Richard Taliaferro
"Among Winston's Surry County Boys were Richard Taliaferro and Jesse Franklin. Both had ridden horses to Guilford Courthouse and had tied them nearby. When the final retreat began, both men ran for their mounts. Franklin made good his escape, but Taliaferro was killed by pursuing British cavalry. Richard Taliaferro was probably the last American casualty of the battle of Guilford Courthouse." [Source: The Monuments at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, by Thomas E. Baker, page 78]
Jesse Brock, Revolutionary War Pension Declaration
S.30887, "in listed in the Service Army of the united States
in Surry County State of North Carolina - in the month of Febury
1781 - under Capt William Underwood, Lieutenant Joseph Porter
and Ensign Richard Talefarro".........."I was marched to
Guilford County in the State of North Caroline between Guilford
Court House, and the Adkin river, Where we Joined Col Thompson
Regiment, which belonged to the North Carolina State line, and I
was then in the skirmish with the a party of the British and
Torys at the Almance Creek and my Ensign Talefarro was
Killed"
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