The Culpepper, Gay, Dunlap, Layfield, Poole and Welch Family:Information about Benjamin Culpepper III
Benjamin Culpepper III (b. Abt. 1749, d. Aft. 1817)
Notes for Benjamin Culpepper III:
Benjamin spent 91 says as a private under the command of Colonel Robert Goodwyn in the winter
of 1778. He enlisted in the third regiment, South Carolina line on March 15, 1779, and was captured
in the fall of Charleston, SC November, 1780. HE apparently deserted his duty as a servant to
Captain George Lidell. He then turned around and served from January 1, 1781 to May 31, 1781,
151 days as a lieutenant under Captain Peter Burns, Colonel Wade Hampton and General Sumter.
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