THE MEN WHO SERVED WITH MARION

With special thanks to Jean Prather and Bil Brasington, who contributed the original lists from which this expanded document derives. A work in progress, I am making additions based on my own research and adding the corresponding text from the references cited. This will, of course, take a considerable amount of time. (Please be patient.) Corrections and additions are most welcome.

While every effort is made to present accurate information here, the researcher should keep in mind that Marion's band of Patriots fought essentially a guerilla war against the British. Muster rolls were virtually non-existant and any effort to identify those who fought with Marion will rely heavily on "acceptable" secondary sources. (See Boddie's Preface, below)
--Victoria Proctor, SCGenWeb State Coordinator

REFERENCES USED IN TABLE:

• LETTERnumber=Stub indent book, page number (*See explanation below)
• Bod= Boddie. History of Williamsburg.
• DeS= DeSaussure, Wilmot G. Officers Who Served in the South Carolina Regiments Charleston, 1894.
• Gee= Fletcher, W.J. The Gee Family.
• Gregg= Gregg, Bishop. History of the Old Cheraws. 1867
• James= James. Life of Marion.
• Kinfolks= Harllee, William Curry. Kinfolks. Published by author, 1934
• Simms= Simms, William Gilmore. The Life of Francis Marion. [E-text available on this site.--vp]
• Weems= Weems, Mason Locke. The Life of General Francis Marion. [E-text available on this site. If an entry is referenced only in Weems, use with extra caution--vp]
• General Francis Marion's Men
  A List of Twenty-five Hundred
  Compiled by
  William Willis Boddie
  24 Lamboll Street
  Charleston, South Carolina
  May 25, 1938
  Compiled by William Willis Boddie, 1938

  from Boddie:
  "Several years after the War of the Revolution, all of MARION'S MEN who submitted claims for services were paid. A copy of each indent by which paid was made on the stub and these stubs were bound in books named for the letters in the alphabet, the stubs and indents numbered. Most of the names in this List were taken from the stubs of those old Pay Indents, the letter showing the book and the figures the number of the indent.
  Hence (X65) means in the List that proof of payment to the man may be found in Pay Indent book X, at number 65.
  (DeS.) refers to De Saussure's List of South Carolina Officers in the War of the Revolution, as published in the Charleston Year Book for 1893, the number of the page on which the name may be found.
  (Weems) refers to Weems's Life of Marion, the number of the page;
  (James), to James' Life of Marion;
  (Simms), to Simm's Life of Marion;
  (Gregg) to Bishop Gregg's "History of the Old Cheraws";
  (Bod.), to Boddie's History of Williamsburg;
  (Gee), to The Gee Family, an excellent history and genealogy of that family recently compiled by W. J. Fletcher; and
  (Kinfolks), to the extraordinary genealogy of Harllee and allied families by Col. William Curry Harllee, Marine Corps, retired. Kinfolks contains sketches of a great many of MARION'S MEN named in this List."