| 4. |  Featherstone Holt was born in 1752 in North Carolina (son of Francis Holt and Martha Featherstone); died in 1834 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Other Events:
- Rev War: 1780, Surry County, North Carolina; Entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier, under Captain Wooldridge of the same county & State (per pension claim)
- Census 1790: 1790, Stokes, North Carolina, USA; 1 W M over 16 b. before 1774 | 2 W M under 16 b. 1774-1790 | 4 W F
- Tax List: 1794, Stokes County, North Carolina; Capt. Clouds District Featherstone Holt 1 w poll
- Tax List: 1796, Stokes County, North Carolina; Featherston "Hall" is listed one white poll. Capt. Clouds District
- Census 1800: 1800, Salisbury, Stokes, North Carolina; 1 W M 0-10 | 2 W M 16-26 | 1 W M 26-45 | 2 W F 10-16 | 1 W F 16-26 | 1 W F 26-45
- Census 1810: 1810, Stokes, North Carolina; Living next door to Edward Collins
- Census 1820: 1820, Stokes, North Carolina
- Census 1830: 1830, Lee County, TN
- Pension: 30 Aug 1832, Hawkins County, Tennessee; Pension Claim (Revolutionary War)
Notes:
Pension:
Hawkins County, TN On this 30th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justice of the court of ____ quarter _____ for said county now sitting Featherstone Holt now a resident of said County aged 74 years. Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth cry his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress papered 7th June 1832. That in the spring of the year 1780, as well as he now recollects, he entered the service of the United States as a drafted soldier, under Captain Wooldridge of the same county & State meth himself. _____ & Surrey county North Carolina, he was drafted for 3 months now sent to the Moravian Town in N. Carolina as a guard over British and Fort prisoners there stationed he remained, to the best of his recollection, about 9 week, when the prisoners were sent to Hillsboro NC and there being no longer a prep for men he went home (to Surry County) on furlough _____ _____ before the expiration of the term for which he was drafted. During his stay in Surry, he was frequently in that summer (1780) out on scouting parties after the Lorie, for a few days at a time, volunteering his ____________________. In the succeeding fall he was again under Col. Williams and Major Winston for 3 months. They papered the forks of the Cladkin river in Surrey, this Wilkes & Burke County _____ after the Tories _____ infesting that county, he was however discharged or furlough before the expiration of 3 months and _____ again called out. At the time he was drafted he was a resident of Surrey County NC, and he has no documentary evidence and knows no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an _____ except the present and declares that his _____is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to & subscribed this day & year affirmed. There is not any Minister of the Gospel in his vicinity who can certify familiar and he has not any Documentary evidence to prove his service. He has not lived in Tennessee in Hawkins County but a few years. _____ is in open court and _____ and come to Tennessee from Stokes County North Carolina where he resided from the end of the war until he came to Tennessee. Sworn to and subscribed in open court 30th day of August Fetherston Holt
Children:
- 2. David Holt was born in 1772 in Virginia or North Carolina.
- Hannah Holt was born on 25 September 1779 in Virginia, United States; died on 13 January 1875 in Patrick, Virginia, USA.
- Rebecca Holt
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