PENSION RECORDS:

• Loftis R. MUNNERLYN
  Two very interesting documents contributed by Francine Jones, February 2000.
  Everyone with an interest in Revolutionary War history will want to read these!
• William ROZIER (and his widow, Chloe Brown Rozier)
  Another treasure, contributed by Jo Church Dickerson, March 2000.

REJECTED PENSION APPLICATIONS OF MARION RESIDENTS as cited in Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions (Washington, D.C., 1835, revised 1852). Please note that the thousands of men who fought for the colonial government were entitled to receive pensions or bounty land grants for their service but proof of service was required. After the veteran's death, his widow was entitled to apply for a pension as well. The list below is of those Marion County residents who had applied for a pension and were required to submit additional information before a pension was granted.
NAME	REASON FOR REJECTION
AYER, Darius	Alleges six months service in the Maryland militia. He must furnish narrative of service, and give period and grade, and names of company and field officers.
BLACKMAN, David	For proof of service.
COLEMAN, Prudence, widow of Robert	For further proof of service and marriage.
FLOYD, Orson	Alleges two years and three months service in the North Carolina line. Name not on the army records at Raleigh. He must furnish proof by living comrades.
ROGERS, Mary Ann, widow of Lott	No claim--not six months' service.
ROSSER, John	He did not serve six months.
TURNER, John	He did not serve six months.

MARION COUNTY AND LOYALISTS

It is estimated a third of South Carolinians remained loyal to the crown during the American Revolution, especially portions of Marion County, from the Lumber River (then called Drowning Creek) to Britton's Neck, was a loyalist stronghold. Two prominent farmers in that area, Micajah GAINEY, and Jesse BARFIELD, led a loyalist regiment against Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, in several battles.

Marion and his troops regularly roamed the "Pee Dee" area swamps (Pee Dee being the name of a local indian tribe and two great rivers that run through eastern/coastal South Carolina). Snow's Island, at Johnsonville, S.C., near where the Pee Dee and Lynches Rivers converge, is home of Marion's hide-out.

RECOLLECTIONS:

BUG HILL TOWNSHIP (township in southern Columbus Co., NC)

In June, 1781, the area now known as Bug Hill Township was included in a truce land set apart "as a refuge for non-combatants during the Revolutionary War by an agreement between Colonel Gainey and General Francis Marion. The area was under rigid military rule. Toward the end of the war the section became a refuge for robbers and renegades" (Federal Writers' Project, North Carolina, A Guide to the Old North State [Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1939], p. 337). The papers of General Joseph Graham speak of soldiers under his command marching from Lockwoods Folly to Seven Creeks. (Seven Creeks is located near Pireway.) In October, 1781, after fighting at Seven Creeks, the group marched to Marsh Castle.

REFERENCE: (James Rogers, Columbus County (Whiteville: News Reporter, 1946).

Revolutionary War Bibliography (Partial) for South Carolina: