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Descendants of John
Hickman and Elizabeth Copeland |
Information from Revolutionary War Records (RS), North Carolina # W7745: Lived in Duplin, Anson, and Rowan Counties in North Carolina. Then Chesterfield and Greenville County in South Carolina and Monroe County, Georgia. He was a Revolutionary Solder Pension No. W7745. He served 17 months as a minute man from North Carolina. He stated that at the close of the war he lived in Anson Co. NC. Moved to Chesterfield Co. SC and made 1 crop. Returned to Anson Co. NC and made 3 Crops. Moved back to Chesterfield Co. SC for 10 or 12 years, then moved to Greenville Co. SC. lived there until 1826 and moved to Monroe Co. Georgia. A will for John was filed (Will Bk. A, p. 272) 28 September 1835 and probated 14 October 1835. A letter dated August 7, 1856 by Lewis G. Hickman, that I located in John's RS files, states that they were unable to find a marriage record of John Hickman and Elizabeth Copeland, but he had learned lately that they were married in the lover part of Anson County on black river near the place called Beaver Dam in North Carolina. On 2 Feb 1997, I received an E-mail from a Bobbie Johnson that stated that Beaver Dam is now called Marshville, Union County NC, just across the Anson County line. Union County was once part of Anson County.
From John Hickman Revolutionary War Record W7745, his deposition to prove that he was in the war of 1776.
State of Georgia Monroe County
On this twenty fifth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Mristophis B. Strong Judge of the Superior Court of said County now sitting, John Hickman, a resident of Monroe County and State afore said, aged Seventy seven years, who being first duty sworn according to law, and on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following mamed officers and served as herein stated.
John Hickman aged twenty five years (what he was) drawn or drafted (it was called balloting) in Anson County, North Carolina in the spring of the year he thinks of 1777 under Captain Litte in a regiment of North Carolina Militia commanded by Col. Thuston for nine months, the company collected at Mays mill in Anson County and joined the regiment at Salisburg. The regiment then started as claimant was informed to join the Northern Army at Philadelphia, but on reaching a place called Morris Creek near Dam River the regiment was stopped and the men allowed to return home as Minute Men, after having been two months in service, in the ensuing fall the same troops were again called into service and the army reassembled at Camden and marched for Charleston, but on getting to the ten mile house the route was changed for Savannah and on getting within about twenty miles of Savannah news was received that the British had taken that place and the army marched up Savannah river to a place called Bark Swamp and after being stationed there for a while the British crossed the river and pursued the Americans to Charleston, which the Americans entered and remained there until claimant had permission to return home at the separations of his nine months which he had to serve without including the two months which he had previously served. Some time, but now the claimant is unable to state, after his return from the above nine month tour, claimant was again drafted for a three month tour, and entered the service under Captain Thomas Threadgill, who claimant believes was a Continental Officer, the company marched to the Cheraw Hills, and there up the pedee River, opposite the mouth of rocky river, where they commence the building of a fort, but before the fort was completed, the three months expired with claimant returned home. After the separation of second term claimant was drafted for another turn of three months and entered the service under Captain Brachen and regiment rendezvoused at Camden South Carolina, but he does not remember the name of the Colonel and they marched out and joined the army under General Green on the evening before the battle at the Eutaw Springs, claimant was in that battle form beginning to end and assisted in guarding away the prisoners.. He thinks there were three hundred and seventy seven prisoners in the portion that he assisted in guarding, but does not know whether there were more prisoners or not. in this battle there regiment to which claimant belonged was commanded by Colonel Malbada as Princhman. From Eutaw the troops returned to Camden and the company to which Claimant belonged was marched some few miles below Camden and stationed on town creek for a short time, where they were sent with some British prisoners up into Anson County North Carolina and on arriving there claimant term of service expired and he returned home. Claimant was understood that he was born in Duplin County North Carolina, but is unable to state the time further than to say that according to the best of his information he was twenty years of age at the time independence was declared. He has no record of his age, nor does he know that any record of it was ever made. at the time of his called into the service he lived at already stated in Anson County North Carolina. At the close of the war claimant removed to Chesterfield county South Carolina, and made one crop and there returned to Anson and made three crops and moved back to Chesterfield and lived the second time about ten or twelve years. Then moved up in Greenville County South Carolina and lived there until about five years ago. Where he came to Monroe County Georgia where he now lives. Has already stated the manner of his being called into the service- has stated the general circumstances of his service. He received but one discharge, which he remembers was a printed one, and signed he thinks by Captain Litte and Major Armstrong--he hopes that any his neighbors would testify at his character for veracity and also to their belief of his being a revolutionary soldier--he does not know of any of those who served with him whose evidence he can now procure- if he was back in Anson he could procure it by several persons now living. He hereby relinquish his every claim what so ever to a pension or annuity in the present and declare that his name in no on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
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Descendants of John
Hickman and Elizabeth Copeland |
by John W. Hickman graygo@flash.net
Will, 1850 Census, 985th Dist. Pg. 068 M432 R1 80 on Sept. 11, 1850 Paulding Co. She lived to be 97 years old based on this Census. In the Hickman/Halso book compiled by Eleanor Hickman Hughes in 1965, Katie Hickman Kersh, the last living child of Moses Powell, stated that the Hickmans came from Holland. The Bible records also lead them to believe that the Copelands came from Holland. I have not been able to disprove this, but I do know that John Hickman was born in Dublin County, NC. I also believe that Elizabeth Copeland was from the Lott Copeland family and that Aaron was named after Lott Copeland's Father Aaron.