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James Holman (Holdman, Holeman)
Born: about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky
Died: about 1886 in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky

James Holman (Holdman, Holeman) was born about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky. He lived in the area of Brodhead and Crab Orchard, Kentucky, which are on the border of three Kentucky counties: Lincoln, Garrard, and Rockcastle.

On June 4, 1835 in Garrard County, Kentucky, James Holman was married to Martha Ramsey, the daughter of Alexander Ramsey, by Baptist minister Benjamin Polston.

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The results of the DNA tests show that the descendant of James Holeman, b. 1814 is:

"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Daniel Holman who was born about 1787 in North Carolina, had children in Tennessee, and homesteaded in Douglas, Missouri;

"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Kenneth Holeman who died in 1871 in Upperfreehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey who is thought to be a descendant of Robert Holeman, died 1709 in New Jersey;

"related" to a descendant of the Elias Holeman (1759 - 1827, Burlington County, New Jersey); and

"related" to the descendants of Thomas Holeman, who was born about 1723 in Kent County, Maryland and who moved from Shenandoah Valley Virginia to North Carolina about 1750.

[Note: Prior to Tennessee statehood in 1796, East Tennessee was part of North Carolina. Therefore, without physically relocating, a person could be born in North Carolina and later marry and have children born in Tennessee.]

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There are three geographic regions in the state of Tennessee, each constituting roughly one-third of the state's land area, that are geographically, culturally, legally, and economically distinct.

Eastern Division
East Tennessee's landscape is dominated by the Appalachian mountain chain, including the Great Smoky Mountains on the eastern border of the state, the ridge-and-valley region, and the rugged Cumberland Mountains.

The Great Wagon Road began in Pennsylvania west of Philadelphia and ran down the Monocacy Valley in Maryland, and the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to Roanoke, Virginia. There it branched south and east into the Carolinas and south and west into what is now East Tennessee.

It was not until the 1790’s that a wagon road connected Asheville, North Carolina to East Tennessee. The majority of settlers in the area that became East Tennessee were from Virginia and had traveled down the Shenandoah Valley to get there. (North Carolina settlers who wanted to relocate to East Tennessee would go north to the Washington County, Virginia area, then turn west.)

In his article "The Tennessee Constitution of 1796: A Product of the Old West" (1943), John D. Barnhart concluded that because of better road access, the largest percentage of East Tennessee pioneers had come to the area from Virginia. This, he believes changed over time. To reach this
conclusion, he did a statistical analysis of the origins of Tennessee Constitution delegates and places of enlistment for Revolutionary War pensioners. Barnhart concluded that these numbers reveal that the earliest settlers (there by 1818) had come principally from Virginia, while between 1818 and 1832, a larger influx of North Carolina migrants settled in East Tennessee, once road access improved.

In 1790, when Tennessee became the US Territory South of the River Ohio, the East Tennessee counties (Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington, and Greene) were separated by Indian lands from the Middle Tennessee counties (Sumner, Davidson, and Tennessee). When Tennessee achieved statehood in 1796, the East and Middle areas were still separated by Indian lands.

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The State of Frankland

Despite King George III's order (Proclamation of 1763) that the colonists go no further west than the Appalachian Mountains, a group of Virginian settlers (the Overmountain Men) in 1769 colonized the area west of the mountains (the Watauga frontier). Shortly after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (April 1775), the members of the Watauga Association organized themselves into the "Washington District". In 1776, the Washington District asked the Colony of Virginia to annex the district. After Virginia refused, it asked North Carolina to annex the area. North Carolina agreed, and in 1776 the Washington District was admitted to North Carolina. The term "Washington District" was used to refer to all of North Carolina's holdings west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Cherokee Nation (from whom the district had originally leased the settlement's land, but who had now allied themselves with the British) launched an all-out invasion against the district, but were defeated. In 1777, the Cherokee Nation signed a treaty effectively ceding control of the Watauga and Nolichucky valleys to North Carolina.

Residents of Washington County, North Carolina and of Washington County, Virginia felt that they were getting inadequate resources from their state Capitols. Arthur Campbell of Washington County, Virginia proposed a new state to be called Frankland (later Franklin). John Sevier (one of the heroes of the Battle of Kings Mountain) agreed that the Overmountain towns should be a separate state. Virginia's participation ended when Virginia Governor Patrick Henry, who opposed a loss of territory, passed a law stopping the effort. However, In April 1784, North Carolina voted to give Congress the 29,000,000 acres lying between the Appalachian range and the Mississippi River to help offset its war debts. This left the western settlements with no protection from the Cherokee. In August 1784, delegates from the North Carolina counties of Washington (which at the time included present day Carter County), Sullivan, Spencer (now Hawkins County) and Greene convened in the town of Jonesborough and declared the land to be independent of the State of North Carolina.

In late 1786, North Carolina offered to waive all back taxes if Franklin would reunite with its government. When this offer was popularly rejected in 1787, North Carolina moved in with troops under the leadership of Col. John Tipton and re-established its own courts, jails, and government at Jonesborough. The two rival administrations now competed side by side.

After Congress refused to offer statehood, and North Carolina reasserted its control over the area, the idea of a separate state collapsed.

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John Sevier and John Tipton, on opposite sides, were from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, very near Holmans Creek.

1785 Franklin legislature organizes and appoints John Sevier governor.

1787 The sheriff of Washington County, North Carolina was ordered by the county court to seize any property of John Sevier to settle tax debts North Carolina contended was owed to them. The property seized included several slaves, who were brought to John Tipton's home. John Sevier, with more than 100 men, went to the Tipton house to recover his property. North Carolina troops arrived with a force equivalent to Sevier's to reinforce John Tipton. A number of men were captured or wounded on both sides, and three men killed. This episode ended the "State of Franklin".

1788 John Tipton was elected to represent Washington County as Senator in the North Carolina Legislature.

1789 North Carolina ratified the United States constitution and became a member of the Union. The state again ceded her territory west of the Alleghany Mountain watershed to the federal government. The federal government created the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, which contained the land that would become the State of Tennessee.

1793 John Sevier and John Tipton elected to Southwest Territory's first legislature.

1796 Tennessee becomes 16th State, John Tipton elected Senator and John Sevier appointed Governor.

Col John Tipton and Andrew Jackson shared an antipathy for John Sevier. In 1803, Colonel John Tipton became very active in support of Andrew Jackson when Jackson worked to prove the land fraud accusations against John Sevier, then Governor of Tennessee. Tipton sponsored a petition in East Tennessee against Sevier which garnered support for Jackson in Sevier’s stronghold neighborhood. The petition had over one hundred signatures and represented an embarrassment for Sevier. Tipton’s sons, Samuel and John, brought the land fraud accusations to the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives. [Land speculation was widespread in the west and some of Franklin’s leaders were among the speculators.]

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Valentine Sevier (born 1702) and his wife Margaret Gibson came from Great Briton and Ireland:
was a member of Peter Scholl's military company in 1742
about 1744 he married Joanna Goade (or Good)
in 1749 acquired land in the Shenandoah Valley from Lord Fairfax
in 1753 he was operating a tavern located near the Fairfax Line

1753 Valentine Sevier and wife Joanna sold to Andrew Byrd 184 acres. (Andrew Byrd, Thomas Moore, Valentine Sevier, and Daniel Davison lived between Smiths Creek in Rockingham County and the Fairfax line).

Valentine Sevier (born 1702) relocated from the Shenandoah Valley to the Watauga settlement in Tennessee in 1773. Died 1803.

Valentine and Joanna (Goade) Sevier had a son, John Sevier, born Sept. 23, 1745 near Tenth Legion and Broadway in Rockingham County, Virginia.

In 1761 John Sevier married Sarah Hawkins, then bought a tract of land and became the founder of the town of New Market (just south of Holmans Creek). In addition to operating a store and an inn, he gave the Baptist church three acres of land on which to erect a building.

In 1765, Valentine Sevier, of Augusta, and Joanna his wife, sold to John Sevier, of Frederick (now Shenandoah), 378 acres, located on a branch of Smith's Creek, in Frederick County, adjoining the land of John Hodges, Capt. Peter Scholl, and Jane Schene.

In 1770 John Sevier relocated to Woodstock (then called Millerstown)

John Sevier relocated to Watauga settlement in East Tennessee in 1773 with his parents and brothers (Robert, Joseph, Abraham) to join his brother Valentine who was already there.

In 1777, John Sevier was a member of the North Carolina legislature. He later became Governor of the State of Franklin; six times Governor of Tennessee; and a member of the US Congress. He died Sept. 24, 1815, near Fort Decatur, Ga., while on a mission to the Creek Indians.

John Sevier married second Katherine Sherrill.

Valentine and Joanna (Goade) Sevier had a daughter, Elizabeth Sevier (born about 1750 in Shenandoah County, Virginia and died Feb 1839 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee). Elizabeth Sevier married (second?) John Bowman, Jr. (Born about 1750 in Washington County, Maryland and died about 1809 in Greene County, Tennessee (Information below from research of Joyce (Woodruff) Terrana, a Bowman family researcher.)

John Bowman, Sr. was born about 1711 (in Germany?) and married a woman named Catherine. By 1740 they built a cabin near Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland (which was Prince Georges, and then Frederick County). John received a Land Patent in 1755 (likely for his service in French & Indian war). John's grown kids attended Lutheran and Reformed churches of Washington County, Maryland in the late 1700s. Three of their sons went to east Tennessee in the 1790s, and another son, Daniel Bowman went to middle Tennessee about 1807. Two of their sons are registered in DAR (Daniel Bowman, Sparling Bowman)

John Bowman, Jr. had left Maryland by 1795. He had letters being held for him at Hagerstown Post Office, Jan 6, 1795. He was listed as co-executor with brother Daniel of his father's will and turned over his executors duties to Daniel. John Bowman, Jr. land record: July 12, 1794 John Bowman from North Carolina grant, bk. 3, p. 484: 200 acres in Greene County, Tennessee (south side of Nolachucky river west fork of Camp Creek). The 1809 tax lists of Greene County, shows John Bowman listed with 200 acres on Camp Creek along with Sparling Bowman, his brother, in Capt. Abraham G. Feller's District. John's will "proven" Jan. 1810 Greene County, Tennessee in Will Book 1, page 306, (LDS # 1124668), Greene County, Tennessee says "wife, Elizabeth Bowman, oldest daughter, Ruthanne Horn, oldest son Andrew Bowman, other sons: Jacob Bowman, Daniel Bowman, other daughters, Elizabeth Johnson, Catranenah Bowman. It mentions a granddaughter named Betsy, daughter of Andrew. Executors: Joseph St. John, Aaron Bowman (his brother?).

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In 1747, Jonathan Tipton (1699-1799) and sons (John, born 1732; Jonathan, born 1732; and Joseph, born 1738) came to the Shenandoah Valley from Baltimore County, Maryland. They settled in part of Frederick County that became Dunmore County (renamed Shenandoah County), Virginia.

Col. John Tipton (1732-1813) about 1751 in Shenandoah County, Virginia married Mary Butler (daughter of Thomas Butler of Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Shenandoah River). About 1777, he married Martha Denton, the widow of Dr. James Moore (born Abt. 1740). [John Tipton bought his farm on the seven bends from Samuel Denton.] In 1783, after the American Revolution, Colonel John Tipton moved to the Watauga Settlements in what was North Carolina and now is East Tennessee. His father and his brothers, Joseph and Jonathan, had already moved to the area.

Joseph Tipton (1738-1842 married Elizabeth Denton, about 1760 in Virginia. He moved to the Watauga Settlements about 1775 where he took up 1,300 acres of land. Joseph is on the 1778 Watauga tax lists. He was an early member of the Sinking Creek Baptist Church. He was at the Jonesboro Convention of 1784 where he voted against the formation of the State of Franklin. He represented Washington County, with his brother Colonel John Tipton, at the 1788 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.

Jonathan Tipton (1699-1799) had two sons named Jonathan (by different wives). The second son Jonathan Tipton (1750-1833) married 1) Francis Daugherty, 2) Keziah (Robertson) Sevier and 3) Lavinia Stephens. Major Jonathan Tipton moved to the Watauga Settlements by 1776. He participated in numerous battles with the Overmountain men against both English forces, mostly Tories, and Indians. He was a major at the Battle of Kings Mountain in October, 1780.

Col. John Tipton (1732-1813) was associated with the following men in the Shenandoah Valley:

* His second wife, Martha Denton, was the widow of Dr. James Moore, the son of Riley Moore (born 1702 in Prince George's County, Maryland; died 1760 in Shenandoah County, Virginia). Riley Moore was also the father of the Thomas Moore (1732-1797) who married Phoebe Harrison (1728-1807), the widow of Daniel Davidson. John Moore (1760-1841), son of Thomas Moore (1732-1797) and Phoebe Harrison (1728-1807), married Sarah Byrd (1759-1833), daughter of Mounce Byrd (1733-1793) and Clara "Clarissa" Ann Ruddell.

* The 1761 Act creating town of Woodstock
Jacob Miller of Frederick County set up 1200 acres for town.
Some of the original trustees: Jacob Miller, Burr Harrison, Matthew Harrison.
First sheriff: Taverner Beale
Clerk of Court: Thomas Marshall, father of Chief Justice John Marshall
Pastor: John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (son of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, founder of Lutheran church in America)
Some residents: John Sevier; Jonathan Clark, older brother of George Rogers Clark
1782 Act creating additional trustees: Abraham Bird, Jacob Holdman, John Tipton, Thomas Allen, Alexander Hite

* 1772 Pastor Muhlenberg arrived at Beckford Parish (Church of England) at Woodstock (formed 1769). In 1774 Abraham Brewbaker, son-in-law of Jacob Miller, deed lots for church and cemetery to vestry men of the perish, including:
Burr Harrison
Tavener Beale
John Tipton
Jacob Holeman
Frederick Stoner

* The 1772 Justices of Dunmore County, included
Burr Harrison
Taverner Beale (lived at Mt. Airy, just above Mt Jackson)
Frances Slaughter
John Tipton (lived near Toms Brook)
Abraham Bowman (son of George Bowman, on Cedar Creek)
William Moore
George Ruddell
Jacob Holeman (on Holman Creek)

* 1778 petition to appoint new vestrymen at Beckford Parish (Church of England) because old ones were neglecting the work of the church signed by 31 men including:
John Tipton
Jacob Moore

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Francis Hughes served in the military under Col John Sevier, both in the efforts to protect the Watauga Settlements from Indian attacks, and during the Revolutionary War at the battle of King's Mountain.

Hughes family researcher, D. Michael Hughes of Broken Arrow Ranch in Ingram, Texas, on his website has provide much information on this family.

Francis Hughes was born in 1759 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. After the Revolutionary War, Francis Hughes remained in the part of Washington County, North Carolina that became Greene County. He built an Inn that became a stage coach stop. He died Jan 25, 1841 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee at the home of his daughter, Margaret. He was married twice, first to his cousin Rebecca Allen and after she died on Jan 25, 1841 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee he married and then was divorced from Elizabeth Long. Rebecca Allen was the daughter of his aunt, Ingabo Hughes (1733-1785), and her husband Reuben Allen (born 1722 in Cecil County, Maryland and died 1751 in Mt Jackson in Augusta County, Virginia)

It appears that the Francis Hughes (1759-1841) of King's Mountain is the son of the John Hughes (1732-1791) who lived in the Shenandoah Valley (in 1754 received 150 acres of land on Timber Ridge above Timberville, and in 1768 sold land on Linville's Creek) and then relocated to Greene County, Tennessee (about the same time as the Sevier family). John Hughes in 1780 sold a lot in Woodstock, Virginia to Mounce and Clara (Ruddell) Byrd.

John Hughes (1732-1791) is thought to be the son of the Francis Hughes who was born bout 1697 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and married Christina. Francis Hughes in 1746 sold his land in Berkes County, Pennsylvania and in 1747 bought land in Augusta County, Virginia (located near Valentine Sevier). The Deed was delivered by Abraham Byrd, son of Andrew Byrd and Magdalene Jones. (Andrew Byrd was born about 1690 in Somerset County, New Jersey and died about 1750 on Smith's Creek in Rockingham County, Virginia.) Abraham Byrd (1731-1820) may be the brother of "Christina" the wife of the Frances Hughes (born about 1697) who relocated from Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley.

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Margaret Hughes (1751-1816), who is thought to be the sister of Francis Hughes (1759-1841) of King's Mountain, married Daniel Kennedy on Oct 24, 1774 in the part of Frederick County, Virginia that became Berkeley County, (West) Virginia.

Tennessee GenWeb Project: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1887, Greene County

"Daniel Kennedy came in 1779, and located on the river four miles east of Greenville, at the mouth of Holley Creek. He was one of the most prominent pioneers of the State, and deserves to rank with Sevier, Shelby and Cocke. He was chosen clerk of the county court upon the organization of the county, and continued to hold it under four successive changes of government, a sufficient proof of his integrity and worth. He was an ardent support of the State of Franklin, and was an active participant in the convention which founded it. He was also elected a brigadier-general of the Franklin militia."

"In 1783, the General Assembly of North Carolina passed an act dividing Washington County for the second time, and establishing the county of Greene. On the third Monday of August, the court of pleas and quarter sessions met at the house of Robert Carr, which stood near to what is known as the Big Spring in Greeneville. The magistrates present were Joseph Hardin, John Newman, George Doherty, James Houston, Amos Bird and Asahel Rawlings. Daniel Kennedy was elected clerk; James Wilson, sheriff; William Cocke, attorney for the State; Joseph Hardin, Jr., entry taker; Isaac Taylor, surveyor, Richard Woods, register, and Francis Hughes, ranger."

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Two daughters of Frances Hughes (1759-1841) and his first wife Rebecca Allen (c1750-1841) married sons of Joseph Hixson (c1746-c1803) and his wife Susannah.
* William Hixson married Ingobo Hughes in Greene County, Tennessee about 1790.
* Timothy Hixson married Rebecca Hughes in Greene County, Tennessee in 1795.

Joseph Hixson was born about 1746, lived in Maryland, and relocated to the part of East Tennessee that became Greene County (settled on south side of Clear Creek near the Nolachucky River).
* Joseph Hixson is in the 1776 census for Frederick County, Maryland.
* In 1786 Joseph Hixson bought 100 acres in Green County, Tennessee.
His will was probated on Jan 23, 1804 and was witnessed by Thomas Prather and Alexander Prather.

Sons of Joseph Hixson (William, Timothy, Joseph, and Ephraim) and their sister Susannah (Hixson) Davis (along with Rawlings, Kennedy, and Hughes families) moved to Bledsoe County, Tennessee sometime between 1805 and 1809.

Note: The Susannah who married Joseph Hixson (c1746-c1803) had a daughter named Eleanor who married Sparling Bowman (born 1752 in Washington County, Maryland and died 1839 in Greene County, Tennessee).

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Question: Is the Honor Sarah Hughes (c1737-c1795) who about 1760 in Virginia married John Newman related to this Hughes family? John Newman was born about 1742 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and died in Greene County, Tennessee. John and Honor Sarah (Hughes) Newman had a son, Cornelius Newman (c1765-1833) who in 1786 in Shenandoah County, Virginia married Margaret Byrd (c1758-1786). Margaret Byrd (c1758-1786) was the daughter of Mounce Byrd (c1735-1793) and Clara "Clarissa" Ann Ruddell; and the grand daughter of Andrew Byrd (c1690-c1750) and Magdalene Jones.

Cornelius Newman (c1765-1833) and Margaret Byrd (c1758-1786) had a daughter Clairissa "Clary" Newman (1787-1873) who married John Hardin (1788-1844). John and Clairissa (Newman) Hardin were the parents of Cornelius Hardin (1809-1873).

Tennessee GenWeb Project: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1887, Greene County

John Hardin, merchant and stock dealer, was born north of Greeneville, October 4, 1839, the son of Cornelius and Annie (Cox) Hardin, the former born in 1809; John was the name of the next two direct ancestors. The great-grandfather was killed in a charge against the Indians near the site of Chattanooga. He was a captain, and made the charge against his own judgment, knowing it was certain death. His dying message to his wife was that their unborn child might be given his name, and that boy became one of the pioneers of Greene County, and served in the war of 1812. He died, in 1845, a prominent man. The father, a farmer and stock dealer, died August 18, 1873, esteemed by all. The mother, a daughter of Eliacom Cox, a native and leading citizen of Greene County, was born in 1813, north of Greeneville, near where she now lives. She is a Methodist. Our subject was educated at Greeneville Academy, and farmed until April, 1863, when he enlisted in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Federal Infantry. In the fall he was captured at McMinnville, but was paroled at once. He joined his command at Knoxville, and served until August 18,1865. He has since been farming and stock dealing with success. The firm of Trim & Hardin, merchants, began in 1887. July 4, 1861, he married Malinda, a daughter of John Kidwell, and born near Greeneville in 1841. Their children were Robert A., born May 17, 1862; Charles, born July 17, 1866; Cornelius, born October 14, 1871; John K., born October 6, 1875, and Lillian, born January 23, 1883, deceased November 3, 1886. He and his wife are Methodists.

John and Clairissa (Newman) Hardin were also the parents of the Mary Hardin (1818-1855) who in 1834 in Greene County, Tennessee married Isaac B Harmon (1812-1870).

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Two sons of Walter and Mary Newman (Samuel and Jonathan) around 1744 settled on Smith Creek in Shenandoah County, Virginia (See Monocracy Valley, Maryland). Samuel and Martha (Ledyard) Newman and Mary Ledyard, the widow of Jonathon Newman and the wife of John States, were the founders of the Smith & Linville Creek Baptist Church.

Samuel Newman, son of Walter and Mary Newman
In 1753 Thomas Moore and wife Mary deeded 200 acres on Smiths Creek to Samuel Newman [witness was John Hughes (1732-1791)]. Originally Newman obtained land from Lord Faifax and then Newman sold it to Moore. After the location of the Fairfax line was clarified, the title was unclear and Moore gave the land back to Newman. Samuel and Martha (Ledyard) Newman relocated to South Carolina.

Jonathon Newman, son of Walter and Mary Newman
Jonathon and Mary (Ledyard) Newman had two sons: John (b.1742) and Walter (b.1743).
After Jonathon Newman (1716-1748) died, Mary (Ledyard) Newman married John States. [Christian Dasher transferred 200 acres to John States on April 1, 1755, the land lying in Augusta County, Virginia, on the South Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River. The South Fork is now known as the Moorefield River in Hardy County, West Virginia. On Aug. 22, 1772, Ann Willson, formerly Ann States, John's only child, who had married Isaac Willson conveyed said land to John Gardner. In 1758, Indians attacked Fort Upper Tract and massacred all of the twenty-one inhabitants and, on the day following, attacked Fort Seybert, laying siege to it for three days, and finally capturing it. All of its inhabitants were killed or carried into captivity, and only one captive, James Dyer, ever returned. John States was killed at Brock's Gap January 1758.]

John Newman, son of Jonathon and Mary (Ledyard) Newman
John Newman (b.1742) relocated to Green County, Tennessee (formerly Washington County, North Carolina). John Newman (b.1742) had been a "neighbor" to both John Sevier and John Tipton in the Shenandoah Valley. [See A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia by John Walter Wayland] John Newman was one of members from Greene County, North Carolina elected to the 1784 convention to adopt a constitution for the proposed new state (others were: Daniel Kennedy, James Roddye, and Joseph Hardin). [Note: Francis A. Ramsey was elected to be a member of the proposed Council of State.]

John Newman in the Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891
Name: John Newman
State: TN
County: Greene County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1812
Record Type: Tax list
Database: TN Early Census Index
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

John Newman in the Revolutionary War Pension Index
Name: John Newman
State: Tennessee
Number: 3
Rank: captain
Stipend: 120
Source Information
Graden, Debra, ed.. Revolutionary War Pension Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

John Newman (b.1742) is the one in 1797 appointed guardian for three boys, orphans of William Holeman decd. (What happened to the Holman orphans?)

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