As a teenager, Edward Lacey ran away and joined the Pennsylvania troops on their way to Bradock's Defeat during the French & Indian War. At the age of sixteen he ran away again and ended up in Chester District, South Carolina where he was bound to Willialm Adair, a bricklayer. He entered Revolutionary service as a Captain in the Cherokee Campaign. He was the commander of the troops at Huck's Defeat and was with Sumter in other engagements. Edward Lacey was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War from South Carolina. He survived the war, after fighting in sixteen engagements, including commanding the Chester contingent at King's Mountain.
Maurice A. Moore, Sr.
1859, paper, 22 pp.
ISBN: 9780788495991
101C-M9599
