Marion Data, Rev War, Life Events & Bibliography
About General Francis Marion, The "Swamp Fox"
Significant Events in the Life of Francis Marion and the Revolution, Southern Campaign in SC:
** Battles or skirmishes Marion engaged in **
Winter 1732 Marion was born in the Low Country of South Carolina, youngest of six.
1738 (c) Family moved to Winyah Bay close to Georgetown.
1747 (c) Francis went to sea. Disaster changed his mind about a career at sea.
1750 (c) Francis Marion’s father died and Francis, unmarried, managed farm.
**1756 Francis and brother, Gabriel, enlisted to fight Indians. Indian fighter to 1761
1773 Francis purchased land on the Santee, 4 miles below Eutaw Springs.
April 19, 1775 Battles at Lexington and Concord, MA
May 1775 Marion learned of the struggle in New England and went to Charleston to Enlist, Commissioned as Captain on June 21, 1775, in SC Regiment.
June 18, 1776 South Carolina Regiments incorporated into Continental Army.
**June 28, 1776 British attack Sullivan’s Island from the sea. Marion commanded the guns at the fort. (Now Fort Moultrie)
— South Carolina troops serve in SC and GA. Most action is in New England
September 19, 1778, Marion takes command of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment.
Summer 1779 Lord Cornwallis has orders from London for the Southern Campaign.
**October 9, 1779 Attempt to retake Savannah from British. Marion was involved
January 20, 1780 Marion, now a Lt. Col., commands the 2nd SC Regt.
March 19, 1780 Marion at a party at Tradd St. Jumped out window and broke leg or ankle. Evacuated from the besieged Charleston which fell May 12, 1780.
August 16, 1780 Camden fell, Cornwallis defeated Gates
**August 17, 1780 Marion (age 48) assumed command of the Williamsburg Militia; controlled Santee River traffic, orders to destroy boats
**August 24, 1780 Nelson’s Ferry (Great Savannah), Santee River, Marion attacked British Soldiers conveying prisoners to Charleston.
**September 4, 1780 Blue Savannah, Marion ambushed Tories under Micah Ganey. Wemyss’s Campaign of Terror. Marion at Great White Swamp (Waccamaw) in NC.
**Sept 7, 1780 Kingstree – Marion’s Militia snatched Brit for interrogation
**Sept. 28-29, 1780 Marion, back in SC, attacked Col. Ball at Black Mingo, Mouzon wounded.
October 7, 1780 Battle at King’s Mountain. (Marion not involved)
**October 25, 1780 Marion attacked Brits at Tearcoat Swamp, Black River, during the night.
**November 7, 1780 Confrontation at Richbourg’s Mill & Gen.Richardson’s Plantation/Big Home
**November 8, 1780 Jack’s Creek to Ox Swamp Chase, Marion became known as the “Swamp Fox” And Marion ambush site established at Benbow Ferry
**Nov. 15, 1780 Marion at White’s Plantation & Pen’s Plantation
Nov. 15, 1780 Marion’s nephew Gabriel Marion killed after he surrendered near White Bridge, Georgetown
Dec. 2, 1780 Greene took command from Gates
**Dec. 5, 1780 Tory Tavern
**Dec. 12, 13, 1780 Marion at Halfway Swamp near Santee River, and Singleton’s Mill.
Dec. 14, 16, 17, 1780 Reconnoitered Backcountry Outposts, Santee Road Recon/Interdiction/ Ambush sites
Dec. 28, 30, 1780 Camp near Georgetown, Chased Rangers from Williamsburg to Georgetown
January 14, 1781 Waccamaw
January 17, 1781 Battle of Cowpens, Morgan defeated Tarleton. (Marion not involved)
**January 25, 1781 Marion at Georgetown with Lee with the new moon.
**January 29, 1781 Raided Moncks Corner & Congaree
**March 6-28, 1781 Marion at Wiboo Swamp, Cantey Plantation, Mount Hope Swamp, Lower Bridge of the Black River at Kingstree and Sampit Bridge.
**April 15-23, 1781 Marion and Lee, Siege of Fort Watson, British surrendered because of Maham Tower, Santee River
**May 12, 1781 Marion and Lee capture Fort Motte
**May 28, 1781 Georgetown
**June 6, 1781 British evacuate Georgetown.
July 8, 1781 Moncks Corner & Orangeburg
**July 17, 1781 Marion and Lee at Quinby Bridge & Shubrick’s Plantation
August 4, 1781 Col. Isaac Hayne is hanged in Charleston.
**August 13, 1781 Marion ambushes Fraser and his Loyal SC Dragoons at Parker’s Ferry Causeway
**Sept. 8, 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs on Santee River
**Sept. 20, 1781 Port’s Ferry on Pee Dee River
October 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown
Nov. 9, 1781 Marion learns of Cornwallis surrendered
Nov. 10, 1781 Celebration party at John Cantey’s: “a fine party for the ladies of Santee”: Cantey Plantation
**February 24, 1782 Two encounters with Loyalist cavalry. Tydiman Plantation Skirmish w/foragers
**August 29, 1782 Fair Lawn Skirmish, Marion encounters Fraser and is forced to retreat
December 14, 1782 British evacuated Charleston. Militia not allowed to participate and had been disbanded. Marion returned to his home at Pond Bluff
April 20, 1786 Marion (age 53) married to Mary Esther Videau. They lived at Pond Bluff, on the south edge of the Santee River on their many acres and raised pineland cattle.
Feb. 27, 1795 Francis Marion died at his home at Pond Bluff, area presently under Lake Marion and he is buried at Belle Isle, his nephew Job’s estate. Marker at Marion’s tomb at Pineville, SC. 33° 27.232’N, 80° 5.194′ .
Extensive research & the Paper: Francis Marion: Stranger Than Fiction
Compiled by Christine Swager & George Summers
Bibliography of works related to & about Marion:
Web info researched from these works:
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Steven D. Smith, Francis Marion and the Snow’s Island Community: Myth, History, and Archaeology, 2021
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Jessica Warner, John the Painter, 2004
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Russell F. Weigley, The Partisan War, 1970
Kenneth C. Weyand, Recipes & Stories of Early-Day Settlers, 1988
C. Keith Wilbur, The Revolutionary Soldier, 1969
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Beryl Williams & Samual Epstein, Francis Marion, 1958
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Robert Witherspoon, The Witherspoon Family Chronicle, 1780 (1967)
Charles Woodmason, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution, Hooker-1953
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Marion request letter, Sullivan’s Island, 26 July 1778
Marion appointment to Lieutenant Colonel, 16 September 1776 (dated 12 April 1782)
Marion Letter, Salem Black, 6 Feb 1781
Marion reciept, Camp Peedee River, 19 Feb 1781
Marion Congressional Citation, 12 April 1782
Marion Letters, City of Charleston Yearbook, 1895
Marion Article, Sanders R. Guignard family, Dec. 26, 2002
Marion Letter, re. Fort Watson, 23 April, 1781
Marion Presentation, The Man and The Myth, Lauren Pougue, April, 2003
Marion Presentation, Christine Swager, Francis Marion, Stranger then Fiction, April, 2003
Marion-Gadsden Correspondence, SC Historical Magazine
Francis Marion’s Hunting Lodge, Nettie Smith Owings, Huguenot Society of SC, 1975
Pond Bluff, F. M. Kirk, Geocities, 4/6/99
The Swamp Fox, Hugh M. McLaurin, III, Nov. 16, 1988
Francis Marion, Frankie Anderson, 1994
Francis Marion Statement, re. Plundering, 29 April 1790
News Article, Pennsylvania Packet, 10-09-1781
News Article, Pennsylvania Evening Post, August 14, 1781
Letter, Lt. Col Balfour to Lord George Germain, May 1, 1781
Letter, Gen Green, McCord’s Ferry, May 14, 1781
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Marion request letter, April 21, 1781
News Article, Richmond, April 6, 1782
News Article, New Jersey Gazette, April 1, 1781
Marion Letter to Gen Greene, Pennsylvania Packet, March 6, 1781
Marion Letter to Gen Greene, Pennsylvania Packet, January 31, 1781
News Article, Pennsylvania Packet, January 9, 1781
News Article, NY Royal Gazette, Sep 20, 1780 (About Nelson’s Ferry and 150 Marylanders)
News Article, Marion Letter, NE Chronicle, Jan 18, 1781
News Article, Royal SC Gazette, Nov 16, 1780
Francis Marion Orderly Book Presentation, John Frierson, April, 2003
Trail of The Swamp Fox, Douglas H. Bennett, Jul-Aug 2000, SC Wildlife
Francis Marion as an Intelligence Officer, George W. Kyte, SC Historical Magazine
Francis Marion, Carologue, Spring 2004, Intelligence
The Life of Francis Marion, D. W. Stokes, est. 1926, reprinted 1974
The Order Books of Francis Marion, Discipline by the Lash, John L. Friarson, Carologue, Winter 1999
General Marion’s Sweet Potatoe Dinner, unknown, facts/myths wrong
New Facts about an Old Story, Nell Weaver Davies, Carologue, Winter 1999
Who Was the Swamp Fox, Interview with Leslie Nielson, Paul F. Anderson
Francis Marion, Benson J. Lossing, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, July, 1858.
Haunts of “The Swamp Fox”, P. D. Hay, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Simm’s Life of Marion, review, Jan 1845
L/C Brian W. Neil, The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution, The American Insurgency, 1780 to 1782. 2009.
Numerous Discussions with:
Charles Baxley, Daniel Bell, Scott Bell, Dr. Anthony Beninati, Jeannette Beranger,
Fin Coffey, Mike Coker, Windy Corbett, Janson Cox, Doug Crutchfield, Dan Culpepper,
Dr. Marion Davis, Dr. Walter Edgar, Dr. Elizabeth Fenn, Dr. George Fields,
John Frierson, Harold Furse, Christopher George, David Grant, Val Green, Doyle Harper,
Justin Liles, Dr. Karen MacNutt, Norman McFadden, Dr. Warner Montgomery, Joe Moore,
Erick Nason, Patrick O’Kelley, Lauren Pogue, Dr. Tom Powers, Herb Puckett, John Robertson,
Dr. David Reuwer, Nicki Sackrison, Ross St. George, Dr. Steve Smith, Dwight Stewart, Frank Stovall,
Dr. Joe T. Stukes, Dr. Bob Swager, Dr. Christine Swager, Dr. Dan Tortora, Dr. Wright Turbeville,
Luther Wannamaker, Richard Watkins, Athena Westeren, Scott Withrow
Pursuit to Ox Swamp
Wednesday, November 8, 1780
Directions: I-95 Exit 119 – go east on SC 261. I-95 Exit 122 – go east on US 521. The road crosses Ox Swamp just east of Manning.
Upon learning from a Tory spy that General Marion slipped back east of Jack’s Creek, Tarleton gave chase with his Green Dragoons. Marion, staying just ahead of the dragoons, and fighting a series of delaying tactics with his rear guard, rode to the head of Jack’s Creek, Sammy Swamp and then down the Pocotaligo and slipped away into Ox Swamp. Here Tarleton gave up the chase and said “as for the old fox, the devil himself could not catch him.” Thus, General Francis Marion became known as the “Swamp Fox”. Marion and his men continued east to Benbow’s Ferry on the Black River where he had established the ambush for the British.
- Find Ox Swamp & the Pocotaligo: 33° 41′ 32″ N 80° 12′ 03″ W and this event.
- SC ETV “Chasing the Swamp Fox“ on-line.
On Nov. 8, 1780, after a seven-hour, 26 mile chase, of Col. Francis Marion by Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, he, Tarleton, gave up at Ox Swamp, just a few miles short of Benbow’s. Col. Francis Marion and his band of Patriots remained at Benbow’s Ferry on the Black River where he had prepared his own ambush for Lt. Col. Tarleton – however, Tarleton never came, but instead began burning homes in the vicinity, including the barn of Mrs. Richardson and all her livestock.
- Benbow’s Ferry Site
- Directions: East of Manning on SC 261. Left, north, onto S-55 at Martine Crossroads.
- The ferry was located just east of where the bridge crosses the Black River.
- Marion positioned his force in an ambush for Tarleton along the approach to the ferry.
- See the latest mural in Manning of this event, West facing wall of Piggly Wiggly.
Ambush Set at Benbow's
Siege of Fort Watson
Monday to Monday, April 16-23, 1781
Directions: I-95 Exit 102, South of Summerton. Historic US 301 north, turn west onto Fort Watson Road (S-803). Marker at the Visitors Center and the Indian Mound, site of Fort Watson, is at the end of the road.
Colonel Harry Lee and Lee’s Legion from Virginia had joined General Marion and Marion’s Brigade on the Black River on April 14, 1781. Marion and Lee elected to capture the British fort, built in December 1780, Fort Watson on the Santee and beside Scott’s Lake, to secure the area and to get badly needed supplies. They laid siege to the fort. The cannon never arrived. “Col. Maham contrived to raise a tower of logs, so high that it overtopped the fort.” The tower was erected over night after collecting saplings for several days. The use of the tower by the McCottry riflemen at sunrise led to the quick surrender of Fort Watson by Lt. James McKay on the morning of April 23, 1781 and was the final Battle of Fort Watson.
- Fort Watson mural
- Fort Watson mural is on the North facing wall of Summerton Hardware, Main Street.
- Historic marker
- Former Crypt cover, Marion stone
Statue
General Francis Marion in St. Mark’s Parish, now Clarendon County, is in the Continental uniform of his 2nd SC Regiment after he occupied Georgetown, June 6, 1781.
Marion is sponsored by the Swamp Fox Murals Trial Society.
Come to Manning to see Francis Marion in the Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce window, 19 N. Brooks Street.
These Swamp Fox engagements were after Charleston fell and the British occupied it starting on May 12, 1780. Marion had escaped capture and was the only senior Regimental or Continental Officer free to lead the local militia. Find this statue: 33.696° N 80.211° W
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Revolutionary War Locations in Clarendon County Area
| # On Clarendon Map | Date | Location |
| 1 | 1780-08-17 | Nelson’s Ferry |
| 2 | 1780-08-25 | Great Savannah |
| 7 | 1780-10-25 | Tearcoat |
| 8a | 1780-11-08 | Jack’s Creek |
| 8b | 1780-11-08 | Ox Swamp |
| 13 | 1780-12-12 | Halfway Swamp |
| 14 | 1780-12-13 | Singleton’s Mill |
| 16 | 1780-12-17 | Santee River Rd |
| 22 | 1781-03-06 | Wiboo Swamp |
| 23 | 1781-03-06 | Cantey Plantation |
| 24 | 1781-03-13 | Mt. Hope Swamp |
| 37 | 1781-04-15 | Fort Watson |
| 41 | 1781-08-16 | Santee River |
| 44 | 1781-09-08 | Eutaw Springs |
| 54 | Richardson Cemetery | |
| 55 | 1795-02-27 | Marion’s Tomb |
Choke points on the Santee River & Black River where Marion cut the British supply lines.
