Richardson Rountree was a Revolutionary War soldier who served as one of Francis Marion's men (The Swamp Fox). See South Carolina Stub Entries to Indents, Book X, Part I, page 178, which covers payment for duty in Brandon's Regiment. Book Y-Z, page 258. In addition, he is listed as a Captain of Commissaries in Col Brandon's Regiment.
Richardson Rountree served as a Captain in the Militia in Brandon's Regiment in the Revolution Army, serving out of Edgefield Co., South Carolina, before and after the fall of Charleston. He died In Edgefield Co., South Carolina. During the war he was captured and brutally treated, left bound in a swamp to die. He was released by a faithful slave. His name is recorded in the list of "Persons Receiving payments for Duty Done in Colonel Brandon's Regiment" in "A History of Union County Chapter II, page 20-22." Published by Union Co. Historical Foundation 1977. Notes by GSW "00. (AA 66334, X3098; McCall, II, 55)
Richardson Rountree was a captain in the American army... During the war, and while on a furlough home, Richardson Rountree's premises were raided by a roving band of Tories, many of who were his neighbors and acquaintances. They were after plunder, and in their search for valuables and money ripped open the bedding and scattered the feathers over the floor, besides destroying the household goods. Captain Rountree refused to tell them where his valuables were hidden, whereupon they tied him and threatened to hang him in the presence of his family. Finding they could not gain their object, they tied his hands behind his back, and disregarding the entreaties of his wife and daughters, they marched him away from his home asserting that they would kill any member of the family who dared to follow. Some distance from his home, in a deep forest, he was made to embrace a small tree (you see he was a round tree then), while his hands were made fast with hickory withes, and he was left to perish. After a painful struggle of many hours he at last succeeded in liberating himself by biting away the withes with his teeth. He returned to his command at Charleston, S.C., and was in the service until mustered out at the close of the war.
Richardson Rountree moved from Virginia to Union District of SC by 1774 and then in 1794 move to the Edgefield District of SC. He was a farmer and merchant. When he died his personal property sold for around $10,000, plus his land holdings. Records of his estate settlement may be found in Box 25, Package 891 in the Court of Probate for Edgefield Co, SC.
Richard Rountree is enumerated on the 1810 census in Edgefield County, South Carolina. [1]
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