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Notes for JAMES SULLIVAN:
James Sullivan moved from Hyattstown, New Jersey to Lincoln County about mid 1780's. He settled on a tract of land along Mill Creek, on land deeded in 1784 to his wife Mary (nee Cox), by Thomas Salter, Mary's step-uncle (Deed abstract, July Court 1784, p. 113, Tryon & Rutherfird County, 975.6782 D NCC, pp 678-679). It is likely that James and Mary joined Mary's father, John Cox, in North Carolina.(John Cox was granted land in North Carolina in 1782 for patriotic service during the Revolutionary War - North Carolina Revolutionary War Accounts, Vol. XII, p.50, folio 2). Thomas Salter's will, proved in 1790, left his "wearing apparel" to his step-brother, John Cox, "now living in North Carolina" (Stilwell's Historical Miscellany on N.Y. & N.J., Vol 4, p.209-211).
James Sullivan was drafted in the American Revolution and served in Nixon's Company of Horse in New Jersey. His service was in or around Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He enlisted again in 1781 and servered as a Corporal with Walton's Company of Dragoons until May 25, 1782 in or around Trenton, New Jersey (Widow's pension records: affidavits of Mary Cox, Abner Hull, and Nancy Moore; National Archives M881, roll 786 and M804, roll 2321; Adjutant General's Office, War Department, Washington, D.C. & DAR Patriotic Index.)
The 1790 census of Morgan District, Lincoln County, North Carolina lists James Sullivan as "head od household with 5 free white males under 16 years of age and 2 free white females 16 years of afe and upward."
The 1820 census of Lincoln County West of the South Fork River, stamped page 294, lists "James Sullivan, head of household; males 16-26, one (1); 45 or over, one (1); females 10-16, one (1); 16-26, one, (1).
According to James Sullivan's tombstone, located in the Cox-Sullivan graveyard on the old Sullivan homeplace, now (1992) part of the Craig and Delores Wood estate, Lincolnton, North Carolina, he died August 27, 1825 in his 71st year.
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