George SHERRELL S3902. West Tenn. #19035 $25/year issued 26 July 1833
30 Aug. 1832 Franklin County, George Sherrell aged about 70 states he was born in Lincoln County, N.C. Sept.. or Oct. 1762. He does not have his father’s family records. He served in 1780 as a private in Capt. Robert PATTON’s company of N.C. militias a substitute for Jacob PERK in a regiment commanded bu Col. Charles MCDOWD (MCDOWELL?). His detachment, commanded by Gen. HUGER, was defeated by the British at at Monks’ Corner near Charleston, S.C. After that battle they retreated back to Lincoln County, N.C. and arrived at Ramseur’s Mill a few hours after the battle there. They assisted in burying the dead. He was discharged June 1780. Later in 1780, after removing to Washington County, East Tennessee He enlisted in Capt. Lemuel WILLIAMS’ Company of mounted volunteers, under Col. John SEVIER. He fought in the battle at King’s Mountain and after the battle helped march the prisoners to Gilbertstown, N.C. In Dec. 1781 he volunteered to go out with men from what is now Greene County, Tenn., to the Cherokee Indians. He served as a private under Col. John SEVIER and Maj. Johnathan TIPTON. A battle was fought in what is now SEVIER County, Tenn., in which the Indians were defeated and 10 or 11 were killed. They crossed the Tennessee River to High Wassee, destroying and burning Indian towns and property. After serving about two months he returned home. Rev. Henry HUNT and Stuart COWAN Esq., vouch for Sherrell. Capt. Samuel HANDLEY states he was in the same regiment as Sherrell at Kings Mountain and recalls SHERRELL going out against the Cherokee in 1780.
1909 Inquiry of Mary Sherrill Haggard of Franklin County, Tennessee. 1917 Inquiry of Miss Inez Hyder of Chattanooga, Tennessee. 1929 Inquiry of W.W.. Mrs. Erode of Murfreesboro.