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Fifteenth Generation
37. Maj. Jonathan
TIPTON III1,3 was born on 23 Oct 1734 in Frederick County, Virginia.3 He died on 18 Jan 1833 in Cumberland
County, KY. His residence was Overton Co, TN. Notes for JONATHAN
TIPTON III:
Johnathan Tipton III was a Major in the Revoluntary war and fought in 13 battles
under George Washington. He was wounded in the battle of Kings Mountain where
he was 2nd in command. He was also with George Washington at Valley Forge.
From a book titled "Kings Mountain and its Heros" by Lyman Draper as
follows....
Jonathan Tipton was born in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1750. Early settling
in what became Washington, County East Tennessee, he was, in February, 1777,
made a Major, and was engaged in guarding the frontiers: and in 1780, had a
fight with Indians at the mouth of Flat Creek, on Nolachucky. He fought with
John Sevier at the battle of Boyd's Creek in Sevier county and was seriously
wounded there. He was second in command of Seviers regiment at Kings Mountain;
and then served on Arthur Campbell's campaign, leading a detachment against Tallassee
and Chilhowee. In the fall of 1781 he went on service with Colonels Shelby and
Sevier under General Greene, in South Carolina. Major Tipton died in Overton
County, Tennessee, January Eighteenth, 1833, in his eighty-third year. Jonathan
died in Cumberland County Kentucky but his residence was Overton County Tennessee.
Shown on the 1810 Buncombe Co. NC. census.
Shown on the 1820 Buncombe Co. NC. census. Maj. Jonathan TIPTON III and Frances
Perina DAUGHERTY were married.1
Maj. Jonathan TIPTON III and Frances Perina DAUGHERTY
had the following children:
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