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- William McCarter is strongly believed to be the father of James McCarter who
married Rebecca Ogle, but no absolute proof has been found for this partcular
father-son relationship. He moved with his parents from his birthplace to
"Hawfields," North Carolina, then on to York County, South Carolina.
He was listed with his first wife and six children in the 1790 Fedral Census of
Ninety-Six District, Abbeville County, South Carolina.
William McCarter filed a pension application for his Revolutionary War services
in the South Carolina militia. His pension papers give a detailed story of his
military service in the Revolutionary War. It reads as follows:
"The State of South Carolina)
York District ) "On this 10th day of October A.D. 1832
personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Wm. D. Master one of the
Judge of the Superior Court of the said State, William McCarter, aged seventy
four years who being duly swor according to Law doth on his oath Make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congres
passed 7 June 1832.
"That as well as he can recollect in the year 1775 he entered service of the
United States as a militia soldier under the command of Col. Thomas Neil, Capt.
John Miller's company against the Cherokee Indians that he was about on duty
this tour about two months. That he then resided in South Carolina in the
present district of York. That he was in several engagements there with the
Indians in the Indian Towns.
That he next served in the 1779 or thereabout a tour of duty at Orangeburgh,
South Carolina that he was drafted to serve this tour commanded by Col. Thos.
Niel & Major Hawthorne in Capt. Byers Company. Here he joined the tour three
months, raiding ______ in the same place.
"The next tour of service was during the Revolution at the Four Holes in South
Carolina where he went by command of Col. Hill & Howe Militia Colonel who
forwarded to him a Commission as Captain of the Militia. That under the
Commission he acted as a Captain of Militia at the Four Holes for three
months...That he cannot fix the year of his own recollection. That he was then
residing at the same place under the Military Command of Colonel Wm. Hill &
Col. Jas. Howe. That during he tour they had some skirmish with the Tories.
"The Next Tour of duty performed by him was under General Marion. Then Colonel
Marion where he acted as a private & a volunteer on the Santee River, South
Carolina below the Eutaw Springs. This duty was performed as well as he can
recollect in the year 1779 and he was out during this tour two months.
"That he also served other tours of duty in the Revolutionary War as a Whig
Soldier of the Militia at various times but for what length of time he cannot
recollect precisely but he can certainly say that it amounted to one year in
addition to the forgoing services. That only for a few days was the
detachments he was in Service was connected with any regular troops and then
only for a few days while at Bacon Bridge near Dorchester who command the
regular troops he cannot now remember --- That he has now no discharge from
services nor has he any documentary evidence of his services nor can he procure
any that he is aware of... That he can prove his service by Capt. James Martin
and Robert Hannah.
"And that he does hereby relinquish every claim to any pension or annuity
whatever except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state."
"Sworn to Subscribed the) His
day & the year aforesaid) William X McCarter
in open Court." ) Mark
A. W. W. Thorten
CCC Dp
After the war William received a patent (or land grant) for 200 acres of land
"in the district of Ninety-Six and County of Edgefield on a creek called Rocky
Creek waters of Stephens Creek" from the State of South Carolina on 6 November
1786. He was living in Abbeville County, South Carolina at this time.
William McCarter sold this tract of land (200 acres) to Peter Huskey and
Jonathan Huskey of the State of South Carolina and the County of Edgewood on 28
October 1797.
His first wife must have died circa 1790 in Abbeville County, South Carolina
according to his Revolutionary War pension papers. They had eight children as
shown in the 1800 Federal Census of Edgefield County, South Carolina and the
1810 Federal Census of York County, South Carolina.
William McCarter and his family by second marriage lived in the county of York
in South Carolina until 1825 when they migrated to Lincoln County, North
Carolina. Here he lived until his death.
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Reference:
"Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 2", 1983, Donald B. Reagan, p 58, 59-60.
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