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West Tennessee Rowland Flowers of Fentress Co in the State of Tenn who was a P v in the Company commanded by Captain Watkins of the Regt commanded by Col _______ in the No Carolina ______________ Militia_____mo p v $20.00 Inscribed on the roll of West Tenn Died at the rate of 20 Dollars _____ Cents per annum Sept 23 1837 to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Sept. '34 and sent to Jabez Dabney, Jamestown Tenn Arrears
to the 4th of Sept '34 70.00
Revolutionary Claim,
State of Tennessee} Fentress County} on this the 20th day of July 1834 personally appeared before me Robert H. Richardson a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Fentress State of Tennessee, Rowland Flowers a resident citizen of the county Fentress aforesaid aged upward of Seventy of age according to certain calculation though he has no record of his age and after being dulySwornfor that purpose in his oath makes the following Declarations in orderto obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 7th June 1832. He states that he entered the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary in Buckingham county State of Virginia in the Early part of the spring Season of the year 1781 the precise day of the time of Entering Said Service not now Recollected. he entered Said Service a drafted private Soldier To Serve a Tour of three months against the british he marched off under captain Silas Watkins and Lieutenant Joel Watkins and went on into the Edge of North Carolina and To many places in Virginia and after going to many points and places was finally (end of page 3) marched Back. and having served out said Tour he received a written
discharge from his said captain,
He kept his said discharges many years after the War untill they became misplaced or in some way lost. he is not certain in what way. So that he has no written or documentary proof of his Service and knowing of no person by whom he can prove his Service that he Servd with but he can prove by his younger brothers his entering into the Service, and return from the (end of page 4) service and many other things of a correspondent nature. he can prove
the Traditionary proof of his Service by his whole Scope of his intimate
acquaintance that he was a soldier of the Revolution and that he was at
the Surrender of Lord Corn Wallis. there is no clergy man immediately convenient
To him. He is Entirely unable from bodily infirmity To attend a court of
record his inability To walk about is principally the reason why he applies
for a pension he having been resolved to live on his own labor while able
To labor. applicant was born in Buckingham county Virginia and Raised there
and
and Declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. his Rowland x Flowers mark
We James Brown & William Rogers Residing in the county of Fentress State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Rowland Flowers who had subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believehim To be upward of Seventy years of age that he is reputed among hisneighbors generally as having been a soldier of the Revolution. and particularly as having been at the Taking of Lord Cornwallis and we certify that applicant is a man of undoubted veracity and we can concur in the above. Sworn and Subscribed
I Robert H Richardson Justice of the
3045 See letter to R. A. Dabney Tennessee Nashville Oct 9.1844 Ann Flowers widow of Rowland Flowers who was a Private in the N C. line for 6 months Inscribed on the roll at the rte of 20 Dollars_____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Nov. 1843 and sent to
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
State of Tennessee Fentress County on this the 13th day of October 1838, personally appeared before me George A Brock--a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Fentress State of Tennessee Anna Flowers a resident citizen of the County of Fentress State of Tennessee aged Seventy Six years the fifteenth day of March one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight being last march past agreeable to her best and undoubted information havingno record of her age who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838. entitledan act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Roland Flowers who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the State of Virginia as a private in the war of the Revolution and who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the Rate of Twenty dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832. She further Declares that she was married to the said Rowland Flowers sometime about the last of November or the first of December being the second November or December that was after the surrender of Lord CornWallis and as she now understands to have in November or December one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty two she states she has no Documentary evidence of her said marriage nor Record thereof (end of page 8) nor can she State with further certainty as to the time of her said marriage. but recollects well it was in Cold weather a few weeks before christmas she was well acquainted with her said husband when he was only about ten years old. that he was younger than her that she recollects theservice of her said husband and his return from the taking of CornWallis and his being sick the first winter and first spring after his return from the siege of york. that She was some the oldest of the two. she does not know precisely how much. that he was understood to be under twenty years old when he was married to her that her oldest son towit William Flowers was born in agust next ensuing after her said marriage. who is fifty five years old agreeable to her undoubted account having no Record of the same. that she had twelve living Children born of the bodies of her said husband and herself to wit William, Betsy, James, Rowland, Arthur, Rosanna, Magay, Sally, Polly, Levi, Judy, and Delila that there is upwards of two years between the births of them Generally. that there is nearly three years between the birth of the two last that that Judy the youngest now living and was married to Rodney King is upwards of thirty one years of age agreeable to her now calculation that she has eight Children, she states that she cannot read nor write and has no record of any of these births but that the same is agreeable to her honest best calculation at this time (which she believes is substantially correct, that her said husband the aforesaid (end of page 9) Rowland Flowers died in Fentress County Tennessee in the house where she nowlives in in the night and was on the 22nd or 23rd of September one thousanD eight hundred and thirty Seven. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place about the Last days of November or the first days of December one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty two agreeable to her undoubted calculation and in Buckingham County in the State of Virginia at the house of Hawkins Landrum a Methodist preacher by publication of bans the same being published at the church agreeable to the church Rule of that day that her said marriage was previous to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. to wit at the time above Stated she further Declares that she herself in turn and since the death of her said husband __________________ to be and remain his widow ever since his death . Sworn to and subscribed} heron the day and year} Anna x Flowers above written before} mark me George A Brock Justice of the peace I George A Brock a Justice of the peace in and for the County of FentressState of Tennessee Certify that have lived near Rowland Flowers many years and has been acquainted with him and his said wife Ana Flowers twenty six or seven years and that I know from my own acquaintance with (end of page 10--next page not in file) Tennessee Nashville
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 20 Dollars ______ Cents per annum,
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| A direct descendant of Rowland Flowers born 1764, Buckingham Co. VA.
and died 1837 in
Pickett Co. TN. His wife Anna (Garrett) Flowers was born on March 15, 1762, Buckingham Co. VA. and died May 29, 1854 in Pickett Co. TN. They are buried in the Edgefield Cemetery, Pickett Co. TN. They have many descendants who were born and lived in Morgan and Scott Counties. |
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