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MAJOR PLEASANT HENDERSON applied for his revolutionary pension in 1832 while residing in Carroll County, Tennessee. He was born January 9, 1756, in Granville County, North Carolina, enlisted in 1776, serving in Captain Thomas Satterwhite's company, Colonel John Butler's North Carolina regiment. He volunteered late in the summer or fall of 1778, was appointed lieutenant and served in Captain Richard Taylor's company, Colonel James Saunders' regiment, and in Captain Jamison's company, Colonel Lytle's regiment. He marched to Charleston and then to Savannah in defence of South Carolina and Georgia. He re-enlisted in 1781 and was appointed major in Colonel Malmedy's regiment. He was in the battle of Ramsour's Mill. He moved from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 21, 1830, and arrived in Huntingdon, Carroll County, Tennessee, in July. He attended the University of North Carolina and he stated that he had been chief clerk of the House of Commons of North Carolina for many years. He died December 10, 1843, in Huntingdon. His wife predeceased him. He was survived by the following children: Tip S.; Eliza I. Jones; and Alexander M. (Revolutionary War Pension File)
Note: According to Armstrong, Pleasant Henderson was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth WILLIAMS Henderson, and married Sarah MARTIN, daughter of James and Ruth ROGERS Martin. She adds "So far as known the children of Major Pleasant HENDERSON were. Pleasant Jr.; Alexander, Martin who married Elizabeth Earl Johnson; Tip S.; and Eliza I. born 1798 who married in 1820 Hamilton Chamberlain JONES."
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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
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Note: According to Armstrong, Pleasant Henderson was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth WILLIAMS Henderson, and married Sarah MARTIN, daughter of James and Ruth ROGERS Martin. She adds "So far as known the children of Major Pleasant HENDERSON were. Pleasant Jr.; Alexander, Martin who married Elizabeth Earl Johnson; Tip S.; and Eliza I. born 1798 who married in 1820 Hamilton Chamberlain JONES."
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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
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NOTICE: This Research Report has been provided for the free use of those engaged in non-commercial genealogical research. Any and all commercial use is strictly prohibited. Researchers are encouraged to copy and distribute this work freely, but with the proviso that it may only be copied and circulated in its entirety -- including this notice, and all sources, bibliographies and credits; excepting electronically in which case permission is freely granted to hot link to this site instead.
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