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- [S509] Sons of the American Revolution - Members, Volume: 228.
- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), General SMITH Daniel 1748-1818 (Veteran) - Bigadier General.
BIRTH 29 Oct 1748 Stafford County, Virginia
DEATH 16 Jun 1818 (aged 69) Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee BURIAL Rock Castle Cemetery Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee MEMORIAL ID 6624093
Revolutionary War Patriot, Brigadier General, US Senator. Born in Stafford County, Virginia, he was educated at the College of William and Mary and became a surveyor. In 1773, he became the deputy surveyor of Augusta County, Virgina and was elected sheriff of Augusta County in 1780. During the Revolutionary War, he was commissioned a Colonel in the militia, took part in the later battles and was appointed Assistant Deputy Surveyor for the Southern Department of the Continental Army in 1781. At the war's end, he moved to Sumner County, Tennessee, to claim a land grant for his military service and served as the county surveyor. He was prominent in local affairs, was appointed a Brigadier General in the Continental Army militia and President George Washington named him the first Secretary of the Southern Territory 1790. Smith was a member of the convention that wrote the Tennessee Constitution which came into effect with its statehood on June 1, 1796 and he prepared the first official map of Tennessee. In 1798, he was appointed as a Democratic United States Senator and served until 1809, when he resigned, returned to his Sumner County Virginia, estate and pursued agricultural and business interests until his death.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6624093/daniel-smith
- [S164] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2004;), Source number: 8810.921; Source type: Family group sheet, listed as a child; Number of Pages: 1.
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- [S2996] Wikipedia: Daniel Smith (Surveyor), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Smith_(surveyor).
Daniel Smith (October 29, 1748 – June 16, 1818) was a surveyor, an American Revolutionary War patriot, and twice a United States Senator from Tennessee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Smith_(surveyor)
- [S4094] Daughters of the American Revolution - Ancestors, SMITH, DANIEL Ancestor #: 104948 -- http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A104948.
SMITH, DANIEL Ancestor #: A104948
Service: VIRGINIA - NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, COLONEL
Birth: 10-17-1748 STAFFORD CO VIRGINIA
Death: 6-16-1818 HENDERSONVILLE--BUR SUMNER CO TENNESSEE
Service Source: SUMMERS, HIST OF SW VA, 1746-1786, WASHINGTON CO, 1777-1870, PP 237, 255, 302, 369, 853, 622, 662, 668, 300, 698; DAVIDSON CO, TN, CT MINUTES, 1783-1792, P 1; THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PAPERS AT THE LOC, 1741-1783 , SEPT 20, 1781, P 21
Service Description: 1) ALSO CAPT, MAJ, LCOL, 2ND BATT, WASHINGTON CO MILITIA
2) MEM, CT OF PLEAS & QUART SESSIONS; ASST DEP PURVEYOR, TRUSTEE; COMMISSIONER
http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A104948
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- [S2998] American Battlefields: Battle of Guilford Courthouse, (Name: American Battlefield Trust; Location: Washington DC;), REVOLUTIONARY WAR- Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
On March 15, 1781, British General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s army of 2,100 men engaged a Continental army under Major General Nathanael Greene at Guilford Court House, near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina.
Adopting a tactic utilized by Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens, Greene formed his roughly 4,500 men into three lines. The first line was held by North Carolina militia. In the second line Greene positioned militia from Virginia. Continental Regulars composed Greene’s third and most formidable line. The concept, known as a defense in depth, was for the first two lines to exhaust the enemy's advance and inflict as many casualties as possible in the hopes of delivering a decisive blow at the third line.
Forming his men on both sides of the Great Salisbury Road, Cornwallis sent his men forward at 1:30 p.m. When the British got within 150 yards of Greene’s men, the Americans opened fire. The British pressed on, returning fire only when they got within range. On command, the British surged forward. The North Carolinians fired one more time and then retreated into the woods to their rear, abandoning their equipment as they fled.
Cornwallis then encountered stiff resistance from the Virginians, positioned about 400 yards behind the first line. North of the road, the 23rd Regiment of Foot, the 2nd Guards Battalion and the Guards Grenadiers engaged militia under Robert Lawson. Below the thoroughfare, the 2nd Battalion, 71st Regiment and elements from the 2nd Guards engaged Edward Stevens. The Virginians put up a stiff fight but with British infantry engaging their left, center and right, they were forced to retreat. Although Cornwallis had punched through two lines of American infantry, the British ranks had lost cohesion. A disjointed advance now approached some of Greene's best units.
The first British unit to reach the third line was the 33rd Regiment. There, the regiment engaged Continentals from Virginia and Maryland and were driven back. The 2nd Guards, however, managed to turn the 2nd Maryland's right but were stopped in a counterattack by Lt. Colonel William Washington’s Light Dragoons and the 1st Maryland. With additional British infantry finally arriving on the scene from their fight on the second line, Greene prudently disengaged and withdrew.
Guilford Courthouse was a pyrrhic victory for Cornwallis. Despite besting the American army, he had lost 25% of his men and was in no position to pursue Greene. Cornwallis decided to withdraw to his supply base at Wilmington to rest and refit. With his army still not in condition to engage Greene by the middle of April, Cornwallis decided to shift his operations to Virginia, a decision that would contribute to the independence of the United States.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/guilford-court-house
- [S779] USWars: Battle of Kings Mountain - My Revolutionary War, (Name: American Revolutionary War;), The Revolutionary War battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina proved to be a stinging defeat in the British attempt to secure control of the Southern colonies. How it ended American victory. The fierce firefight at Kings Mountain pitted Loyalist militia elements under the command of British major Patrick Ferguson against 900 patriots. The British effort to secure Loyalist support in the South was a failure. Thomas Jefferson called the battle "The turn of the tide of success." In context The siege of Charleston in May 1780 was one of the worst American defeats of the Revolutionary War. Another British victory, in the Battle of Camden, followed in August 1780. British general Charles Lord Cornwallis dispatched Major Patrick Ferguson to North Carolina in early September 1780. Ferguson had two tasks: recruit members to fight for the Loyalist militia and protect the Cornwallis’s left flank as he attempted to move through the Carolinas. Nicknamed Bull Dog by his men, Ferguson soon came up against the .
Battle of Kings Mountain
https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/801007-kings-mountain/
- [S1199] Ancestry.com, Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), REVOLUTIONARY WAR - Battle of Kings Mountain.
The Revolutionary War battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina proved to be a stinging defeat in the British attempt to secure control of the Southern colonies.
How it ended
American victory. The fierce firefight at Kings Mountain pitted Loyalist militia elements under the command of British major Patrick Ferguson against 900 patriots. The British effort to secure Loyalist support in the South was a failure. Thomas Jefferson called the battle "The turn of the tide of success."
In context
The siege of Charleston in May 1780 was one of the worst American defeats of the Revolutionary War. Another British victory, in the Battle of Camden, followed in August 1780. British general Charles Lord Cornwallis dispatched Major Patrick Ferguson to North Carolina in early September 1780. Ferguson had two tasks: recruit members to fight for the Loyalist militia and protect the Cornwallis’s left flank as he attempted to move through the Carolinas.
Nicknamed Bull Dog by his men, Ferguson soon came up against the Overmountain men, residents of the Carolina Backcountry and the Appalachian mountain range, and from places that would later become the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. American cavalry commander “Light Horse” Harry Lee called them, “A race of hardy men who were familiar with the use of the horse and the rifle, stout, active, patient under privation, and brave.” To the British, however, they were “more savage than the Indians.” From the start Ferguson miscalculated his potential foes, brazenly issuing a proclamation for the local patriots to “desist from their opposition to British arms” or he would “march over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country to waste with fire and sword.” His scare tactics backfired.
On October 7, 1780, Ferguson and the Overmountain men met in a small but significant battle in the War for Independence. It took place on a rocky hilltop in Western South Carolina called Kings Mountain. The rout of the Loyalists there was the first major setback for Britain's southern strategy and started a chain of events that culminated in Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/kings-mountain
- [S777] Wikipedia: Battle of Kings Mountain, (Name: Wikipedia;).
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. The battle took place on October 7, 1780, 9 miles south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. In what is now rural Cherokee County, South Carolina, the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Foot. The battle has been described as "the war's largest all-American fight".
. . . The battle was a pivotal event in the Southern campaign. The surprising victory of the American Patriot militia over the Loyalists came after a string of Patriot defeats at the hands of Lord Cornwallis, and greatly raised the Patriots' morale. With Ferguson dead and his Loyalist militia destroyed, Cornwallis was forced to abandon his plan to invade North Carolina and retreated into South Carolina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain
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