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British troopers—leather cape with plumes, red coats, white pantaloons and half boots. The two officers approached Mrs. Mouzon courteously and told her with apparent regret that "Harry," meaning her husband, had turned against the King and must consequently be broken up. Orders were then given to set fire to the premises, and in a little time the family mansion and the out-houses, 14 buildings in all, were wrapt in flames.
382:"A MAP of the PROVINCE of SOUTH CAROLINA with all the Rivers, Creeks, Bays, Inletts, Islands, INLAND NAVIGATION, Soundings, Time of High Water on the Sea Coast, Roads, Marshes, Ferrys, Bridges, Swamps, Parishes Churches, Towns, Townships; COUNTY PARISH DISTRICT and PROVINCIAL LINES / Humbly inscribed to the Hon.ble Lawlins Lowndes Esq Speaker of the rest of the Members of the Honble the Commons House of Assembly of the PROVINCE by their most Obed.t & faithfull Serv.t Jam.s Cook. - British Library"
368:"A MAP of the PROVINCE of SOUTH CAROLINA with all the Rivers, Creeks, Bays, Inletts, Islands, INLAND NAVIGATION, Soundings, Time of High Water on the Sea Coast, Roads, Marshes, Ferrys, Bridges, Swamps, Parishes Churches, Towns, Townships; COUNTY PARISH DISTRICT and PROVINCIAL LINES / Humbly inscribed to the Hon.ble Lawlins Lowndes Esq Speaker of the rest of the Members of the Honble the Commons House of Assembly of the PROVINCE by their most Obed.t & faithfull Serv.t Jam.s Cook. - British Library"
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Williamsburg would be expected to take up arms against their countrymen. James left the meeting in a great state of agitation and returned to
Williamsburg, where a battalion was organized under Captain Mouzon and several others. Mouzon and two other men left to find Colonel Francis Marion and bring him to Williamsburg to command the battalion. On September 14, 1780, Marion's forces attacked those of Colonel Cumming Ball at the
396:"An accurate map of North and South Carolina : With their Indian frontier, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; with the roads and Indian paths; as well as the boundary or provincial lines, the several townships, and other divisions of the land in both the provinces / The whole from actual surveys by Henry Mouzon and others"
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The subject of this memoir, then 11 years old, was on the roof of the smoke-house, aiding in spreading the bacon to the sun, and was the first to descry the approach of the enemy and give the alarm. Capt. Mouzon was then at home, and had just time to escape to the swamp and conceal himself. His
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