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In August or September 1780, Major James Wemyss’s 63rd Regiment of Foot marched from Georgetown to Cheraw, burning and looting Patriot houses and farms. When Adam Cusack, who ran a ferry over Black Creek, refused to take some British officers across, he was arrested. Convicted in an extralegal court martial, he was hanged nearby as his wife and children pleaded with Wemyss for mercy.
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