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To the Editor:

Wednesday, July 10, 2024, D. G. Martin wrote of the involvement of the South in the OPINION column. During the writing and publication of Pappy – The Days and Ways of a Hatteras Merchant – I became involved in genealogy and discovered that persons from both my father’s and mother’s families were involved in that conflict. Both Daniel Austin and Thomas Daniels entered the conflict from Currituck County.

The Outer Banks of North Carolina’s location has made it the first line of defense for Atlantic Ocean military activity in every war in which we have been involved. However, to find that Daniel Austin of Currituck was at battle of Norwalk, July 11, 1779, resulting from “New Haven and Norwalk alarms” surprised me. I found a reference that Austin marched July 8, 1779, with Captain Moses Seymour’s Company. He was  discharged July 19, 1779.

“The Battle of Norwalk  was the largest of the Revolutionary War in Connecticut.”

A voucher proves Sarah Rollins Daniels of Wanchese received a “half year Revolutionary pension.” Thomas Daniels was her husband.

Sybil Austin Skakle

Chapel Hill

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