General Notes

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() 2 GIVN Capt. James
GEDCOMline 128757 not recognizable or too long:
() 2 SURN Chitwood
"Capt. James Chitwood was a Loyalist who was taken prisoner at the GEDCOM
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(NOTE) 2 CONC battle of King's Mountain in late September,1780.  The
victorious
GEDCOM line 128761 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC patriots were itching for revenge, and decided to stop and
hold what
GEDCOM line 128762 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC was termeda "drum head trial" the first night the prisoners
were
GEDCOM line 128763 notrecognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC being marched from the battle site.A score a local folks who
had
GEDCOM line 128764 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC taken the loyalists side were convicted and sentenced to die.
Nine
GEDCOM line 128765 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC were indeed hung, when high officers interrupted the
proceedings and
GEDCOM line 128766 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC put a halt to the executions.Eight were buried in shallow
graves by
GEDCOM line 128767 not recognizable ortoo long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC the side of the road immediately after the executionswere
stopped.
GEDCOM line 128768 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC The body of James Chitwood was carried by some local
sympathizers to
GEDCOMline 128769 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC the crown to their own family burial ground about a mile away
and
GEDCOM line 128770 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC given a real grave.  His sons were arrested bypatriot forces
and
GEDCOM line 128771 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2CONC given several choices - take their father's political side and
face
GEDCOM line 128772 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC exile or take theOath of Allegiance to the patriot cause and
be on
GEDCOM line 128773 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC their way.  They chose to take the Oath, and left North
Carolina for
GEDCOM line 128774 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC less and settles lands further west."........sent to me in
e-mail by
GEDCOM line 128775 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC Jane Dresser
"Capt. James Chitwood was a Tory during the Revolutionary War and was GEDCOM
line 128778 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC captured and hungafter the battle of King's Mountain NC.
"The names
GEDCOM line 128779 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC of the condemned Tories were --- ColonelAmbrose Mills, Capt.
James
GEDCOM line 128780 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC Chitwood, Capt. Wilson, Capt. Walter Gilkey, Capt. Grimes,
Lieutenant
GEDCOM line 128781 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC Lafferty, John McFall, John Bibby, and Augustine Hobbs.  They
were
GEDCOM line 128782 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC swung off the Gallows Oak, threeat a time, and left suspended
at the
GEDCOM line 128783 not recognizable ortoo long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC place of execution.  According to Lieutenant Allaire's
acocunt, they
GEDCOM line 128784 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC died like soldiers --- like martyrs, in their own and friends'
GEDCOM line 128785 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC estimation.  "These brave but unfortunate Loyalists', says
Allaire,
GEDCOM line 128786 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC 'with their latest breath expressed their unutterable
detestation of
GEDCOM line 128787 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC the Rebels, and of their base and infamous proceedings; and,
as they
GEDCOM line 128788 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC were being turned off, extolled thier King and the British
Government,
GEDCOM line 128789 not recognizable or too long:
(NOTE) 2 CONC Mills, Wilson, and Chitwood died like Romans.....The poor
Loyalist
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