George USELTON (USSELTON) W1100 West Tenn. #7606 $33.33/year. Margaret USELTON, widow Tenn. #3245 $33.33 Issued 22 Jan. 1849. Bounty Land Warrant 26220-160-55.
21 Aug. 1832 Rutherford County, Tenn. George USSELTON aged 71 states he was born 10 Aug. 1762 in Kent County, Maryland. He sold his Bible more than 40 years ago and has no record of his age. He entered the service in Aug. or Sept. 1777, he believes. A part of the British fleet sailed up the Chesapeake Bay and landed some troops at he head of the Elk. On the next Saturday night a man came to affiant’s mother’s home and asked if there were any Tories about. Affiant told him he knew of none. The man said his name was PUTMAN and he was a cousin of General PUTMAN and that he had been a prisoner with the British a long time. USSELTON went with PUTMAN to join Capt. Jeremiah FORD’S militia at a school house in Kent County, Maryland. Affiant was not more than 15 or 16 years of age and was too young to be drafted, but he volunteered his services and was admitted into the company. John REASON was 1st Lt. and SEWEL (JEWEL, LEWEL?) was 2nd Lt. Col. CHAMBERS commanded the regiment. They marched to the head of the Elk where the British had just left, and on to a town then called Pots Grove. There the captain, Lt. JEWEL(?) and the declarant were taken sick with fever and ague, and had to lay by at one of the Christian Rife’s near the town. While they were ill the battle of Germantown was fought. He later rejoined the army near Philadelphia and served a total of fouror five months. The following spring or summer he served in the Kent County militia as a substitute for John MCGUIRE under Capt. John or James WILMOR and 1st Lt. WILMON. They marched to Delaware to guard the bay shores. He served four or five months. After the Revolution, affiant removed to Woodford County, Ky., for several years, and then lived in Warren County, Ky. for nine or ten years. He then removed to Rutherford County Tenn., where he has resided for 23 years. He has been an acting Justice of the Peace for 20 over years.
German BAKER, clergyman, swears he has known USSELTON for five or six years.
Hugh ROBINSON swears he has known the applicant for 20 years and lived within a few miles of him. Timothy PARKER swears he has known applicant for nearly 22 years.
5 July 1842 Franklin County, Margaret USELTON aged about 71 states she is the widow of pensioner George USELTON OR USSELTON. She was married to him in 1787 but can not recall the day or month. Her husband died in Winchester, Franklin County, where she now resides, on 24 April 1839.
9 July 1842 Rutherford County, Tenn., Nancy JAMISON aged 62 states she has long been acquainted with Margaret USELTON and recalls her marriage in Woodford County. Ky., Nancy’s father was the only one of the family to attend the marriage, which was conducted by a Presbyterian parson at a Presbyterian church. Nancy was at the time eight years of age.
3 Aug 1842 Franklin County, Luke P. ADAMS and Robert WILLIAMSON confirm the death date of George USELTON in Winchester.
15 Nov. 1843, Fayette County, Ky. , Clerk states that the office was destroyed in 1803 by fire and all the marriage records were consumed.
12 March 1845 Rutherford County, Tenn. Nancy JAMISON aged 64 years and (?) months, states she first knew George and Margaret USELTON in Woodford County, Ky. She did not see them married “but I saw them and my father started off and I was told by some of the family that they had gone to get married…”
7 April 1845 Franklin County, Margaret USELTON again applies for pension and appoints Sen. Hopkins L TURNEY her attorney Witness: Will Edw VENABLE, Robert WILLIAMSON. 17 Dec. 1845 Woodford County, Ky. Jesse GRADDY who will be 81 next 18 Feb., States he knew George and Margaret USELTON as neighbors, becoming aquatinted with George in 1787 when he came to Woodford County, and with Margaret about 1789 when they were married. He knew them until they moved to Green River Country in southern Kentucky. He lived within 200 yards if them for one year and with in one half mile of them for four years. He has not seen any of their family since they left here. When they left they had a daughter Polly and sons Samuel and John. Viley, wife of Jesse GRADDY, who will be 75 next 24 Feb., concurs except that she did not know either of the USELTONS until after they were married.
30 Dec. 1845 Franklin County Thomas GARNER states he was born 15 May 1772 in Guilford County N.C. as informed by his parents. He removed from north Carolina to Warren County, Ky., (Then called Green River Country) about 1802 and there became aquatinted with George and Margaret USELTON, who lived about six miles away. In about 1811 or 1812 affiant emigrated to Franklin County, Tenn. Shortly after moving he saw George and Margaret USELTON at Hoovers Gap. in Rutherford County, Tenn. where they were living. he saw them next at his home in Franklin County, to which they had removed.
27 March 1855 Sumner County, Tenn., Margaret USELTON aged 85, now a resident of Sumner County, applies for Bounty Land.
Note; Margaret USELTON was also assigned Tenn. certificate number 7722 (2 Apr. 1846) and 9994 (2 May 1846) for some reason. Separately filed under the spelling USSELTON is a card giving her Bounty Land number as 26220-160-55. There was no other person filed under USSELTON.