Hardy Sellers was born on 2 Mar 1757 in Johnson County, North Carolina. Hardy married Mary Cook, daughter of Abram Cook and Feebe Mastin. Mary died about 1824.Hardy Sellers and Mary Cook had eight (8) children.
Hardy then married Levinia Gulledge. Levinia Gulledge was a daughter of Joel Gulledge and Zilpha Huntley. She was born in 1803 in Anson County, North Carolina and died in Aug 1849 at the age of 46. Hardy Sellers and Levinia Gulledge had the two (2) children.
Hardy Sellers died 12 January 1835 at the age of 77 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Hardy Sellers is my 5th great grandfather on my maternal line.
Pension application of Hardy Sellers R9377[1]
State of North Carolina, Anson
County
On this 12th day of August
1834 personally appeared before me James Gordon one of the acting Justice of
the Peace of Anson County - Hardy Sellers a Soldier of the Revolution he being
very infirm aged 77 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on
his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832 - That he entered the service of the United
States under the following named offices and served as herein stated he was a
volunteer to serve in behalf of the United States in the year 1776 or 1777 as
well as he recollects the day or month he does not recollect. I was a private
in Capt. McMainer's[2] Company
called out by the authority of the State of South Carolina and march to
Hadley's Point [sic, Haddrell's Point] near Charleston, South Carolina and from
Haddrell’s Point to James Island and there remained until we were discharged.
Served two months in actual service. Also in the year that Charleston was taken
by the British I was a volunteer and served a tour of three months in actual
service. I with a number of others marched under Capt. Griffy to Georgetown
then to Lynches Crossway [sic, Lynches Causeway?] on Santee River then back to
Georgetown again and from place to place until discharged. I think the troops
was commanded by Col. McIntosh. Served three months and was discharged - and in
the same year that Gen. Gates [Horatio Gates] was defeated I was a volunteer to
serve three months. Marched under Capt. Stephen Jackson to Lynches Creek
against the British and Tories then from place to place until discharged by our
officers. Served three months in actual services - after the above service we
were all laid off into divisions first second and third and so on and each
division was to serve as it come to his turn. The tours was to be a month at a
time. I served two tours of division service with Capt. Griffy under Gen.
Marion. Marched up and down Santee River after the British and Tories until
discharged. Served two months and was discharged by our officers - Also I
served two tours of a month in each tour with Capt. Jackson under Gen. Marion
in pursuit of British and Tories also two tours with Lieutenant Jones and two
tours with Lieutenant Charles Jackson of Division Service under Gen. Marion
making in all my service so far as I can recollect a period of sixteen months
for which I claim a pension but it is far short of all my services rendered the
United States during the Revolutionary War as I was called out after the
company was laid off in divisions to march under Gen. Marion it is impossible
for me to make any further statement at present - I have no papers to prove any
services nor do I know of any person now living by whom I could prove my
services except one man and he turned a Tory after we had served together one
tour. I could not think of making use of his testimony.
Q1: Where and in what year were
you born?
Ans:
In Johnson County, NC, March 2, 1757
Q2: Have you any record of your
age and if so, where is it?
Ans:
No written record by my parents has told me I was born March 2, 1757
Q3: Where were you living when
called into service and where have you lived ever since the
Revolutionary
War and where do you now live?
Ans:
I lived in South Carolina, Chesterfield District near the North Carolina line
and has continued to live there ever since.
Q4: How were you called into
service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a
substitute, for whom?
Ans:
A volunteer or division or classment service.
Q5: State the names of some of
the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental
and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of
your service.
Ans:
Gen. Green thou I was with him but a short time. Gen. Marion these were
continental officers as I understood. Col. McIntosh, Col. Murphy, Capt. Griffy,
Capt. Jackson and Capt. McMannes, Lieutenants Jones and Jackson, these were
militia officers at the time of my service.
Q6: Did you ever receive a
discharge from the service and if so by whom, when was it given and what has
become of it?
Ans:
I received written discharges from my different officers but what has become of
them I know not.
Q7: State the names of persons
to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your
character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the
Revolution.
Ans:
John Phillips, Rev. Joel Gulledge, Col. Ratliff, Peter May Esq.
He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare his name
is not on the pension role of the agency of any State whatever the reasons for
making application in North Carolina is I live near the State line and is most
convenient for me in my helpless situation. Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year above.
Test S/ J Gordan, JP S/
Hardy Sellers
We Joel Gulledge Clergyman
residing in the same County and State and neighborhood and John Phillips
residing in the same, we hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hardy
Sellers the applicant who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be of the age therein stated that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the
Revolutionary War and that we concur in the opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid.
Test J.; Gordan – JP S/
Joel Gulledge Sr.
S/
John Phillips
State of North Carolina, Anson
County
This may certify that I knew
Mr. Hardy Sellers in the Revolutionary War, we both belong and muster in Capt.
Griffy's Company we were laid off into divisions or in classes each class
served as it come to its turn. I belong to one class and Hardy Sellers to
another and that he was a friend to his country and served as it come to his
turn and that his statement as a Soldier of the Revolution is entitled to
credit. Also I have known him ever since the Revolutionary War and that he continues
to be a man of veracity, November 14, 1834.
Test J. Gordan S/ Richard
Graves,[3] X his mark
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[1] Will Graves, Charles B. Baxley, Southern Campaigns of the America
Revolution,
(http://www.southerncampaign.org/ : viewed and downloaded 22
April 2012), Pension application R9377, Hardy Sellers.
[2] Bobby Moss, in his SC Roster,
lists a Thomas McManis and a Thomas McManess to whom this MIGHT be a reference.
[3] Richard
Graves S8598, http://revwarapps.org/#m
[4] Special THANKS goes to Will Graves the transcriber of the Pension application of Hardy Sellers R9377, Transcribed by Will Graves on 6/26/11 and posted on http://www.southerncampaign.org or a direct link to pension apps at: http://revwarapps.org/#m
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