Loyalists Excluded from Declaration of Pardon - April 1776
On 11 April 1776, the South Carolina General Assembly issued a "Declaration of Pardon or Amnesty" for the captured backcountry Loyalists taken during the Snow Campaign of December 1775. Of the 136 men captured, a total of fifteen were excluded from the Declaration of Pardon. These fifteen men were:
| 1. Henry O'Neal | 9. Thomas Wisdom |
| 2. Jacob Bowman | 10. Henry Green |
| 3. Thomas Fletchall | 11. Robert Proctor |
| 4. Patrick Cunningham | 12. William Dodgen |
| 5. Richard Pearis | 13. Stephen Prosser |
| 6. Elisha Robinson | 14. John Morgridge |
| 7. Pinkothman Hawkins | 15. Robert Cunningham |
| 8. James Alexander |
The above men were subsequently released in July of 1776.
(See Journals of the South Carolina General Assembly, 1776-1780, pages 46, 47, 51 and 54.)
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