Display Patriot - P-183667 - Benjamin HOLLINGSHEAD
Benjamin HOLLINGSHEAD
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P-183667
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Record showed cemetery as "Tabernacle Methodist Ch"
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Author: Rev George Geoffrey Baggett
Benjamin Hollingshead enlisted in the Rowan County Regiment in 1781, where he served under Captain Hugh Hall and Colonel Francis Locke in several scouting missions. In 1782 he re-enlisted as a Private under Captain Anthony Sharpe in the 4th North Carolina Regiment Continental Line for a commitment of 18 months. He was stationed at Ashley Hill near Charleston, South Carolina, and on James Island near Charleston.
After hostilities ended, he was furloughed at 10-Mile Spring, South Carolina, after completing 13 months of his 18-month enlistment. He returned home to Rowan County, and later relocated with his parents and brothers to the Newberry District, South Carolina. Later, he moved his family to the frontier in Southern Alabama before 1830. On 4 March 1831, he received an annual pension of $40 for his service.
The Patriot died on 14 May 1840, in Bibb County, Alabama, and is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave in the Tabernacle Methodist Church cemetery.
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