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Descendants of COL. DR. JOHN PYLE

Generation No. 1

1. COL. DR. JOHN² PYLE (DR. SAMUEL¹) was born April 08, 1723 in KENNETT, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, and died January 01, 1804 in CAIN CREEK, CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. He married SARAH BALDWIN June 1744 in PENNSYLVANIA, daughter of JOHN BALDWIN and HANNAH JOHNSON. She died 1788 in CAIN CREEK, CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

Notes for COL. DR. JOHN PYLE:
      COL. PYLE'S MOST NOTABLE MILITARY ENGAGEMENT OCCURRED ON THE NIGHT OF FEB. 21, 1781, WHEN IN COMMAND OF ABOUT 265 CAVALRYMEN HE ENGAGED A SUPERIOR FORCE UNDER THE COMMAND OF LT. COL. HENRY "LIGHTHORSE HARRY" LEE AT THE BATTLE OF HAW RIVER. COL. PYLE WAS DECEIVED INTO BELIEVING THAT HE HAD MET UP WITH FRIENDLY TROOPS INSTEAD OF ENEMY FORCES AND IN THE RESULTING GUNFIRE 90 OF HIS MEN WERE KILLED. IN THE HAND TO HAND SWORD PLAY IN THE MOON LIT BATTLE THE COLONEL LOST FIRST THREE FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND AND THEN AN EYE TO A SABER SLASH ACROSS HIS FACE. HE WAS KNOCKED FROM HIS HORSE WHEN SHOT AT POINTBLANK RANGE AND LEFT FOR DEAD IN THE ICEY RIVER'S WATERS. HE REVIVED AND CRAWLED TO A SMALL POND AND CONCEALED HIMSELF IN THE WATER AND REEDS WITH NOTHING PROTRUDING BUT HIS NOSE UNTIL THE FOLLOWING NIGHT WHEN HE MADE HIS WAY HOME.

      THE BRITISH HISTORIAN STEDMAN HAS WRITTEN MUCH OF THIS ENGAGEMENT, "A FOUL MASSACRE". THE STORY OF THIS BATTLE WAS ALSO RELATED BY GENERAL CORNWALLIS IN A LETTER DATED MARCH 17, 1781, AND BY SIR BANASTRE TARLETON IN HIS HISTORY PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND IN 1787. THE BEST DESCRIPTION IS TO BE FOUND IN THE PICTORIAL FIELD BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION BY BENSON J. LOSSING.

      IN THE COLONIAL RECORDS OF NORTH CAROLINA IS A COPY OF A LETTER FROM CAPT. WILLIAM O'NEAL WHICH RELATES THAT DR. JOHN PYLE, HIS SON, AND JOHN LINDLEY, PYLE'S SON IN LAW SURRENDERED TO HIM IN THE LATTER DAYS OF SEPTEMBER, 1781. THEY WERE ARRESTED, AS ALL LOYALISTS WERE ,TO AWAIT TRIAL FOR TREASON. BOTH PYLES AS DOCTORS WERE ASSIGNED MEDICAL DUTIES WITH THE COLONEL BEING PUT IN CHARGE OF THE WOUNDED, BOTH COLONIAL AND BRITISH. THEY WERE BOTH GIVEN UNCONDITIONAL PARDONS FOR THEIR FAITHFUL WORK IN THE LATTER DAYS OF THE CONFLICT, AND THERE IS NO RECORD OF THEIR PROPERTY HAVING BEEN CONFISCATED. SARA PYLE'S HUSBAND, JOHN LINDLEY, WAS NOT TO FAIR AS WELL HOWEVER. BOTH HIS BROTHER WILLIAM AND HIS FATHER THOMAS WERE KILLED IN SEPERATE FIGHTS WITH COL. LEE'S TROOPS. INORDER TO SECURE HIS FREEDOM SO HE COULD TRY TO HOLD TOGETHER THE FAMILIES' ESTATES JOHN LINDLEY WAS REQUIRED TO POST IN GOLD A 100,000 ENGLISH POUNDS BOND. AN EXTREMELY LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE LATE 1700'S. ( SEVERAL MILLION IN TODAY'S DOLLARS) BELEIVE IT OR NOT THE LINDLEY FAMILY HAD THE MONEY ON HAND AND JOHN WENT FREE, BUT HE WAS NEVER BROUGHT TO TRIAL, NOR IS THERE ANY RECORD OF THE RETURN OF THE 100,000 POUNDS STERLING.

More About COL. DR. JOHN PYLE:
Education: MEDICAL EDUCATION IN LONDON, ENGLAND
MILITARY SERV: 1775, APPOINTED BY THE KING, COLONEL IN THE BRITISH ARMY, A TORY-LOYALIST
Occupation: COUNTRY DOCTOR-FARMER-BUSINESSMAN
POLITICAL SER: MEMBER OF "THE REGULATORS", A VIGILANTI COURT & JUSTICE SYSTEM
RELIGIOUS: QUAKER

More About SARAH BALDWIN:
RELIGIOUS: QUAKER

Children of COL. PYLE and SARAH BALDWIN are:

	i.		DR. JOHN³ PYLE II.
2.	ii.		SARAH PYLE, b. November 10, 1750, HARTFORD COUNTY, MARYLAND.

Generation No. 2

2. SARAH³ PYLE (COL. DR. JOHN², DR. SAMUEL¹) was born November 10, 1750 in HARTFORD COUNTY, MARYLAND. She married JOHN C. LINDLEY March 16, 1768 in ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA USA, son of THOMAS LINDLEY and RUTH HADLEY. He was born September 13, 1747 in LONDON GROVE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, and died 1800 in ANDERSON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

More About SARAH PYLE:
Occupation: HOMEMAKER
RELIGIOUS: QUAKER

More About JOHN C. LINDLEY:
IN MEMORIAM: SEE NOTES UNDER COL. DR. JOHN PYLE
MILITARY SERV: SERVED AS A LIEUT.IN COL.PYLE'S LOYALIST CAV. DURING REVOLUTION,FOUGHT @ HAW RIV
Occupation: FARMER & BUSINESSMAN
RELIGIOUS: QUAKER

Children of SARAH PYLE and JOHN LINDLEY are:

	i.		SIMON⁴ LINDLEY, b. January 20, 1769.
	ii.		WILLIAM LINDLEY, b. October 16, 1770.
	iii.		MARY LINDLEY, b. September 26, 1772.
	iv.		SARAH ELIZABETH LINDLEY, b. January 27, 1774; m. LEMUEL MILLER COLLARD; b. January 03, 1810.
	v.		JOHN C. LINDLEY II, b. February 15, 1775.
	vi.		SAMUEL WASHINGTON LINDLEY, b. March 03, 1776; m. MARY ELIZABETH COLLARD; b. April 01, 1802.
	vii.		JAMES LINDLEY, b. March 29, 1777; d. August 08, 1778.
	viii.		THOMAS LINDLEY, b. April 22, 1779.
	ix.		JACOB LINDLEY, b. September 1781, CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA; d. 1850, HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS; m. ALCY GIBSON, May 13, 1805, CHRISTIAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY; b. 1785, NORTH CAROLINA; d. 1850, HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS.

More About ALCY GIBSON:
Occupation: HOMEMAKER

	x.		JEHU LINDLEY, b. November 09, 1782.
	xi.		RUTH LINDLEY, b. February 19, 1786.

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