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Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives by: Lisa Bowes bowesl@yahoo.com July 1998 ********************************************************************** WAR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION From the Pension Rolls: CHARLES HOLLAND, aged 76, and a resident of Tuscaloosa County; private, S.C. Militia; enrolled on July 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $80; sums received to date of publication of list, $240. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. JOHN HOLLAND, aged 68, and a resident of Sumter County; private, S.C. State Troops; enrolled on April 17, 1834, under act. of Congress of June 7, 1832. payment to date from March 4, 1831, annual allowance, $80. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. THOMAS HOLLAND, aged 71, and a resident of Limestone County; private, S.C. Militia; enrolled on June 13, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $76.66.; sums received to date of publication of list $229.98. Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., lst sess., 1833-34. He resided in Limestone County; June 1, 1840, aged 78. Census of Pensioners, 1841. p. 148. DAR, Grave Abstracts, Miscellaneous THOMAS HOLLAND Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots: Volume 2 Fam cem, Laurens Co SC 70 ROSTER OF SOUTH CAROLINA PATRIOTS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Bobby Gilmer Moss (pg. 456 HOLLAND, Thomas (S32327) b: 17 Dec. 1763, Md. While residing in Ninety Six District, he enlisted and served at various times from the winter of 1777-78 in the militia. He served under Capts. Thomas Weems, Joseph Pickes, William Strain & Colo. Pickens & Anderson and was in the battle at Kettle Creek and the seige of Ninety Six. (Moved to Ala.) A.A. 3792; -0499. WILLIAM HOLLAND Revolutionary Soldier buried in Holland family graveyard within a stone's throw of the home he built in 1835, and some 9 miles from Scottsboro. Mrs. Emma C. Swindel, Tuscaloosa, Ala. See also General D.A.R. Report, 1927-28, page 109. During the Revolution and afterwards, South Carolina kept its' own records, muster rolls, and so forth, and paid its' own soldiers for military service, and its' citizens for supplies for the military and distressed civil poulation. These records were never in the hands of the general government at Washington DC, but were retained in Columbia, SC. All requests for information on war records for any soldier of the American Revolution in South Carolina should be sent to the South Carolina Archives Department in Columbia. During the hottest part of the Revolutionary War about 1780, the Tories burned the courthouse in Laurens, SC; also the private residences of many of the Adairs and Hollands; and thus destroyed the priceless records up to that date. The following served in the Revolutionary War and their names are inscribed on a marble tablet placed by the DARs on the front inside wall of Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church: Joseph Adair, Sr. Joseph Adair, Jr. James Adair, Sr. John Copeland Thomas Holland Thomas McCrary Joseph Ramage At age 70, JOSEPH ADAIR, SR., was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army; Comissary of Col. D. Casey's Regiment. Comissary's Pay Bill of Joseph Adair, Sr., commencing the 20th of August, 1781 and ending March 1782 is on record and was certified on January 6, 1786. JOSEPH ADAIR, JR. served with Lacy at Hauk's defeat. Joseph's son, John Adair, also served in the war effort. JOHN ADAIR (1757-1840) of South Carolina was a soldier during the American Revolution, after which he migrated to Kentucky. From: The Encyclopedia of American Family Names by H. Amanda Robb & Andrew Chesler, 1995 June 18, 1998 CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATES WILLIAM P. ADAIR (1828?-1880) was assistant chief of the Cherokee nation. During the Civil War, he lead a band of Native Americans in the Confederate Army and fought at the Battle of Pea Ridge. From: The Encyclopedia of American Family Names by H. Amanda Robb & Andrew Chesler, 1995 Colonel, 2nd (Adair's) Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (Adair's Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles) JULY 12, 1998 1st LIEUTENANT GEORGE WASHINGTON ADAIR 1st (Watie's) Cherokee Mounted Volunteers JULY 12, 1998 SURGEON: MAJOR WALTER THOMPSON ADAIR 1st (Watie's) Cherokee Mounted Volunteers JULY 12, 1998 BLUFORD RUSSELL HOLLAND born August 14, 1839- died March 21, 1875 Private, Company B, 1st Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry Enlisted August 25, 1861 at Clinton, South Carolina under Captain Niles Nesbitt On roll April 30, 1863 as 2nd Corporal On last available roll October 31, 1864 as 1st Corporal, sick in quarters Source: South Carolina Archives Department, Columbia, SC **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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