| THE JOHN TOMLINSON FAMILY
(Pages 232-234) John Tomlinson was born about 1750 in South Carolina. John's father William, born about 1730, was an early settler of South Carolina and an advocate of independence from England. He supported the colonists and Furnished supplies for the revolutionary cause. John siblings included a brother William. About
1772, John Tomlinson married Rebecca Lucretia Hardeman in South Carolina. Rebecca, born January 14, 1754, was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hardeman of South Carolina. Thomas Hardeman i/vas born on October 15, 1730, in Virginia. Elizabeth was born August 14, 1736, in South Carolina. Rebecca's siblings included Joseph, born February 15, 1756; Elizabeth, born August 18, 1760; Sarah, born July 11, 1762; Mary, born June 14, 1764; Winnie, born July 21, 1768; Harty, born May 16, 1772; and
Martha, born January 18, 1776. Father Thomas Hardeman was a captain and his son Joseph was an ensign in Colonel Powell's Regiment of the South Carolina Militia 1775 to 1777. Near the end of the Revolutionary War, the family moved to Effingham County, which later became Bulloch County, Georgia. Thomas and Elizabeth Hardeman's son Joseph married Elizabeth Johnson. Their daughter Sarah married Samuel Moore, daughter Mary married John Jones, daughter Winnie married John Moore, daughter Harty
married Josiah Sirmans and daughter Martha married David Johnson. Thomas and Elizabeth Hardeman's daughter Elizabeth married Hustis Studstill, born in South Carolina in 1760. Elizabeth and Hustis Studsill were parents to eight children. Hustis died in 1805 in Bulloch County, Georgia. While living in South Carolina, John Tomlinson and Rebecca Hardeman became parents to Sarah "Sallie", born in 1774; William, born in 1781; and John, Jr., born in December 11, 1784.
John was a soldier in the Revolutionary War serving in the South Carolina Militia. On April 19, 1785, John was paid 19 pounds, 10 shillings, 6 pence and 3 farthings sterling for 128 days of militia duty during the war and for provisions supplied for Continental Army use in 1781 and 1782. Shortly after 1785, John Tomlinson and his brother William moved their families and their aging father William to Effingham County, Georgia, where a few years earlier Rebecca Hardeman's
parents had moved. John Tomlinson was provided two land grants from the state, both for 150 acres in Effingham County, on March 12, 1786, and April 3, 1786. Later this area became Screven County and still later part of Bulloch County in 1796. Father William Tomlinson died about 1789. In 1790, John and Rebecca Tomlinson added to their family with the birth of their son Moses. John was commissioned captain in the Screven County Militia on November 21, 1795, and later on November 25, 1796, as
captain in the Bulloch County Militia. John Tomlinson died in 1801, leaving Rebecca Hardeman with young Moses to rear. 
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