What: Thomas Sumter campsite, April 1781

Other names:

Where: 33.972922, -81.025487

Maps: [map notes]

• 33.972922,-81.025487, Ancrum's Plantation, arbitrarily placed "across the river from Granby".
• ACME Mapper.
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• Google.

Sources:

• NBBAS:Three P. 269

  Vaudant’s Old Field, South Carolina [i]
  Skirmish
  1 June 1781

  Around the first of June Sumter sent Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hampton and Colonel Charles Myddleton south from Ancrum’s Plantation. Sumter wrote Greene that he had given Hampton the "disaffected Orangeburgers." They were to engage any enemy who was attempting to relieve the siege at Fort Ninety Six. Hampton defeated a force of fifty South Carolina Royalists at Vaudant’s Old field, under the command of Ensign Henry Livingstone. Hampton "killed several" including Ensign Livingstone. He also "made some prisoners, took a number of negroes, and thirty odd fine horses".

  [i] Also known as Weaver’s Old Field. There is not a lot of information on these small skirmishes with Rawdon’s relief force. It is mentioned in dispatches by Sumter and is in Draper’s Sumter Papers. Sumter mentions that it happened west of the Congaree and Santee Rivers

• Sherman, "Calendar..."online". Search for ancrum. 21 returns, many relevant. To avoid long downloads, use option to "Save and view this PDF in Reader".

• William Dobien James, Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion. Nothing found.

• RevWar75   N/A.

Related sites: Vaudant's Old Field (1 June 1781)

Submitted by: Patrick O'Kelley

Confidence level: 1