Upon arriving in America with an older brother David, he settled in Lancaster/York or Chester, PA, then migrated down the Shenandoa valey to Augusta, now Rockbridge County, Va. In 1758, he enrolled in Virginia militia raised for the protection of the frontiers of the province. Later moved to York County, SC and settled on the headwaters of Bullock Creek, while his brother David migrated from York County, PA and located near Wm. on Turkey Creek.

Wm. was a delegate to the Provincial Congress and took his seat in Charleston in the State House there on Nov. 3, 1775.

Wm. was later called out two times to the militia, one being under the command of General Andrew Williamson in the Cherokee War of 1776.

After the fall of Charleston in 1780, Wm. Byers and his family took refuge in North Carolina, and after the battle of Cowpens, his wife and children fled in advance of the British Army under Lord Cornwallis, to her former home in Rockbridge County, Va.

In 1784, he was appointed one of the tax assessors/collectors for the New Acquisition District, as York County was then called. Wm. served as an elder in the Beersheba Presbyterian Meeting House in 1785 and years afterwards. It is likely that he was buried in the Churchyard at Beersheeba, but if his grave was marked, the stone has long since disappeared.

Source: Capt. Wm. Byers of the Revolution by Elmer Oris Parker.

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Children of Wm. and Elizabeth Walton Byers were:

Edward Byers 1761 - 1832

Nancy Ann Byers 1763 - 1818

Wm. Byers, Jr. 1765 - 1816

Lorena Byers 1767 - 1837

Elizabeth Walton Byers 1769 - 1852

Susannah Byers 1771 - 1844

David Byers 1774 - 1862

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When Elmer Parker sent this info to me, he also included a FGS which has copies of all the family's signatures which he copied from records when he was working at National Archives in Washington, DC.

He also noted the parents of Elizabeth Walton.

Transferred to me Nov 2020

RIP 6th great grandfather