TALBOT COUNTY, GA - BIOS   John Simmons 

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 John Simmons      

b. 1/4/1743      d. 1837


Served in the South Carolina Militia under Colonel
Peter Horry and was wounded in the Battle of
Cowpens, when a musket ball passed through the
tendon and bone of his left leg, leaving him
disabled for service.

He had also served in the North Carolina Militia. He
drew land in the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery as a
Revolutionary War Soldier and resident of Pike
County and received a pension for his services as a
resident of Talbot County.

See:   (1)  Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 368.
           (2)  The Patriots at Cowpens. p. 212.
           (3)  Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, Vol. 3,
p.                       206.
            (4)  Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American
                   Revolution, p. 884.

Source: GEORGIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS'
GRAVES, 2 volumes compiled by H. Ross Arnold, Jr. &
H. Clifton Burnham, The Iberian Publishing Company,
Athens, GA., 1993, purchased from Iberian Publishing
Company, $39.95.

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p. 192 David Simmons


p. 169 James Simmons