Laton Smith – Revolutionary War Pension Application

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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.

From Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution by Zella Armstrong

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