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wife of Thomas Youngblood of North Carolina and South Carolina. (See Deed of Jesse Hopkins to his grand-children who were children of Thomas and Amy Youngblood.)

On the distaff side of the family, William Youngblood's ancestors also rendered valiant service in the wars for the freedom of this country. His grand-mother, Jane (Head) Youngblood, wife of Thomas Youngblood, the first in Alabama, was a daughter of James and Effiemay Head and although James Head later became a Baptist preacher and a teacher, he was a Revolutionary War patriot. Jane (Head) Youngblood's grand-father, John Head who married Sarah Waters, was also a soldier in the Revolution.

James Head made a visit to his daughter, Jane (Head) Youngblood, after she moved to Alabama and upon his return to South Carolina made an application for a pension for his Revolutionary War service. He was only thirteen years old at the time he rendered the service, most of which was under the command of his uncle, Col. Philemon Waters, who is one of South Carolina's most illustrious statesmen.

James Head's application states his military service rather fully. He wrote it in long-hand in March 1843 at which time he was seventy-five years old and it is a remarkable document as to exactness and clarity in spite of his advanced age. * It stated as follows: *(Original in Dept. of Archives, Washington, D. C. File of James Head.)

State of South Carolina
Edgefield District Court of Common Pleas

Declaration of James Head, a Revolutionary Soldier.

I was born in Granville County, North Carolina and am now seventy five years of age. I was seventy five in December last.

I entered the service of the United States as a volunteer at an early age, to the best of my recollection in October, Seventeen Hundred and eighty in Spartanburg Co. now known as such, to which my father had moved from North Carolina. I was generally associated with Lieut. Miles of Capt. Ford's Company of Col. Robuck's Regiment of what had been called Gen. Williamson's Brigade. Some time after Capt. Ford and Lieut. Miles separated I went then under the command of Lieut. Miles to the Frontiers on Green River. We continued there three months to keep in check the Indians who were at that time very troublesome. We built a large log house which served us as a fort. I