Descendant's of Charles Holland
Charles Holland was born Apr. 2, 1758 in Maryland, or the Netherlands. He died Mar. 16, 1846 in Clarkson, Choctaw Co., Miss., and was buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery, in Webster Co., Miss.! Charles first married Sarah Hughes abt. 1789 in Abbeville Dist., South Carolina. Sarah was born abt. 1775 in Abbeville Dist., South Carolina, the daughter of James & Catherine "Prothro" Hughes. Sarah "Hughes" Holland died abt. 1804 in Abbeville Dist., South Carolina. Charles married second to Elizabeth Smith bef. 1797 in Abbeville Dist., South Carolina. Charles parent's are unknown, but he did have two known brother's born in Maryland, Jacob & Thomas Holland. Charles and his brother's all were soldier's in the Revolutionary War, and served their country in the same South Carolina Military! Charles Holland was known as a brave soldier in the Revolutionary War, and he carried to the grave the scar's of three wound's which he received fighting for our liberties. He enlisted in Sept. 1776, abt. 35 mile's from the town of Ninety-Six Dist., (now Greenwood Co., S.C.). He served as a private in the company command'ed by James McCall, Andrew Pickens, Thomas Weems, and Joseph Pickens, for seven year's throughout the war. The battle's in which he participated were some of the most sanguinary and hard fought campaigns of the Revolutionary War. Charles and Sarah had seven children, all born near Ninety-Six, South Carolina. Their children were; William Hughs Holland born abt. 1788, Margaret E. {Peggy} Holland was born Nov. 25, 1790 in S.C., and died June 27, 1860 in Choctaw Co., Miss. She married Robert Gammill abt. 1808, and they had 12 children. Robert & Margaret were buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery, in Webster Co., Miss. Absalom Holland was born Oct. 29, 1791 in Ninety-Six Dist., S.C., and died Aug. 13, 1878 in Hillsboro, Scott Co., Miss. He first married Elizabeth Douglas July 12, 1814 in Madison Co., Alabama. She was born Nov. 2, 1795, and died Dec. 6, 1860 in Choctaw Co., Miss. Absalom & Elizabeth were my fourth Great Grandparent's, and were buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery, in Webster Co., Miss. After Elizabeth died Absalom married again to Catherine Latham Dec. 1864 in Choctaw Co., Miss. Catherine was born May 4, 1838, the dau. of James Lewis & Nancy Jane "Eustace" Latham! Elizabeth Holland was born Aug. 25, 1792 in S.C., and died Sept. 4, 1882 in Webster Co., Miss. She married James Paxton abt. 1807, and they had 11 children. James & Elizabeth "Holland" Paxton were buried at Clarkson Baptist Church Cemetery, Webster Co., Miss. Charles Miller Holland was born Apr. 7, 1793 in S.C., and died Apr. 15, 1879 in Webster Co., Miss. He married Dicey Childress May 16, 1816 in Madison Co., Alabama, and they had 10 children. They were buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church Cem., in Webster Co., Miss.! Rev. Jacob H. Holland was born July 14, 1794 in S.C., and died Feb. 15, 1872 in Eupora, Webster Co., Miss. Jacob married Drusilla Dearman Nov. 19, 1818 in Pickens Co., Ala., and they had 14 children. Jacob was buried at Starnes Tabernacle Church Cem., in Webster Co., Miss. Sarah Holland was born abt. 1804, died 1867 in Choctaw Co., Miss. Sarah married Ignatius Dudley, and they had 9 children. Their place of burial is unknown. Reuben Holland was born Feb. 16, 1805 in S.C., and died May 18, 1874 in Texas. Reuben married Mary Dearman Aug. 18, 1831 in Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, they had 5 children, most of them lived in Brazo Co., Texas! Absalom & Elizabeth "Douglas" Holland had 9 children, according to birth, they were Louise Holland born abt. 1815 in Pickens Co., Alabama, and died aft. 1880 in Webster Co., Miss.! She married Abraham Ferguson abt. 1832 in Pickens Co., Alabama, and they had 10 children. Abraham Ferguson was buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Sarah Penelope Holland was born Feb. 11, 1817, died June 20, 1889 in Webster Co., Miss. She married Jonathan P. Lewis Aug. 29, 1839 in Choctaw Co., Miss. Jonathan & Sarah P. were buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church Cem.! Thomas Holland was born abt. 1821 in Pickens Co., Ala., and died 1902 in Water Valley, Miss. Jacob Miller Holland was born Dec. 9, 1828 in Pickens Co., Ala., and died Nov. 26, 1903 in Webster Co., Miss. He married first to Martha S. Henley May 4, 1847 in Choctaw Co., Miss., and they had 7 children. Jacob married second to Martha E. Smith Apr. 18, 1874 in Webster Co., Miss., and they had two daughter's! Jacob and both of his wife's were buried at Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cem., in Webster Co., Miss. Absalom B. Holland was born Feb. 4, 1831 in Pickens Co., Alabama, and died Apr. 5, 1907 in Webster Co., Miss. He married Mary Elizabeth Shaffer Nov. 18, 1852 in Choctaw Co., Miss. And they had four children. Absalom & Mary Elizabeth were buried at Mt. Moriah Methodist Church Cemetery, in Webster Co., Miss. Amanda Elizabeth Holland was born Jan. 9, 1833 in Pickens Co., Alabama, and died Nov. 18, 1885, she married Lorenzo Dow Yeates, and they had two children. Lorenzo & Amanda were buried at Clarkson Baptist Church Cemetery, Webster Co., Miss. Charles Miller Holland was born Nov. 1836 in Pickens Co., Alabama, no other info. about him. Mary Catherine Holland was born abt. 1838 in Choctaw Co., Miss., she married George Gunter. Maude Holland was born abt. 1840, married Joseph Yates. Many of Charles Holland descendent's live'd in Choctaw, Webster, and Oktibbeha Counties, in Mississippi. Several also settled in Texas.

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Added January 3, 2023
Charles Holland was one of the Heroes who fought at the Battle of King's Mountain. He also fought at the Battle of Cowpens and the Battle of Ramsour's Mill. He documented his participation in these battle in S7027, his Application for Revolutionary War Pension.

Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of Charles Holland S7027 f31SC
Transcribed and annotated by Will Graves rev'd 1/6/11 & 9/2/22
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pertinent to the military service of the veteran and to contemporary events have been transcribed. Affidavits that provide additional information
on these events are included and genealogical information is abstracted, while standard, 'boilerplate' affidavits and attestations related solely to
the application, and later nineteenth and twentieth century research requests for information have been omitted. I use speech recognition software
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State of Alabama, Tuscaloosa County} SS.
On this 13th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of
the Circuit Court of said State now sitting in said County, Charles Holland, a resident in the
County aforesaid, aged Seventy four years on the 2nd day of April last, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the
benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein stated: namely, that he volunteered, sometime in the month of September (as
well as he can recollect) 1776, in a company of militia under the command of Captain James
McCall, in the District then called Ninety Six, now Abbeville, in the State of South Carolina, that
said company was attached to a Regiment, or corps of men, under the command of Major
Andrew Williamson or Wimson, the Colonel, if any, not recollected; that he continued with
Captain McCall until about a month July 1777, when the Captain was taken prisoner by the
Indians & this relator was transferred to a militia company commanded by Captain Andrew
Pickens, in the same Regiment; that soon after this, Williamson was promoted to the command
of the Regiment & Captain Pickens was made the Major & one Thomas Weems became the
Captain, who was previously Lieutenant under Pickens – that after the lapse of two years or
more, Captain Weems resigned and one Joseph Pickens was promoted to the captaincy of said
Company, under whom the relator served twelve months & more, until the battle of Ninety Six
[Siege of Ninety Six, May 21-June 19, 1781],
1 in which battle Captain Joseph Pickens was
wounded mortally and died in about three weeks; that some time (say three months before the
battle of Ninety Six), Colonel Williamson deserted to the British and Major Andrew Pickens
became the Commandant of this Regiment; and one Alexander Noble became Major; that after
the death of Captain Joseph Pickens, one William Strain was promoted to the captaincy in his
place, under home this relator served until the end of the War with Great Britain; -- that during
his service, which in all was, as near as the relator can remember, about seven years, he
performed the following tours & acted in the battles & skirmishes mentioned below – he
volunteered, as before stated, in the District of Ninety Six, at a place of rendezvous about thirty
five miles from the Town of Ninety Six; he then marched to the town of Ninety Six to meet &
give battle to the Tories who had assembled in the vicinity of that place; that on arriving at
Ninety Six, the Regiment to which he was attached was met by a Regiment of regular troops
from Charleston City, under the command of Colonel Henry William Drayton [sic, William
1 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_ninety_six.html
Henry Drayton], at whose approach the Tories dispersed & fled. He & regiment then returned to
the neighborhood in which they were raised & in a short time had to return to Ninety Six for the
same purpose just mentioned, when a fight ensued between the Regiment and the Tories in
which there are were two Whigs wounded & one killed; some time after this, Captain McCall &
a part of his company, including this relator, were detailed to go into the Indian Nation in the
Northern part of the State of Georgia, after some Tories who had retreated there, when the
Indians made an attack upon said detachment, killed several men & wounded several others, and
took Captain McCall & another prisoners; that after the surrender of Charleston (in which battle
this relator was not engaged) this relator & about forty others of the same company retreated for
protection into the state of North Carolina where they remained about eight months, during
which time they had several skirmishes with the Tories in the upper edge of South Carolina;
about this time General Morgan [Daniel Morgan] passed in to North Carolina & was joined by
this relator & those with him who had retreated as aforesaid & shortly after ensued the battle of
the Cowpens or Tarleton's Defeat [January 17, 1781],
2 in which, he was wounded by a sword
thrust through the body, which disabled him for active service for two or three months; previous
to Tarleton's Defeat (this relator forgot to mention) he partook in the battle of King's Mountain
[October 7, 1780]3 where Ferguson [Patrick Ferguson], the British commander was killed &
defeated by the American troops commanded by Colonels Shelby [Isaac Shelby], Cleveland
[Benjamin Cleveland], Sevier [John Sevier], Campbell [William Campbell], McCall [James
McCall] and perhaps Clarke [Elijah Clarke]; that after Tarleton's Defeat, the next engagement in
which the relator acted, was the battle of Hanging Rock [August 6, 1780],
4 where he again
received a wound, which was a shot wound in the groin; this proved comparatively slight; next
after this, to say nothing of skirmishes at Ramsour's mill [June 20, 1780],
5 Hammon's [sic,
Hammond's] old store [December 29, 1780],
6 William's Fort [March 2, 1781],
7 &c came the
Siege of Ninety Six, where General Greene [Nathanael Greene] commanded, in which relator
took part & it was the last battle in which he was engaged during his service; this claimant is
unable to name particularly any of the Continental Regiments or companies with which he
served; he has already named several regular officers & now are numbers that he did not name
General Sumter [sic, Thomas Sumter] Commanded at the Hanging Rock; he has no discharge in
writing or other documentary evidence of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present,
and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first aforesaid.
S/ John W. Jenkins, Clerk
S/ Charles Holland
[James Paxton & Benjamin Harkness gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
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State of Alabama, Pickens County
2 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_cowpens.html
3 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_kings_mountain.html 4 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_hanging_rock.html
5 https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_ramseurs_mill.html 6 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_hammonds_store.html
7 https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_mudlick_creek.html
Before me Robert Love an acting justice of the peace in and for said County, personally
appeared Thomas Lofton8 and after being duly sworn, states that he was in the service of the
United States of America during the Revolutionary War with Great Britain & knew the said
Charles Holland during the time, who was also in said service; that although he was not with said
Holland all the time of his services as stated above, yet from what he knows himself, & from
what he heard and what was the general belief & rumor of the time, he has no hesitation in
stating his belief of the substantial correctness of all that he has stated in his said declaration.
Sworn to and subscribed before made this 21st day of September 1832.
S/ Robert Love, JP S/ Thos. Lofton
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State of Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Circuit Court Fall Term 1832. Personally appeared
before me John M. Jenkins clerk of said Circuit Court this 13th day of October 1832, Jacob
Holland9 and made oath in due form of law, that he personally knows the foregoing declaration
of Charles Holland to be true in regard to his having been a revolutionary soldier, but cannot
state upon his own knowledge, that the wounds received & the battles in which said Charles
partook, actually occurred as stated, although he, this affiant, was himself a soldier of the
Revolution for several years in the same Section of country in which said Charles served; that he
knows however that said Charles was in service for the length of time he states.
Sworn to & subscribed this day & year above stated.
S/ John M Jenkins, Clerk
S/ Jacob Holland
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $80 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for two-year
service as a private in the South Carolina militia.]
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South Carolina Audited Accounts10 relating to Charles Holland pp 4
Audited Account No. 3688
Transcribed and annotated by Will Graves 9/2/22
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[Book] O No. 28 25th of April 1785
[No.] 496
Mr. Charles Holland his Account of Militia Duty done as Private Alternately from 79 tp 1783
8 Thomas Lofton S17114 9 Jacob Holland S10866
10 The South Carolina Audited Accounts (AAs) are now available online at http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/. To find the AA
for a specific person, click on the Just take me to the search page link, then enter the person's surname first in the "Full name"
box followed by a comma and the person's Christian name. The number behind the 'pp' indicates the number of pages in the file
and the 'Audited Account No.' is the actual Account Number assigned by the South Carolina Archives.
say
on Horse 321 Days £321
on Foot 25 Days 12.10
[old South Carolina] Currency £333.10/
Stg. [Sterling] £47.12.10 ¼
Exd
. W.R. [Examined by W. R. [identity unknown]]
J. Mc
. A.G. [approved by] John McCall, Adjutant General]
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State So. Carolina Dr. [Debtor] to Charles Holland
for Duty in the Militia per Pay Bills of Capt.
John Norwood & Capt. Joseph Pickens &
Capt. William Strain commencing in 1779 and
Ending in 1783 Say as Private
on Horse 4 [?] Days
35 [?]
282
321 Days at 20/ [20 shillings old SC currency per day] £321
on Foot 25 Days at 10/ [10 shillings old SC currency per day] 12.10
Currency £333.10/
Stg £47.12.10 ¼
Rec'd 25 April 1785 from the Commissioners of the Treasury an Indent No. 496 in full
Satisfaction for the above Account Book O by virtue of an Order
S/ Jacob Holland
[p 4: Very poor image of the document by which Charles Holland empowered Jacob Holland to
receive his Indent. His signature on this document appears as follows:
]
Contributor: Vonnie L Cantrell (47192880)