THE HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER, VOLUME I., NUMBER 3.
OCTOBER, 1965
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HOLLINGSWORTH AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATIONS


In the index of these pensions, published continually in the National Genealogy Society Quarterly Magazine, now, completed, there are only five listed under our surname. So we present abstracts of all of them here. If you want to buy electrostatic positive copies of pages from them, send the numbers and other particulars, together with fee of $1.00, to Nationol Archives & Records Service, Genoral Services Administration, Washington, D.C. 20408. They prefer that you first obtain copies of their Form NAR 288, and fill it up, before application. Cost is a flat fee of $1.00. This is figured on the basic fee of 20� per page of copy.

(1) R- 5152. HOLLINGGSWORTH, ELIAS. South Carolina.

     REJECTED. Application dated Aug. 18, 1845, in Pickens District, South Carolina.
Elias Hollingsworth, resident of same, then aged 81 years, applied under the Act of June 7, 1832. He thought he served in 1781, Capt. Daniel Duff, serving as Quarter Master. Believed it to have been 51 days service. Other officers: Major Farr & Colonel Brandon. Had a 2nd tour of six months, under same officers. Stated that he had resided in Union County, South Carolina, when he entered the service, but was in no battle. Marched from Brown's creek to Grindall's Shoals and there joined General Morgan's Camp and crossed Broad River at the mouth of Bullock's Creek, through Chesterfield District and such through that part of the State. He stated he was infirm and faulty in memory and education. Swore he was not on roll of any Agency "except that of the State of South Carolina," Signed "E." his mark.

     Affidavit of William G. Mullinix, Clergyman of Pickens District, & Silas Kirksey, of same, certify veracity of the applicant.

  Following lnterrogations were propounded to Elias and he swares as follows:

(1) Where and in what year were you born? (Answer) In Louden County, Virginia, in 1763.
(2) Have you any record of your age? (Answer) No.
(3) Where were you living when called into the service? {Answer) Union District, on Broad River.
(3b) Where have you lived since? (Answer) Then to Newberry District and now in Pickens District.
(7) State names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood.
  (Answer) Maj. W. L. Keith &. Gen. F. N. Gavvin, Pickens C.H., Col. T. J. Pickens, Rev. W. G. Mellenix, E. B. Benson, Esq., and F. Burt, Esq., Pendleton District, S.C. Signed William L. Keith, Clerk of the Court of Pickens District, South Carolina.
 
     Joseph N. Jackson (an old and highly respectable citizen of Union District) swore that he knew Elias H. during the Revolutionary War. He recollected that AQUILLA HOLLINGSWORTH, brother to Elias, was killed by the side of this deponent at Cow Pens, and that Elias' father was with this deponent during a considerable portion of the war, and they were all good Whigs and soldiers, and afterwards good, honest, respectable citizens, and no one who knows Elias Hollingsworth could doubt his statement." Sworn, Apr. 1, 1845. But, albeit, the claim denied!

     (This Elias appears to be the son of Elias4, and wife Susannah Pierce Hollingsworth, (of Jacob3, Thomas2, of Valentine1 (the Quaker) of HenryA.) They had children, Aquilla, Mary or Margy, Benjamin & Naomi. They took, a certificate of removal from Kennett Meeting of Quakers in Chester Co. Pennsylvania, dated May 17, 1763, and presented it May 26, 1764, to Fairfax Meeting, Loudoun Co., Virginia. They brought "4 small children," the four named above. They were later

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