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- Philip Coleman. He fought with his neighbor, Capt. John Nuckolls, in the war against the Cherokee Indians on February 9, 1771. He was a sergeant. Fighting with him in this skirmish was his brother, William. He witnessed a deed transaction between Joab Mitchell and Thomas Draper on May 2, 1776, before his brother, Christopher Coleman, Justice of the Peace.
He served under Col. Thomas Brandon with the Patriots before deserting to the British. He was probably at the battle of Kettle Creek for he was accused of sedition and held in the Ninety Six jail. From here he was taken to Orangeburg, S. C., for trial in 1779.
He served as a Loyalist under Col. Daniel Plummer in the Fairforest Militia. He was under Ferguson from June 14 to October 1780 and was in the battle of Kings Mountain. He probably refugeed to Charleston, S. C., and returned to his house in the upstate after the death of his sister, Frances.
He died in 1785, and John Haile, Adam Potter, and his brother, William Coleman, signed the administrative bond before John Thomas, Jr., Ordinary. On August 4, 1785, his Negro slave, a boy named Sam, was appraised in Union County, S. C., by Adam Potter, Samuel Littlejohn, and Lawrence Easterwood.
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- 1785
(Age 71 years)