Hardy Deloach Jr. (abt. 1758 - 1828)

Born about 1758 in South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elizabeth Ross — married 1782 in Beaufort District, South Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Nov 1828 at about age 70 in Liberty County, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Hardy was born about 1758 in Granville County, South Carolina. His parents were Hardy DeLoach Sr, and Elizabeth Hart.

His father fought against the Cherokee during the war with the Cherokee between 1758 and 1760. About the year 1765 Hardy Jr, moved with his family south to what would become the Beaufort District in 1768 to 1769. This area was part of older Granville County.

The Revolutionary War began in 1775 after the Lexington Massachusetts local militia encountered British soldiers in April of 1775 and shots were fired. The fighting spread to Concord and then throughout the colonies.

Beaufort played no major role in the early years of the Revolution, but as British hopes for success faded in New York and Pennsylvania they looked southward, and in December, 1778, captured and occupied Savannah. Early in the New Year General Prevost sent H. M. S. Vigilant with two hundred and fifty troops aboard to capture Beaufort. They landed at Laurel Bay and marched toward Beaufort but were intercepted and repulsed near the present Marine Air Station by General William Moultrie with three hundred militia. The British returned to their ship but the Americans were forced to abandon the defense of Port Royal Island because the small garrison at Fort Lyttleton, guarding Beaufort, had spiked the guns and blown up the fort on the approach of the seventy-four gun ship-of-the-line, Vigilant.

The next month, Prevost attempted, with near success, to capture Charleston but was forced to retreat down the coast, finally occupying Beaufort in July, 1779. In October the siege of Savannah by American troops and the French West indies fleet forced the British to evacuate Beaufort. Charleston fell to the British in 1780. During its occupation (1780-82) the King’s Highway to Savannah was guarded by the British Fort Balfour at Coosawhatchie.

In the Beaufort area, bitter rivalries led to scattered fighting between Tories and Patriots. Colonel John Laurens, son of Henry Laurens and close friend of Alexander Hamilton, was killed near the Combahee River in one of the last skirmishes of the Revolutionary War.

Hardy Jr, along with brothers, uncles, and his father served the Patriot cause in South Carolina in the army. The Patriots of South Carolina were in constant peril. The British attacked Charles Town in 1776 but were defeated. This was followed by another attack that also failed. A third attempt was made and Charles Town was captured by the British in May 1780. Over 400 land engagements were fought in South Carolina. From August of 1781 to January of 1782 Hardy served with the Upper Granville County Regiment part of the 4th Brigade of South Carolina Militia under Colonel Benjamin Garden and later Colonel William Harden.

After the British defeat at Kings Mountain in 1780 and the Battle of Cowpens in 1781 and the arrival of Gen. Nathaniel Greene the British were pushed out of South Carolina. The war came to an end in 1782.

Military

Hardy Jr. served in the South Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War.

DAR applications for this ancestor Hardy Deloach Jr. Service: SOUTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE Birth: 1758 SOUTH CAROLINA Death: 11-18-1828 LIBERTY CO GEORGIA Service Source: SC ARCH, ACCTS AUD #1847, ROLL #32; SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOK X, PART 2, P 197, LIBER X, #3918; ANDREWS, SC REV WAR INDENTS: A SCHEDULE, P 73; HITZ, AUTH LIST OF ALL LAND LOTTERY GRANTS MADE TO VETS OF THE REV WAR BY GA, P 23 Service Description: 1) MILITIA, COLS GARDEN, HARDEN

Life after the Revolutionary War

Hardy married Mary Elizabeth Ross in 1782. He moved to Liberty County, Georgia. Hardy was a fortunate drawer in the 1827 Land Lottery while living in Liberty County. He drew lots in Lee and Muscogee County on May 9th 1828.

Hardy Jr. died November 18, 1828 in Liberty County, Georgia

Family

Hardy and Mary had the following known children:

1. Mary Jane b. 1783
2. Ross b. 1785
3. Rachel b, 1787
4. Sarah b. 1810

Research Notes

A Hardy Delotch was in the Effingham County, Georgia Militia in 1794 This person was created on 13 July 2010 through the import of Brewton-Hagan family tree Copy 4 08

Sources

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/c/o/William-Renaie-Scott-jr/GENE3-0002.html

• https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/515338-authentic-list-of-all-land-lottery-grants-made-to-veterans-of-the-revolutionary-war-by-the-state-of-georgia-taken-from-official-state-records-in-the-surveyor-general-department-housed-in-the-georgia-department-of-archives-and-history-atlanta?viewer=1&offset=0#page=23&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/liberty/census/1820/pg311.txt

• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLW-JJH : accessed 21 November 2019), Hardy Deloach, Liberty, Georgia, United States; citing p. 313, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 8; FHL microfilm 175,767.

• Find-a-grave #195330175

• DAR applications for Hardy Deloach Jr Ancestor #: A031551