John Nicholson^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

1762 - 1858  (96 years)

• Name	John Nicholson
  Birth	21 May 1762
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Dec 1858
  Person ID	I47	Georgia Revolutionary War Graves
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2006

  
  

• Headstones

  Nicholson, John GPS Location is 34° 50.551' N, 84° 01.333' W

  
  

  Histories

  Pension John Nicholson

  
  

• Notes

  A native of Bute County (later Warren), North Carolina, he enlisted on March 17, 1777, as a private in Captain Hogg's Company of the 10th North Carolina Regiment commanded by Colonel Abraham Shepard. He served for six months and fought in the Battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse. He applied for a pension as a resident of Hall County, Georgia, In 1855, he was living in Union County, Georgia

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] DAR Historian General Card File. [S2] DAR Patriot Index, p. 497. [S3] Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, v. 3, p. 2499. [S4] Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 457. [S5] Mountain Relic: Book on Mountain History and Culture, p. 29. [S6] Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, p. 150.