1790 FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S.C. CENSUS SHOWS HOLLIS: JAMES,WILLIAM, MOSES, ELIJAH, JOHN...I BELIEVE THAT ONE OF THESE HOLLIS'S IS WHO YOU ARE LOOKING FOR...AS I LOOKED IN THE 1790 CENSUS AND OTHER REFENCE MATERIALS, I COULD SEE SOME AFFILIATION BETWEEN THE TIDWELL, HOLLIS, AND WINNS FAMILIES.

ELIJAH HOLLIS: B:30 MARCH, 1763, D:1832 MARR: ALSET??
HE SERVED IN THE MILITIA UNDER A LT. HOLLIS AND A CAPT. LEWIS DURING 1781 & 1782: PATRIOT INDEX SUPPLIMENT;A.A.3704; Q491

JAMES HOLLIS: HE LOST A HORSE AND GUN WHILE SERVING IN THE MILITIA:A.A.3704;Q490

JOHN HOLLIS B: 5 DECEMBER 1751, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA. D: 4 NOVEMBER,1836 MARR: NANCY KNIGHTON
WHILE RESIDING IN CRAVEN COUNTY(FAIRFIELD DISTRICT) , HE ENLISTED DURING 1775 UNDER CPT. SAMUEL BOYKIN AND COL. JOSEPH KERSHAW. HE SERVED 18 MONTHS AS A SGT. UNDER CPT. WILLIAM R. DAVIE,CPT. DERRILL HART, CPT. FRANK BOYKIN, CPT. RICHARD WINN AND COL. WILLIAM THOMPSON. IN ADDITION HE SERVED 13 1/2 MONTHS AS A CPT. UNDER COLS. JOHN WINN, SUMTER, LACEY, AND THOMSON. HE WAS IN THE BATTLES AT SULLIVAN ISLAND, FT. MCINTOSH,(WHERE HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER). ROCKY MOUNT,HANGING ROCK, CAREY'S FORT, GATES DEFEAT, ORANGEBURG, FORT GRANBY, AND KINGS MOUNTAIN. HE WAS WOUNDED TWICE. A.A. 3705; Q489; N.A. 853

MOSES HOLLIS: HE SERVED AS A LT. IN THE MILITIA FROM 1780 TO 1782 AND SERVED AS A PVT. DURING 1783. HEITMAN, PG. 297; A.A.3706; N472;Z353.

WILLIAM HOLLIS: B:1748
HE ENLISTED DURING MAY 1776 TO SERVE UNDER CPT. FRANCIS MARION(SWAMP FOX) AND FRANCIS BOYKIN, AND COL. THOMSON AND WAS IN THE BATTLE AT SULLIVANS ISLAND. IN 1777, HE ENLISTED AND SERVED UNDER CPT. CHARLES LEWIS AND COL. LACEY. HE SERVED 6 MONTHS. AFTERWARDS HE VOLUNTEERED ON MANY OCCASIONS. HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF THJE COW PENS AND WAS WOUNDED ONCE. HE WAS WITH COL. CLEVELAND ON THE BROAD RIVER AND GEN. MARION ON THE PEE DEE RIVER.

EDMUND TIDWELL HAD A GRANDSON, MOSES HARVEY TIDWELL BY HIS SON BENJAMIN TIDWELL; A GRANDSON MOSES TIDWELL BY HIS SON EDMUND TIDWELL JR.( WHO MARRIED MARY TIDWELL, DAUGHTER OF ROBERT TIDWELL).; AND A GREAT GRANDSON MOSES HOLLIS TIDWELL.

THE ESTATE OF MOSES HOLLIS, SR., OF WEST WATEREE CREEK, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, WAS ADMINISTERED BY ZACHARIAH CASTENY, JOHN HOLLIS AND ELIJAH HOLLIS. THEIR BOND WAS RELEASED 16 AUGUST, 1794 BY EDMUND TIDWELL, THOMAS GOODRUM, AND JOHN GLADDEN

THE ESTATE OF MRS. ROSANNA HOLLIS, THE WIDOW OF MOSES HOLLIS SR., WAS ADMINISTERED BY HER SON CPT. JOHN HOLLIS WHOSE BOND WAS SIGNED BY STERLING TIDWELL AND DANIEL HOLLIS. AMONG THOSE WHO RECEIVED SHARES OF THE ESTATE WERE: CPT. JOHN HOLLIS, CPT. ELIJAH HOLLIS, AND HIS BROTHER, MOSES HOLLIS JR., AND STERLING TIDWELL AND GARLAND TIDWELL., SONS OF HER DAUGHTER, JEAN HOLLIS TIDWELL.

I HOPE THIS HELPS, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU CAN PASS ON TO ME ABOUT THESE FAMILIES OR OF THE TIDWELLS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S.C. AND GILES, LAWRENCE COUNTIES OF TENN. , PLEASE LET ME KNOW.