PENSION APPLICATION OF JOHN HOWARDMORGAN COUNTY RESIDENT
| State of Tennessee Morgan CountyOn this the 21st day of October 1833 personally appeared before the worshipful court of pleas and quarters session in and for the County of Morgan aforesaid which is a court of record John Howard a resident citizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid in the state of Tennessee aged sixty six years on the eleventh day of February last, agreeable his record which he formerly kept though he has not had any record for twenty four year, lost past the having left his record of his age in Kentucky Christian County, but he distinctly recollects that agreeable to his said record and the accounts of his parents that he was born February the eleventh one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven and after being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress on the 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States toward the end of the Revolutionary he entered said service in Laurince County South Carolina when he was only in his fifteenth year of age he entered said service as a private Volunteer indian spie to serve six months tour under Captain Berry his first name not remembered and Lieutenant William Brown and marched to (Gilberts Fort) near the Cherokee Boundary he entered said service the precise time not recollected but well recollects that it was in the Early part of Spring and thinks about the first of April, he stationed at said fort the full term of six months ending in the fall of one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one. The precise day he got dismissed from service not recollected but he thinks it was about the first of October he was verbally discharged by his said Capt and returned home, applicant has no documents any Evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his service applicant was born in Laurince County South Carolina and continued there near twenty years after the war and then moved to Christian County Kentucky and staid here nine years and then moved to Knox County Tennessee and staid there five years and then moved to where he now lives in Morgan County Tennessee though it was Roane County where he first came to where he now lives applicant states that there is no (clergyman?) any place near or within his neighborhood and it is out of his power to provide one without great Trouble applicant thinks he can prove his reputation as a man of veracity And as a soldier By George S. Kington, Robert Dabney Elijah Lavender and his neighbors generally, applicant here by relinquishes Every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares his name is not on the pension Rolls of agency of any State. (signed John Howard) Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year afforesaide We Joseph Holloway, John (Spencer?) residing in the County of |
| John Howard: Born February 11, 1767 in Laurens County, SC Died April 7, 1851 in Lancing, Morgan Co. TN Married Nancy Howard, a cousin in Knoxville, Knox Co. Tn on January 20, 1810. Nancy was born in 1783 in NC. (Maybe a second marriage for John-not proven) Both are buried in Clear Creek Cemetery, Morgan County, TN. For his service as a Revolutionary soldier he received, beginning on March 4, 1834, $20.00 per annum. After his death, Nancy filed for a Bounty Land Warrant |
| Contributed by Deb Dixon |