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Date Posted: 08:36:10 06/20/03 Fri
Author: Mike Hall
Subject: Abraham Seevers Revolutionary War Service

It has been said that our Abraham Seevers served during the Revolutionary War. There are people that have entered into the Daughters of the American Revolution on his name.

I have been looking for ANYTHING that would connect Abraham Seevers to any kind of Revolutionary War service, with absolutely no luck.

I wrote to the New Jersey State Archives and they wrote back saying that they had no records for him. When I was in Washinghton D.C. I checked the National Archives and they did have an Abraham Seavers listed as having served and as having been a prisoner on the ship "Torbay".

What I always wondered is how do we know that it was our Abraham Seevers on this prison ship.

What I did find in a book called "Genealogical Abstracts Of Revolutionary War Pension Files Volume III: N-Z" Abstracted by Virgil D. White was the following:

"Sevier, Abraham, NC Line, sol was b 14 Feb 1760 in Shenandoah Co VA & lived in Washington Co NC"

This soldier died on June 18th, 1841.

The important part of this to me was the fact that he was from North Carolina. I wondered where the ship Torbay was anchored at and I found out that it was anchored off the coast of South Carolina and not New Jersey.

Information about this ship, including Abraham Seavers' name as a prisoner can be found at:

http://www.schistory.org/displays/RevWar/archives-online/Gibbes__v__3__p__074b.html

Notice the letter at the begining. One of the signatures is of a Stephan Moore of the North Carolina Militia. This would seem like a connection to the Abraham Sevier that filed for a pension and not to our ancestor.

Also, there is that reciept where Abraham's "mother" paid a fine because Abraham refused to march in 1776.

If anybody has any type of reference to Abraham's service during the Revolutionary War, please e-mail me at: mikehall714@aol.com

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