The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Birth: abt 1755 Union / Union / SC Death: bef 02 Apr 1821 / Union Dist / SC
Qualifying Service Description:
Colonel Thomas Brandon's 2nd Spartan Regiment of South Carolina Militia
Additional References:
Salley, Alexander Samuel, and Wylma Anne Wates, Stub Entries to Indents Issued in Payment of Claims Against South Carolina Growing out of the Revolution, South Carolina. Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1910, Book X, Part 2, pg 87, Liber X # 2977
Moss, Bobby Gilmer, Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 1983, naming Jonas Little in Col Thomas Brandon's Regt
Swink Little Cemetery, his place of internment, has the remains of a stone, unclear if it was ever marked.
Fairforest Baptist Church Cemetery has a cenotaph V/A type flat marker.
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
He is buried at the Swink Little Cemetery off of Meansville Road and Stepp Lane/Road at the old Little Farm Place
He has a memorial marker at Fairforest Baptist Church Cemetery 1917 Jonesville Highway Union, Union County, South Carolina
Author: Thomas Michael Little
Jonas Little was born about 1755. Y-DNA evidence ties his lineage to the Borders of Scotland with a known brother, George Little, stating in a biography that the family migrated from Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Jonas and their brothers settled in the area of what is now Union County, South Carolina, in the 1760s.
Jonas married Rebecca (last name unknown, but possibly Rountree or Goodwin) about 1775, and their known children were:
Ruth was born in about 1780 and married Aaron Springer
Adam was born on 26 January 1781 and married Susannah Blankenship.
Thomas R. was born about 1783 and married Nancy [surname unknown].
Jonas was born in about 1787 and married Mary Belur.
Hannah was born about 1790
Mary was born about 1791
Benjamin was born about 1793
Amos was born on 8 November 1798 and married Elizabeth Hays.
He and Rebecca are listed as early members of the Fairforest Baptist Church, the first Baptist church in the South Carolina up-country.
The earliest documentation of Jonas in the Union County area is a deed where he purchased land on Buffalo Creek on 29 December 1778 for £325 from Moses Winters. He is listed on the 1779 Jury List for Union County along with a George, John, and Joseph Little. Jonas owned a farm near Buffalo Creek off of what is now Meansville Road, off Highway 215 between Union and Buffalo, South Carolina. He is listed in the Ninety-Six District Census in 1779 and 1780 and the US Census for Union County, South Carolina, in 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820.
Jonas and several of his brothers served as Privates with Colonel Thomas Brandon's 2nd Spartan Regiment of the South Carolina Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He is listed in the NSDAR Patriot Index Volume 2, 1980. He has a veteran's marker placed in the Upper Fairforest Baptist Church Cemetery, dedicated by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1980.
Jonas made his Last Will and Testament on 17 January 1821, and it was recorded in Union County, South Carolina, on 2 April 1821 in Will Book B, page 64, Box 45, package 28. He was buried on the land that was his farm. His grave is marked by a small stone engraved with "JL 1821." This researcher visited this small family cemetery in May 2017 and found Jonas’ fieldstone marker. His son, Benjamin’s, headstone was also found nearby. All other markers and stones in the cemetery were unreadable.
Jonas’ wife, Rebecca, remarried in 1823 to William Wilburn. According to the book Taproot of the South Carolina Baptist Back Country: Fairforest Baptist Church by Loulie Latimer Owens, she was removed from the rolls (excommunicated) in May of 1823, and then she was added back to the membership as Rebecca Wilborn.
Sources:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Salley & Wates, Stub Entried to Indents, Book X, Part 2, pg 87, Liber X # 2977
Roster of South Carolina Soldiers in the American Revolution, naming Jonas Little in Col. Thomas Brandon's Regt
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