General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Jr.
H. Jackson Darst, "The Darsts of Virginia--A Chronicle of T
en
Generations in the Old Dominion (With Sketches of the Cecil
,
Charlton, Glendy, Grigsby, Larew, Miller, Trolinger, Welch
, Wygal and
Wysor Families)," Williamsburg, VA, 1972, p. 368, et seq.
: Moved with
his father to Montgomery (nowPulaski) County, Va., in 1776
. Served in
the Montgomery militia. Assisted his father in the manufact
ure of
gunpowder during the war. After the Revolution returned t
o Orange
County, N.C., whre he received a pension for his military s
ervice.
Ancestor of the North Carolina Trolingers."
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Cliff's book, p. 101: "... daughter of Henry and Mary "Poll
y"
(Thomas) Trollinger. Henry Trollinger was the son of Jaco
b Henry
Trolinger who was born in Germany in 1718 and accompanied h
is father,
Adam, from Germany to PA in 1737,then to Orange Co., NC i
n 1745. ...
When Henry was very young, his father sent him and a youn
g negro,
Thomas Husk, to General George Washington with the note tha
t "he
hoped both together would make one good soldier, neither be
ing of
age."
(Research):Henry Trolinger 1763-1844Henry Trolinger, Revolu
tionary War Soldier
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Henry Trolinger, born 2 March 1763 to Jacob Henry Trolinge
r and Barbara McCoy
in Trolinger's Ford (now Haw River) North Carolina  serve
d as a volunteer three times
during the Revolutionary war, worked his fathers saltpete
r mine in Virginia to make
gunpowder between tours, and was father of ten children o
f his wife Mary Thomas.
Henry's revolutionary war service is told in his own word
s as recorded in a
court record of Orange County North Carolina in September o
f 1832.  Although
he was born and died in North Carolina, acording to his tes
timony and his Gravestone [cem]
his father moved them to Virginia sometime in 1776 where th
ey manufactured
gun powder for the revolutionary war effort.
In the summer of 1779 he was drafted into the Montgomery Co
unty, Virginia Militia
under Captain Abraham Trigg.  This tour was one of searchin
g for supplies
including "to find gun, horse & ammunition."  Marching on f
oot they joined
with Col Campbell mounted militia and all "about 400 in num
ber"
marched to the Western part of North Carolina.  Headquarter
s was
established in the Monravian Towns and and from there excur
sions were
made where they encountered tories, "some of whom they whip
ed, others they
hanged."
Towards the end of this three month tour they marched to Mo
ngauton, and this
mission acomplished Col Campbell and his mounted militia se
perated.  The the
Montgomery Militia returned to Virginia, probably in Octobe
r, and were  released
from this tour of duty a few days after arriving home.
Throughout the winter of 1779-1780 Henry manufactured gunpo
wder with
his father and possibly his brother John.
Revolutionary War Service;
1st tour 1779: Search and aquire supplies, whipped and hun
g tories
2nd tour 1780: Indian uprising protection
3rd tour 1780: Battle of the Shallow Ford, shot and whippe
d tories
As told in 1832 court records by Henry Trolinger "in his ow
n words"
is a clear account of his service in and for the state of V
irginia,
Montgomery County, militia.
Henry Trolinger is buried at the Trolinger Cemetery at Trol
inger's
Ford (now Haw River) North Carolina.
;
State of North Carolina
Orange County
On the 16th day of September 1832. Personally appeared
before the Judge of the Superior Court of Law & Equity
in & for said County in open Court now sitting, Henry Tro
linger of the said County & State aged between sixty nine
and seventy years; who being first duly sworn according to
Law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in
order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congres entered
the 7th June 1832._ That according to his information, upon
which he entirely relies, He was born in Orange County North
Caro