Pvt Silas Weeks, (RS) BH

"On 07 Apr 1775, Silas and Zillar sold a lot conveyed to him in 1773 in the estate of his father.

Silas Weeks and at least one of his sons, Theophilus, served in the Revolutionary War. The elder Weeks enlisted in 1777 as a private in Donoho’s Company of the 6th North Carolina Regiment. They were in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, being at the Chew House in the latter and serving as the rear guard for the American withdrawal during which General Nash was killed. They captured sixteen guns during the attack, but had to abandon them in the retreat. They wintered at Valley Forge in General Lachlan MacIntosh’s Brigade. General Washington noted that the North Carolina troops were the poorest supplied of all the destitute men there. The desertion rate of the North Carolina troops was 10%, which was the lowest in the Army, which averaged at 18%. Silas died in the service of the Continental Army on 22 May 1778, likely at Valley Forge. A week later, on 29 May 1778, the 6th North Carolina Regiment was absorbed into the 1st North Carolina Regiment. A military land warrant #1533 was sold by his heirs on 22 Feb 1785."

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