| Name | 
John* Lovelady  | 
- or William of Greene Co, Tennessee
 
 
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| Suffix | 
Sr., Rev War  | 
| Birth | 
1736  | 
North Carolina    | 
| Gender | 
Male  | 
| Residence | 
Bef 1760  | 
Greene Co, Tennessee    | 
| Other-Begin | 
1763  | 
Orange Co, North Carolina    | 
| Brashears  | 
- Minutes of Orange Co Court, North Carolina
 
1763  Middleton Brashears vs Thomas Lovelatty, Sr. petition 
Middleton Brashears vs. John Lovelatty debt (ibid) 
Middleton Brashears vs. Marshall Lovelatty (ibid) 
 
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| Property | 
1767  | 
Indian Camp Creek, Orange Co, North Carolina    | 
- 1766 Thomas Lovelatty was granted 400 acres on Indian Camp Creek, a fork of Abitton's Creek.
 
1767 John Loveletty was given three grants totaling 650 acres in the same watershed. 
 
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| Property | 
23 Oct 1771  | 
Orange Co, North Carolina    | 
- 1770 Thomas Lovelatty sold 200 acres of his 1766 grant t o Marshall(for L5[5 pounds] proclamation money.
 
1771 23 Oct Marshall Lovelatty sold to John Lovelatty th e above land for L20[20 pounds] proc. money. 
 
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| Property | 
1775  | 
Orange Co, North Carolina    | 
| exchange for South Carolina  | 
- 1772 A land survey was made to establish the line between North and South Carolina. This placed some lands granted in North Carolina into South Carolina and the landowners were to turn in their grants and apply to South Carolina for
 
new ones. Otherwise the land would be declared vacant and granted to anyone who applied for it. 
1775 Marshall and John signed a declaration asking the King for relief.  
We do not know if Marshall and John received new grants or turned in their old ones. They were in Green Co. Tn by 1780 
 
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| Residence | 
Between 1775 and 1783  | 
Peytons Creek, Smith Co, Tennessee    | 
| Military | 
Between 1775 and 1783  | 
Revolutionary War, Smith Co, Tennessee    | 
-  John Lovelady lived on Peyton?s Creek near the head of Dixon?s Creek.  He was a revolutionary soldier and his wife molded bullets during the war.
 
 
Smith County Revolutionary War Soldiers 
From "Tennessee Cousins" 
by Worth S. Ray Originally published 1950.  Last reprint Genealogy Publishing Co, Inc. 
Library of Congress Catalog #68-24689-5. 
Read the book for further details about these Smith County Soldiers. 
Transcribed by Catherine Trumm 
 
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A statement from her grandson, "My grandfather, John Lovelady, was a native of South Carolina. He and his wife both served in the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. Grandmother moulded bullets for the men while they fought..." 
 
History of Smith County, Tennessee 
Transcription of text  
Detail 
Page 51.  
Date 
1892  
Other information 
This comes from a letter from a grandson of John Lovelady, from Cave Creek, Newton County, Arkansas written to John W. Bowens, author of an 1892 History of Smith County, Tennessee, and quoted in his book. The book, apparently typed and "self-published" is a classic on the county and is available at the Tennessee State Library and Archives.   
 
 
 
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Parker Cemetery Plaque Macon County, Tennessee 
Provided thru the Macon County Historical Society 
 
Believed buried here: 
Revolutionary War Veterans 
John Lovelady Sr 
John Gammon and wife Mary Dixon 
 
War of 1812 Veterans 
John Lovelady Sr. and wife Mary Ellis 
Jeremiah Gammon and wife Susannah Lovelady (daughter of John Lovelady Jr and Mary Ellis) 
 
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| Residence | 
1780  | 
Green Co, Tennessee    | 
| Military | 
7 Oct 1780  | 
Battle of King Mountain, Green Co, Tennessee    | 
| 
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| Death | 
Aft 1790  | 
| Burial | 
Jessie Parker Cem, Lafayette, Macon Co, Tennessee (?)    | 
| Notes  | 
- Gayle has his wife as Agnes Merchant, but no documentation or source.  
 
 
from Karl Kiser:   
The early ancestors are a mystery.  John is a good possible father of Thomas. I do not know his wife.  I have seen Sarah Morgan but never good documentation on the marriage.   
Note:  He had a daughter named Sarah and a son named "Morgan," so until further is learned, will stay with Sarah Morgan. 
 
Greene County, Tennessee 1783 Tax List 
 
Listed below are the names listed on the 1783 Greene Co Tax list, this was the first list taken for Greene Co. The original tax list can be viewed at the Nathanael Greene Museum in Greeneville.  
 
This list does not have any locations just the names, although some notes of interest were added to this list of names:  
 
     Almost all on list were Revolutionary soldiers.  
     They were known as the "Nollichuckey Settlers."  
     In 1785 Adam Meek built his cabin farthest westward but civilization had not reached the present Knox Co border. 
     Many of them settled on the "Brown Purchase" -- land bought from the indians by Jacob Brown, a Major in the Revolution.  
     The Nolichuckey settlers were famous as riflemen.  
     Many of them were enlisted with the NC Continental Line or the VA Militia.  
     Samuel Wear, whose family came from Bucks Co, VA, was a border hero and one of the first TN representatives.  
     In 1782 several families came to Greene Co from PA. The Galbreaths, Rankins, Magills, Delaneys, Wilsons, Moores and McClungs.  
     Early land grants: the Nelsons, Vances, Crosbys, Inmans, Casteels, Pates, Jones and Conways.  
     The first pioneers here were the Gillespies, Crocketts, Henry Earnest, Francis Hughes, Nathan Davis, Ashael  Rawlings and Col. Daniel Kenedy (first Clerk of Court) and Amos Byrd from Westover Manor in VA.  
     Maryland families to settle here were the Howards, Dewitts, Weltys, Hills and Gists.  
     From Washington Co., VA were Col Arthur Campbell, the Craigs, Blackburns.  
     Earliest NC families were the Loves, Whites, Alexanders, Balches and Vances.  
     Robert Wylie was one of the first merchants in Greene County.  
 
               ****Partial List**** 
Joseph Davis   James Lovelady   Thomas Ray    John Wood 
Nathan Davis  John Lovelady   William Ray  Richard Woods                            
Nicholas Day Davis   Marshall Lovelady   Abraham Reece   John Woodward                                     
 
from Karl Kiser:   
The early ancestors are a mystery.  John is a good possible father of Thomas.  
 
 
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| Person ID | 
I1635  | 
Roots | 
| Last Modified | 
20 Sep 2015  |