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Charles Word

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 500 
  • Father:
  • Charles Word 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Kent County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1780 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Adams
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1768 
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  • Child:

  Thomas Adams Word (Ahnentafel No:250 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War soldier

    Charles Word died at the Battle of Kings Mountain on 07 OCT 1780.

• Sources for Charles Word

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A130410.
  • ² Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, M.D., A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family, Columbia, South Carolina: The R.L. Bryan Company (1901), 96.
  • ³ Linn, Jo White, Surry County, North Carolina, Wills, 1771-1827, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2007), 29-30.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Battle of Kings Mountain", (accessed 04/03/2023).
  • ⁵ Williamson, Joel, William Faulkner and Southern History, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (1993), 15.

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