Can anyone suggest some SC resources where I could find out more about the Major Samuel Taylor mentioned in Thomas Holland's Pension File? Thanks, lwg ----- Original Message ----- From: Dick D Fox <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 9:25 PM Subject: Thos Holland Pension File > Pension File of Thomas Holland born 1763 in Maryland. Served in the South > Carolina District Ninety-Six Militia in 1778 at age 15. Died in Limestone > County, Alabama. > ========== > S32327 > THOMAS HOLLAND > > The State of Alabama > Limestone County > > On this 22nd day of of October 1832 personally appeared in open > court, before the county court in & for the county of Limestone, of > Alabama now sitting, Thomas Holland a resident in the County of > Limestone aforesaid an aged 69 years, who being first sworn > according to law, doth as his oath make the following declaration, in > or to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. > > That he entered the service of the United States under the following > named officers, and served herein stated . That in the winter of > 1777/8 he can not recollect the month-but knows that he was then > in his fifteenth year of his age . He joined the militia of the State of > South Carolina as a volunteer, and entered the company of said > militia commanded by Thomas Weems as Captain, Joseph Pickens > as Lieutenant, that said company belonged to the Regiment > Commanded by Andrew Pickens as Colonel . That at the time of > joining said Regiment, Robert Anderson, James McCale, William > Strane, Samuel Taylor & Robert Maxwell, severally commanded > companies in said Regiment . Said Robert Anderson afterwards > became Colonel & said Samuel Taylor the Major of said Regiment . > That immediately after joining, said Regiment as Aforesaid, he was > marched from Ninety Six District to the Savannah River and > stationed at Fort Charlotte, which was one mile below the mouth of > the Broad Riveron the South Carolina side of the river, and that he > was stationed at said Fort about three months and from there being > dismissed, went to his place of residence the District of Ninety Six > afterwards called Abbeville District . That not long after his return > home he was mustered into said company, it was commanded by > said Joseph Pickens asCaptain & William Strane as Lieutenant, that > said company was marched to Fort Independence on Rocky River in > South Carolina, which said Fort was under the command of Captain > Tutt a regular officer & that he served at said Fort & in marching to > & from thence three months, which months full time for which he > was dismissed . That after his return home from Fort Independence > said company was organized as a company of minute men under > said Joseph Pickens as Captain and said Strane as Lieutenant . That > while he was attached to said company he was called into frequent > service against the Tories & marched at different times to arrest & > block encamp in South Carolina and was present at Kettle Creek in > Georgia when said Colonel Andrew Pickens defeated the Tories, > which was in 1779 . That he believes he was in active service which > engaged in said service as a minute man at least twelve months . > That after his time was out as a minute man he was marched in the > same company commanded by said Joseph Pickens, as a volunteer > to the siege of Ninety Six (afterwards called Cambridge), that his > Captain said Joseph Pickens was killed at said siege . That General > Greene Commander-in-Chief of said siege is only name he since > recollects . That he thinks he was about two months in service in > this campaign . After his return home, sometime afterwards he was > drafted for three months into said company, commanded by said > William Strane as Captain & said Anderson was the Colonel, said > Taylor the Major of the Regiment to which said company belonged > . Was marched under said Andrew Pickens as Brigadier Geneneral > through the upper parts of Georgia against the Cherokee Indians > whose t---s they broke up and killed many of the Indians that he > served three months on this campaign. > > That he was born in the State of Maryland near the Pennsylvania > Line & that his father removed from thence to the said District of > Ninety Six, that he was born 17th December 1763 & that it was so > entered in his fathers family bible, that after the Revolutionary War > he continued a short time in said Abberville District & moved > thence to Wilkes County, State of Georgia, & from thence removed > to Pendleton District and thence removed to Madison County State > of Alabama in the year 1812 & from thence removed into > Limestone County, State of Alabama about 1815, where he has ever > since and still resides . That he can prove his services by William > Eddin, senior, & Joseph McClusky . Theres no documentary > evidence of service having never recieved any written discharge. > > He hereby relinquishes his every claim a pension or annuity except > the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of > the agency of any state. > > Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Robert Austin, > Jr . Clk. > > Thomas Holland > > We William Eddins, senior, a clergyman residing in the county of > Madison near the residence of Thomas Holland and Reuben > Tillman an residing in the county of Limestone hereby certify that > we are well acquainted with Thomas Holland who has subscribed & > sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be in the sixty > ninth year of his age that he reported to be believed in the > neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the > revolution an that we concur in that opinion. > > Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid > > William Eddins, Sr . Reuben Tillman > > Robert Austin, Jr . Clk. > > ========== > > Dick D. Fox > Lockhart, Texas > ______________________________ --------------------