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* Babits, Lawrence Edward. 2001. A devil of a whipping: the Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. |
* Babits, Lawrence Edward. 2001. A devil of a whipping: the Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. |
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* Edgar, Walter. 2006. The South Carolina encyclopedia. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press. |
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* Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. |
* Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. |
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Revision as of 05:49, 29 April 2024
Kate Barry | |
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| Born | Margaret Catherine Moore 1752 |
| Died | September 29, 1823 (aged 70–71) |
| Known for | Scout and guide during the American Revolutionary War |
| Spouse | Andrew Barry |
| Children | Eleven children |
| Parent(s) | Charles and Mary Moore |
Kate Barry, born Margaret Catherine Moore (1752 – September 29, 1823), was scout and guide for Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and a heroine of the American Revolutionary War.
Personal life
Margaret Catherine Moore, born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1752,[1][a] was the eldest child of Charles and Mary Moore. She had nine younger siblings.[2] In 1763, King George III awarded Charles and Mary a land grant. Over time, their property grew to the 3,600- acre Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Crops were planted and harvested by family members and about a dozen enslaved laborers.[3]
Catherine, known as Kate, married Andrew Barry (ca. 1744 – 1811) in 1767 at the age of 15, becoming Kate Moore Barry.[2] The Barrys, who had eleven children, at Walnut Grove along the Tyger River.[1][2]
Revolutionary war
During the Revolutionary War, guided patriot soldiers through the Piedmont area of South Carolina.[2] She knew the Indian trails and shortcuts where almost no patriots lived.
Barry, a scout for Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, delivered messages to assemble men for the militia[1] and soldiers who had fought and were defeated in the Battles of Camden (August 16, 1780) and Waxhaws (May 29, 1780) in preparation for the Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781).[1][2] She rode horseback to sound the alarm of the coming battle to her neighbors.[2] She was instrumental in helping to warn the militia of the coming British before the battle. The Battle of Cowpens was a decisive victory by Continental Army forces under General Morgan, in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from the British. Her warning helped to prepare the colonial forces to defeat the British governor, Cornwallis and his men and drive them north, out of the state of South Carolina.
Barry was captured by British forces who tried to get her to tell them where her husband was located. Andrew served under Major Henry White and Colonel John Thomas, Jr. as a captain in the militia. Reportedly, she was beaten when she would not provide the information.[1]
Death
She died on September 29, 1823, and is buried in Walnut Grove cemetery[1][2] in Moore, South Carolina, beside her husband, Andrew,[citation needed] who was one of the first elders of the Nazareth Presbyterian Church.[2]
The Kate Barry chapter of South Carolina of the Daughters of the American Revolution was established in her name.[2] She was honored with poetry written and monuments erected in her name.[1]
Descendant
Kate Barry was an ancestor of the actress Amanda Blake (1929-1989), remembered for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the television western Gunsmoke. Blake placed a cameo-sized portrait of Barry owned by her family in the Spartanburg, South Carolina local history museum.
Notes
- ^ Claghorn states that she was born in North Carolina.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Schoolfield, Brenda Thompson (July 15, 2022). "Barry, Margaret Catherine Moore". South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Claghorn, Charles Eugene (1991). Women patriots of the American Revolution : a biographical dictionary. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-8108-2421-8.
- ^ "Walnut Grove Plantation". Spartanburg History. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
Further reading
- Babits, Lawrence Edward. 2001. A devil of a whipping: the Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
External links
- Margaret Barry at Find a Grave; note the portrait in the middle is that of Margaret Barry; the portrait on top is that of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams