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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> type_Document_Title_here </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> TORIES COFFIN, Zale � Commander of Tories at the forks of the Yadkin when North Carolina troops pursued them and fought Tories at Ramseurs Mills about 1780. George Kregar file. FANNIN, ____ (Col.) North Carolina troops pursued Tories under Col. Fannin to Deep River. Joseph Edwards file. Tories under Col. Fannin disrupted legislature. Robert Head file. GOINS, ______ Christopher Kerby file: From Kings Mountain after the battle, the American troops proceeded on their return as far as the head of Kings Creek in Wilks County, where Kerby was detached with a small party of men to disperse, take, or kill a party of Tories near Fishers Gap in Surry County commanded by one Goins. Kerby marched to that place but the Tories, having received intelligence of the planned attack, hid themselves or retired from that section of the country. ROBERTS, Capt. William Apperson file describes the 1780 pursuit of a company of Tories commanded by a Tory Captain named Roberts who was ranging near the Blue Ridge of mountains. We searched the mountains, then to the Mulberry field in Wilkes County and then to the brushy mountains. From there we went to Ramseurs Mills, where we received information that a part of our army had defeated the same Tories. WRIGHT, Gideon (Col.) ��killed at the Shallow Ford, Oct. 1781. Capt. Henry Smith file. Benjamin Banner�s company in 1779 marched from the little Yadkin in Surry County across the Yadkin to Roan County, marched up said river to the Tory Camps, �the Tories having collected in considerable force� under Col. Gideon Wright. He �was employed in routing & disarming the Tories� in that tour for four or five weeks and then returned home. Benjamin Banner file. George Kreger file reports an attack at old Surry Court House where troops were assembled about Harvest time 1779. In a few days after the Whigs were collected at this place they were attacked by a very large band of Tories [aided ? by Gideon Wright] and were compelled after some firing to abandon the village. Kreger�s company was marched by way of escape down the country about 12 miles near to Germantown. His company was then rallied and with companies commanded by Capt. Eccles and Capt. Miller and turned on the Tories and pursued them to the shallow ford of the Yadkin River about 18 miles. The companies arrived at the ford in the morning and found the river so swelled that they could not cross but found that the Tories had crossed the river the morning before. He soon was informed that it was unnecessary to cross as Capt Armstrong with his company had fallen upon the Tories a few miles beyond the River and had utterly routed them. </BODY> </HTML>