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GENERAL FRANCIS MARION'S MEN: A LIST OF TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
Compiled by William Willis Boddie, 1938;
Re-typed with additions by Leonardo Andrea, 1949;
Re-typed and re-edited by Richard R. Dietz, 1996.
(c) 1996 Richard R. Dietz, El Monte, CA 91731-1209. All rights reserved.


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    I have taken Leonardo Andrea's list and re-typed it, corrected obvious
spelling and typographical errors. Andrea did not include the sources for
service that Boddie refers to in his introduction. Suffice it to say that
Andrea later admitted that it was a mistake, but almost all of these men
received "pay indents" from the government of South Carolina and that is
where their service can be verified.
The following is the introduction written by William Willis Boddie for his
original book:

"The following is a List of the names of twenty-five hundred of MARION'S
MEN, the location of proof of service of each man after his name. A few of
the men listed furnished supplies for Marion's army, but the descendants of
every one named is entitled to membership in the several societies based on
service in the War of the Revolution. MARION'S MEN equipped themselves by
capture from the enemy, supported and sustained themselves from their
plantations, and were neither paid nor promised payment by any State
authority. He, therefore, kept no rolls or records. This List has been
compiled by selecting the names one by one from authorities everywhere
recognized as acceptably reliable and unquestionable. With these untrained
pioneer backwoodsmen, Francis Marion took from the British the PeeDee
section of South Carolina, one-third of the State, and, while they were
making frantic efforts to capture him, held it against them for nearly a
year before any other American force succeeded in holding an acre of
territory in the State against them for a single day. After the fall of
Charles Town, May 13, 1780, and the complete collapse of the State agencies,
civil and military, Francis Marion was one of the very few South Carolinians
who actually desired separation from England. Almost every other man in the
State was happy again to be safe within the arms of the "Mother Country".
Marion's labors in the PeeDee country saved South Carolina and Georgia for
Independence and the American Union. His services from 1780 to 1783 make the
most dramatic and colorful chapter in American history. The half of his
story has never been told.

"Several years after the War of the Revolution, all of MARION'S MEN who
submitted claims for services were paid. A copy of each indent by which paid
was made on the stub and these stubs were bound in books named for the
letters in the alphabet, the stubs and indents numbered. Most of the names
in this List were taken from the stubs of those old Pay Indents, the letter
showing the book and the figures the number of the indent. Hence (X65) means
in the List that proof of payment to the man may be found in Pay Indent book
X, at number 65. (DeS.) refers to De Saussure's List of South Carolina
Officers in the War of the Revolution, as published in the "Charleston Year
Book" for 1893, the number of the page on which the name may be found.
(Weems) refers to "Weems's Life of Marion", the number of the page; (James),
to James' "Life of Marion"; (Simms), to Simm's "Life of Marion"; (Gregg) to
Bishop Gregg's "History of the Old Cheraws"; (Bod.), to Boddie's "History of
Williamsburg"; (Gee), to "The Gee Family", an excellent history and
genealogy of that family recently compiled by W. J. Fletcher; and
(Kinfolks), to the extraordinary genealogy of "Harlice and Allied Families"
by Col. William C. Harlice, Marine Corps, retired. Kinfolks contains
sketches of a great many of MARION'S MEN named in this List.