Col. Thomas P. Satterwhite, Jr.

Capt. Thomas S. SATTERWHITE 15 Feb 1730 - BEF 1797 ID Number: I35483

TITLE: Capt.

OCCUPATION: Deputy Sheriff to William Bullock, Sheriff, Granville County

RESIDENCE: York Co. VA and Caswell and Grandville Co. NC

BIRTH: 15 Feb 1730, Bristol Parish, Prince George or York Co. Virginia DEATH: BEF 1797, Granville Co. North Carolina RESOURCES:

Slade EMail: Hawkeye350@aol.com http://www.slade-anderson.com/pages/epend.htm "Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803" by David John Mays, Harvard University Press, 1952. "Walter Rye's, An index to Norfolk Pedigrees". "Mary Selden Kennedy's, Seldens of Virginia and Allied Familes" clears up a lot about this family." "The Life and Times of Edmund Pendleton", Robert Leroy Hilldrup, 1939, UNC Press. "The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton", 1734-1803, two volumes, David John Mays, 1967, UVA Press. 

Ancestry.com File Name 355837 Submitter dkhiggin@excite.com 3/01 Debbie Kay Johnson Higginbotham.

Satterwhite-Grindal of Yorktown, VA Entries: 946 Updated: 2004-10-24 Contact: Jim Satterwhite http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2219102&id=I11 6868957

World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Publication: Release date: August 22, 1996 Tree #3153

Father: Thomas SATTERWHITE Mother: Sarah HANNAH

Family 1 : Ann KEELING MARRIAGE: 15 Oct 1772, Granville Co. North Carolina +Margaret Catherine "Peggy" SATTERWHITE Notes

Children: Margaret, Horace, Edwin, Ann (Nancy) and Franklin Satterwhite. Thomas Satterwhite was a native of York Co., VA. He married a step-daughter of Judge John Williams, the daughter of his wife Agnes by her first husband Mr. Keeling.

Marriage document in Granville County, North Carolina Marriages; Marriage Bonds at Oxford, Granville Co., North Carolina.

Thomas was Deputy Sheriff to William Bullock, Sheriff, Granville County

Mil Svc: Bet. 1778 - 1779 Revolutionary War - Captain NC Light Horse - Hillsborough William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1.Date: (Jul., 1904), pp. 23-24. Children: 2 Margaret Catherine SATTERWHITE b: 1780 d: 4 Feb 1867 + John (Jack) Pendleton HARRISON 2 Franklin T. SATTERWHITE b: abt 1775 2 Edwin T. SATTERWHITE b: abt 1777 d: 7 Mar 1820 2 Nancy Keeling SATTERWHITE b: abt 1779 d: 25 Jul 1836 + William ROBARDS 2 Horace Burton SATTERWHITE b: abt 1781 d: abt 1855 + Sarah M. BROWN

Resolutions by the North Carolina General Assembly concerning the appointment of militia officers North Carolina. General Assembly February 12, 1779 Volume 14, Pages 263-265

State of North Carolina, In the House of Commons, 12th February, 1779. Resolved, That John Whittaker be appointed Colonel, & Robert Peebles, Major of the two Hundred Light Horse, directed to be raised in the District of Halifax, and that the Brigade General of the District be directed to apportion the number two hundred to the several counties, and issue immediate Orders for enlisting Volunteers or making Drafts, agreeable to the Militia Law, to the necessary amount from each County; and that he also ascertain how many Captains or other inferior officers each County shall furnish for the command of the said Light Horse, allowing one Captain, one Lieutenant and one Cornet for every thirty-three

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Resolved, That Absolom Tatum be appointed Major of the one Hundred Light Horse, to be raised in the District of Hillsborough, that Thomas Satterwhite be appointed Captain, Solomon Walker Lieut., and John Taylor Cornet (out of Granville).

Caswell. Jeremiah Williams, Captain, David Mitchell, Lieut., John Rhodes, Cornet. Orange. Mark Patterson, Captain, Nathan King, Lieut., Joseph Barberry, Cornet. Salisbury district. Benjamin Cleveland, Colonel. William Sheppard, Lieutenant Colonel. Joseph Hardin, Major. John Cruth, Captain (Anson). David Wilson, Captain. Mecklenburg. Thomas Harris, Captain. Mecklenburg. John Collier, Captain. Guilford. John Gilespie, Captain. Guilford. Moses Cruth, Captain, Wilkes. John Horn, Captain; William Hardin, Captain, Surry. John Caruth, Captain, Tryon. Francis Cunningham, Captain, Burke. Resolved, that the Brigadier General in the district of Wilmington take such steps for the appointment of the officers necessary for the command of the Light Horse to be raised therein as to him shall appear proper & necessary.

Resolved, that Certificates of the appointment of the Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels & Majors of the Light Horse now voted for the service of this State be signed by the Speakers of both Houses, which Certificates shall operate as Commissions & shall invest the said officers with all the Rank & Power which they could or might have, under Commissions from His Excellency, the Governor, and that the Brigadier Generals in their respective Districts grant Certificates of the appointment of the Inferior officers, which Certificates shall have the same operation as those signed by the two Speakers in manner aforesaid.

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Resolved, that a Colonel of the Light Horse shall be entitled to seven Dollars & half per Day, a Lieutenant Colonel & Major six Dollars per day & Forage & Shoes for their Horses, together with the same Rations which are allowed by Law to Militia Officers of the same Denominations.

THOS. BENBURY, S. C.

By order, John Hunt, C. H. C.

In Senate, 12th February, 1779. Concurred with.

Allen Jones, S. S.

By Order Sitgreaves, Clk. Senate.