A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor # A077048 Patriotic service; Pvt. on the Continental Line.

The 1800 North Carolina Census has a Bryan Medlin, Sr., and a Bryan Medlin, Jr., living in what was at that time Wayne County, NC. The 1810 census of Wayne County had one Medlin family living there who was probably that of Bryan Medlin Jr. Bryan Medlin, Sr. was likely dead by that time and there is no record to indicate that he ventured far from Johnston or Wayne Counties of North Carolina. Shadrack Medlin also served during the Revolutionary War. He received a land grant in Tennessee and a pension in his older years for his service. Shadrack Medlin is important to the tracking of later Medlin families primarily because he did not venture far from where he was born and because he lived to be a very old man. He testified to the service that many men gave during the Revolutionary War. Shadrack first enlisted for service in the war 25 April 1776, for two and a half years with Capt. Turner's Company of the Third Regiment of the North Carolina line. Shadrack was formally reported "Abscent Without Leave" (AWOL) in January 1778. In the State Record of the Revolutionary War we find Shadrack appearing before a Board of Inquiry assembled on the 22 of November 1778. Col. Jethro Sumner had called the board to inquire into the enlistment of several men including Shadrack. The colonel was not present at the inquiry and at the time Major Dixon of that regiment presided. Shadrack appeared and "claimed his discharge" and stated that he had a disposition signed by the man who had enlisted him. The disposition, maintained Shadrack was given to Col. Jethro Sumner. It is difficult to say if Shadrack was charged, or detained as a result of the board's decision. He does, however appear to have been free enough to have witnessed two land transactions in late 1778, on the waters of Crooked Creek, a place one might recall having been the area around which his father, William Owen Medlin owned land and lived. Shadrack enlisted or was drafted for a second time in June of 1781, serving as corporal in Capt. Yarbough's Company of the 10th Regiment of the North Carolina Line. Shadrack was, at the time he was called, in Warrenton, NC and marched to the Granville Militia camp in Granville County, NC. At the time Shadrack was mustered for the second time, he joined Henry Tyler and Arron Medlin (Modlin). Documents would later prove that Henry Tyler Medlin was closely related to Shadrack. Arron and another Elisha Modlin (Maudlin) were descended from a group of Quaker families and were not related in any way to Shadrack or Henry Tyler. According to the Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, Shadrack was honorably discharged in April of 1782. Shadrack is also referenced as having drawn a 1783 pay certificate, which was probably back pay. To further the assertion of honorable service, we find Shadrack among the men receiving a pension under a North Carolina law of 1818. Shadrack appears on the pension rolls of North Carolina as drawing $96 a year and living in Wake County, NC in 1835. He was listed at that time as being 84 years of age. Shadrack gave testimony for several men after the war to prove their claims as having served during the Revolutionary War. Among those he testified for was a "bastard," a "Scotsman," and an "Indian." In the testimony, Shadrack made reference to himself and these men as having served at Valley Forge. From this gleaning of the genealogical records we can be sure of several facts about Shadrak, and make some reasonable judgements about his place in the Medlin family. Shadrack's association before and after the War with the Medlin families residing on and around "Crooked Creek" would more than indicate his kinship to them.

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