"Thomas Cotham served in the Revolutionary war in South Carolina. It is in the Roster of the South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution by Bobby Gilmer Ross, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983--he served 90 days as a horseman in the Spartan Regiment of Militia under Captain Vardy McBee and Col. John Thoimas. He was living in the Cheraws Dist., of SC in 1778 and Franklin Co. GA 1802 until his death in 1808."