> 1778: from Fort to Ogeechee, ``Saturday morning, another engagement at
> North Newport River, but could not stop the progress of our Enemies;
> upon which most of those in the Fort were so terrified that they fled
> from it, in order to get over Ogeechee with their families, none
> remaining but mine, upon which I moved with mine into the woods, and
> then camped.'' Source: Stacy-R
In case it's not obvious, this series of daily quotations is from Midway
records of our ancestors trying to stop the British invasion of Georgia
in the Revolution.
So far the British have already taken Capt. Moses Way (1734-1786) prisoner,
defeated a battalion of twenty in his house, and wounded two of them,
all on November 19. On November 20 they wounded Col. John Baker (d. 1792)
and Mr. William Golding (d. 1786), and that neighborhood "fled from their
habitations". John Winn, Esq. (d. 1786), took some of them in.
Oddly enough for Midway people, as near as I can tell none of the four
people just mentioned were related.
John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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