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Patriot of the Revolutionary War
THOMAS GREER’S FAMILY
Brent Holcomb, a researcher and author of Greer and Related Families, 1986, shows that Thomas Greer was the son of Thomas Greer, born about 1710, in Ireland and his second wife, Susanna Carver. Holcomb states that the information about the older Thomas Greer is based on a letter from J. C. Cooper to his son in 1856.
According to Holcomb, there was a Thomas Greer, who left a will in April of 1783, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. He feels that this is the Thomas Greer, father of Thomas Greer, who married Sarah Smith.
Thomas Greer was born in 1740, in Deep River, Guilford, N. C. He married Sarah (Sallie) Smith, daughter of Luke B. Smith and his wife, Judith Farris.
Sarah Smith was born in 1745, in Halifax County, North Carolina. They were married in 1768, in Deep River, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Thomas Greer and his bride, Sarah Smith, probably came to Craven County (Union District), South Carolina, in 1770, with his wife’s parents.
They were members of the Deep River Baptist Church in North Carolina, and joined the Fairforest Baptist Church after moving to South Carolina.
In 1775, William Henry Drayton mobilized a band of patriots to overawe the Tory opposition. The result was the open opposition of two armed camps, each prepared for battle. Open warfare, however, was forstalled by a truce, the so-called Treaty of Ninety Six District.
The following is a quotation from this treaty: “Wherefore, for the clearing up of the said misunderstanding and for the manifestation of the wish and desire aforesaid, Col. Thomas Fletchall, Capt. John Ford, Capt. Thomas Greer, Capt. Evan McLaurin, the Rev. Philip Mulkey, Mr. Robert Merrick and Capt. Benjamin Wofford, deputies for, and sent by the part of the people aforesaid, have repaired to the camp of the Hon. William Henry Drayton, Esq., acting under the authority of the Council of Safety for this colony; and for the purposes aforesaid, it is hereby contracted, agreed and declare by the Hon. William H. Drayton on the one part, and the deputies aforesaid on the other part... (R. W. Gibbs, Documentary History of the American Revolution, 1764-1776, 1855, p. 186)
The reader will see that the pastor of the Fairforest Baptist Church, the Reverend Philip Mulkey, and at least one of his members, Capt. Thomas Greer, and perhaps other members, were deputies of the Loyalist Militia. Capt. Thomas Greer signed the Treaty on September 15, 1775. The Reverend Philip Mulkey did not sign the document.
Before the Revolutionary War was over, Capt. Thomas Greer switched sides and joined with the Patriots. Thomas Greer on July 19, 1787, was paid by the state of South Carolina, for ‘wagon service, two horses, and 300 pounds of pork supplied the Militia in 1782 and 1783.

Birth	1740	Deep River, Guilford County, North Carolina
Marriage	1768	Deep River, Guilford County, North Carolina - Sarah Smith
Will	16 Jan 1810
Death	1811	Craven County, South Carolina
Probate	9 Mar 1811	Union County, South Carolina
Burial		Old Fairforest Cemetery, Union County, South Carolina

Spouse	Sarah Smith (1745 - 1817)
Child	Rev. Thomas S. Greer Jr. (1768 - 1837)
Child	Mary Greer (1770 - 1804)
Child	Joseph Greer Sr. (1770 - 1843)
Child	Robert Greer (1772 - 1807)
Child	Carlton Greer (1778 - 1833)
Child	Caleb Francis Greer (1781 - 1834)
Child	Taletha Greer (1786 - 1843)

Father	William Thomas Greer Sr. (1710 - 1783)
Mother	Susannah Carver (1722 - 1790)
Sibling	Susanna Greer (1742 - 1783)
Sibling	Joseph Greer (1743 - 1783)
Sibling	Robert Greer (1748 - 1783)

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