Since I've had no response to my query about Capt. John Sawyer and since I've been able to locate information about him myself in another King's Mountain book, I'll share that with those of you who may not know and who may be interested. The book is KING'S MOUNTAIN AND ITS HEROES by Lyman C. Draper, LL.D., which has references to Capt. John on pages 286, 418, 569, 576 and 577. Page 418 says, "John Sawyers was born in VA in 1745, shortly after his parents arrived from England, who early settled in Augusta County, VA. In 1761 young Sawyers was engaged on Colonel Byrd's abortive expedition, and in other frontier service against the Indians. In 1768, he with others explored the Holston Valley, early removed to that frontier, and served at Point Pleasant, on Christian's Cherokee campaign, and on the Chickamauga expedition in 1779, and led a company at King's Mountain. Settling in what is now Knox County, Tennessee, he was made a Major, then a Colonel, and twice chosen a member of the Legislature. He died Nov. 20, 1831, aged eighty-six years." Information on the other pages pertains directly to the battle. Jo Sawyer