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- Served in the Revolution, enlisting in NC troops. He was Capt. of a
Company according to NC Revolutinary War Records. He served first
with the Company of Capt. John Ingals, then the regiment of Col. John
Patton, in which he enlisted 3 May 1770. He was with Gen. Washington
at Valley Forge. He and his wife Amanda Allen Knox had seven
children.
It is thought that they lived some time in Pa before coming to NC. The
descendants say that their ancestor, William Knox, became heir to a
tract of land that was granted to this father in the old country, and
that they located it in Rowan Co., NC, and settled upon it. During the
Irish Rebellion quite a few of the Knoxes came from Scotland to
Ireland, and for service rendered the English government, some of them
obtained a land warrant for six hundred acres of land. If William was
the eldest son of the family, as it is supposed, and the old English
law in regardng to settling estates prevailed in North Carolina at
that time, the oldest son wojld be heir to the whole of the real
estate. And this may account for the absence of any mention of real
estate in Jean Knox's Will.
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1736 - 1776 (40 years)