{"id":1151,"date":"2011-09-08T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngenweb.org\/anderson2\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T21:31:50","slug":"revolutionary-war-service-for-john-mcadoo-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/09\/revolutionary-war-service-for-john-mcadoo-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary War Service for John MCADOO, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Revolutionary War Service for John MCADOO, Jr.:<\/h2>\n<div>Service:\u00a0 NORTH CAROLINA &#8211; Battle of King&#8217;s Mountain<\/div>\n<div>Rank:\u00a0 SOLDIER<\/div>\n<div>Birth:\u00a0 2-6-1757\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIRGINIA<\/div>\n<div>Death:\u00a0 12-26-1830\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ANDERSON CO\u00a0 TENNESSEE<\/div>\n<div>Spouse:\u00a0 Martha Grills<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sources:\u00a0 NSDAR Ancestor #A074340<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John McAdoo, Jr. was born February 6, 1757 in VA, son of John McAdoo, Sr. and his wife Ann.\u00a0 He married Martha Grills on September 4, 1787 in Washington County, TN (which was part of NC at that time).\u00a0 Martha Grills McAdoo was born November 27, 1758 and died January 8, 1838.\u00a0 During the American Revolution, John McAdoo, Jr. lived in the Wautauga settlement, moving later to the Big Valley of Anderson County, TN and owning 152 acres.\u00a0 He died December 26, 1830 and is buried in the McAdoo Cemetery near Sinking Springs United Methodist Church, 5 miles north of Clinton, Anderson County, TN.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John McAdoo, Jr. fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain under John Sevier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Children:<\/div>\n<div>William McAdoo, born May 28, 1788, married 1) Annie Harley and 2) Mary F. Floyd.<\/div>\n<div>John McAdoo, III, born June 21, 1790, married Mary Ann Gibbs.<\/div>\n<div>Myra McAdoo, born November 24, 17792, married Aaron Finch.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sources:\u00a0 Ada Morrow Reeves DAR #239836; Allen, <em>Tennessee Soldiers<\/em>, p. 26)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[Contributed by Stephanie A. Hill]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolutionary War Service for John MCADOO, Jr.: Service:\u00a0 NORTH CAROLINA &#8211; Battle of King&#8217;s Mountain Rank:\u00a0 SOLDIER Birth:\u00a0 2-6-1757\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VIRGINIA Death:\u00a0 12-26-1830\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ANDERSON CO\u00a0 TENNESSEE Spouse:\u00a0 Martha Grills Sources:\u00a0 NSDAR <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/2011\/09\/revolutionary-war-service-for-john-mcadoo-jr\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}