William Pemlott Lomax

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA  with the rank of Private.   DAR Ancestor # A071188

He was a millwright.

He served as a Private, Salisbury District, Guilford County, under Capt. Blount, 10th Regiment, North Carolina Militia, enlisted 1779 and served to the end of the Revolutionary War (DAR Ancestor No. A071188; SAR Application No. 82010 (1957)).

In 1790 he was living in Guilford County, North Carolina. The census shows his household consisted of two males under 16, two males over 16, and three females, for a total of seven people.

In 1800 he was living in Abbeville County, South Carolina. The census shows his household consisted of three males under 10, one male 26-44, one female under 10, 2 females 16-25, four people under 16, one person over 25, and a total of seven people.

He and his family moved to Wilson County, Tennessee about 1800, with Thomas Knight and Absolom Knight.

Some researchers believe he was the William Lomax who served as a Private in Barlowe's 2nd Regiment, Virginia Militia during the War of 1812. His age (68) argues against it.

"The father of these children died in Wilson Co., Tenn. July 2, A. D. 1813 ; and the mother died in Orange Co., Ind. She was a Quaker the greater part of her life, but the last few years of her life she was a Methodist. She was a robust and strong woman, and descended from the Pennsylvania Knights. The father was a gigantic specimen of physical manhood, and never met another of equal strength." (Lomax, 73)

Sources

• Mel Karsten, "Some Early Missouri Settlers" in KNIGHT-TIMES-L <http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/KNIGHT-TIMES/1996-11/08479...>, Nov. 14, 1996, citing Donald Jack Knight, Some Early Missouri Settlers, pp. 38-41.
• Joseph Lomax, Genealogical and historical sketches of the Lomax family (1894), 73.

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