Jonathan Tipton III (1750 - 1833)

Born 23 Oct 1750 in Frederick County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Frances Perlina (Daugherty) Tipton — married 1770 in TN

Husband of Keziah (Robertson) Tipton — married 27 Feb 1795 in Washington, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1833 at age 82 in Overton County, Tennessee

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Biography

Jonathan was born in 1732. He was the son of Jonathan Tipton and Elizabeth Edwards. He passed away before 1750.

Jonathan Tipton, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1750. The identification of his mother is uncertain; she may have been either his father's third wife, Julithia, or his fourth wife, Elizabeth. We do not know the maiden name of either of these women.

Jonathan was born about 1800. Jonathan Tipton ... He passed away about 1850.

Born 1750

Johnathan Tipton. Given Name: Johnathan. Surname: Tipton. Tipton. Given Name: Johnathan. Surname: Tipton. Found multiple versions of name. Using Johnathan Tipton.

Major Jonathan Tipton III served with Washington County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Jonathan Tipton III is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A115933.

Jonathan Tipton III is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P305486
Rank: Major

Demographics

NAME: JONATHAN TIPTON

BIRTH: 1750

PLACE OF BIRTH: Frederick County, Virginia (Became Shenandoah Co., VA)

SPOUSES:

1) FRANCIS PERLINA DAUGHERTY

2) KEZIAH ROBERTSON (Common law wife)-the daughter of Col "Black" Charles Robertson; she was previously married to Robert Sevier (brother of John Sevier) who died after being fatally wounded on Kings Mountain.

3) LAVINIA "NINNY" STEPHENS

DEATH: 1-18-1833

PLACE OF DEATH: Cumberland County, Kentucky or

Overton County, Tennessee

(There are records that indicate both locations for his death)

Died 1833

Jonathan Tipton married Francis Daugherty about 1770, presumably in Frederick County, Virginia.

Sometime around 1775, Jonathan, in company with his father and his brother Joseph and their families, moved to the Watauga Settlement in East Tennessee (then North Carolina.) Jonathan Tipton is listed as one of the early settlers of Watauga, and he was a signer of the Watauga Petition in 1776,

Jonathan Tipton was commissioned a major in 1777 by General Richard Caswell. He took part in numerous skirmishes with the Indians while serving under Colonel Carter in frontier protection activities. In the fall of 1780, Major Tipton marched with Colonel Campbell to King's Mountain and took part in the battle there. After the Battle of King's Mountain, Jonathan Tipton was placed under the command of Colonel John Sevier and served under him in the Battle of Boyd's Creek and several other battles with the Indians. He then marched with Colonel Sevier to join up with General Greene at the Santee River and remained in South Carolina until the capture of Cornwallis. He was released from the army in September of 1781; Generals Greene and Marion signed his discharge. In his application for pension made in 1832, Jonathan Tipton stated that his discharge and other papers had been stolen from him about 10 years earlier. Abraham Sevier deposed that he had served 2 years under Major Tipton.

Jonathan Tipton's connubial relations are considerably hazier than his military career. Jonathan and Francis Daugherty Tipton had three boys and, quite likely, two girls in the period between 1770 and 1782: William, Hannah, Mary, Samuel, and John. Although Jonathan, born ca. 1783, may have been of this union, there are indications that Jonathan did not resume cohabitation with Francis Tipton after his discharge from the army in 1781. Instead, it seems likely that Jonathan took up with Keziah Robinson Sevier, daughter of Colonel Charles Robinson, widow of Robert Sevier, and sister-in-law of Colonel John Sevier, shortly after the war. No divorce records for Jonathan and Francis Tipton have been found, and Francis lived until sometime around 1810.

Jonathan Tipton and Keziah Robertson appear to have lived together from about 1782 until her death about 1804 and were the parents of four or five sons: Jonathan(?), Wiley, Jacob, David, and Joseph. Jonathan and Keziah lived, initially, in Washington County, but they were in Carter County, Tennessee, by 1796. This change in counties may have been the result of the formation of Carter County rather than of a physical move. In 1798, Jonathan and Keziah moved to Buncombe County, North Carolina.

After the death of Keziah Robertson, about 1804, Jonathan Tipton took up with Lavinia Stephens and appears to fathered three sons, William Stephens, John (or Thomas) Stephens, and Esau Tipton, before he married Lavinia sometime around 1812. Around 1825, approximately 27 years after he moved to Buncombe, North Carolina, Jonathan and Lavinia moved to Overton County, Tennessee, and he was residing there when he applied for his pension in 1832.

According to War Department records, Jonathan Tipton died in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1833.[5]

MILITARY HISTORY

Jonathan Tipton was a major, second in command at the battle of Kings Mountain under John Sevier in October, 1780. This famous battle turned the tide of the war in the south against Cornwallis and the British. He then served with Colonels Isaac Shelby and John Sevier in General Nathaniel Greene’s Army. He participated in numerous battles with the Overmountain men, a group of American frontiersmen from west of the Appalachian Mountains who took part in the American Revolutionary War. While they were present at multiple engagements in the war's southern campaign, they are best known for their role in the American victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The other battles were against both English forces, mostly Tories, and Indians.

Service: North Carolina

Rank(s): Patriotic Service a Major

Service Description: Generals Carter, Campbell, Sevier

Pension Number: S*W1098 [11], [12]

WATAUGA ASSOCIATION, COMMITTEE AND PETITION

Jonathan Tipton moved to the Watauga Settlements by 1776. It is always reported that Jonathan brought his father to the west. He became a member of the Watauga Association, government (1772–75) formed by settlers along the Watauga River in present E Tennessee. Virginians made the first settlements in 1769, and after the collapse of the Regulator movement in North Carolina, citizens from that colony under James Robertson established homes farther west on the river. For their mutual protection these settlements united in 1772 and drew up a written agreement, called the Watauga Association. A five-man court constituted the government. Other settlements along the Holston and Nolichucky rivers also adhered to the Watauga Association. In 1772 the Wataugans secured a 10-year lease from the Cherokee for the land along the river; in 1775 they organized as Washington district, but in 1776, at their own request, they came under the protection of North Carolina, which created (1777) Washington co. for the area. Jonathan Tipton was a member of the Committee that initiated the Watauga Petition to North Carolina for annexation in 1776. [8], [11]

Note: #NI4042.

Notes

Note NI4042UID 5F1057421F69410C8D7E5047990A8AC67262. 1

• Note: Supplemented with Tipton military and patriotic services precis, a compilation of Tipton marriage records, abstracts of early Tipton-related records, census information.

Sources

See also:

• CLARK, STATE RECS OF NC, VOL 10, P 711 http://revwarapps.org/w1098.pdf
• Pension Application http://www.tipton-haynes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/
• Tipton-Genealogy.pdf Tipton Haynes Farm https://books.google.com/booksId=fA8ikAowjxAC&pg=PA654&dq=major+jonathan+tipton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvmaiqiObJAhVL2hoKHaPaB2MQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=major%20jonathan%20tipton&f=false
• . A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia https://books.google.com/books?id=dxxWAAAAMAAJ&q=major+jonathan+tipton&dq=major+jonathan+tipton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvmaiqiObJAhVL2hoKHaPaB2MQ6AEIIjAB
• Charles Dawes Tipton, Tipton the First Five American Generations: (Baltimore, MD Gateway Press ; Garland, TX (2009 West Shore, Garland 75043): Gateway Press, Inc.Baltimore, MD; Original is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 1998). Dewey Decimal Class # 929/.2/0973 Library of Congress # CS71.T592 1998. Copies of this book can be found in libraries throughout the US.
• THE KING'S MOUNTAIN MEN https://books.google.com/booksid=Y1s3yjKOoRQC&pg=PA263&dq=major+jonathan+tipton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU68qoiebJAhUHNhoKHRS1DPM4ChDoAQhJMAc#v=onepage&q=major%20jonathan%20tipton&f=false
• The Annals of Tennessee https://books.google.com/books id=h2nneYZQhC0C&pg=PA70&dq=major+jonathan+tipton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU68qoiebJAhUHNhoKHRS1DPM4ChDoAQhPMAg#v=onepage&q=major%20jonathan%20tipton&f=false
• One Heroic Hour at King's Mountain] [https://books.google.com/books?id=6lv28UVzqUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=kings+mountain+and+its+heroes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYnYuQiubJAhUILhoKHauSBYkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=tipton&f=false
• King's Mountain and Its Heroes https://books.google.com/books?id=jMU0U3KqzQQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=overmountain+men&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV-cm5iubJAhXKuhoKHTHWAyEQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=tipton&f=false
• . The Overmountain Men http://www.coloneljohntipton.com/brothers/
• Sons of the American Revolution Patriot and Grave Registry http://patriot.sar.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=Grave%20Registry&-loadframes
• Find A Grave: Memorial #53654735
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 4, 2016), "Record of Jonathan Tipton", Ancestor # A115933.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTZV-M2N?1=1&parents=LZGY-DLJ_LZVK-G4X
• Summary Letter from Pension Application of Jonathan Tipton, shared by Fold3.com
• Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC, Data provided by the website Carolana. (accessed 19 May 2022)

Notes

Not really a valid citation but much of the above seems to come from this web site which does not provide citations. Also the findagrave entry is a copy of the above citation says from Connie L Cantrell but again no real valid citations of sources other than "Kings Mountain and Its Heros" by Lyman Draper

• https://mitchellnchistory.org/2019/09/28/jonathan-tipton-of-kings-mountain-fame-and-his-descendants/
• Tipton, C. D. (1998). Tipton, the First Five American Generations: A Short History of the Tipton Family. United States: Gateway Press.

Jonathan (1750-1833) Brother of Col. John Tipton http://tiptonfamilyassociationofamerica.com/brothers/

“moved to the Watauga Settlements by 1776. It is always reported that Jonathan brought his father to the west. He participated in numerous battles with the Overmountain men against both English forces, mostly Tories, and Indians. He was a major at the Battle of Kings Mountain in October, 1780. This famous battle turned the tide of the war in the south against Cornwallis and the British. He then served with Colonels Isaac Shelby and John Sevier in General Nathaniel Greene’s Army. He died in Overton County, Tennessee.”