“he remained at home until the month of September in the year 1784 – when he again enrolled himself as a volunteer in the Company of Captain John Norred or Norwood of the South Carolina Militia, as horseman and continued under him stationed at a Garrison near Walton’s Ford on Tugular [sic Tugaloo?] River until he served six months and was discharged. Sometime in the month of March in the year 1785 the Day not recollected & he was out of the Service until about the 10th or 15th of September in the year 1786 when he again enrolled himself as a volunteer in the Company of Captain James Hamilton of the South Carolina Indian Spies and continued with as a spy on the frontiers of South Carolina until the last of April in the year 1787 “