Bedford County TNGenWeb

For information on obtaining Revolutionary War records and information from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, please click here.Click here for a list of Bedford Countians in the Revolutionary War. Tennessee had not yet become a state when the Revolutionary War was fought, 1775-1783. At that time, most of what is now Tennessee was a part of North Carolina, although a few areas may have been thought to belong to VA. The area that became Tennessee was quite sparsely populated, so…

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  Bedford County TN Archives Military Records Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher November 1, 2005 John Bearden applied for revolutionary pension while laving in Bedford County, Tennessee. His name appears on the 1832 list. He was born in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, in 1744. He served in a company of Rangers from Spartanburg, South Carolina and was in the battle of Ninety-six. He moved to Tennessee in 1842 and settled…

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   Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher  November 1, 2005, 11:01 am AMOS BALCH applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bedford County, Tennessee. He was born in 1758 in Baltimore County. Maryland. He moved to North Carolina and enlisted in Mechlenburg County in 1779 in Captain Richard Simmon’s company. He was attached to the regular cavalry under General Washington. He was in the battle of Camden. He died in…

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For a listing of World War I veterans from Bedford County and for info on ordering World War I records by mail from the Tennessee State Library and Archives, please click here. The TSLA also has information collected in the Tennessee World War I Vertans Questionnaires.