TALBOT COUNTY, GA - BIOS   William Isaac Simmons 

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William Isaac Simmons      
b. 2/11/1758    d. after 1845

Volunteered at Wake Courthouse in North Carolina in
Captain Solomon Wood's Company of the North Carolina
Continental Line commanded by Colonel Thomas Wooten.
He was at the Battle of Cowpens, where his father
was wounded and the Battle of Cross Creek. He later
enlisted in Captain Drury Cade's Company of the
Georgia Troops commanded by Colonel Elijah Clarke
and received bounty land for his services. 

He drew land on the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery as a
Revolutionary War Soldier and resident of Pike
County and received a pension while a resident of
Talbot County.

He was a son of the above listed John Simmons and
his given year of birth may be an error.

See:   (1)  Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 220.
           (2)  The Patriots at Copwpens, p. 212.


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