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Locus A 132 Figure 30. Kettle Creek, Loyalists Routed (Rauch in DAvis 2006). BACTIVITY LOCI Fourteen historic period activity loci and one prehistoric Locus were defined by the present survey of the Kettle Creek battlefield study area. These were designated by letters, A through O. These loci were areas where artifacts were concentrated. Some of them relate specifically to events in the battle, while others represent historic settlements. An area of Archaic period activity, which was unrelated to the Kettle Creek battle, was designated Locus O. The artifact inventory in Appendix I includes a column indicating the Locus where each artifact was located. A few stray artifacts were not given an activity locus designations. The locations of each historic activity locus (except Locus O) are shown in Figure 31. Each locus is described below. Locus A includes the knoll where the Kettle Creek Monument now stands, often referred to as Monument Hill. The obelisk monument is centered at grid point 9242N, 5194E. Other recent features of Locus A include a cement picnic table, historical markers, and a rectangular cemetery/cenotaph plot enclosure. The crest of the knoll at Locus A has been heavily disturbed by grading associated with the road and monument construction and the area is quite eroded. Exposed soil surfaces consisted of reddish sandy clay and saprolitic bedrock. Much of this soil erosion has been the result of foot and vehicular traffic by visitors to the battlefield over many decades. A gravel road leads to the summit of the knoll, which has also destroyed archeological evidence on portions of the knoll. In addition, some visitors to the site during the 20 th century used this area as a dumping ground for refuse, and tin cans and extraneous metal trash are scattered over portions of the knoll, which rendered metal detector use difficult to ineffective in those areas. No battle-related artifacts were located on the hill crest at Locus A. A concentrated search of Locus A yielded no battle evidence. The south slope of the monument hill is quite steep and it contains several large boulder outcrops. These outcrops, which contain several crevasses and niches that would have provided cover during a battle, were carefully metal detected for any battle evidence. Numerous metal cans, shotgun shells, and other modern metal trash were found in these areas but they contained no battle evidence. The precipitous slope on this side of the knoll is steep for horse travel and this area may have been avoided by both sides during the battle. Alternatively, riflemen may have been positioned in these areas but they either dropped no artifacts or any artifacts have been removed by collectors. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey was conducted on portions of this area of the Kettle Creek battlefield. GPR survey was directed by Daniel T. Elliott and Sheldon Skaggs. GPR data from three small rectangular, contiguous grids were collected. Each block was assigned a letter designation, A, B or C. GPR Blocks A and B were located within the cemetery/cenotaph enclosure. GPR Block C was located immediately north of this enclosure. Appendix IV contains a series of maps and profiles from the GPR
survey. This includes three animated .jpeg movies that show plan views of the Blocks A, B and C with increasing depth. Locus B Locus B was the wooded area on the northern slope of the Kettle Creek monument knoll (Locus A). The first battle-related artifacts of the project were discovered in Locus B. This hill slope was thoroughly searched and it yielded a broad, light scatter of battle-related artifacts. Locus B produced 35 historic artifacts and of these, 14 were in the Arms Group. One lead ball was found on the wooded slope, southeast of the monument in Locus B and many military-related artifacts were found down slope to the north in Locus B. A few machine cut nails were scattered over this area as Figure 31. Activity Loci, Kettle Creek Battlefield. well, but not in sufficient quantities to indicate a domestic structure. In addition to the scatter of lead balls and one rifle butt plate, Locus B contained many small, shallow depressions. At first some of these were thought to represent rifle trenches and GPR locations were recorded for them. The periphery of these depressions was carefully searched with the metal detector, which did not indicate that they were more likely than the surrounding landscape to contain artifacts. While some may indeed represent rifle trenches, most are more likely tree falls, where trees were uprooted and toppled over the centuries, leaving an elongated depressions perpendicular to the hill slope. Unlike the ridge systems to the south and east, Locus B may not have been under cultivation. The lack of plowing would have smoothed out the landscape and made ancient tree falls less detectable. Some of these depressions may have been formed in the past century or less, since most of this area has been part of the monument tract for more than 100 years. A larger depression was located just inside the wooded area and northwest of the cement picnic table at the margin of Loci A and B. Traces of a 19 th century fence line were noted just west of this depression. This suspicious depression measured approximately 4 m in diameter. It resembled a cellar depression and was sub-rectangular in outline. The depression was approximately 50 cm deep and it was filled with a thick deposit of leaves and rotted tree branches. A volunteer crew was tasked with cleaning out the leaves, sticks, and root mat so that this potential feature could be better studied. Once the area was cleared of debris, we metal detected the area and sampled it in several areas with a metal probe. All of these tests proved negative. The soils were very compact, rocky clay, which did not appear to have any potential for cultural deposits. 133
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BTable of Contents Table of Content
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Figure 42. Composite Map Showing Ar
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BAcknowledgements Thanks to the sta
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� Live Oak Library, Bull Street B
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was short by at least 30 men, in ad
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Published sources included: � All
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� Hays (1946, 1950) � Hill (192
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for any materials from North Caroli
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The North Carolina Archives was als
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Figure 2. Kettle Creek Battlefield
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Fifteen activity loci were defined
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BPREVIOUS HISTORICAL RESEARCH BIII.
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eceived, that a body of the loyalis
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his militia; and finding that he co
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Alexander Garden, a Revolutionary W
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them. Lossing visited Savannah, Geo
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position. Colonel Boyd defended the
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stand a large tree, Walnut I think,
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Mr. William Lake, a newspaper man f
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etc. of the war period but there ar
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� John Newton--1784 till 1796.
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Table 1. Timeline of Significant En
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A detachment of North Carolina mili
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Table 4. South Carolina and North C
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Table 5. Georgia Militiamen Who Fou
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Figure 8. General Andrew Pickens (S
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BColonel John Dooly Colonel John Do
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his family, along with several hund
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Figure 9. Portrait of Elijah Clarke
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Greene County, Georgia in 1788 (Kni
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BCaptain Joseph Collins Joseph Coll
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Table 7. Captain Robert Carr's Comp
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egiment has survived (Davis 1979a).
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ecame Rowan County, North Carolina.
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Creek, fought and Defeated them the
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horses and cows which the Indians h
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BPrivate Micajah Brooks, Sr. Privat
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the rank of colonel at the time of
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BPrivate John McClaskey Private Joh
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of a broken leg. He joined the Sout
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BOTHER PATRIOTS LINKED TO KETTLE CR
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John Finley entered the service of
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Private Henry Mayner Private Henry
Page 92 and 93: Table 8. Known Loyalists in Battle
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Page 96 and 97: SPURGEON, WILLIAM. Of North Carolin
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Page 100 and 101: for 200 acres in 1756 and by 1761 h
Page 102 and 103: North Carolina Regiment. John Marti
Page 104 and 105: in 1779 and was promoted to a Lieut
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Page 112 and 113: Figure 18. 1942 Aerial Photograph S
Page 114 and 115: Cowan’s Ferry Cowan’s Ferry was
Page 116 and 117: Dooly’s Fort John Dooly’s Fort
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Page 120 and 121: That he enlisted in the Army of the
Page 122 and 123: The rock dwelling of Thomas Ansley
Page 124 and 125: Joseph White, a North Carolinian wi
Page 126 and 127: The Williamses Rowland Williams was
Page 128 and 129: Henry Thomas Slaton was unmarried a
Page 130 and 131: Book G: 98). The land had been prev
Page 132 and 133: Robert McGinty and his wife, Debora
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Page 144 and 145: Locus C Locus C is situated on the
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Page 166 and 167: Tobacco Group The survey yielded no
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Page 179 and 180: Figure 46. Core Area of Kettle Cree
Page 181 and 182: Babits, L. E. 1998 A Devil of a Whi
Page 183 and 184: Cary, John 1806 A New Map of Part o
Page 185 and 186: 1994 DeBolt's Dictionary of America
Page 187 and 188: Garden, Alexander 1822 Anecdotes of
Page 189 and 190: Hartgrove, W.B. 1916 The Negro Sold
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2004 Roster of Revolutionary Soldie
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Newman, D.L., and D.N. Ham 1974 Lis
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1986 The New York Loyalists. Univer
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1996 Vanishing Sites of Old Wilkes.
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1910 Monument to Commemorate Battle
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n.d. Unsigned Account of Revolution
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Appendix 1. Artifact Inventory, Ket
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Appendix II. Kettle Creek Roster. S
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