Hardy De Loach (abt. 1735 - abt. 1820)

Born about 1735 in Edgecombe, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hart) Deloach — married 1756 in Craven, South Carolina

Descendants

Died about 1820 at about age 85 in Georgia, United States

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Biography

Hardy De Loach served during the French and Indian War.

Soldier Hardy De Loach served with Upper Granville County Regiment, South Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Hardy De Loach is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A031550.

Hardy was born about 1735 in North Carolina. His parents were William DeLoach and Judith Wall. He moved to South Carolina with his family as a child. His family settled in the PeeDee River area, on a 200 acre tract on the south side of the river. This is in modern-day Chesterfield County. By 1754, the family moved to new lands located on Lynches Creek, attending that Baptist church there.

War broke out between Great Britain and France in 1754. This was known as the French and Indian War. During this period Hardy was married to Elizabeth Hart in 1756.

During the war the Cherokee were allies of the British against the French. This changed later with each side accusing the other of being disloyal. Hostilities broke out between the English and the Cherokee in 1758 and became open war by 1760. The Governor of South Carolina called out troops and ordered a gunpowder embargo against the Cherokee.

Hardy enlisted his service with Colonel Richard Richardson and was in the expedition against the Cherokee. The Cherokee were defeated in 1761 and signed a peace treaty with the South Carolina colony in Charles Town in 1762.

After 1765 Hardy moved his family to Beaufort District, South Carolina.

The Revolutionary War began in 1775 and spread 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 forst 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, along with brothers Michael and William and several sons, 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. 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

Cherokee Expedition:

.Served in the Cherokee war under Col. Richard Richardson whose men were mainly from Camden District of Craven County and some men from the western area of Williamsburg County.

Revolutionary War:

De Loach, Hardy Upper Granville County Regiment 1781 1782 60 Days under Lt. Jacob Buxton, Capt. Joseph Thomson from 8/10/1781 to 1/10/1782.^[1]

Life after the war

After the war ended Hardy lived in Beaufort District, South Carolina. He is on the 1790 census in Beaufort District. He later moved to Georgia to Effingham County. He died about 1820.

Family

The following information is from a biography on Hardy Deloach by Arthur HIll: CHILDREN OF HARDY AND ELIZABETH DeLOACH---

1. daughter DeLoach
2. Hardy DeLoach, Jr. (1760-1828) Mary Elizabeth Ross
3. John DeLoach (1762-1818) Elizabeth Durrence
4. Ephraim DeLoach (1777-1819) Sarah Durrence
5. Abraham DeLoach (1780-1840) (1) Elizabeth Row (2) Sarah Reeves
6. Mary Jane DeLoach (1783-1840) Jacob Futch
7. Rebecca DeLoach (1784-1820) Jesse Durrence (his first

marriage)

NOTE---Sarah, Elizabeth, and Jesse Durrence are all children of Welcome William Durrence (1737-1808) and Elizabeth Williams Durrence (1755-1820)

Research Notes

This person was created through the import of Brewton-Hagan family tree Copy 4 08 .ged on 13 July 2010. The following data was included in the gedcom

Note: @N24@

@N24@ NOTERevolutionary SoldierMoved to Beaufort, SC about 1750'sFamily moved to Bulloch County, Ga about 1796

Michael Desloges (b.ca.1645), a Huguenot refugee from France, immigrated in 1663 to Isle of Wight County, Virginia, anglicized the surname to DeLoach, and married Jane Griffith in 1668. Hardy DeLoach (b.ca.1735), direct descendant in the fourth generation, moved from North Carolina to the Beaufort district of South Carolina, and served in the Revolutionary War. Descendants lived in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere.

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 26 Sep 2021), "Record of Hardy De Loach, Sr.", Ancestor # A031550.

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-26W : accessed 1 March 2018), Hardy Deloach, Beaufort, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 492, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 568,151.

• http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/patriot_military_sc_privates_d.htm

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

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/tattnall/bios/bs26.txt

• http://genealogytrails.com/scar/patriots.htm

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