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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Frank Horton
Father and son Joseph Holcombe, both carried the same first name, were patriots during the war.
Joseph, Sr. was born abt 1720 in King William and Edward County, VA and died abt 1800 in Durbin Creek in Laurens District, SC. He is shown on the muster roll of Granville Co, NC as a member of Captain Shugan Jone's Company, Col William Eaton's Regiment.
His son Joseph, Jr. served as a private in Colonel Benjamin Roebucks Regiment of SC militia for which he ws paid by SC.
In his will, he names his son.
He moved to GA and is probably buried in Habersham Co, GA where he died after 1851.
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