by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Michael C. Scoggins, York County Culture and Heritage Commission, June 2003 Friday, 12 May: After a siege of about two weeks, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln surrenders the entire Southern Continental Army in Charleston to the British expeditionary force under Sir Henry...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
RESEARCH BY JOHN T. MISSKELLEY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE EDITED BY JOHN C. DANN UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1980 MOSES HALL’S PENSION APPLICATION, BORN IN ROWAN COUNTY , NORTH CAROLINA HE SERVED NINE TOURS OF DUTY FROM 1780 TO 1781. HALL MOVED TO...
by tkendrick | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
BY JOHN T. MISSKELLEY During the summer of 1999, The Culture and Heritage Commission of York County was having a fund-raiser at Hightower Hall, [an antebellum plantation at Historic Brattonsville, located near McConnells, South Carolina] to raise funds for the...
by tkendrick | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
By John T. Misskelley THE ESTABLISHED SETTLER There were two types of settlers who traveled the great Philadelphia Wagon road. The first were the established families, who had been able to pay the passage from the north of Ireland to Philadelphia . The Londonderry...
by tkendrick | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Michael C. Scoggins, York County Historical Center April 14, 1573: “We are given to understand that a nobleman named ‘Sorley Boy’ (Macdonnell) and others, who be of the Scotch-Irish race, and some of the wild Irish, at this time are content to acknowledge our true and...
