South Carolina Backcountry Loyalists Prisoners
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- See: the Category for the Backcountry Prisoners for profiles of the prisoners.
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Petition for Amnesty
- Petition by thirty three South Carolina Backcountry Loyalists who were captured by Col. Richard Richardson during the "Snow Campaign"'[1] of Dec 1775 and sent by him for incarceration to Charles Town (Charleston). In the following month, the prisoners petitioned the authorities for a reprieve with a promise to preserve the peace.
- Although the petition is not dated, the editors of The Papers of Henry Laurens have dated it on the basis of a report in the Journal of the Council of Safety that a petition from Robert Cunningham, Thomas Fletchall and others was read on 20 Jan 1776.[2][3][4]
- January 20, 1776
- We The Subscribers Humbly Sheweth, that whereas there has Been Diversity of Opinions, and Disturbances, in the Frontier parts of this province. Which grieves us to heart that we ever Should have Been at Variance, with our Countrymen, and good Neighbors. Hon. Gentlemen - We Therefore, find the Greatest Freedom, to Enter into any Honorable Terms of Unity, to preserve the peace in this Disturbed province, and the peace of good Neighborhood. Gentlemen - We Your Humble Petitioners here in Common Goal, a Few of Whom You Do call Leading persons of the Party that was Against you. And According to Your Honorable Articles that [may] be Agreed on. We shall on any Forfeit Promise to Endeavor to Settle Peace to Your Satisfaction, And the Unity of the different Settlements, in the Frontiers Gentlemen - We Wait With Leisure on Your Call And Forsodoing it will be Always Esteemed by us Your Humble Petitioners.
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Loyalists Excluded From the Pardon of Apr 1776
- On 11 Apr 1776, the South Carolina General Assembly issued a "Declaration of Pardon or Amnesty" for the captured Backcountry Loyalists taken during the "Snow Campaign."[1] The following loyalists were excluded from the pardon:[5]
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Complete List of 136 Prisoners Captured During the Snow Campaign and Sent to Charles Town by Col. Richardson:[6]
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Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Snow Campaign at Wikipedia
- ↑ The Papers of Henry Laurens, Volume 11, Jan. 5, 1776 – Nov. 1, 1777, pages 51-52, published by the South Carolina Historical Society.
- ↑ Petition From SC Backcountry Prisoners - Jan 1776
- ↑ Drayton, John and William Henry Drayton. Memoirs of the American Revolution: From its Commencement to the Year 1776, Inclusive, as Relating to the State of South-Carolina, and Occasionally Refering (sic) to the States of North-Carolina and Georgia, 1742-1779. Charleston Publ., 1821. pg 130
- ↑ Norfleet, Phil. Backcountry Loyalists Excluded from the Pardon of Apr 1776
- ↑ List of 136 Loyalists Captured During the Snow Campaign
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