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LT Thomas Polk

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LT Thomas Polk Veteran

Birth
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
Death
8 Sep 1781 (aged 25)
Eutaw Springs, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Eutaw Springs, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Died of a musket ball shot to the forehead in Battle of Eutaw Springs which was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in the Carolinas.

Son of Brig. Gen. Thomas Jefferson Polk and wife, Susannah Spratt Polk.

William S. Powell, North Carolina Through Four Centuries, University of North Carolina Press, 1989, pp. 176, 177.
William M. Polk, Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General, Longmans, Green & Co., 1915, p. 14.
Polk Family & Kinsman by William Harrison Polk, Ed Voyles & Willa Voyles
Died of a musket ball shot to the forehead in Battle of Eutaw Springs which was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in the Carolinas.

Son of Brig. Gen. Thomas Jefferson Polk and wife, Susannah Spratt Polk.

William S. Powell, North Carolina Through Four Centuries, University of North Carolina Press, 1989, pp. 176, 177.
William M. Polk, Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General, Longmans, Green & Co., 1915, p. 14.
Polk Family & Kinsman by William Harrison Polk, Ed Voyles & Willa Voyles


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