apr 17, 1781 - Skirmish at Cashua Ferry Church (Cashway Ferry, Brownsville Church, Muddy Creek Church)

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A general place of rendezvous for Patriot forces in this area was Cashua Ferry or Cashway Ferry on the Great Pee Dee River. A short distance from the ferry landing on the present-day Marlboro County side of the river, there stood a Baptist church that was used as a Patriot Militia headquarters on weekdays; the Reverend Evan Pugh preached there on Sundays even at the height of the American Revolution. The church building became the object of a furious skirmish between the Patriots and Loyalists at some point during the war. The details of the action were forgotten by later generations, but the Loyalists are supposed to have been chased into the swamp at its conclusion.

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