Greetings folks,
After a bunch of digging around (I guess that it requires that you are
interested in such things) I believe that I've found evidence that would
make one of the Cardwells a veteran of the Revolutionary war. I'm very
excited about this since it also allows those that are his descendants
to apply for membership in the SAR and DAR. It also provides another
piece of history to the Cardwell family story.
John Cardwell and Keziah Lowe had a son named Perrin Cardwell. Perrin
married Sarah Cearley on 11 March 1767 in Rowan County, NC, father Henry
Cearley giving consent. Perrin and family are next found in Surry Co, NC
in 1772 on tax list. In 1774 he is listed in Benjamin Cleveland's
District in Surry Co.,NC and again in 1775. Wilkes county was formed
from Surry county around this time and we next find Perin in the Wilkes
County, NC Land Entry Book on 9 December 1778 when he bought 400 acres
"near the narrows of Naked Creek". He is found mentioned in this same
source several more times in 1779. In the Wilkes County Court Minutes he
is recorded in 1779, 1780 and 1784. There are numerous records
concerning him after that war, but I provided the above to place and
document that Perrin Cardwell was in Wilkes County during that time
frame and that he palced in the tax district of Col. Benjamin Cleveland.
In addition, after the war he is listed in the tax district of Captain
Cleveland (probably the son of the Col.).
From "The Overmountain Men" by Pat Alderman; ISBN 0-932807-16-X page 86
"During the night (September 30, 1780) Colonel Benjamin Cleveland with
the men from Wilkes county and Major Joseph Winston and his company from
Surry County, joined the Overmountain men, bringing the total of the
force to about fourteen hundred." Also listed on page 120 under soldiers
at King's Mountain is Perrin Cardwell.
In addition to this in 1796 Perrin Cardwell and Robert Cleveland are
mentioned together in the county records. There is also a Robert
Cleveland listed in the soldiers at King's Mountian. In 1804 in the
Wilkes county Deed Book Perrin's son Thomas sells land to William
Forrester and it is witnessed by Thomas Isbell, another man listed in
the soldiers of King's Mountain and Robert Cleveland. This puts Perrin
in assocation with other known Wilkes county militiamen after the war.
I am currently awaiting information on the specific unit history of the
Company of militia under Col. Benjamin Cleveland. I'll provide more
detail when I receive it. For those of you that don't know, the Battle
of King's Mountian was the first major win for the American forces over
the British. There is even a group known as the Sons of King's Mountain
that is comprised of the decendants of these patriots. I've visted the
battlefield and the stood on the ground from which Col. Cleveland's
Company attacked the British. They fought their way uphill to overtake
the entreached redcoats. Be proud of Perrin Cardwell of Wilkes County.
As a former US Marine and Gulf War veteran I find a special pride in
researching members of our family that have stood and fought for what
they believe in. I hope that you do too.
Later,
Rand Cardwell
cardwellr@icx.net
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CARDWELL/1998-02/0886532861
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