Notes for John Calvin(?) TIMMONS
John is documented to have fought for Francis Marion at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (1782). Also his brothers Samuel, Thomas and Abner fought for the Swamp Fox. (Who is the Jesse Timmons on the Francis Marion Nov. 1779 roll?)
Note that the will below says that this is John Senior. But in the Audited accounts (AA7816 page 7) Samuel calls John his brother. Also, Thomas in X1252, mentions John, with adjacent entry X1251 for Abner and X1253 for Samuel with the same date. Entries Z296 and Z297 for Samuel and John are adjacent and the same date, even though not in alphabetical order. These and other reasons, along with yDNA tests makes me believe that this John's father is the John Timmons that had other sons of Samuel, Thomas, Moses and Abner.
DAR #0778251 accepted April 1997.
DAR #0827509 accepted July 2004
"History of South Carolina" Volume 4, by David Duncan Wallace, published by The American Historical Society, New York,
1932, page 457 says - "The founder of the Timmons family in America was a French Huguenot, according to tradition, and an officer of the French Navy. Though settled in Charleston, his son John was born in Virginia in 1740, but located in South Carolina, marrying Mary or Mollie Simmons of North Carolina."
It goes on to positively identify this John TIMMONS as mine by listing his location and his sons. However, above this it
states "Daniel Jr. [MYERS]...married Francis SIMMONS, sister of Mary who married John TIMMONS."
From 1790 census - John Timmons, Georgetown, P. 52 Prince Fredericks Parish 3 Males 16 & up, 3 males under 16,
4 females, 6 Slaves
Revolution War Records entries for John and John Sr. See Pay Indent book X, at number 914 (under Francis Marion).
Also see The History of SC, Biographical, Vol. 1934 page 457. Owned all of Old Effingham, (Elim, SC) which is now
Florence County.
1800 Census, Marion District, Liberty locality, roll 49, page 456 (Handwritten page 801) John Sr. and John Jr.
Head of Household Free White Males Free White Females O S
M M M M M F F F F F t l
Age 9 15 25 44 Up 9 15 25 44 Up h a
TIMMONS JOHN Senr 0 1 2 0 1 .. 0 0 1 0 1 .. 0 9
TIMMONS JOHN Junr 1 0 0 1 0 .. 0 0 1 0 0 .. 0 1
WILL OF
JOHN TIMMONS SR.
The State of South Carolina)
Marion District ) In the Name of God Amen I John Timmons Senr
of the above mentioned State and District,
Being in Reasonable Health of Body and in my perfect mind Senses and mem-
mory of mind Thanks Be to God--for his Blefsing for the Same--Knowing that
it is appointed unto all Men once To die Most Humbly Recommend and Be-
queath my Soul to God from whence it came and Give my Body to the Earth,
Leaving my Funeral to the Discrefsion of my Executors in whom I make no
debt But the Same will be manageed discreetly Etc.----
As Touching my Wordly Goods and Chattles To which it hath pleased God to
Blefs me with, I now will and Bequeath in the following manner (To wit,
Item ed I will all my Just debts to Be paid though none of any Magnitude
Item 2d I give unto my wele Beloved Son John Timmons Jun., one young Negroe wo-
man Name Jean and her increase also one Negroe Girl Name Eley and her in-
crease though none yet Item 3d I give and Bequeath unto my Beloved Son
Samuel Timmons one young Negro Woman Name Jane & a Negro Girl Name Wiloby
Item 4th I give and Bequeath unto my Son Simeon Timmons a Negroe Woman
Named Minder with all her increase also a Negroe Boy Named Jack also a
Negro Boy amos Item 5th I give and Bequeath unto well Beloved Son Jon Isaac
Timmons--one Negroe Woman Name Phebe and ale her Increase and a Negroe
Woman named Denny with her Increase from this date- - also a Negroe Man
Abram also a Negroe man Name Harry Item 6d I give and Bequeath unto my
Beloved Grand Jofiah Harrels a Negro Girl Named Esther though per adventure
Should my Grand Son Jofiah Harrell Die without any heir of his Body then
the said Negro Girl is to return to the heirs of my Body again--7th Item
I give and Bequeath unto my four Grand Children which was the heirs of
Moses Benton - a Negro woman Named Nelah and her increase-also a Negro
man Named Georg-- Item 8th I give and Bequeath unto wele Beloved Grandsons/Sons
John Morgan and william James Timmons Sons of william Timmons Deceased a
Bed and Furniture apice after my Death 9th Item also I give and Bequeath
unto Elizabeth Cains the Daughter of Elizar Cains one Negroe Girl Named
mourning peradventurre Neverthelefs Should this Elizabeth Cains Die without
any Lawful Ishue of her own Body then the Negro Girl Mourning is to return
to the Heirs of my Body----Item 10th I will and Bequeath unto my Beloved
JOHN TIMMONS, SR.'S WILL PAGE 2
Son in law Lewis Harrell Sns., one Dolear peces. Item I further wile
and Bequeath unto my Beloved Sons Simeon and Isaac Timmons- Viz after my
Death to Isaac Timmons the plantation wheare I now reside with on Thou-
sand acres of Land Lying mostly on the Creek, and the Remainder of my
Land lying out Back from the Creek to my Son Simeon Timmons - also to my
son Isaac Timmons ale my Stock of Cattle---After my Death all my House
and Kitchen Furniture not after my Death---Before Mentioned with all the perishable prop-
erty to Be Equally Divided Between my four sons viz John Samuel Simeon and
Isaac Timons-- and do By these pressents appoint these presents above to
Be my last will and Testament and do hereby revoke all former wills in
my Name and do hereby these presents my Binding will and Bequeath and do
appoint my Two sons Simeon and Isaac Timmons Execrs as witnefs my hand
and Interchangeable Set and fix my Seal this- 17 day of February
(1818)
Signed Sealed and Deliverd)
in the presents of us) John Timmons (SEAL)
Solomon Perritt
Levi Burkett
Benjamin Turner
Recorded in Will Book 1, page 165
Recorded June 4, 1829.
Roll No. 778
Transcribed by Cynthia Fore Miller, 20 May 2001
from "South Carolina Will Transcripts, 1782-1868, (WPA 1934-1936)"
South Carolina Archives Microfilm No. M/9-17:
Also "Will: Probate Records of County Vol. II, by Utley and Smith, page 107 #778, John Timmons, Senior, will dated 17 Feb
1818 (per Captain John Timmons book by Kathy Dodge Loyd).
Happy Heritage says only one of the daughters survived, Susannah. Page 84.
GA Wills-
NICHOLAS HANNER, Planter, of White Bluff, 6/1/1791:7/8/1791, p. 57.
Wife: Elizabeth, formerly Mrs. Morgan widow. To: Ann Morgan, dau. of my wife. To:
Nicholas Hanner, Jr., Catherine Timmons, Elizabeth Buckholter. Mentions his plantation
called "Acton". Exrs: George Nunazer, John Poulen. Wits: Elizabeth Hanner, Catherine
Timmons, William Morgan, John Timmons.
"The Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution" by Moss, Page 933, lists Capt. John Timmons with a reference of the "Yearbook 1893". That Charleston City yearbook reprinted a 1886 list of Officers by DeSaussure. In it, on page 236 of the yearbook, it lists Capt. John Timmons with a reference of "Mill's Statistics South Carolina". In Statistics of South Carolina by Mills, 1826, page 627, in the Marion County section under Eminent Men, it says "Captain John Timmons, of Pedee, was a brave officer, and was killed at the Eutaws". Since, in the Audited Accounts, John Timmons swears that a fellow soldier that fought with him at the Eutaws was wounded and deserves compensation, and since he wrote a will in 1818, I assume that this is in error. Since Capt. John Simons was killed at the Battle of Eutahs, I assume that this all started with a mis-print.
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Ola Cook Timmons, Captain John Timmons and his Descendants by Kathy Dodge Loyd, H. F. Prioleau, Happy Heritage by Cannon,
Sermons in Stone by Jason Cockfield, Minute Books of the Hebron Baptist Church, Our Kin by Bernice McCutcheon,
Three Rivers Historical Society,
Old Darlington District Genealogy Chapter,
Berkeley County Historical Society,
Huguenot Settlers in North America,
and the US Census.
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