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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Author: Walter L. Ellis
According to his Pension application Absolom Thompson (S21533) was born in Chatham County, North Carolina on 12 April 1755. His father moved to Kentucky in 1783. He was living North Carolina (now Tennessee) near the mouth of Watauga River running into Holston River in the year 1775 when he enlisted for three years under the command of Moses Kirkland and after about six or eight weeks service the unit was disbanded at Kevin's Creek in the Ninety Sixth District, South Carolina by Moses Kirkland who turned Tory. Absolom then returned home to North Carolina. In 1776 he volunteered in the war against the Cherokee Indians and was stationed at the Long Island Fort (North Carolina) under the command of Major Anthony Bletcher the main body of Army under the command of General William Christian. He then enlisted in the Army in North Carolina as one of the mounted infantry under command of Colonel Sevier for six months.
In the Spring of 1779 Absolom volunteered under the command of Colonel Evan Shelby and served a tour for two months in an expedition down the Holston River against the Chickamauga Indians on Tennessee River. In 1780, he volunteered under the command of Colonel Isaac Shelby and served under his command in South Carolina until April 1781, and then under the command of Colonel Elijah Clarke and was engaged under him in the battle about twenty two miles from Cambridge in South Carolina in March 1780 where the enemy under the command of Major Dunlap was completely defeated. He then enlisted as a Soldier for the term of 10 months under the command of Captain William Smith who was attached to Colonel Thomas' Regiment of General Sumpter's Brigade. When he enlisted for this term, he received from Captain William Smith a commission signed by Governor Rutledge as Second Lieutenant and served as his Second Lieutenant.
Absolom lived in the Greenville District, South Carolina following the Revolution When he died on 21 August 1837 (date found on the final pension payment record), he was living at his residence near the head of the Middle Tyger River in Greenville District. At the time of his death he was an acting Magistrate.
Absolom’s daughter Elizabeth Ann Thompson married James Whitten, son of NSSAR Patriot John Whitten P-319343 (VA). Melicent M. Whitten, daughter of James Whitten and Elizabeth Thompson, married Nathaniel Harbin Goss: son of Benjamin Goss Veteran of the War of 1812; grandson of NSSAR Patriot Thomas Goss, Jr. P-168412 (NC); great grandson of NSSAR Patriot Thomas Goss, Sr. P-168411 (NC); great, great grandson of NSSAR Patriot John Sherman, Sr. P-288916 (NC)
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