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What:
After Cowpens, Tarleton forced A. Goudelock to guide him to Hamilton's Ford, 17 Jan 1781

Where: 34.911, -81.592223 Adam Goudelock house

Maps: [map notes]

• 34.91046,-81.592223 Adam Goudelock house, based on land plats
• ACME Mapper.
• Google
  
• National Map
• Confidence: 3

• 34.917644,-81.623984 Adam Goudelock house, relocated
• ACME Mapper.
• Google
  
• National Map
• Confidence: 5(relocated house), 1(original location)

• 34.925680,-81.594639 Goudelock Cemetery, possible alternative house site (RI)
• ACME Mapper.
• Google
  
• National Map
• Confidence: 5(cemetery), 2(original house)

Sources:

• Deedmapper plot of Adam Goudelock land plat. It is keyed to Sarah Cook property which had stream identified as flowing into the Pacolet River.

  

• Burke Davis, The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign, 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press, p.39.

• Lawrence Edward Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, 1998, UNC Press, p.134-135.

• North Carolina Office of Archives and History, The North Carolina Historical Review, 1924, North Carolina Historical Commission, p.364.

• Daniel Murphy, "The Cavalry at Cowpens: Thinking Inside the Box", Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, C.B. Baxley, ed., Vol.3. No.2, p.23ff.

  Tarleton and his cavalry then rode several miles and impressed a local dragoons later showed up in pursuit and Goudelock’s wife purposely routed them away from Tarleton’s course out of fear for her husband’s life. This misdirection cost the American dragoons their quarry and effectively ended the cavalry actions for the Battle of Cowpens.

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Related locations:
Cowpens

Confidence level:: See above