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Does anyone know where I could find information on the Raccoon Company of Capt John Alston -- I think of SC. I have only found one person, James Harris, who enlisted in Orange Co., NC., but I believe that John Alston lived on a plantation 'Forlorn Hope' in Georgetown, SC. All I've been able to find is these two items below.
Thanks. Joanne
''The Pee Dee Indian people of Beaver Creek are not native to the Edisto River. The tribe originally called the area around the Great Pee Dee River home, where they had been known by neighboring tribes as great farmers and traders. When European colonists began arriving in this country, the Pee Dee were quick to establish friendly trading relationships with their newest neighbors.
In 1738, the Pee Dee moved from Pee Dee Indian Old Town in Marion County, SC to a reservation set up for them by the colonial government on the lands of James Coachman in Indian Field Swamp on the Edisto River in what is now Dorchester County. They soon began moving upriver, to the forks of the Edisto, to better serve as trading liaisons between the colonists and neighboring tribes. Many members of the tribe received land grants in that area for service in Capt. John Alston's "Raccoon Company," a company of 50 Pee Dee Indian riflemen, during the Revolutionary War. In 1813, Chief Lewis Jones moved from the Pee Dee River and received grants totalling 2,000 acres. Many of our people still reside on those original grants. ''
http://hometown.aol.com/peedeendn/myhomepage/
''At Fort Sullivan were the 435 men under Colonel Moultrie. On the northeastern point of Sullivan's Island, behind two defensive works built by the colonial engineer Captain de Brahm, were the 300 Rangers of Colonel Thomson's Third Regiment, 200 North Carolina regulars under Lieutenant Colonel Clark, 200 South Carolina troops under Colonel Daniel Horry the Raccoon or Foot Rover Company of 50 Peedee, Waccamaw, Cheraw and Catawba riflemen with a small detachment of militia. The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies By David Lee Russell -page 92''
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