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While the Mundell-Barry book gave all of us a great springboard to leap from it sometimes had us jumping into the wrong end of the Pool. The book says that George fought in the war until he was taken prisoner by Cornwallis.
This would be impossible since George and many of his neighbors in Newberry were fighting for the British. If George were taken prisoner it was by the colonial army and most likely he would have been held at Charleston, SC. The following is my evidence:
Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 1, p230, 233, Murtie J. Clark
Pay Abstract Nr 9, Colonel Daniel Clary's Regiment, Dutch Fork Militia, Ninety Six brigade, for soldiers who came to Orangeburg, SC, with Lt Colonel John H, Cruger. (George and Samuel Duncan and William Elmore are included in this list.) Then there is a second list for same regiment pay abstract from June to Dec in 1781 that includes George McKinsey (Mckinney), Samuel Duncan, Curits Mills, and John Elmore
The names of a couple Elmore's who fought for the British may be found at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grigsbyappleton/Elmore.html
I'm also looking into the possibility that George was from, possibly born in, Virginia and that his wife Sarah was a Moore not a Thomas and that she was born in Georgia. In the 1880 Census George and Sarah's youngest daughter states that her parents were from Virginia and Georgia, respectivly.
Information on the Moore family may be found at
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/2064/Moore.html
Bruce
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