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Author: George Geoffrey Baggett
John Drennan was born around 1765 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. Very little is know about his Revolutionary War service. He was a Private in the Upper Ninety-Six District Regiment of militia and served under a Captain John Pickens between 1780 and 1783. Though we have no record of his specific engagements, his regiment was engaged in several critical battles or skirmishes during that period, such as: Kings’ Mountain, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, and Eutaw Springs. Records confirm that he was involved in the Siege of Ninety-Six (21 May – 19 Jun 1781).
After the war, he first married Elizabeth Boyd around 1790 in South Carolina, and after she died, he married Unity Boyd. He relocated to Caldwell County, Kentucky, before 1805. He died there in 1839. The Col. Stephen Trigg Chapter is working to discover the location of his grave.
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