Revolutionary War Service for Augustine HACKWORTH:
Augustine Hackworth
50 acres on Clinch River (Edgemoor Road, eastward from Solway Bridge). Rev War soldier from Bedford County, Virginia.
(Reuben Goald Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, eds., “Documentary History of Dunsmore’s War”, 1774. Madison 1905, page 409)
A Nicholas Hackworth, also, appears on the Anderson 1802 Tax List. Hackworths are buried in small graveyard north of Edgemoor Rd. (Likely burial site of Augustin Hackworth, if he is buried in Anderson County) Dutch Valley Anderson County, Scarbrough and Beaver Ridge in Knox County. There is a possibility that Augustin Hackworth removed to Meigs, or Rhea County.
[Submitted by Brenda Foster]