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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Captain
Birth: Death: 07 Oct 1780 Kings Mountain / / SC
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
Spouse: Rachel Chronicle Children: Members Who Share This Ancestor
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Author: Fredrick Arnold Weyler
Captain John Mattocks was one of the brave soldiers who fell at King's Mountain. He belonged to a family who resided a few miles below Armstrong's Ford, on the south fork of the Catawba river at what is now known as the "Alison old place." There were three brothers and two sisters, Sallie and Barbara. The whole family, men and women, had the reputation of being ""uncommonly stout"." John and Charles Mattocks were staunch Whigs, ever ready to engage in any enterprise in defense of the freedom of their country, but Edward Mattocks (commonly called Ned Mattocks) was a Tory.
Deed Abstracts, Tryon . . Pp. 129-130: 28 Dec 1774, ROBERT EVANS of Tryon Co., yeoman, to JOHN MATTACKS of same, farmer, for £ 7 s 10 proc. money...75 A on the S branch of Cataba River. adj. JAMES LEEPER (deceased), JOS. BEATTY, ROBERT CAMPBELL, granted_Apr 1768 ... ROBERT EVANS (SEAL), Wit. JOHN GLEN, THOMAS ROBINSON. Rec. Jan. term 1775.
William Chronicle and John Mattox were good friends, John having married William's sister, Rachel. The two are mentioned as having hunted deer together on, or near, Kings' Mtn. not long before the actual battle - NORTH CAROLINA 1780-1781 HISTORY OF INVASION, by David Schenck. Abstracts, Tryon County Wills Pp. 646-648: 7 Apr 1784, JOSEPH HENRY, Sheriff of Lincoln Co....by a writ from the Court of Pleas & Qtly Sessions...to levy from RACHEL MATTIX, admx. of Estate of JOHN MATTIX decd, b36 specie, which JOHN HILL recovered...75 A on the S branch of Catawba, adj. JAMES LEEPER (decd), CHITTAM, granted to ROBT EVANS, and conveyed to MATTIX 25 Dec 1774...Wit: SAM MARTIN, JAMES JOHNSTON, JAMES LITTLE, JNO. WORK. Rec. Apr. term 1784.
The battlefield common grave marker at Kings Mountain reads:
“Sacred to the memory of MAJOR WILLIAM CHRONICLE, CAPTAIN JOHN MATTOCKS, WILLIAM RABB, JOHN BOYD, “Who were killed here fighting in defence of America, On the 7th of October, 1780.”
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