John Holloway (c1760-1837)

John Holloway's Statement

in Applying for the 1832 Revolutionary War Pension

The information below is from the TN GenWeb site for Morgan County. The contributor(s) is/are identified. The URL is  http://tngenweb.org/morgan/HOLLOWAYPension.html  Note that his statement makes no reference to having participated in King's Mountain or even in the Piedmont country generally.

In "History of Pittsylvania County Virginia" (Maud Carter Clement, Genealogical Publishing Co. 2009. 340 p.)  a John Holloway is located on Pigg River at 'the Bloomery' (iron furnace) of John Donelson  in 1774 and in 1779 Donelson sold out in VA and moved to the 'Great Bend of the River in Middle Tennessee' (i.e. future Nashville).

A peition for a Revolutionary War pension by John Anderson of Whitley County, KY identifies that he marched under 'Col. Severe' from Washington Co. NC to 'the Chichmauga Towns' and burned several of them. John Holloway may also have been present. The 'Chichmauga Towns' were in the Ridge and Valley south of present-day Chattannooga, TN. In the Cherokee census in 1830, this was still the most densely settled area in Cherokee, Georgia.

A John Holloway received a 50 acre land grant (# 439) in what was then Sullivan County, TN on Aug. 9, 1787 from the state of North Carolina as TN did not yet exist. It is described as being "on the south side of the North Fork of Holston River". The North and South Forks of the Holston come together on the southwest side of present-day Kingsport, TN. The references are "North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee 1768-1791" by Goldene Fillers Burgner, 1981. Sullivan County Deed Book Number One 1773-1788 WPA Records, no date. Reprinted 2006 by Mountain Press PO Box 400 Signal Mountain, TN 37377-0400; web address www.mountainpress.com