The Battle of Mobley’s Meeting
House
225th Anniversary
Re-enactment
The 225th Anniversary re-enactment of the
Battle of Mobley’s Meeting House was presented by the
The schedule for this event was:
Saturday 25 June : 1000 am – Gates open to
the public
1100 am – Dedication Ceremony hosted by
the
Thomas Woodward
Chapter, DAR
100 pm – Guest Speaker
200 pm – Re-enactment
500 pm – End
of day’s activities
Sunday 25 June : 1000 am – Gates open to the
public
1100 am – Period Service in the Liberty
Church
100 pm – Guest Speaker
200 pm – Re-enactment
500 pm – End of day’s activities
For more information, please contact:
(803)-635-9811
http://www.midnet.sc.edu/fairfieldmus/
A history of the Academy is at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1499/academy.html
A history of Feasterville and the Academy is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scfairfi/feastervhis.html
The
small community of Feasterville is named for one of its founding families who
had immigrated into
Nearby
the Mobley family had built a meetinghouse on their land in the 1770s. It is said that it was burned sometime after
the June, 1780 skirmish and its location has been lost to memory. It was definitely still in existence in 1786,
but was gone by August 1820. A volunteer
archaeological group has recently found evidence pointing to a possible
location in an unapproachable location near Little River, a tributary of the
Synopsis of the Battle of Mobley’s Meeting House
(From “All that
Dare Oppose Them : The Whig Victory at Mobley’s
Meeting House, June 1780”, by
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Between 7 and 11 June, most likely 10 June 1780, a small body
of Whig militia numbering between 100 and 200 in total was formed from the
commands of Colonel William Bratton, Colonel (Captain) Edward Lacey, Captain (Colonel) John McClure, Colonel Samuel Watson, Colonel Cooper, and Colonel William Hill, with Majors Richard Winn and Patrick ‘Paddy’ McGriff as the Field Majors and Adjutant James ‘Jemmy’ Johns(t)on.
This group was comprised in large part of the Whig forces that had a few
days earlier routed and scattered a Tory gathering at Beckhamville under the command of the Tory Colonel Houseman.
Colonel William Bratton was elected overall field commander for the
engagement, and this group attacked a formation of Tories who were plundering
the greater Fairfield District neighborhood in the aftermath of the fall of
Rosters of the Battle of Mobley’s Meeting House
(From “All that
Dare Oppose Them : The Whig Victory at Mobley’s
Meeting House, June 1780”, by
The author is interested in information on the members
of the Whig and Tory organizations, and especially any information to confirm
or nor the presence of those on the “possible” lists. Those on the possible lists are documented in
the companies listed, but it is not documented that they were in those
organizations at the time of Mobley’s Meeting House.
|
WHIGS AT MOBLEY'S MEETING HOUSE |
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LNAME |
FNAME |
RANK |
COMPANY |
REGIMENT |
Adams |
Samuel |
Lt & Capt |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
Baker |
Thomas |
Capt |
Baker, Thomas |
Cooper |
Bratton |
William |
Col |
|
Bratton |
Brown |
John |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
Campbell |
William |
1Lt |
Howe, Robert |
Watson |
Carnahan |
Thomas |
Capt |
|
Bratton |
Carson |
William |
Fifer |
Martin, James |
Bratton |
Clinton |
James |
3-Pvt, Lt, Capt |
Howe, Joseph |
A. Neal |
Cooper |
unk |
Col |
|
Cooper |
Craig |
John |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Davis |
James(?) |
Lt |
Howe, Joseph |
A. Neal |
Davis |
William |
Lt & Pvt |
Howe, Robert |
Bratton |
Evans |
Owen |
Ensign |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
Gaston |
Alexander |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Gaston |
David |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Gaston |
Ebenezer |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Gaston |
Hugh |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Gaston |
John |
Doctor |
McClure, John |
|
Gaston |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Gill |
George |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Goldsmith |
John |
Pvt |
Baker, Thomas |
Cooper |
Gordon |
Samuel |
Pvt |
Howe, Robert |
A. Neal |
Hampton |
Henry |
|
Prisoner |
|
Hampton |
John |
Capt |
Prisoner |
|
Harbison |
James |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Harrison |
|
Maj |
|
Hill |
Hill |
William |
Col |
|
Hill |
Hood |
John |
Pvt & Capt |
|
Bratton |
Houston |
Samuel |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Howe |
Robert |
Capt |
Howe, Robert |
A. Neal |
Johnston |
James |
Adjutant |
McClure, John |
|
Johnston |
John |
Pvt |
|
Lacey |
Johnston |
Matthew |
|
|
Lacey |
Johnston |
Samuel |
Pvt |
|
Lacey |
Kenedy |
William |
Pvt |
Steel, John |
Bratton |
Knox |
Hugh |
Ensign & Capt |
McClure, John |
Lacey |
Lacey |
Edward |
Colonel |
|
Lacey |
Lucas |
Randolph |
Pvt |
Shannon, Thomas |
Hill |
McCalla |
Samuel |
Pvt |
|
Lacey |
McClure |
Hugh |
1Lt |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
McClure |
John |
Capt |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
McClurken |
Thomas |
Pvt |
|
Lacey |
McCormick |
Robert |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
McGarrity |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
McGriff |
Patrick
'Paddy' |
Maj |
|
Watson |
McKeon |
Alexander |
Pvt |
|
|
McKeon |
Samuel |
Pvt |
|
|
Mills |
John |
Pvt |
|
|
Morrow |
Joseph |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Neal |
Andrew |
Col |
|
A. Neal |
Nixon |
John |
Lt Col |
|
Lacey |
Rainey |
Thomas |
Pvt |
|
Bratton |
Sadler |
David |
Pvt |
|
A. Neal |
Shannon |
Thomas |
Capt |
Shannon, Thomas |
Hill |
Simpson |
John |
Rev / Chaplain |
McClure, John |
Lacey |
Steele |
John |
Capt |
Steel, John |
Bratton |
Steele |
Thomas |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Stroud |
William
JR |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Taylor |
James |
Capt |
|
|
Taylor |
Thomas |
Colonel |
|
|
Wade |
Joseph |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Walker |
Alexander |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
Walker |
Robert |
Lt & Pvt |
McClure or Mills |
Lacey |
Walker |
Samuel |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Bratton |
Watson |
Samuel |
Colonel |
|
Watson |
White |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Lacey |
Winn |
John |
Capt |
|
|
Winn |
Richard |
Maj |
|
Bratton |
Wylie |
Francis |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Lacey |
Wylie |
James |
Pvt |
|
|
POSSIBLE
WHIGS AT MOBLEY'S MEETING HOUSE |
||||
LNAME |
FNAME |
RANK |
COMPANY |
REGIMENT |
Armstrong |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Bratton, William |
Bishop |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Bratton, William |
Burns |
Laird |
Pvt |
Walker & Gabby |
Lacey |
Clark |
William |
Pvt |
Miller |
Neal, Andrew |
Cunningham |
John |
Capt |
Cunningham, John |
Bratton, William |
Cunningham |
George |
Pvt |
Cunningham, John |
Neal or Hill |
Curren |
John |
Pvt |
Faris, Alexander (Lt) |
Hill |
Davis |
James |
Pvt, Lt, Capt |
Davis, Amos |
Bratton, William |
Davis |
Amos |
Capt |
Davis, Amos |
Bratton, William |
Elliot |
James |
Pvt |
McClure or Hugh Knox |
Lacey |
Gebie |
John |
Pvt |
Faris, Alexander (Lt) |
Hill, Neal or Lacey |
Griffin |
Ralph |
Pvt |
Lacey, Edward (Capt) |
Patton |
Hanna |
William |
Capt |
Hanna |
Bratton, William |
Hawthorne |
unk |
Capt |
Hawthorne |
Bratton, William |
Henderson |
Thomas |
Lt |
Cunningham, John |
Bratton, William |
Howe |
David |
Pvt |
Hawthorne |
Sumter |
Jordan |
James |
Pvt |
Moffett, John |
Neal or Bratton |
Kincaid |
John |
Pvt |
Hawthorne |
Bratton, William |
Lofton |
Thomas |
Capt |
Howe, Joseph |
Neal |
Martin |
James |
Capt |
Martin, James |
Bratton, William |
Martin |
Edward
'Ned' |
Capt |
McClure, John |
|
McCance |
David |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
McCance |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
|
McClure |
James |
Capt |
McClure, John |
|
McElhaney |
Stephen |
Pvt |
McClure |
Lacey |
McElhaney |
Samuel |
Pvt |
Mills, John |
Lacey, Edward |
McElhaney |
William |
Pvt |
Mills, John |
Lacey, Edward |
McLane |
William |
Lt |
Adams, Samuel |
Lacey |
Meek |
James |
Capt |
Wallace, James (Maj) |
Bratton, William |
Miller |
John
'Hopping' |
Adjutant |
Mills, John |
Lacey |
Miller |
Robert |
Pvt |
Stewart, Hugh |
Lacey |
Moffett |
unk |
Capt |
Moffett |
Bratton or Lacey |
Morrow |
Samuel |
Pvt |
McClure, James |
Lacey |
Neely |
Robert |
Pvt |
Adams or Hanna |
Bratton or Lacey |
Patrick |
Robert |
Pvt |
Hawthorne |
Bratton, William |
Quinton |
James |
Pvt |
|
Lacey(?) |
Ramsey |
James |
Capt |
|
Lacey |
Ratchford |
Joseph |
Pvt |
unk |
Bratton or Neal |
Renick |
James |
Pvt |
|
Bratton or Neal |
Steele |
Joseph |
Lt |
Hanna, William |
Bratton, William |
Steen |
James |
Lt Col |
|
|
Stephenson |
James |
Sgt / Pvt |
Crawford |
Bratton or Lacey |
Stephenson |
David |
Pvt |
|
Neal |
Story |
Henry |
Pvt |
Crawford, James |
|
Stuart |
James |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Lacey, Edward |
Travis |
Arthur |
Pvt |
Miller |
Neal, Andrew |
Venable |
James |
Lt & Capt |
Moffett |
Bratton, William |
Wallace |
John |
Capt, Adj,
Maj |
|
Bratton or Lacey |
Watson |
William |
Pvt |
Moffett or Hawthorne |
Bratton or Lacey |
Whelchel |
John |
Pvt |
Thompson, John |
Neal, Andrew |
Whiteside |
unk |
Capt |
Whiteside |
Bratton, William |
Williams |
William |
Pvt |
McClure, John |
Bratton, William |
TORIES AT
MOBLEY'S MEETING HOUSE |
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LNAME |
FNAME |
RANK |
COMPANY |
Alcorn |
George |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Alcorn |
James |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Chapman |
William |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Coleman |
Charles |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Coleman |
Francis |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Coleman |
Robert |
Colonel |
Coleman, Robert |
Cunningham |
|
|
|
Fuiquinnon |
Joseph |
Colonel |
|
Hendricks |
Moses |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Hill |
John |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Meador |
Job |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
Benjamin |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
Benjamin
JR |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
Benjamin
SR |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
Clement |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
Edward |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
Isaiah |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Moberley |
William |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Netterville |
William |
Captain |
|
Nichols |
William |
Captain |
|
Nix |
George |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Phillips |
John |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Sutton |
Charles |
|
Coleman, Robert |
Weir |
John |
Captain |
|
Woodward |
Burbage |
Pvt |
|
POSSIBLE TORIES AT MOBLEY'S MEETING HOUSE |
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LNAME |
FNAME |
RANK |
COMPANY |
Agniew |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Armstrong |
James |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Atkinson |
John |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Austen |
Bartholomew |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Austen |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Austen |
Joseph |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Bar |
James |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Barton |
William |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Beams |
Ezekiel |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Black |
John |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Black |
Joseph |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Black |
Mathew |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Black |
Robert |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Busby |
Jacob |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Campbell |
Hugh |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Chapman |
John |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Chapman |
John
(2nd) |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Christy |
Joseph |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Collins |
Isaac |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Collins |
Moses |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Covel |
Samuel |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Daughterty |
James |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Davis |
John |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Deason |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Delashmet |
Sela |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Delasnett |
Silas |
Capt |
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Featherstone |
John |
|
Draper
Manuscripts |
Featherstone |
Richard |
|
Draper
Manuscripts |
Featherstone |
William |
|
Draper
Manuscripts |
Fletchell |
James |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Friday |
Gabriel |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Funderburg |
Christopher |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Gibson |
Thomas |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Glover |
Lowry |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Glover |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Gordon |
John |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Gregg |
Mathew |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Gregory |
Samuel |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Gwin (Qwin) |
George |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Halsey |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Harden |
Henry |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Harrison |
James |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Harrison |
Nathaniel |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Hill |
William |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Hill |
William
(2nd) |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Holsey |
John |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Humphreys |
Joseph |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Humphreys |
Joseph
(2nd) |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Hunter |
Samuel |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Hutchinson |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Irvin |
James |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Johns |
Henry |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Johns |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Juland |
Benjamin |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Juland |
Gary |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Juland |
Peter |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Juland |
Peter JR |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Juland |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Kyrkandail |
Simon |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Lashly |
James |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Lavender |
Robert |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Lemmon |
James |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Love |
Robert |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Love |
Robert |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Marlow |
John |
Capt |
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Martin |
James |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Mathews |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
McCalaster |
William |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
McCluer |
William |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
McCown |
Robert |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
McCrossers |
Jeremiah |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Miller |
James |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Moberley |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Moore |
4 sons of
James |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Moore |
James |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Moore |
James |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Moore |
Patrick |
Capt |
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Morrow |
James |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Mots |
Tobias |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Mots |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Niel |
Francis |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Nullerville |
William |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Patterson |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Pearson |
John |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Pearson |
Thomas |
|
Murdered Loyalists
List |
Peterson |
Thomas |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Phillips |
David |
LT |
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Phillips |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Phillips |
Laurence |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Phillips |
Thomas |
|
Winn's Enemies
List |
Ponder |
Daniel |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Price |
Richard |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Reagan |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Reay |
Charles |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Reay |
John |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Richardson |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Robertson |
Thomas |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Rogers |
George |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Rogers |
John |
|
Murdered
Loyalists List |
Sadler |
John |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Simpson |
William |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Smith |
Thomas |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Springer |
Aaron |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Stevenson |
Samuel |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Terry |
Stephen |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Travours |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Turner |
unknown |
Doctor |
Winn's
Enemies List |
Turner |
William
SR |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Vickery |
Luke |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |
Walker |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Wilson |
William |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Womack |
Josiah |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Woods |
John |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Woods |
Joseph |
|
Bratton's
Enemies List |
Young |
William |
|
Winn's
Enemies List |