Adairs and Hollands in the American Revolution
At age 70, JOSEPH ADAIR, SR.
was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army; Commissary of Col. D. Casey’s Regiment.
Commissary’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.
Pension Statement
JOSEPH ADAIR, JR.
He served under Col. Edward Lacey (see below) and was at Huck’s Defeat.
Huck’s Defeat is also known as the Battle of Williamson’s Plantation.
from “Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution” by Bobby Moss
COLONEL EDWARD LACEY
Edward Lacey (1742-1813), At the age of 13, during the French and Indian War, he ran away from home to join Braddock’s Expedition against the French in Canada. Three years later joined the exodus of Pennsylvanians to Carolina. He was taken in by William Adair, father of a future governor of Kentucky, who gave him an excellent education. Edward Lacey’s father and his family followed him to South Carolina, settling in Chester Co. Edward Lacey and his father, Edward Lacey Sr. soon found themselves on opposite sides, politically, when the Revolutionary War
began. In 1775, he organized a company of volunteers and was commissioned captain, 1776, under Williamston in the Cherokee expedition; in 1780 he was commissioned colonel and was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Waters Ford and Fishing Creek. He was born in Cumberland County, Pa.; died in Livingston County, Ky. Edward Lacey was a foster son of William Adair.
WILLIAM ADAIR, JR
From: DAR Lineage Books: William Adair was too old to serve, but his sons James, William and John served as soldiers, as did his foster son, Edward Lacey.
JAMES ADAIR
Private, Col. Edward Lacey Regiment, SC Troops
died 1835 Chester Co, SC
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
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.
Pension Statement
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.
THOMAS HOLLAND
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 & was in the battle @ Kettle Creek & the siege of Ninety Six. (Moved to Ala.) A.A. 3792; – 0499.
Pension Statement
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.
BASIL HOLLAND
Roster of the North Carolina Continental Line, Sharp’s Company, 10th
regiment of the Salisbury District Militia
contributed by Ed Mammen
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 population. 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.
The following served in the Revolutionary War and their names are inscribed on a marble tablet placed by the DARs at Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church:
Memorial to men of this congregation who served their country.
1775-1781
Joseph Adair, Sr. / Joseph Adair, Jr.
Thomas Logan / Robert Long
Leonard Beasley / John Copeland
George Young, Sr. / Joseph Ramage
Thomas McCrary / Thomas Holland
Robert Hanna / John Craig / James Craig
J. Bell / James Adair, Sr. / Wm. Underwood
Erected by Musgrove’s Mill and Henry Laurens Chapters D.A.R 1928.
