Histories

Philemon Hodges was born in Cumberland county, North Carolina in 1760. He married Winifred Kittrell. In 1776, three months before the Declaration of Independence, he enlisted in the Continental Army. Two months later, as a member of a North Carolina regiment he helped defeat a British land and sea force attempting to capture Charleston, SC. It was the battle of Sullivan's Island. After returning home, Hodges served four more tours of three months each and was forced by the Tories to take refuge in the North Carolina back country to avoid capture. Two years later he was appointed a Captain of light horse in the militia and served until the war's end. After the war, he accompanied his son's family along the Georgia migration route of Wilkes, Putnam and Baldwin county. He was in the county as early as 1829. He applied for a pension at the age of 71 and drew land in the 1838 Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery in Muscogee county. John Howard, clergyman, and Seaborn Jones signed his pension application