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Engagements: 1781 - Between Saluda and Enoree Rivers 1781 - Cloud's Creek 1781 - Orangeburg 1781 - Edgehill's Plantation 1782 - Goose Creek 1782 - Wambaw Bridge, Santee 1782 - Tydiman's Plantation Tory leader, John Mayfield, was a Captain in the loyalist Ninety-Six Militia. Other captains were Math Floyd and George Zuber. Charlestown, South Carolina 19 April 1782 TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN WE your Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, once the inhabitants of the frontier of South Carolina, now refugees here, humbly beg leave openly to assure our Sovereign that we are His true and loyal Subjects, in which Principles we are confirmed, and stand independent, divested of all temporizing motives, in consequence of which we have sacrificed Our All, in order to enjoy the blessings of the happiest Constitution guarded by the best of Monarchs. Thus disposed, it is with astonishment and indignation we learn that men about your Royal Person dare to vilify the conduct of your faithful servants in America, we allude to the Duke of Richmond's Speech in the House of Peers the 31st of January 1782, when he openly disapproves of Justice being executed on the Rebel Haynes. It reflects on the characters of Earl Cornwallis, Lord Rawdon, and our Commandant Lieutenant Colonel Balfour, officers who have made the real interest of their Country the constant rule of their truly virtuous conduct. Gratitude should have drawn this acknowledgment from us, yet we might have been silent, had it not been for the open and extraordinary assertion of His Grace of Richmond “that the loyalists of South Carolina did not hesitate to denominate the execution of Haynes to be Murder, and that of the foulest complexion.” -- this we deny, and are fully of Opinion, that his execution was a proper example, and Just reward for his treason and infidelity and are Sorry the same mode of correcting rebels was so long deferred, through laudable, but we conceive, mistaken motives. We are not to suppose His Grace is ignorant that the Usurpers in this Province have murdered above three hundred Men, some after and some without pretended trials, on a bare Suspicion of their being attached to your Majesty's Government. His Grace and virtuous Colleagues (in the support of rebellion) sit at ease fabricating Systems to prolong the War, at the expense of the Blood, the treasure, the honor, the happiness of the Nation, whilst we without regret suffer in support and defense of Government. We sincerely lament the encouragement Rebellion receives from their opposition to your Majesty's Wise and Just measures, which without doubt has been conducive to prolong this unnatural rebellion, we therefore, actuated by Principles of Loyalty, and conducted by honest sincerity, have presumed to make this declaration of our Sentiments, and that your Majesty's benevolent endeavors for the happiness of your People, be crowned with Success, is the most sincere wish of Your Majesty's Most dutiful and Loyal Subjects Signed By: Thomas Fletchall, Colonel of the Forks of Broad and Saluda Rivers Joseph Robinson, Lieut-Colonel, South Carolina Royalists Evan McLaurin, Lieut-Colonel, Second Battalion South Carolina Royalists Thomas Edgehill, Lieut-Colonel of Little Saluda Regiment of Militia. John Hamilton, Colonel, Lower Regiment of Ninety-Six Militia Daniel Clary, Lieut-Colonel, Dutch Fork William Ballintine, Lieut. Colonel, Dutch Fork Zacharias Gibbs, Major, Pacolet Daniel Plummer, Lieut-Colonel, Tiger River John Phillips, Colonel, Winnsborough Militia, and Camden Militia James Miller, Captain, Jackson's Creek Militia |
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