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NC Service John Taber # R10372

State of Tennessee
Morgan County

On the 8th day of December 1839 personally appeared before me Thomas Jack a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Agness Taber a Resident Citizen of the county of Bledsoe State of Tennessee aged Seventy one years the ____ day of January last ____ having no record of her age being born the 15th day of January 1769 and after being duly sworn for that ____ ____ her oath makes the following Declaration in order to attain the _____ made by the act of Congress _____ July 7th 1838 entittled an act granting help pay and Pension to certain widows That she is the widow of John Taber deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolutionary War and who is her best knowledge and _____ Entered the service in __________County North Carolina some time in the ___ of the year 1780 a private __ soldier and served ____ tours of three months each under Col. ?Earles? whos first name was John served at and about the ______ River and ____ ____ ____ Col. Earles at the time and in the Early part of the Spring ensuing he engaged under she believes Capt. Gray and was she believes under General Lincoln and _____ _____ and in the time was detached from the army Stationed at or near Charleston and served as she believes nine months in the time was sometimes at Beach Island in the south sea and she believes was discharged in 1781 perhaps in the fall not being certain only from the information she has ____ from her deceased husband and from her own calculation having heard him speak of beginning in the Spring and serving nine months and serving till after the seiges of about the close of the war and after the surrender of Charleston as to her husbands discharge she recollects of hearing him speak of having a printed discharge but at what time she is not certain of what he said became of it He said he was one of the ___ soldiers and served in North and South Carolina about Charleston and maybe at Charleston. She is not positive and served in the South Sea port at Beach Island She has no record of her marriage except her son John Taber or her Brother in law Eli L. Taber has some record She knows of none She further states that she was married ___ said husband in Rutherford County North Carolina by Daniel Brou___ Baptist preacher on the fiftteenth day of April 1788 that she can prove her marriage afore said by Mary Thompson living in Anderson County, Tennessee and she states that she was not married to her said husband prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place on the 15th day of April 1788 the time above _______being prior to the first day of January 1794 That she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband but continues his widow She states that it is much most convenient to her to get a Justice of the Peace and person to attend to her case in Morgan County living remote from the county town of Bledsoe and from a Justice of the peace and from ____ to transact the business And living near to Morgan County and being attended on ___ a switch of the ridge by going a small distance across the line Her husband died June 1832

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Sworn and subscribed this 8the day of December 1839 before me Thomas Jack Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Jack a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Morgan State of Tennessee certify that Agness Taber who has sworn to and subscribe the foregoing Declaration appears to be very old and from infirmity of body is unable to attend court and I further cerify that from her appearance and from some knowledge that I have of her children her age and from conversing with her ?respecting? concerning the foregoing Declaration I believe the same is substantially true and in testimony of the forgoing I the said Thomas Jack Justice of the peace as above ____ has this day hereunto set my hand this 14 day of January AD 1840

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Daniel Sutherland applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County in 1833. He enlisted while residing in Rowan County. N. C. and served under Capt. Pendleton Isbell. He moved to Wilkes County, N. C. and enlisted again under Capt. Pendleton Isbell. He moved to the Tennessee country and settled in Bledsoe County. Late jn life he transferred his pension to Madison County, Ark., as he had gone there to live with a daughter who married John Holdeman and moved to that State and County.

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Laton Smith applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County, Tenn., Feb. 11, 1833. He was born in 1756 near the sea shore in either Kent or Sussex County, Maryland. He resided in Washington County, Va., when he enlisted in the spring of 1775. He served under Captains William Cocke, John Shelby, Lewis, Andrew Colville and James Montgomery and Colonels Shelby and Christie. Six or seven years after the Revolution he moved to Greene County, Tenn., where he lived for several years. He then moved back to Washington County, Va., to Knox County, Tenn., in the part which later became Anderson County, and later to Bledsoe County, Tenn. He died in Bledsoe County, December 12, 1840, leaving children whose names are not given in his pension papers.

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LOVETT REED, a resident of Bledsoe County, Tennessee, aged 78 years: “He was drafted for five months and entered the service in the militia in Guilford County, North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain ___ NELSON, Lieutenant CHARLES HUGHES and ensign ___ MCBRIDE (he thinks JAMES). He was marched from Guilford County to Salisbury where he thinks he fell in with General RUTHERFORD. He, at all events, was under the command of General RUTHERFORD during all this time of service and was in the regiment commanded by Colonel PAISLEY. Colonel LOCKE was along but declarant thinks he was under Colonel PAISLEY’s command.”

“From Salisbury he was marched to Camden, SC, from there across Santee River passing by a place called Bacon’s Bridge and to the Savannah River where the British had possession on the Georgia side. This was just above a little town called Purysburg and near a place called the Two Sisters. General ASHE was also on this expedition. He crossed the Savannah River with his forces and had a battle with the British at the mouth of Briar Creek [per Heitman, June 20, 1779] on the Georgia side of the Savannah in which he was defeated.” “Declarant served out his term, being some times at one place and sometime at another along the river, which was for five months, and was discharged by Captain NELSON at Camp Turkey Hill on the 16th of March. He cannot remember the year in which he performed in this term of service, but refers to Ashe’s Defeat at Briar Creek to fix the date, as his defeat then happened during this time of declarant’s service. Declarant was a sergeant in Captain NELSON’s company for part of the time during the foregoing tour but cannot remember how long. He claims nothing additional on account of it.”

“Not long after aforesaid tour, he again entered the service (this time in Caswell County, NC, where he had moved from Guilford County) in the militia light horse in the company commanded by Captain REYNOLDS, Lieutenant SAUNDERS and the declarant coronet. He, this time, went as a substitute for a certain JOHN JONES. This tour declarant was principally employed against the Tories down on Rocky River, Pedee and Cape Fear, in which section of country he served out his tour, which was for three months and was discharged on the bank of Cape Fear River. Major MCCLARY (or MCCLEARY) was the commander this tour, and FANNING commanded the Tories.”

“Very shortly after the last-mentioned tour, declarant again entered the service in Caswell County in the militia light horse in Captain HARRELL’s company who was under the command of Major MCCLARY as a substitute for a certain HENRY HAYS. About the time he entered the service the last time, General GREENE came on through Caswell County, with whom declarant fell in with him. He marched to Camden, which the British had just evacuated. From thence to the High Hills of Santee, from there up the river about 20 miles across it and down again in the direction of the Eutaw Springs, where General GREENE had the battle with the British, but shortly before GREENE arrived there, declarant was taken with the small pox and left behind, when Major MCCLARY gave him his discharge and also discharged a certain BARRY HUDSON or HUTSON BERRY to take care of declarant. He states that his last time was for three months and that during this and the preceding tour of three months he acted as a coronet in the light horse…”

Sibby Reed, widow of LOVETT REED-“…She was married the June of 1779… but knows that the June one year after, and the March then next after was the noted Battle of Guilford. This she distinctly recollects from calculation and fact that her husband came home a few days before said Battle on furlough, and her oldest son George Reed being born on the next day after said battle. She, declarant was in hearing of the cannon at the time of the battle, on County- Line Creek where she was married and lived.”

“She states that her said husband was drafted shortly after they were married. She thinks that he had done no service against the British when they were married, had served a little against the Indians…that he served under an officer named LOCKE, GILL and MCCLARY, and was at Savannah Sand Hills and after FANNING.”

Pension Application Of Lovett Reed, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2017, Application #W5671

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John Rains applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County in 1831. He was born Aug. 2, 1759, near Fredricksburg, Va. When he was a boy he moved with his father to Randolph County, N. C. He enlisted in Randolph County in 1779 under Capt. James Robertson, Lieut. William Arnett and Ensign William Rainey. He was appointed Captain. He commanded a company of Rangers under Col. Colyar and Major Dugan. He remained in service until 1783. After the War he returned to Virginia and there married Letitia ______. March 8, 1787. He moved to Sevier County, Tenn., where he lived twenty-two years. He died in Bledsoe County, Jan. 28, 1835. His widow, Letitia Rains, lived after 1843. Among their children was Samuel Rains.

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Chatten D. Pollard applied for revolutionary pension while living in Franklin County, Va., in January 1833. He was born in Culpepper County, Va., moved to Frederick County, Va., then to Franklin County Va., and from that county, after he had secured his pension, to Bledsoe County, Tenn., where he died, Oct. 3, 1843. He stated that all of his children had moved to Bledsoe County. He enlisted in the army in 1780 and guarded prisoners. He was in the Siege of Yorktown and aided in the capture of Cornwallis. His widow, Mary Greer Pollard, applied for widow’s pension while living in Bledsoe County, in 1843. She states that their marriage took place in Franklin County, Va., Sept. 16, 1790. Her brother, John F. Greer, was Justice of the Peace in Bledsoe County, in 1843. The widow mentions a son, Chatten Pollard and other children whose names she does not list.

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Revolutionary War Pension Application Information for Chattin Pollard and Mary (Greer) Pollard:

On 7 Jan 1833, in Franklin County, Virginia, Chattin Pollard, formerly of Frederick County, appeared. He was 70 on 10th of October last. In the winter of 1783 or 1784 he went to Kentucky and volunteered. He said he was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was removed to Frederic County same state where lived many years.

On the 6 Mar 1845 Mary Pollard appeared in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Chattin died 23 Oct 1843.
On 6 Mar 1845 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, Chattin T. Pollard appeared. He says Chattin Pollard died 23 Oct 1843 in Monroe County, Missouri, and he was present at the funeral.

Chattin Pollard and Molley Greer were married September 16, 1790.

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Andrew McDonough applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe ounty, Tenn., in 1833. He was born in Beaufort County, N. C., Nov. 30, 1759. He enlisted in Beaufort County in North Carolina troops in 1771, substituting for John Burrow. He enlisted a second and third time.

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John Malaby applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County, in February, 1833. He enlisted in Dobbs County, N. C. under Capt. Bryant, Col. Caswell, Col. Adam Shepherd, Maj. John Shepherd, Gen Butler, Col. Collier and others.

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Francis Hughes applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County, Tenn., July 21, 1833. He was born in Augusta County, Va., in 1759 and was the son of Francis Hughes. He resided in Burke County, N. C. in June 1776 when he enlisted in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment. He moved to the Tennessee Country and volunteered in 1777 under Col. John Sevier. He volunteered again in the fall of 1780 and was in Capt. Samuel Williams’ company in the Battle of King’s Mountain. He volunteered again under Col. John Sevier for the Cherokee Expedition. Nathan Gann swears in the pension application, that Francis Hughes was a soldier of the Revolution and Felix Earnest also testifies to his revolutionary record. Francis Hughes states that he has children but does not give their names. In 1840 he was living with Margaret Hughes, possibly a daughter.
Note:-Francis Hughes had a brother John Hughes, whose record is given below. Descendants of Francis Hughes live on Walden’s Ridge near Chattanooga.

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