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Samuel Andrews

Samuel Andrews was born in 1750 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina. He died in
1810 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina.

The text below has been passed through my family, I have retyped it exactly as I
have received it. The author is unknown.
Samuel Andrews is my 5th great grandfather.

SAMUEL ANDREWS of North Carolina
(Loyalist Ancestor of S. Ward Hemeon, 6th generation)
Whatever else can be said of Samuel Andrews, no one could ever dispute the fact
his was a very interesting career. Not much is so far known about his family
background. Rumor has it the Andrews family of Bladen County, North Carolina,
originally came from the area around the port of Plymouth, Old England.

A Samuel Andrews, Senior, was in Bladen County, North Carolina, before the
1750's and we feel he was the father of Loyalist Samuel. Abraham Andrews of the
same area was likely a brother of Samuel, Junior.

Unfortunately, two fires have destroyed nearly all the Bladen Country records prior
to 1860. The land records are the only old County records still in existence.
A copy of Grant No. 178 for Bladen County shows details of 200 acres granted to
our Samuel. 18 November 1771 - surveyed August 29, 1771. These 200 acres
were located in the upper part of Saddletree Swamp. His claim for assistance
dated 1786 shows he owned a farm - a grist mills - two stores - livestock, etc. At
the outbreak of war in 1776 Samuel left his home and went with Governor Martin
to the Cape Fear Estuary. Commissioned a Lieutenant by the Governor, he took
part in the ill-fated battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February 1776 and was taken
prisoner by the rebels.

On taking the State Oath, the Committee of Safety released him in October, 1776.
It is believed that between 1776 and 1780 he was active in guerrilla operations
against the rebels, but documentary proof of this is not available. In 1781, he
raised a Militia Company in Bladen County. It is interesting to note that there were
at least three Militia Companies there: The Great Swamp Company, the Shoe
Heel Creek Company, and the Gum(?) Swamp Company. It is felt that the Long
Swamp Company also originated in Bladen County.

Feelings generated between the North and South in the Civil War were as nothing
compared to conditions existing between the rebels and Loyalists in North
Carolina between 1776 and 1782.

After raising the Great Swamp Company, Andrews joined Lord Cornwallis' forces
and was associated with the notorious Colonel David Fanning, specializing in
rescuing Loyalist prisoners and conducting them to the British lines.
Lorenzo Sabine in his "Loyalists and the American Revolution" has this, in part, to
say about Col. Fanning, "Always well mounted and accompanied by a band of
kindred spirits, he swept over the country like a Comache Chief - surprising
parties of Whigs, when off their guard, he often gave no querter. In lying in
ambush or pouncing upon them at their homes, he seized and murdered or
tortured the obnoxious patriots, and then plundered and burnt their dwellings.
By a series of bold adventures he took the town of Cross Creek, now Fayetteville,
captured the Whig Militia officers of the County of Chatham when setting at Court
Martial at Hillsborough and by a sudden descent on Hillsborough, at dawn of day,
about the middle of September, seized and carried off the Governor of the State.
"Fanning being wounded, Samuel Andrews then assumed command of the
whole Unit and conducted the prisoners to the British Lines. He was then
promoted to Major." Public Records Office, London, has abstracts of pay due Col.
Hector MacNeill's Regt. of North Carolina Militia, which shows Samuel Andrews
as Major, on February 15, 1782.

After the evacuation of Charleston, Andrews and his wife - four children and four
salves removed to East Florida. Robert Demond states, "Shortly after the
termination of the War the Assembly of the State of North Carolina passed "An Act
of Pardon and Oblivion" for those in the state who had aided the enemy. However,
three persons only were excluded specifically as never being able to return -
these three were Peter Mallette, David Fanning and Samuel Andrews, or any
other persons guilty of deliberate and willful murder, robbery, rape or house
burning. or any of them..."

In 1784 Andrews told the Spanish authorities in Florida that he had not yet made
up his mind whether to remain or to go with the British. He was in Shelburne,
Nova Scotia, in 1785 - and it is believed went to his Tusket River grant the same
year. His application for land there is dated August 18, 1786.

Obviously, he was able to accumulate a fair amount of property in Nova Scotia as
the inventory of his estate dated March 31, 1808, shows his homestead valued at
£300.00 plus livestock - 2 boats - farm utensils - dining furniture - beds - books -
spy glass, etc.

We see his name in 1790 as a member of the Grand Jury - in 1796 he was
foreman of the Petit Jury in Argyle Township. In 1793 his name is shown on a
petition to the Bishop of Nova Scotia asking that an Angelican Church be built at
Tusket. A son, Abner 1793 - 1877, is said to have been the first settler at
Kemptville, Yarmouth County.

Samuel Andrews' Will, prepared April 5, 1799, includes with his personal estate,
two female negro infant slaves.

References:
Carole Watterson Troxler - Thesis - The Migration of Carolina and Georgia
Loyalists to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. University of Carolina 1974.
Peter Wilson Coldham - Amercian Loyalist Claims - 1980.
Lorenzo Sabine - The Loyalists of American Revolution - 1864.
Robert G. Demond - The Loyalists in North Carolina during the Revolution - 1940.
George S. Brown - Sequel to Campbell's History - 1888.
Rev. J. R. Campbell - Campbell's History of Yarmouth County - 1876
PANS Loyalists Claims - Micro.
Loyalist Claims Archives Report - 1904 - Province of Ontario

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