1. Bobby R. Huggins book lists year of birth as 1740, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and death in 1810, Haywood County, North Carolina.
2. Samuel and his brother Jacob were to be apprenticed to brother-in-law Henry Green of Samuel Jr. to learnd trade of carpenter as per Will...
3. Samuel moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina...had large family...
4. Samuel was living at Fayetteville, North Carolina and was one of the signers of the Cumberland County Association, 20 Jun 1775, which was opposing the English Government...
5. This is probably the same Samuel who appears in the 1804 Passport issued by the Gov. of Ga., the 1805 Land Lottery of Franklin County, Georgia and the 1807 Land Grant in Franklin County, Goergia.
6. He is referred to as "Mystery Sam" in the Hollingsworth Register.
1. Another source gives name as Elizabeth Thames.
1. Elizabeth was an illigitimae child born in 1814 and supposedly fathered by Joseph Jackson...
1. Jacob moved from Pennsylvania to Rutherford County, North Carolina and then on to Franklin County, Georgia in 1790...apparently to be near his sons Benjamin & James who had recently relocated there.
2. Jacob built Hollingsworth Fort in Franklin County, Georgia, prior to 1793, which still stands today, at Hollingsworth, present day Banks County, Georgia.
3. Jacob's Will [written 11 Nov 1822, proven 1826] mentions wife Mary; four sons; Jacob, Thomas, James and Benjamin; deceased daughter Sally Garner; her son, Jacob Garner, daughters: Hannah Brown, Mary Wofford. Grandchildren: Sally Haynes, Mary Robbins, John Hollingsworth, Henry Hollingsworth, Hannah Hollingsworth, children of my dec's son, Samuel Hollingsworth. For some reason Samuel's son Jacob is not mentioned.
4. He purchased land in Franklin County, Tennessee in November 1816.
5. He may have lived in Tennessee with his son Benjamin when he died.
1. Bobby R. Huggins book gives place of birth as Buncombe County, North Carolina.
1. William may have been born in Haywood County, North Carolina.
1. Rutha & William went to Springfield, Greene, Missouri...
1. Another source gives birth date of 1795.
2. John moved to Macon, Georgia, in 1825...
1. Some say Abraham was born in Maryland...some say Pennsylvania....
2. Abraham moved his family from Tennessee to Illinois in the early 1820's,
3. Abraham's Will dated 6 Dec 1837...
1. Jacob was a Slave Owner...
2. Will Book A, page 192 Williamstown, Madison, Mississippi...28 Nov 1848...
1. Bobby R. Hugins book gives alternate date of birth: 1780, Gulford County, North Carolina... I show 1789....
1. Thomas E. Hollingswoth notes that Dorcas may be an Indian name...
1. From a photo that Aunt Bessie Hayes (Jones) wrote on stating that the three cousins were Randolff's children. It is uncertain as to boys or girls for sure.
2. Richard D. Jones, lists wife of Sherman Randolph Deatherage as Essie Bray....Was this another wife? 1st or 2nd?