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| | Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC |
 | | He learned from a deserter that a British Capt. Roberts with an escort of ninety troops was holding the 150 Maryland prisoners at General Sumter’s home, on the north savannah of the Santee River near Nelson’s Ferry. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Henry Savage, Jr., River of the Carolinas: The Santee, 1968 |
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