Ensign Clegg, a Loyalist, was captured at the Battle of Kettle Creek, Georgia, was tried for Treason and hung at Ninety-Six, South Carolina. He was buried along with four others near the place of execution.
The actual site of the cemetery is unknown and the graves are unmarked.
It is not known if the body was moved following the initial burial.
Ref: "Executed Loyalists I: Two Quakers -- © Stephen Davidson. Zacharias Gibbs, one of those loyalists who had his sentence commuted, later wrote about being imprisoned with Anderson, Clegg, Draper, Hall, and Lindley. He remembered that the "gallows was built within sight of the jail and graves prepared for the bodies". The five loyalists were hanged on April 17, 1779 in Ninety-Six, South Carolina."
Ensign Clegg married Barbara Maria Flick and had four children.
Ref: Finding Your Roots, Season 6, Episode 12: DNA Mysteries (Joe Madison) - https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/dna-mysteries
The actual site of the cemetery is unknown and the graves are unmarked.
It is not known if the body was moved following the initial burial.
Ref: "Executed Loyalists I: Two Quakers -- © Stephen Davidson. Zacharias Gibbs, one of those loyalists who had his sentence commuted, later wrote about being imprisoned with Anderson, Clegg, Draper, Hall, and Lindley. He remembered that the "gallows was built within sight of the jail and graves prepared for the bodies". The five loyalists were hanged on April 17, 1779 in Ninety-Six, South Carolina."
Ensign Clegg married Barbara Maria Flick and had four children.
Ref: Finding Your Roots, Season 6, Episode 12: DNA Mysteries (Joe Madison) - https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/dna-mysteries
Ensign Clegg, a Loyalist, was captured at the Battle of Kettle Creek, Georgia, was tried for Treason and hung at Ninety-Six, South Carolina. He was buried along with four others near the place of execution.
The actual site of the cemetery is unknown and the graves are unmarked.
It is not known if the body was moved following the initial burial.
Ref: "Executed Loyalists I: Two Quakers -- © Stephen Davidson. Zacharias Gibbs, one of those loyalists who had his sentence commuted, later wrote about being imprisoned with Anderson, Clegg, Draper, Hall, and Lindley. He remembered that the "gallows was built within sight of the jail and graves prepared for the bodies". The five loyalists were hanged on April 17, 1779 in Ninety-Six, South Carolina."
Ensign Clegg married Barbara Maria Flick and had four children.
Ref: Finding Your Roots, Season 6, Episode 12: DNA Mysteries (Joe Madison) - https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/dna-mysteries
The actual site of the cemetery is unknown and the graves are unmarked.
It is not known if the body was moved following the initial burial.
Ref: "Executed Loyalists I: Two Quakers -- © Stephen Davidson. Zacharias Gibbs, one of those loyalists who had his sentence commuted, later wrote about being imprisoned with Anderson, Clegg, Draper, Hall, and Lindley. He remembered that the "gallows was built within sight of the jail and graves prepared for the bodies". The five loyalists were hanged on April 17, 1779 in Ninety-Six, South Carolina."
Ensign Clegg married Barbara Maria Flick and had four children.
Ref: Finding Your Roots, Season 6, Episode 12: DNA Mysteries (Joe Madison) - https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/dna-mysteries
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