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 Loyalist Capt. Joseph Jones, infuriated at Col. Abel Kolb for Drowning Creek and Hulin's Mill, assembled some fifty men at Maidendown Bay (in present-day Marion County) and rode towards the Pee Dee River. Capt. Jones and his men surrounded Col. Kolb's home and yelled for Col. Kolb to come outside, which he soon did. Walking out the front door, one of Jones's men promptly shot Col. Kolb in front of his wife and children. Capt. Jones then plundered the home and burned it. On the night of 27-28 April, South Carolina militia leader Col. Abel Kolb, known for his relentless suppression of the Loyalists around Drowning Creek and the upper Pee Dee, was captured at his home, by fifty North Carolina Loyalists. The latter had gathered on Catfish Creek and were led by Capt. Joseph Jones. In the course of what took place, Col. Kolb was shot by one of the Loyalists and his home burned down. The action was probably in retaliation for Col. Kolb’s killing of John Deer and hanging of Caleb Williams at Hulin’s Mill a day earlier. Afterward, Col. Kolb's death seemed to have emboldened many of the Loyalists in the Drowning Creek region. Although Col. Kolb may correctly be seen to have been at times ruthless himself in his methods, nevertheless, he was a formidable militia leader and was of significant assistance in reinforcing Marion after Col. Doyle’s raid on Snow’s Island, sending men to Gen. Marion when the latter was before Fort Watson, and in keeping down the loyalists to the north of Gen. Marion’s operations generally. |
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