Williams date of birth is estimated based on his receiving a land grantof 100 acres upon entry in colonies in 1772. Had to be @ 18 to beclassed as head of household. No cemetery records available to now (1998)May have perished in home fire after 1800. Wifes maiden name has variousspellings.
I pick William as oldest child over Margaret because he is listedfirst in his fathers will and no other reason. Using this theory hewould be about 20 upon entry into Colonies in 1772 and Margaret about 18.
South Carolina Memorials of Land Titles 1774-1776, Memorial Book 13, page321
Wiliam Dial, 9 June 1775;100 acres in Craven County S of Broad River, ona branch of Kings Creek, Bounded NE by James Wilson and vacant land; NWby Elizabeth Brown; Other side vacant. Survey certified 30 Dec 1774(sic); granted 8 dec 1774. Quit rent in two years. Jno. Armstrong, DS.Delievered 17 July 1775 to John Armstrong (Margin note: Irish). (13-504:2)
Deed Book H--page 45--1797
William Dial to Joseph Hatton--150 acres on parcell ? called HuntingFork-Where said William Dial has lived for a number of years (explanationof former land owners followed) William came into land in January 1777.Land bordered by land of Jeremiah Dial and McCracken.
Deed A-544, Newberry C., S.C. 1/29/1787
William Dial (of Indian Creek) to William Gary of Va. but now ofsettlement of Gilders Creek, Newberry Co. org grant of 100 acres to saidWilliam Dial 12/8/1774
Witness Susannah Etchison (Atchison)?
Ann Etchison (Atchison)?
Revolutionary War in S.C. Militia--S.A.R. file 64526. Age estimated bythe fact he did not get land grant when family entered colonies in 1772.Death date established by his will of 1790. Her maiden name wasestablishe by Hasting Harrison (without documentation) No cemeteryrecords on John Dial.
The decendants of John and Mary Dial make up a large portion of thisresearch, namely David Montgomery Dial and Jeremiah 3. There is also apossibility that Mary remarried after Johns death
in 1790 and the half brothers and sisters of this marriage also ended upin Alabama. The leading researcher of John Dial and Jeremiah 3 is Kay(Dial) McKinnon of Jackson, Ms. I put the 3 after Jeremiah's name foridentification only. Jeremiah was the 3rd generation of Dials in earlyresearch work and someone deemed him to be a third which wasn't part ofhis name.
Maiden name of Mary (Montgomery) was established by Hasting Harrison (noproof provided) There is a John David Montgomery and wife Jane BeardMontgomery buried in Gilders Creek Cemetery at the foot of Jeremiah Dialand Margaret Unknown Dial. Possibly a brother to Mary but now old enoughto be her father. I have dropped the Montgomery from Mary's name for lackof documentation.
Revolutionary War Pension number W-914. ( 12 December 1815 WilliamNorvell (Bedford Co., Tn.)
deeded one acre of land to Trustees (Jeremiah Dial) for MethodistEpiscopal Church in U.S.A.) ( 1 Aug 1825 (Bedford Co., Tn.) showsJeremiah Dial, Alexander Freeman, Jesse Scott and others to be diggingfor salt water on Dial's place.) Birth date established by his ownstatement and his death by family bible and his pension request that henever collected. His pension request signed by J.K. Polk.
On this 15th day of August, 1832, personally appeared in open court,before John Lessill, Samuel Phillips, and John B. Armstrong Esqr.,Justices appointed to hold the Court of Pleas of Quasters session nowsetting.--------
Jeremiah Dial, a resident of Bedford County and State of Tennessee,aged about seventy-four years, who being first duly sworn according tolaw hath on his own oath made the following declaration in order toobtain the benefits of the Provisions of an act of Congress passed the7th of June 1832, for the Releif of Revolutionary Soldiers.
He states that he entered the service of the United States in theMilitia of South Carolina in the year 1778 or 1779. He does notrecollect which, and served under Capt. Levi Kersey, who belonged to Col.
Williams Regiment, as a substitute for his father, who was drafted toserve a tour of three months in Kersey's Company, which was to go toGeorgia to serve under the Command of General Lincoln. When they joinedGenl. Lincoln, he was stationed on the Savannah River, Georgia, watchingthe movement of the British.
After Kersey's Company remained with Lincoln a short time he sent aDetachment of this Company and probably others to the mouth of BriarCreek, on the Savannah River, some distance below Lincoln's encampment toassist Genl. Ash against the British; but when they arrived at or nearthe place Ash was, they found he was defeated.
This applicant states that this Detachment, in which he was, thenretreated back to Lincoln. They were pursued a short distance by theenemy who fired at them as they crossed Briar Creek. Capt Kersey'sCompany was sent out by Lincoln in pursuit of Tories whit whom they had askiemish at Spirit Creek, Georgia, in which they killed a good many ofthem--------
This skirmish took place near the end of the three month which thisapplicant served for his father. At the experation of which he wasdischarged by Captain Kersey.
Shortly afterwards he was drafted for three month in the Militia ofSouth Carolina and served in Captain Kersey's Company under the Commandof Col. Purvis. During the whole of this three months tour we wereprincepally engaged in scouting and endeavering to subdue the Tories inthat part of Georgia lying between the Osesia River and Augusta. At theexperation of this tour of service this applicant was again discharged byCapt. Kersey.
This applicant states that shortly after this he volunteeded fornine months under Capt. Kersey who was then raising a company ofvolunteers in Newberry Co., or District, South Carolina, to fight theBritish and Tories; During this tour of service Kersey was frequentlyengaged in pursuit of the Tories and scounting in different parts ofSouth Carolina.
They had many skirmishes with the Tories. One of which thisapplicant recollects was at Captain Dugans in Newberry County, withinfive miles of the place where his father lived. Here this applicantstates "We killed a great many Tories and took about twenty of themprisioners." During this tour of service the Company to which thisapplicant belonged had many otheer little skirmishes with the Tories, atthe experation of the nine months he was verbally discharged he receiveda certificate of his service which he presented to the Auditor ofCharleston sometime afterwards from whom he received an IndentedCertificate of the pay due him for his services---This certificate hebartered away for little or nothing.
Soon after his nine months volunteer service expired in the year1780--A short time after the surrender of Charleston this applicantenlisted with Capt. Daniel McDuff in Col. Henderson's Regiment--The SouthCarolina Contintental Line for and during the remaining period of thewar--He states that he enlisted under McDuff as a light horseman and wasimmediately after his enlistment put under the command of Maj. JohnHampton who was commanding a company of light horsemen attached to Col.
Henderson's Regiment, as well as this applicant recollects- The Tories atthis time were troublesome in South Carolina and Hampton's Company wasgenerally engaged in pursuit of then endeavering to supress them andsubdue their foragering as well as those of the British.
When Hampton's Company was out scouting or a part of them-Thisapplicant does not recollect whether the whole company was together arnot. They were pursued by a party of British and Tories and compelled tofly to General Sumpter for refuge, who was only a short distance fromthem--At Blackstocks on or near the Tyger River. They arrived at thisplace but a few minutes before Sumpter was attacked by the British andTories and assisted him in this battle. In this battle Sumpter waswounded, in the shoulder, and when the company of light horsemen to whichthis applicant belonged was advncing up to bring on the attack againstthe enemy, his horse was shot dead just as he had got off him--The battlecontinued until sometime into the night. When both armies retreated fromthe battlefield--This applicant states that when his horse was shot hemounted another which had belonge to another of his party or company whohad been killed--In this battle the British suffered more than theAmericans under Sumpter. This applicant states that when Sumpterretreated he crossed Tyger River and while crossing the river thisapplicant assisted in carring the beir on which Sumpter wasplaced--General Sumpter's forces made a halt at Waford's Iron Works whenthe company to which this applicant belonged left htem and went inpursuit of a party of Tories on Enores River, but when they arrived theTories were gone.
From this until the arrival of Col. William Washington in SouthCarolina Hampton's Company or at least a part of them among who thisapplicant was a part of were engaged in scouting and in pursuit of Torieson the Enores, Broad and Tyger Rivers--But when Col. Washington came intoSouth Carolina with a number of light horsemen this applicant was withseveral others taken under the command of Maj. Hampton and attached toCol. Washington's Company to pilot him through some parts of SouthCarolina in the pursuit of Tories, as this applicant and the others takenwith him were well aquainted with the country--This was in the beginningof the Winter of 1780 this applicant went with Washington to Hammond'sStore where they overtook and put to flight a large number of 'Tories,some of whom they killed and wounded. This store was in Newberry County.
Washington then sent one of his Lieutenents or Ensigns with a smallparty of men to take Williamson's Fort on Little River in Newberry Countynot more tha eight or ten miles from Hammond's Store. This applicant wasone of the party sent, when they arrived in sight of the fort, which wasoccupied by Tories, as well as this applicant can recollect, they werestationed by this lieutenant, whothen took a flag ane went up to the fortand demanded its surrender. The commander of the fort ask for a fewminutes for consideration, which was granted. During which time he andthe Tories deserted the fort and it was then burnt by this applicantsparty.
After this they returned and rejoined Washing, who was then wentback towards the border of North Carolina to join Genl. Morgan. Thisapplicant states that well as he recollects Washington joined Morgan afew days before the Battle of Cowpens and as well as the remembers whenWashington's Company in which he was in joined Morgan he was retreatingbefore Col. Tarelton and his forces--At all events Tatelton was inpursuit of him--When Washington, Morgan and Col. or Gen. Pickens whocommanded the Militia at the place called Cowpens. They started to fightthe British under Tarelton-This battle was fought on the 17th day ofJanuary 1781--This applicant particulairy recollects this battle becauseit was the greatest he was ever in--This applicant states that Tareltoncommenced the battle early in the morning by firing his field pieces atMorgan's Army. But he did not remember how long the battle lasted.Washington's Cavalry with whom this applicant fought during theengagement were stationed in the rear of Morgans forces and when theBritish broke through the left wing of the Militia, Washington's Cavalrymade an attack upon them and repelled them with considerable loss--Afterthis battle was over the Americans had gained a triumphant victory.
This applicant states that Morgan, Washington, and Pickens withtheir forces marched up Cane River in the mountains of North Carolinawith their prisioners in order to prevent Lord Cornwallis's Army fromretaking them and an enprise was about this time sent from South Carolinafor the aid of Gen. Pickens returned into South Carolina with histroops--This applicant went along with him.
They had several skirmishes with the Tories in different parts ofSouth Carolina after their return and before Gen. Greene came into SouthCarolina. But when Greene came Gen. Pickens along with whom thisapplicant still continued joined him about thirty or fourty miles from aplace called Ninety-Six, where the British had a garrison orfort--Greene's Army in which this applicant was then lay before thegarrison of Ninety-Six for several weeks as well as this applicantrecollects endeavearing to take it--But before he could suceed areinforcement of British came to its assistance and Greene's Army wascompelled to retreat--He retreated across the Enores and Broad Rivers andhaving met a supply of ammunition under reinforcement of men, he thenturned and went to Enloe Springs--But before he got to the springs thisapplicant was ordered out in a detachement under rhe command of Capt.Auberry. This applicant served under Auberry and was engaged in thescouting and skirmishing with the Tories in South Carolina with him fromthe time his detachment left Greene's Army until the close of the war, oruntil he went under Genl. Pickens in an expedition against the CherokeeIndians.
However he was in the service of the United States until regularydischarged from the regular service at the end of the war when the wholeAmerican Army was discharged--He was verbally discharged from the regularservice but he cannot recollect by whom. This applicant states that tothe best of his knowledge he served the United States during the war fornearly three years, if now altogether including his service as asubstitute for his father, a drafted soldier, on his own account, avolunteer and regular soldier--He is now certain that he has detailed theevents and circumstances of his service in the exact time and order inwhich they occured in consequence of the failure of his memory.
When he first enlisted as a regular soldier he received acertificate for the reward of eighty dollars from Capt. McDuff, as wellas he recollects this certificate he lost many years ago. He statesthat he has no documentary evidence of his service--This applicant alsostates that Capt. McDuff was captured shortly after he enlisted under himand lost as he understands and believes the roll of names of those whoenlisted under him and could not make any return of them to theDepartment of War--This applicant futher states that he knows of noliving person by whom he can make any proof of his service except that hemade by the affidavites of those annexed here--He states that two orthree years ago probably in 1829 he applied for a pension under the Actof Congress passed in May 1826--At that time he provided the testamony ofCapt. Daniel McDuff who was alive then but has since died, as well as thetestamony of two or three others--But before his claim was acted upon bythe War Department he was informed by the Honl J. K. Polk, Representativeon Congress from his district that all the testamony which he had sent onrelative to his claim was lost--He states that he again made applicationunder the Act of 1828 this Spring and transmitted the declarationtogether with all the testamony of his service to the Honl Secretary ofWar thru the Honl James K. Polk. He has not heard what disposition hasbeen made of this latter application but if it has not been approved hewould now beg leave to refer the Secretary of War to the testamony thusto him in support of the previous application. He does not recollectwhether the testamony above mentioned was transmitted to the Treasury ofthe War Department. Thia applicant states that he never received anywritten discharge at the end of the war or any other time of service,except the one already expressed above. He states that he was born inIreland in the year 1758 as he was informed by his father. He imigratedwith his father from Ireland to South Carolina and landed in Charlestonin that state in the year 1772.
Shortly afterwards in the same year his father settled in NewberryCounty on his tract, the said state where this applicant resided whencalled into service--He states that he has no record of his age--but hewas about nineteen or twenty years of age when he entered the service ofthe United States--At the close of the war he still resided in NewberryCounty, for several years--He then moved to Fairfield County where helived a year or two, he then removed to Edisto River, South Carolina, hedoes not recall the county from thence he removed to Wilkes County in theState of Georgia--Where he lived for two years--Then he moved back toPendelton County, South Carolina and after living there several years heremoved to the State of Kentucky, Warren County where he resided aboutfour years--He then removed to Wilson County, Tennessee and from there toBedford County, Tennessee, where he has resided for nearly twenty-threeyears and still continues to reside--This applicant states that he wasaquainted particulary with no one other than regular or militia officersother than those already named in this declaration--He saw Genl. FrancisMarion several times before the close of the war in South Carolina.
This applicant states that he is well aquainted with and has beenfor many years Col. James McKisick, Daniel McKisick, William GilcrisrEsqr., Col. Robert Cannon, Col. K. L. Anderson, and Horatio Cook, allcitizens of Bedford County, Tennessee, some of whom are his immediateneighbors, all of whom will testify as to his character for varacity andtheir beleif of his service--He could refer to many other highlyrespected citizens of this county was he requested to do so--
This applicant hereby reliquishes every claim whatever to a pensionor annuity except the submitted and declares that his name is not on thepension rolls of the agency of any state.
Sworn and submitted the day and year aforsaid.
It is thought that the parents of Nancy are George McDaniel and MargaretGoff. The 1790 census of South Carolina shows a widow McDaniel withchildren living close to the Dial Family. I believe this is the familythat Nancy came from and also the McDaniels that marry into the Lavenderfamily and others that travel to Alabama. Nancy's year of birth comesfrom family Bible.
2 July 1814 bought 60 acres from his father Jeremiah Dial Jr. Located on
headwaters of Falling Creek. Henry Dial died sometime during this period.
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