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AMON HALE applied for his revolutionary pension on 17 Apr 1833, a resident of Washington County. He declared he was born in North Carolina on 16 Jun 1759, but when an infant was taken by his father him to Baltimore County, Maryland. He entered the service in Baltimore County under Joshua Stephenson. He died in Washington County, Dec. 4, 1843. His widow, Mary Hale applied for pension while living in Washington County, 18 Dec 1843, and was then 79 years old. She was therefore born 1764. She died Jan. 29, 1849, leaving eight living children, two children having predeceased her The original Bible pages are enclosed in application showing that Amon Hale was born June 16, 1759, that the marriage took place Sept. 30, 1785, that their children were: Elizabeth, born 1786; Martha, born 1788; Jessie, born 1791; Macajah B., born 1793; Robert G., born 1795; Mary, born 1797; Joshua, born 1800: Prisse (the name begins clearly with P, the rest uncertain) born 1802; Amon C., born 1805; and Ruth, born 1807. (Rev War File No. W227) According to the 1835 Pension Rolls, Amon HALE was a private in the Maryland Militia, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received May 8 1833, Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
NATHAN HALE applied for pension in Nov 1832, a resident of Giles County, Tennessee. He declared that he was born in North Carolina in 1757 and when a child his father moved the family to Baltimore County, Maryland. He enlisted while he was residing in Baltimore County in Col. Joshua Stephenson's Maryland regiment. Richard Hale of Giles County desposed that he was in the Revolution, and Nathan Hale declared that his father moved after the Revolution to Washington County, Tennessee, and that Nathan later removed to Giles County. (Revolutionary War Pension file S4311, abstracted by Mrs. Sarah Smith). According to the 1835 Pension Roll, Nathan HALE, Giles County, Tennessee, had been a Private with the Maryland Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance, $60.00 Amount Rec'd, Jan 9, 1834 Pension Started, Age 77. (Revolutionary War Pension file S4311, abstracted by Mrs. Sarah Smith) Neither he nor Richard are found on the 1840 Giles Census. See also Giles County and the Revolutionary War.
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Bibliography
Armstrong, Zella, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, compiled from Pension Statements, Originally Published in Five Pamphlets in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1933, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1975)
White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, 1990
The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, J.G.M Ramsey, Walker and Jones, Charleston, SC, 1853, reprinted by the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967.
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NATHAN HALE applied for pension in Nov 1832, a resident of Giles County, Tennessee. He declared that he was born in North Carolina in 1757 and when a child his father moved the family to Baltimore County, Maryland. He enlisted while he was residing in Baltimore County in Col. Joshua Stephenson's Maryland regiment. Richard Hale of Giles County desposed that he was in the Revolution, and Nathan Hale declared that his father moved after the Revolution to Washington County, Tennessee, and that Nathan later removed to Giles County. (Revolutionary War Pension file S4311, abstracted by Mrs. Sarah Smith). According to the 1835 Pension Roll, Nathan HALE, Giles County, Tennessee, had been a Private with the Maryland Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance, $60.00 Amount Rec'd, Jan 9, 1834 Pension Started, Age 77. (Revolutionary War Pension file S4311, abstracted by Mrs. Sarah Smith) Neither he nor Richard are found on the 1840 Giles Census. See also Giles County and the Revolutionary War.
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Bibliography
Armstrong, Zella, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, compiled from Pension Statements, Originally Published in Five Pamphlets in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1933, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1975)
White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, 1990
The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, J.G.M Ramsey, Walker and Jones, Charleston, SC, 1853, reprinted by the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967.
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