Joseph McDowell (1756 – 1801), served in Fifth Congress
Joseph McDowell (1758 – 1799), served in Third Congress
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He also served in the South Carolina Militia under Captain Joseph Carson (not believed to be his brother, Joseph Carson, as Joseph would have been 17 years old in 1783), according to the "Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution." He was in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1785 and 1791.
Joseph immigrated in 1773 to Charleston, SC, having sailed from Newry, County Down. He traveled with his family, the McGough family, and the McDowell family.
Also, consider that there was a Joseph Carson in the 1779 census of SC, at which time "our" Joseph would have been 13 years old, and would have been living with his parents, and would not have been listed as head of household.
Joseph of Pleasant Gardens secured some of Ferguson's service - six of his china dinner plates, and a small coffee cup and saucer, several of which are yet among his descendants, and in the Draper's footnote it refers to letters the author had from Mrs.
McDowell's light went out when he was in his noonday prime, and in the last decade of the 18th century, and from that time until 1820, there has arisen no bright and particular star.
James (Moffett) McDowell, and his aunt Annie (McDowell) McDowell, the son and daughter of Joseph of Pleasant Gardens, and Mary Moffett (McDowell): that while Joseph was stationed at Gilbert Town, his mother, Annie (Evans) Edminstin (McDowell), molded bullets and carried them tied under her skirts, to her son.
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