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(Copy of record received from Mr.John T. Nason, Grenada, Miss.)

Died, on his farm on Jackson creek in Fairfield district, South Carolina, Captain Hugh Milling, an officer in the army of the Revolution.  Born at Drumbo, County Down, Ireland, on the 21st. day of Februery, 1752.  He emigrated to America in the year 1771, and was a resident in Charleston, South Carolina, in the year 1774, when the first Revolutionary movement was made in that city.  At that time, he joined a company of Grenadiers, raised by Captain McCall, by whom the British Arsenal was forced open, and that company and others supplied with arms.  In 1775 he became first sergeant in a company of Grenadiers commanded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; in 1778 was commissioned first lieutenant in the Sixth Continental Regiment commanded by Charles Cotesworth in 1779 a captain in the same regiment.  His military services were arduous and incessant, ranging over an extensive field of action.  He was engaged in the first and second battles of Fort Moultrie; at the battle of Stone; at the seige and storming of Savannah; in the war that was carried into the Cherokee Nation in Georgia, in Florida, and in the unsuccessful expedition against St. Augustine.  The Continental Regiments of South Carolina became so reduced in numbers, by disease and battles, that it was necessary to consolidate them.  This measure deranged the officers of the Sixth Regiment and Captain Milling served as a volunteer at the seige of Charleston.  Some short time before the city fell , he was ordered by Governor Rutledge to endeavor to make his way through the lines of the enemy and raise men in the back country and come down in the rear of the beseiging army.  In this, together with some other officers, he succeeded; reached the upper districts and was engaged in this service, when he was taken by a party of Tories and lodged in Camden gaol,from whence he was sent to Col. Balfoar, the British commandant in Charleston; and from thence to Haddrel's Point, where he remained a prisoner until paroled, and not being exchanged, he remained a prisoner under parole to the end of the war.

Thus from 1774 to 1781 he was constantly with arms in his hands, and actively engaged in the Revolutionary service.  The peace of 1783 found him on his farm at Jackson Creek, where he continued to reside the remainder of his days, cultivating the soil, practicing medicine and otherwise actively employed, in providing the means of support of a wife and eleven children; and in the exercise of that kindness, the benevolence that gained for him the esteem and respect of all around him.  For upwards of forty years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and had the satisfaction of seeing all his children grown up; and most of them became members of the same church.  In his last years he was tried by many afflictions and severe dispensation of Providance, in the death of his wife, one son and six daughters, following each other to the grave in rapid succession.  He was, however,enable to bear his trials with a fortitude and resignation, supported by the hope of a Christian--a hope that never failed him in his last moments.  During his last sickness (a period of about two weeks) he retained, in a degree remarkable for his years, both physical and mental energies, and closed his long and useful life on 7th. May, 1837, aged 85 years, two months, sixteen days.

^[[(Note - written by hand) He lived in the old rock house back from the road, on left-hand side of road--back and near Jackson Creek, S.C.]]