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Age and the Infirmity of gout pre^^ented both 

 Mr. John Palmer and his brother Joseph, of Webdo, 

 from bearing arms during the revolutionary struggle. 

 But the former had sons who were active Whigs, and 

 the latter was known to be friendly to their cause. 

 They were, therefore, made the victims of cruelty 

 so wanton that it can hardly be credible that 

 it proceeded from a civilized enemy. They were 

 both seized and carried to Biggin Church, which 

 was then a British post, and there inhumanly thrust 

 Into the Colleton family vault, without even a 

 blanket to protect them from the unwholesome 

 damps of their gloomy prison. After they were 

 liberated they were two days returning to Gravel 

 Hill, about ten miles distant. Oppressed with pain, 

 Infirmity, and anxiety, each brother occasionally 

 carried the other on his back, when strength had 

 failed and the urgency of advancing became or 

 seemed apparent. 



48. East of Gravel Hill was Cooper's, so called 

 from a former resident. The place was afterwards 

 a part of the Gravel Hill tract. 



49. On Wiskinboo Swamp, a tributary of the 

 Fair Forrest, was the residence of Mr. Edward 

 Greenland, grandfather of William Cain, Esq. His 

 daughter married Robert Cahusac, and was the 

 mother of John, who married Eliza Williams ; of 

 Anne, wife of John Couturier, the father of the 

 late Dr. John Couturier of Pinevllle ; and of Susan, 



