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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
Was paid for hiring a wagon, procuring 6,900 pounds of beef, and twenty bushels of corn and wheat.
The following service is not recognized by the NSDAR. See the biography section for research to support this service
1776-1781, he served as a Captain in the North Carolina Militia
1776 1st Rowan County Militia 1st Cherokee Expedition
Aug-Nov 1781 - under Colonels Francis Locke and John Collier, in North Carolina Legion served under Colonel Robert Smith
May 1782, was Major in the newly-created 2nd Rowan County Regiment under Colonel James Brandon.
Additional References:
North Carolina Rev War Pay Vouchers, S115,108, Frames, #79-90
Rev War Pension file S32532
Clark, WalterThe Colonial Records of North Carolina: Published Under the Supervision of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, by Order of the General Assembly. Vol 10, North Carolina. Goldsboro: Nash Brothers, 1907, pg 279-282
Spouse: Elizabeth Frank/Miller Children: John; Barbara; Andrew; Eva Elizabeth; Lillie Blanche;
Johannes "John" Lopp Jr. was born in about 1743, the son of Johannes Sr. and Elizabeth Loop.
He was a very active Rowan County mounted-militiaman during the American Revolution. Pilgrim Church's 1790 Membership list shows his name as Captain Johannes Lopp, while in the 1790 and 1800 Census, he is John Lopp, Jr.
He also had a son named John Jr. [III], born in 1767; this John had emigrated before 1795 to Shelby County, Kentucky. In the 1850 Census, he was an 82-year-old laborer in Harrison County, Indiana. Therefore, he was only ten years old in 1776, which is too young to have led a company of mounted men to fight Cherokee Nation warriors that year or to have led a company of men to fight Tories or into battle at Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse when he was only 15 years old (in 1781).
We find evidence of "Captain John Lopp" in six years of military service from 1776-1782, until near the war's end when he was "Major John Lopp" of the North Carolina State Troops. He served in both the 1st Cherokee Expedition in 1776 and the 2nd Cherokee Expedition in late 1782. Decades after the war, he was named in over 25 Revolutionary War military pension applications of men who served in "Captain John Lopp's Company." Thus, Captain John had to be older than all these men who said they served in his company and received pensions decades after the war (for example, see the pension application of John Sowers S32532).
Please note that the 1790 Pilgrim Church Membership List includes both (his father) Colonel Johannes and (son) Captain Johannes. This is key, as we can attribute Colonel Johannes, the father of our Patriot, and Captain John as the son, John Jr. These same two men are both shown again on the 1790 and 1800 US Census, where Captain John is shown as John Lopp, Jr.
The Patriot died on 7 February 1801 in Rowan, North Carolina. His wife Elizabeth and his son John were named executors of this Last Will and Testament.
Sources:
1790 Census of Rowan County, NC (John Lopp, Jr.).
1790 Pilgrim Church Membership List (Capt. Johannes Lopp).
1800 Census of Rowan County, NC, (John Lopp, Jr.).
1820 Census of Rowan County, NC (John Lopp).
1834 Pension application of John Sowers S32532 (Capt John Lopp).
Old Lutheran Church Records 1757-1848, Lexington, North Carolina, compiled 1969 by Mrs. David G. Koch.
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