Commission he acted as a Captain of Militia at the Four Holes for three months...That he cannot fix the year of his own recollection. That he was then residing at the same place under the Military Command of Colonel Wm. Hill & Col. Jas. Howe. That during he tour they had some skirmish with the Tories.

'The Next Tour of duty performed by him was under General Marion. Then Colonel Marion where he acted as a private & a volunteer on the Santee River, South Carolina below the Eutaw Springs. This duty was performed as well as he can recollect in the year 1779 and he was out during this tour two months.

'That he also served other tours of duty in the Revolutionary War as a Whig Soldier of the Militia at various times but for what length of time he cannot recollect precisely but he can certainly say that it amounted to one year in addition to the forgoing services. That only for a few days was the detachments he was in Service was connected with any regular troops and then only for a few days while at Bacon Bridge near Dorchester who command the regular troops he cannot now remember --- That he has now no discharge from services nor has he any documentary evidence of his services nor can he procure any that he is aware of... That he can prove his service by Capt. James Martin and Robert Hannah.

'And that he does hereby relinquish every claim to any pension or annuity whatever except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.'

'Sworn to Subscribed the) His day & the year aforesaid) William X McCarter in open Court.' ) Mark A. W. W. Thorten CCC Dp After the war William received a patent (or land grant) for 200 acres of land 'in the district of Ninety-Six and County of Edgefield on a creek called Rocky Creek waters of Stephens Creek' from the State of South Carolina on 6 November 1786. He was living in Abbeville County, South Carolina at this time.

William McCarter sold this tract of land (200 acres) to Peter Huskey and Jonathan Huskey of the State of South Carolina and the County of Edgewood on 28 October 1797.

His first wife must have died circa 1790 in Abbeville County, South Carolina according to his Revolutionary War pension papers. They had eight children as shown in the 1800 Federal Census of Edgefield County, South Carolina and the 1810 Federal Census of York County, South Carolina.

William McCarter and his family by second marriage lived in the county of York in South Carolina until 1825 when they migrated to Lincoln County, North Carolina. Here he lived until his death.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2', 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 58, 59-60.