John Robert ALLISON, JR.

                   How line comes down....................
John Allison, Jr. and Sarah Toler my 4th great, grandparents. 
My line comes down from them John Allison, Jr. 
to Joseph "Mine Lick" Allison.........b 1799 Orange,NC. 
to William Herbert Allison..............b. 1823 White County, Tennessee 
to Glatha Jane Allison...................b 1853 Putnam County, Tennessee 
to Robert Mansfield Garrison b. 1880 Putnam County, Tennessee 
to my mother, Dorsa Garrison b. 1905 Putnam County,Tennessee
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   Husband 
   JOHN ROBERT ALLISON Pedigree 
     Birth:  1762  Hillsboro, Orange, North Carolina 
Christening:     
Marriage:  About 1781  , Orange, North Carolina 
Death:  28 MAR 1842  , White, Tennessee 
Burial:     
   LDS Ordinances  
      :  CLEARED       
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   Wife 
   SARAH TOLER Pedigree 
     Birth:  About 1763  , Orange, North Carolina 
Christening:     
Marriage:  About 1781  , Orange, North Carolina 
Death:    , White, Tennessee 
Burial:     
   LDS Ordinances   
     :  20 DEC 2003   PROVO   
      :  CLEARED    
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JOHN ALLISON JR  
    Male     
      

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Event(s): 
   Birth:  1762   Hillsboro, Orange, North Carolina 
   
   Christening:  
   Death:  28 MAR 1842    
   
   Burial:  
       

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LDS Ordinances: 
     Baptism:  16 JUN 1992   JRIVE  
     Endowment:  01 MAY 1993   JRIVE  
     Sealing to Parents:  11 JUN 1993   JRIVE 
   
   JOHN ALLISON SR / MARTHA HAMILTON       
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Parents: 
    Father:  JOHN ALLISON SR  Family 
    Mother:  MARTHA HAMILTON     
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Researched by Eleanor L. Johnson

1790 Census   from USGenweb.com   Orange Co.,North Carolina
1790 A425  ALLISON       David           M-637      093  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       Elizabeth       M-637      093  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       James           M-637      094  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       James           M-637      094  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       John            M-637      093  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       John            M-637      094  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       John, Jr.       M-637      094  No CENSUS - Tax
1790 A425  ALLISON       John, Sr.       M-637      094  No CENSUS - Tax
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NEED TO: Send for his pension application...Revolutionary War...has Bible records in it according to statement made in Pension Application for American Rev. Service from White County, Tenn....Cookville Library/White County Section of books.....John Allison 5+ pages of information. Filed under John Allison, Jr. 
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MARRIAGE:
ancestry.com   2-27-2000
Database: Full Context of Marriages--North Carolina to 1825
North Carolina
Orange County

             Allison, John married Tolar, Sarah on 13 Apr 1789 in Orange County, North Carolina
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Research by Eleanor Law Johnson, 530 S. 4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101;  Also research by Colleen Johnson, Bountiful, Utah.

Visited Lowell Dean Allison with Elma Nash Allison..in May/June 1999...Both are my cousins.
   Myrtle Allison, Putnam County, Tennessee  Information (She is now deceased and her son, Lowell Dean Allison (615-858-3605...Life Ins. man), who lives next door to the old Allison place and close to the cemetery now has her records: "John Allison, Jr.   Bn:  1762, Died  28  Mar 1842, 80 yr.  Bn: N.C.  He was a Revolutionary Soldier who moved to this area after war and is buried in the family cemetery near Ditty, on what was later known as Roe Gracy Farm.  He was married to Sarah Tollar, 1787.  They raised a large family...

My son (Eleanor's) Robert Johnson took notes that John Allison is buried on Allen Martin Farm..when we visited in 1984..

J.B.ALLISON
R.D.ALLISON  22 Nov 1820-Sept 28, 1855. ..same cemetery.

Book:  Pictorial History of Putnam County Tenn published by First American Bank, Cookeville, Tenn 1988 p.9 "John Allison, who was born 8 miles from Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina, settled in what is now the 8th District.  One of his sons, Joseph Allison, was later known far and wide as "Mine Lick Joe."

May/June 1999....Genealogy trip with Charles Johnson and my sister, Elaine Mannino.
Cookeville, Putnam County Library   ...We did a little research and found the following in White County section of the Tennessee Room (Genealogical area):
Pension Application for American Revolution Service filed from White County Tennessee..*John Allison....
*Indicates that one or more persons from Tennessee joined D.A.R. on basis of this record...
(record filed in my files).

CENSUS
1790
                 ALLISON
                         JOHN JR.
                                  Orange
                                  County
                                             NC
                                                 094
                                                      00 00 00 00
                                                      00
                                                               Federal
                                                               Population
                                                               Schedule
                                                                         NC 1790
                                                                         Federal
                                                                         Census
                                                                         Index
                                                                                 NCS1a55980
             1790
                 ALLISON
                         JOHN JR.
                                  Orange
                                  County
                                             NC
                                                 094
                                                      00 00 00 00
                                                      00
                                                               Federal
                                                               Population
                                                               Schedule
                                                                         NC 1790
                                                                         Federal
                                                                         Census
                                                                         Index
                                                                                 NCS1a55984
             1790
                 ALLISON
                         JOHN JUN.
                                  Orange
                                  County
                                             NC
                                                 NPL
                                                      Hillsboro
                                                      Dist.
                                                               Federal
                                                               Population
                                                               Schedule
                                                                         NC 1790
                                                                         Federal
                                                                         Census
                                                                         Index

Year
                 Surname
                         Given
                         Name (s)
                                County
                                        State
                                             Page
                                                 Township or
                                                 Other Info
                                                           Record Type
                                                                       Database
                                                                                 ID#
             1830
                 ALLISON
                         JOHN
                         SR.
                                White
                                County
                                        TN
                                             011
                                                 No Township
                                                 Listed
                                                           Federal
                                                           Population
                                                           Schedule
                                                                       TN 1830
                                                                       Federal
                                                                       Census Index

usgenweb.com   7-24-00
ORANGE COUNTY, NC - MISC - Dead Letter List from Hillsborough RECORDER
LIST #1 as of 31 March 1820, Vol. I, No. 9, Published 5 Apr 1820
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The early issues of the Hillsborough RECORDER newpaper carried lists, on a space available basis evidently, of addressees of letters being held in the Hillsborough postoffice. Typically these lists were published  about every two weeks, with an "as of" date, and names were repeated two or three times.  These lists do not necessarily prove that a certain individual was actually living in Orange County, only that someone thought they were. However, the lists do give credible circumstantial evidence that an individual lived in, or passed through, the area served by the Hillsborough PO. This also does not mean that the person had left the area, but perhaps  had not been to town lately. Volumes/numbers skipped mean that a list was identical to a previous list or that issue of the paper was missing. Slight differences in consecutive lists will be indicated with notations.  This and subsequent lists will list names exactly as shown in the original, with occasional "guesses" at hard to read names or parts of names indicated in [-]. Names spelled as in original, surname caps added. To save space, original columned format changed to line format with alphabetical  separation. Number after surname probably indicates number of pieces being held, not two/three people with same name. 
LIST #1 as of 31 March 1820, Vol. I, No. 9, Published 5 Apr 1820

     John ALLISON,
     James ALISON,

Letter to family  7-25-00  Written by Eleanor Law Johnson to Robert and other children:
Hi Rob & family,
      It is interesting to read about Cornwallis in as much as he and his troops ransacked our ancestors house in Hillsboro,NC and took a wagon and team of horses,etc)...I found the following by going to askjeeves.com and putting in Cornwallis name...or Cornwallis in N.C....anyway, it substantiates what our ancestor (my 4th great, grandfather) said about him being in Hillsboro, NC area where our John Allison lived. 
       "Nathanael Greene soon reunited the American army and began a strategic retreat across North Carolina.  Almost frantic to get his light troops back, the Earl piled up all superfluous supplies--such as tents, extra blankets, and rum--and burned them so that his own army could travel faster in pursuit.  Thus began the "race to the Dan" (i.e., the Dan River, which marked the border between North Carolina and Virginia), an exciting chase undertaken in the near-steady rains of February, through innumerable flooded creeks and rivers under conditions as miserable for the British as they were for the Americans. 
Cornwallis has been criticized for burning his supply wagons, because he sacrificed everything that makes a soldier's life bearable and ultimately gained nothing by it.  But he almost caught his prey; at times the American rear guard and the British vanguard were less than a mile apart.  If he had succeeded in crushing Greene's army, the judgment of history would doubtless be much kinder to the Earl. 
       But the desperate gamble failed.  Still seeking a decisive battle, Cornwallis retreated to Hillsboro,North Carolina and rested his exhausted troops. (Note:  this is where our ancestor,John Allison,Sr. my 5th great, grandfather,  lived and Cornwallis & the British troops took Allison's furniture, wagon, team of horses and corn...story below) A few weeks after making his escape, Nathanael Greene felt his own army sufficiently strong to meet Cornwallis in a pitched battle, so he crossed the border again and established a position at Guilford Court House, about 25 miles west of Hillsboro.  Obligingly Cornwallis marched to meet him.  The resulting Battle of Guilford Court House is considered by some to be the hardest-fought of the entire war; "I never saw such fighting," Cornwallis later declared, "since God made me."  The Earl displayed his courage and tenacity as a combat commander (at one point, he ordered the artillery to shell the lines his own men were fighting in) but also his deficiencies as a strategist.  Though he won the battle, the victory gave him no advantage.  After lingering in the area for several days, he marched his army to the North Carolina coast and spent the month of April in Wilmington. 
       Interesting huh...He later surrended at Yorktown,Virginia...near Jamestown and Williamsburg.  Some of you kids were with me in Virginia when we went back to see Karim's wedding....remember we visited that Yorktown area and looked over the vast fields where the fighting went on.  
Love, Mom

   PS
On genealogy trip into Tennessee with my husband and sister May/June 1999 found in Cookeville Library, Tennessee Room (genealogical room)
Pension Application for American Revolution Service Filed From White County, Tennessee:
This was John Allison, Jr.(4th Great, grandfather) the son of John Allison, Sr. where he stated:
"Gen. Butler was our head commander.  We were marched by Gen. Butler from Orange County down to Granville old Court House, in Granville County, where we remained some time.  Some of us here obtained leave to return home for the purpose of intertaining the situation of our relatives, many of whom had suffered from the depredations of the British under the command of Lord Cornwallis....who with his army had lain in the neighborhood of this declarants fathers for two days and nights.  When he arrived at his fathers he found his house striped of furniture.  They had taken a wagon and team from his father and as much corn as they could carry.  This property was never regain