Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War

Surnames beginning with "L"

FIRST LAST COUNTY COMMENTS

Thomas Lackey Washington Private, Virginia Continental, $96.00 Annual Allowance $19.06 Amount Received June 3 1829 Pension Started Age 70 Died July 24 1829 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Charles Lain Roane Private-Corporal-Sergeant, Not Stated, $52.00 Annual Allowance $156.00 Amount Received February 15 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Gisborn Lain Wilson Private, Virginia Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received April 16 1833 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Nathaniel LAIRD Bedford Private, Pennsylvania Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $529.60 Amount Received January 12 1827 Pension Started Age 77 Died February 27 1832 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

James Landrum Greene Private, Virginia Militia, $33.33 Annual Allowance $99.99 Amount Received January 5 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Thomas Landrum Knox Private, North Carolina Line, $34.65 Annual Allowance $103.95 Amount Received September 28 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Drury Lane Rutherford Private, Line Not Stated, $21.66 Annual Allowance $64.98 Amount Received November 2 1832 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Isaac Lane McMinn See Lane Families of the Revolutionary War

James LANE Grainger Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received July 30 1833 Pension Started Age 88 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Joseph Lane Roane Private, Virginia Line, $60.00 Annual Allowance $180.00 Amount Received February 19 1834 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Tidence Lane Jefferson Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See Lane Families of the Revolutionary War

Turner Lane White Private, Virginia Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received March 1 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) See Warren, White Counties et al

John Langley Maury Private, South Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received June 17 1834 Pension Started Age 74 Died July 27 1834 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Thomas Langley Washington Private, 7TH Regiment Infantry, $48.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received February 11 1819 Pension Started Died November 30 1814; Heirs William LANGLEY John LANGLEY Thomas LANGLEY (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Joseph Lannum Anderson Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received May 23 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See also Anderson County and the Revolution

Joseph LARGE Jefferson Private, North Carolina Line, $41.66 Annual Allowance $124.98 Amount Received December 14 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Hugh Larrimore McMinn Private, North Carolina Militia, $46.6 Annual Allowance $136.98 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Hardy Lasiter Rutherford Private, North Carolina Militia, $55.00 Annual Allowance $165.00 Amount Received April 26 1833 Pension Started Age 80 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Lasley Sumner Private, North Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $963.52 Amount Received December 4 1819 Pension Started Suspended May 1 1820 Continued August 3 1823 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Witherel Latimer Carroll Private-Sergeant, Massachusetts Line, $88.33 Annual Allowance $264.99 Amount Received December 7 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Lauderdale Sumner Private, Virginia Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received December 31 1833 Pension Started Age 92 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Lawhorn Maury Private, North Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Jacob Lawrence Maury Private-Sergeant, North Carolina Line, $39.66 Annual Allowance $118.98 Amount Received September 13 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Josiah Laws Haywood Private, South Carolina Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received March 18 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Drewry Lawson Hawkins
Claiborne a.k.a. Drury. Pension No. R6201, served VA Line, appl 30 Jan 1835 Hawkins Co TN, aged 79 [b ca 1756?], sol enl in Henry Co VA & later moved to the Holston "then a wilderness," sol was b in Pittsylvania Co VA, on 27 Sep 1847 sol was referred to by James McAnally [McANNULLY] as being Claibourne Co, TN. (Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files)

Jacob Lawson Hawkins Private, Virginia Militia, $23.33 Annual Allowance $58.40 Amount Received May 2 1833 Pension Started Age 74 Died September 5 1833 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) Pension File No. W86, VA Line, sol was b in 1761 in Bedford Co VA & he lived in Henry Co VA at enl,sol applied 28 Nov 1832 Hawkins Co TN & sol d there 5 Sep 1833, sol had m in Aug 1784 at "Capt AMIS" in Hawkins Co, TN to Polly (---) & she applied there 6 May 1839 aged 74, wid d 10 Jul 1844 at the home of her son Lazarus Lawson leaving children; Lazarus Lawson, Matilda who m Anderson Campbell of Hawkins Co, TN, Lewis Lawson of McMinn Co TN, Russel & Reynolds Lawson, Elizabeth who m Wm. FINNELL & Anna who m Thomas HAYNES, the daughter Anna was of Bradley co, TN in 1845 and she was a wid, a daughter Hetsy [Betsy? Elizabeth?] was b in Aug 1784 & was living in 1839 but was dead prior to 1845. Note: Child b before marriage or one of dates wrong or backwoods marriage? Thomas MURRELL undoubtedly married them since he was practically next door to Thomas AMIS’ Settlement.) Source: Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files

John Lawson Morgan Private, North Carolina Line, $36.66 Annual Allowance $109.98 Amount Received June 17 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Lawson Smith Private, Virginia Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $200.00 Amount Received April 20 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Mormon Lawson Hawkins
Hancock served in the VA Line, was born in Jan 1751 in Bedford Co, VA, resided in Henry Co, Virginia when he enlisted, later moved to Stokes Co, NC, had also lived at one time in Lee Co, VA. Applied for his pension on 25 Feb 1834 in Hawkins TN, at which time he had lived in TN for 30 yrs. He declared that he had married 2nd Miss Elva COLLINS in Lee VA abt 1803 (the name of his 1st wife not given). Mormon died 16 Sep 1842 in Hancock TN, and his widow applied there on 2 Jul 1855, age 85 at the time (except in 1857, she gave her age as 82). She declared that they had had seven children, but the only ones named were Peter, Mormon and Phoebe Lawson. In 1855 a Jonas Lawson was of Hawkins TN, age 55. (Pension W9501, BLW#39226-160-55, White)

Reuben Lawson Hawkins
Monroe
Roane Private, Virginia Line, $25.24 Annual Allowance $66.60 Amount Received October 18 1833 Pension Started Age 74 Died October 24 1833 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) Pension File No. S1547. Reuben was born in 1760 in Pittsylvania Co VA where he resided when he enlisted, and after the Revolution, he moved to Hawkins Co TN, and then in 1824 to Roane Co TN. In 1833, he moved to Monroe Co TN where he applied on 17 Jun 1833 for his pension. In his declaration, he mentions Joseph WALKER, David Stewart & Wm. HARDEN. (Extracted by C. Hamnet from White, p. 2031) In 1792, Reuben was among those whose names were on a straymasters debt list published in the Knoxville Gazette (Tennessee Cousins, p. 85, Worth Ray)

Thomas LAY Grainger Private, North Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received September 20 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Jacob Layman Sevier Private, Virginia Line, $24.44 Annual Allowance $73.32 Amount Received August 2 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Major LEA Claiborne Private, North Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 93 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William LEACH Carroll Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $50.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John M. LEAKE Rutherford Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Leay Blount Or LEE. Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received December 9 1822 Pension Started Age 85 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Ledman Washington Private, 1ST Rifle Regiment, $72.00 Annual Allowance $283.20 Amount Received May 15 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Joseph Lemaster Maury Sergeant, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $402.13 Amount Received May 9 1820 Pension Started Age 68 Suspended May 1 1820 Restored July 17 1823 Died August 10 1826 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Benjamin Lents Bedford Private, North Carolina Militia, $66.66 Annual Allowance $166.65 Amount Received May 3 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Fredrick Leonard Sullivan Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $435.20 Annual Allowance October 28 1829 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Leonard Hawkins Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $797.86 Amount Received January 5 1826 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

EDMOND LEQUE Smith Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $57.88 Annual Allowance $173.64 Amount Received October 17 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Peter LESLEY Davidson Private, North Carolina Line, $31.10 Annual Allowance $93.30 Amount Received August 2 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Alexander LESLIE Sullivan Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received July 6 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Thomas LESLY McMinn Private, South Carolina Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received February 23 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Alexander LESTER Williamson Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received July 19 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

HARMON LETURE Sullivan Private, Pennsylvania Militia, $33.33 Annual Allowance $99.99 Amount Received December 24 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

RICE LEVI Anderson Private, Virginia Line, $25.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received September 28 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See also Anderson County and the Revolution

George Levisey Hawkins Private, Virginia Militia, $23.33 Annual Allowance $69.99 Amount Received June 4 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Richard Lewallen Anderson A.K.A. LUALLEN. Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $43.56 Amount Received June 26 1833 Pension Started Age 71 Died May 8 1833 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) Born 1763 in Prince Edward County, Virginia where he served in the militia, died 1844, Anderson County, TN (Rev War Pension File, Snyder E. Roberts' Revolutionary War Soldiers of Anderson County Tennessee

James LEWIS Franklin Private-Sergeant, Virginia Militia, $97.50 Annual Allowance $292.50 Amount Received July 16 1834 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Solomon LEWIS Claiborne Private, North Carolina Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received October 17 1833 Pension Started Age 83 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John LIGHT Hawkins Private, Virginia Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received July 11 1834 Pension Started Age 67 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John LIGHT Sullivan See the 1788 Sullivan Co, TN Militia List of Thomas VINCENT

VACHAL LIGHT Sullivan Private, Virginia Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $50.00 Amount Received October 16 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

VASHAL LIGHT Sullivan See the 1788 Sullivan Co, TN Militia List of Thomas VINCENT

Tapley Lightfoot Williamson Private, Virginia Line, $60.00 Annual Allowance $180.00 Amount Received May 13 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Ligon Smith Private, Virginia Line, $22.22 Annual Allowance $66.66 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Joseph Ligon Montgomery Private, Virginia Line, $36.00 Annual Allowance, $330.00 Amount Received, December 17, 1807 Pension Started, $57.60 Annual Allowance, $1, 021.92 Amount Received, March 4,1819 Pension Started, $96.00 Annual Allowance, $24.00 Amount Received, December 1, 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Rolls, Montgomery County) Note: This may be same as Joseph Ligon, Halifax County, Virginia, Private, Revolutionary Army, Virgina Line, $36.00 Annual Allowance, $ Amount Received, December 17, 1807 Pension Started, $57.60 Annual Allowance, $ Amount Received, April 24, 1816 Pension Started, Transferred To West Tennessee (1835 VA Pension Rolls)

William Ligon Smith Private, Virginia Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received April 20 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Andrew Lilburn Washington Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $114.00 Annual Allowance $345.00 Amount Received September 9 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Jackson Lile Bedford Private, North Carolina Line, $46.66 Annual Allowance $139.98 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

David Liles Carroll Private, North Carolina Line, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received January 7 1834 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Moses Lindsay Williamson Private, South Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Christopher Liner McMinn Private, Georgia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received February 5 1834 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Lingo Hardin Private, Not Stated, $48.00 Annual Allowance $900.00 Amount Received January 13 1817 Pension Started Transferred from North Carolina (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Lingo Maury Private, Delaware Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $633.06 Amount Received March 3 1827 Pension Started Age 77 Died (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Linn Maury Private, South Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $375.20 Amount Received April 8 1830 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John LISK Warren See LUSK.

John Lisles Anderson Private, South Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $564.60 Amount Received April 27 1820 Pension Started Age 88 Died April 15 1824 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See also Anderson County and the Revolution

William Littlefield Carroll Private, South Carolina Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $50.00 Amount Received May 3 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Charles LOCK Wilson Private, Virginia Line, $31.33 Annual Allowance $93.99 Amount Received October 2 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Lockhurt Warren Or LOCKHART. Private, North Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See Warren, White Counties et al

James Lockridge Maury Private, South Carolina Militia, $56.66 Annual Allowance $169.98 Amount Received February 23 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William LOFTY Cocke Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received May 16 1834 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

David LONG Maury Private, North Carolina Militia, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received February 28 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

George Long Hawkins Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received June 13 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Henry Long Greene Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received May 14 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Jonathan Long Hawkins Private, Maryland Line, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received December 20 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Nicholas LONG Knox Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received September 27 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Richard LONG Bedford Private, Virginia Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received April 16 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

William Longley McMinn William LONGLEY applied 3 Jun 1833 in McMinn County, enlisted in Oct 1780 in Loudoun Co, VA where he then resided with his father. He was born inNJ in 1761, resided in Loudoun for short time after the war, then in Shenandoah, Rockbridge, then in Washing

William Longley POLK 1840 Polk Census. See 1833 McMinn William LONGLEY

William Longly McMinn Private, Virginia Line, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received September 28 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Michael Lorance Rutherford Private, North Carolina Line, $57.03 Annual Allowance $171.95 Amount Received June 2 1833 Pension Started Age 84 Died February 8 1834 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Edmund Love Rhea Private, Infantry and Cavalry North Carolina Line, $27.72 Annual Allowance $83.16 Amount Received May 29 1834 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Hezakiah LOVE Roane Private, South Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $181.54 Amount Received June 17 1833 Pension Started Age 82 Died June 1 1833 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Robert LOVE Washington See State of Franklin

Thomas LOVE Maury See State of Franklin

James Loven Hawkins Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received May 2 1834 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Lowry Franklin Private, North Carolina Militia, $22.90 Annual Allowance $57.25 Amount Received May 13 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Nicholas Loyd Bedford Private, North Carolina Militia, $26.66 Annual Allowance $79.98 Amount Received May 11 1833 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Hugh Luckey Fayette Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received May 6 1834 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Peter Luna Sen. Lincoln Private, New York Line, $25.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

Joseph LUSK McMinn Private, North Carolina Line, $34.66 Annual Allowance $103.98 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)

John Lusk Warren John LUSK OR LISK, Warren County, Tennessee, Private, New York Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance, $1,346.96 Amount Received, October 6, 1820 Pension Started, Age 99, Warren Co, TN (1835 Rolls) JOHN LUSK applied for his revolutionary pension on 20 Feb 1820 while living in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. He was born 5 Nov 1734 on Staten Island in New York, and enlisted in the spring of 1775 in Captain Joseph Morris' company, Colonel Winant's New Jersey regiment and was in the Siege of Quebec. Early in 1776 he enlisted again and served in Captain Daniel Piatt's and Captain William Piatt's companies, Colonel Ogden's First New Jersey regiment. While helping to build Fort Washngton he was wounded by a piece of timber falling on him. He was wounded in the right thigh at the battle of Brandywine and in the left leg in the battle of Monmouth. He was at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was discharged in the latter part of 1783. (Rev War Pension File)

Armstrong adds that after his discharge, John LUSK "re-enlisted and continued in the United States Army until he was eighty years of age. He is called the greatest private soldier who ever lived. He was in literally scores of engagements and campaigns and only once in his more than fifty years of service was assigned to garrison duty for a short period."

Saturday, July 7, 1838. Memphis Enquirer "Death of An Old Patriot - The Last Soldier of the Old French War In Canada Is Gone Died – In Warren county, Tennessee, on the 8th of June, Mr. John LUSK, (pronounced LISK in his native Dutch) at the advanced age of one hundred and four years. He was born on Staten Island, New York, on the 5th of Nov., 1734, and was of Dutch extraction. Mr. LUSK was in regular service for well nigh sixty years..." (Warren, County in the Revolution

William Lytle Rutherford Captain, 1ST Regiment North Carolina Line, $480.00 Annual Allowance $1680.00 Amount Received September 1 1828 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)

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FIRST	LAST	COUNTY	COMMENTS
Thomas	Lackey	Washington	Private, Virginia Continental, $96.00 Annual Allowance $19.06 Amount Received June 3 1829 Pension Started Age 70 Died July 24 1829 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Charles	Lain	Roane	Private-Corporal-Sergeant, Not Stated, $52.00 Annual Allowance $156.00 Amount Received February 15 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Gisborn	Lain	Wilson	Private, Virginia Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received April 16 1833 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Nathaniel	LAIRD	Bedford	Private, Pennsylvania Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $529.60 Amount Received January 12 1827 Pension Started Age 77 Died February 27 1832 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
James	Landrum	Greene	Private, Virginia Militia, $33.33 Annual Allowance $99.99 Amount Received January 5 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Thomas	Landrum	Knox	Private, North Carolina Line, $34.65 Annual Allowance $103.95 Amount Received September 28 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Drury	Lane	Rutherford	Private, Line Not Stated, $21.66 Annual Allowance $64.98 Amount Received November 2 1832 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Isaac	Lane	McMinn	See Lane Families of the Revolutionary War
James	LANE	Grainger	Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received July 30 1833 Pension Started Age 88 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Joseph	Lane	Roane	Private, Virginia Line, $60.00 Annual Allowance $180.00 Amount Received February 19 1834 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Tidence	Lane	Jefferson	Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See Lane Families of the Revolutionary War
Turner	Lane	White	Private, Virginia Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received March 1 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) See Warren, White Counties et al
John	Langley	Maury	Private, South Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received June 17 1834 Pension Started Age 74 Died July 27 1834 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Thomas	Langley	Washington	Private, 7TH Regiment Infantry, $48.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received February 11 1819 Pension Started Died November 30 1814; Heirs William LANGLEY John LANGLEY Thomas LANGLEY (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Joseph	Lannum	Anderson	Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received May 23 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See also Anderson County and the Revolution
Joseph	LARGE	Jefferson	Private, North Carolina Line, $41.66 Annual Allowance $124.98 Amount Received December 14 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Hugh	Larrimore	McMinn	Private, North Carolina Militia, $46.6 Annual Allowance $136.98 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Hardy	Lasiter	Rutherford	Private, North Carolina Militia, $55.00 Annual Allowance $165.00 Amount Received April 26 1833 Pension Started Age 80 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Lasley	Sumner	Private, North Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $963.52 Amount Received December 4 1819 Pension Started Suspended May 1 1820 Continued August 3 1823 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Witherel	Latimer	Carroll	Private-Sergeant, Massachusetts Line, $88.33 Annual Allowance $264.99 Amount Received December 7 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Lauderdale	Sumner	Private, Virginia Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received December 31 1833 Pension Started Age 92 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Lawhorn	Maury	Private, North Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Jacob	Lawrence	Maury	Private-Sergeant, North Carolina Line, $39.66 Annual Allowance $118.98 Amount Received September 13 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Josiah	Laws	Haywood	Private, South Carolina Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received March 18 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Drewry	Lawson	Hawkins Claiborne	a.k.a. Drury. Pension No. R6201, served VA Line, appl 30 Jan 1835 Hawkins Co TN, aged 79 [b ca 1756?], sol enl in Henry Co VA & later moved to the Holston "then a wilderness," sol was b in Pittsylvania Co VA, on 27 Sep 1847 sol was referred to by James McAnally [McANNULLY] as being Claibourne Co, TN. (Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files)
Jacob	Lawson	Hawkins	Private, Virginia Militia, $23.33 Annual Allowance $58.40 Amount Received May 2 1833 Pension Started Age 74 Died September 5 1833 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) Pension File No. W86, VA Line, sol was b in 1761 in Bedford Co VA & he lived in Henry Co VA at enl,sol applied 28 Nov 1832 Hawkins Co TN & sol d there 5 Sep 1833, sol had m in Aug 1784 at "Capt AMIS" in Hawkins Co, TN to Polly (---) & she applied there 6 May 1839 aged 74, wid d 10 Jul 1844 at the home of her son Lazarus Lawson leaving children; Lazarus Lawson, Matilda who m Anderson Campbell of Hawkins Co, TN, Lewis Lawson of McMinn Co TN, Russel & Reynolds Lawson, Elizabeth who m Wm. FINNELL & Anna who m Thomas HAYNES, the daughter Anna was of Bradley co, TN in 1845 and she was a wid, a daughter Hetsy [Betsy? Elizabeth?] was b in Aug 1784 & was living in 1839 but was dead prior to 1845. Note: Child b before marriage or one of dates wrong or backwoods marriage? Thomas MURRELL undoubtedly married them since he was practically next door to Thomas AMIS’ Settlement.) Source: Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files
John	Lawson	Morgan	Private, North Carolina Line, $36.66 Annual Allowance $109.98 Amount Received June 17 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Lawson	Smith	Private, Virginia Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $200.00 Amount Received April 20 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Mormon	Lawson	Hawkins Hancock	served in the VA Line, was born in Jan 1751 in Bedford Co, VA, resided in Henry Co, Virginia when he enlisted, later moved to Stokes Co, NC, had also lived at one time in Lee Co, VA. Applied for his pension on 25 Feb 1834 in Hawkins TN, at which time he had lived in TN for 30 yrs. He declared that he had married 2nd Miss Elva COLLINS in Lee VA abt 1803 (the name of his 1st wife not given). Mormon died 16 Sep 1842 in Hancock TN, and his widow applied there on 2 Jul 1855, age 85 at the time (except in 1857, she gave her age as 82). She declared that they had had seven children, but the only ones named were Peter, Mormon and Phoebe Lawson. In 1855 a Jonas Lawson was of Hawkins TN, age 55. (Pension W9501, BLW#39226-160-55, White)
Reuben	Lawson	Hawkins Monroe Roane	Private, Virginia Line, $25.24 Annual Allowance $66.60 Amount Received October 18 1833 Pension Started Age 74 Died October 24 1833 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) Pension File No. S1547. Reuben was born in 1760 in Pittsylvania Co VA where he resided when he enlisted, and after the Revolution, he moved to Hawkins Co TN, and then in 1824 to Roane Co TN. In 1833, he moved to Monroe Co TN where he applied on 17 Jun 1833 for his pension. In his declaration, he mentions Joseph WALKER, David Stewart & Wm. HARDEN. (Extracted by C. Hamnet from White, p. 2031) In 1792, Reuben was among those whose names were on a straymasters debt list published in the Knoxville Gazette (Tennessee Cousins, p. 85, Worth Ray)
Thomas	LAY	Grainger	Private, North Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received September 20 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Jacob	Layman	Sevier	Private, Virginia Line, $24.44 Annual Allowance $73.32 Amount Received August 2 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Major	LEA	Claiborne	Private, North Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 93 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	LEACH	Carroll	Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $50.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John M.	LEAKE	Rutherford	Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Leay	Blount	Or LEE. Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received December 9 1822 Pension Started Age 85 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Ledman	Washington	Private, 1ST Rifle Regiment, $72.00 Annual Allowance $283.20 Amount Received May 15 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Joseph	Lemaster	Maury	Sergeant, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $402.13 Amount Received May 9 1820 Pension Started Age 68 Suspended May 1 1820 Restored July 17 1823 Died August 10 1826 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Benjamin	Lents	Bedford	Private, North Carolina Militia, $66.66 Annual Allowance $166.65 Amount Received May 3 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Fredrick	Leonard	Sullivan	Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $435.20 Annual Allowance October 28 1829 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Leonard	Hawkins	Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $797.86 Amount Received January 5 1826 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
EDMOND	LEQUE	Smith	Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $57.88 Annual Allowance $173.64 Amount Received October 17 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Peter	LESLEY	Davidson	Private, North Carolina Line, $31.10 Annual Allowance $93.30 Amount Received August 2 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Alexander	LESLIE	Sullivan	Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received July 6 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Thomas	LESLY	McMinn	Private, South Carolina Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received February 23 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Alexander	LESTER	Williamson	Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received July 19 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
HARMON	LETURE	Sullivan	Private, Pennsylvania Militia, $33.33 Annual Allowance $99.99 Amount Received December 24 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
RICE	LEVI	Anderson	Private, Virginia Line, $25.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received September 28 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See also Anderson County and the Revolution
George	Levisey	Hawkins	Private, Virginia Militia, $23.33 Annual Allowance $69.99 Amount Received June 4 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Richard	Lewallen	Anderson	A.K.A. LUALLEN. Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $43.56 Amount Received June 26 1833 Pension Started Age 71 Died May 8 1833 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) Born 1763 in Prince Edward County, Virginia where he served in the militia, died 1844, Anderson County, TN (Rev War Pension File, Snyder E. Roberts' Revolutionary War Soldiers of Anderson County Tennessee
James	LEWIS	Franklin	Private-Sergeant, Virginia Militia, $97.50 Annual Allowance $292.50 Amount Received July 16 1834 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Solomon	LEWIS	Claiborne	Private, North Carolina Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received October 17 1833 Pension Started Age 83 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	LIGHT	Hawkins	Private, Virginia Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received July 11 1834 Pension Started Age 67 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	LIGHT	Sullivan	See the 1788 Sullivan Co, TN Militia List of Thomas VINCENT
VACHAL	LIGHT	Sullivan	Private, Virginia Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $50.00 Amount Received October 16 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
VASHAL	LIGHT	Sullivan	See the 1788 Sullivan Co, TN Militia List of Thomas VINCENT
Tapley	Lightfoot	Williamson	Private, Virginia Line, $60.00 Annual Allowance $180.00 Amount Received May 13 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Ligon	Smith	Private, Virginia Line, $22.22 Annual Allowance $66.66 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Joseph	Ligon	Montgomery	Private, Virginia Line, $36.00 Annual Allowance, $330.00 Amount Received, December 17, 1807 Pension Started, $57.60 Annual Allowance, $1, 021.92 Amount Received, March 4,1819 Pension Started, $96.00 Annual Allowance, $24.00 Amount Received, December 1, 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Rolls, Montgomery County) Note: This may be same as Joseph Ligon, Halifax County, Virginia, Private, Revolutionary Army, Virgina Line, $36.00 Annual Allowance, $ Amount Received, December 17, 1807 Pension Started, $57.60 Annual Allowance, $ Amount Received, April 24, 1816 Pension Started, Transferred To West Tennessee (1835 VA Pension Rolls)
William	Ligon	Smith	Private, Virginia Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received April 20 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Andrew	Lilburn	Washington	Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $114.00 Annual Allowance $345.00 Amount Received September 9 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Jackson	Lile	Bedford	Private, North Carolina Line, $46.66 Annual Allowance $139.98 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
David	Liles	Carroll	Private, North Carolina Line, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received January 7 1834 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Moses	Lindsay	Williamson	Private, South Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Christopher	Liner	McMinn	Private, Georgia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received February 5 1834 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Lingo	Hardin	Private, Not Stated, $48.00 Annual Allowance $900.00 Amount Received January 13 1817 Pension Started Transferred from North Carolina (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Lingo	Maury	Private, Delaware Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $633.06 Amount Received March 3 1827 Pension Started Age 77 Died (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Linn	Maury	Private, South Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $375.20 Amount Received April 8 1830 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	LISK	Warren	See LUSK.
John	Lisles	Anderson	Private, South Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $564.60 Amount Received April 27 1820 Pension Started Age 88 Died April 15 1824 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See also Anderson County and the Revolution
William	Littlefield	Carroll	Private, South Carolina Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $50.00 Amount Received May 3 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Charles	LOCK	Wilson	Private, Virginia Line, $31.33 Annual Allowance $93.99 Amount Received October 2 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Lockhurt	Warren	Or LOCKHART. Private, North Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See Warren, White Counties et al
James	Lockridge	Maury	Private, South Carolina Militia, $56.66 Annual Allowance $169.98 Amount Received February 23 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	LOFTY	Cocke	Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received May 16 1834 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
David	LONG	Maury	Private, North Carolina Militia, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received February 28 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
George	Long	Hawkins	Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received June 13 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Henry	Long	Greene	Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received May 14 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Jonathan	Long	Hawkins	Private, Maryland Line, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received December 20 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Nicholas	LONG	Knox	Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received September 27 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Richard	LONG	Bedford	Private, Virginia Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received April 16 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William	Longley	McMinn	William LONGLEY applied 3 Jun 1833 in McMinn County, enlisted in Oct 1780 in Loudoun Co, VA where he then resided with his father. He was born inNJ in 1761, resided in Loudoun for short time after the war, then in Shenandoah, Rockbridge, then in Washing
William	Longley	POLK	1840 Polk Census. See 1833 McMinn William LONGLEY
William	Longly	McMinn	Private, Virginia Line, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received September 28 1833 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Michael	Lorance	Rutherford	Private, North Carolina Line, $57.03 Annual Allowance $171.95 Amount Received June 2 1833 Pension Started Age 84 Died February 8 1834 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Edmund	Love	Rhea	Private, Infantry and Cavalry North Carolina Line, $27.72 Annual Allowance $83.16 Amount Received May 29 1834 Pension Started Age 73 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Hezakiah	LOVE	Roane	Private, South Carolina Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $181.54 Amount Received June 17 1833 Pension Started Age 82 Died June 1 1833 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Robert	LOVE	Washington	See State of Franklin
Thomas	LOVE	Maury	See State of Franklin
James	Loven	Hawkins	Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received May 2 1834 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Lowry	Franklin	Private, North Carolina Militia, $22.90 Annual Allowance $57.25 Amount Received May 13 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Nicholas	Loyd	Bedford	Private, North Carolina Militia, $26.66 Annual Allowance $79.98 Amount Received May 11 1833 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Hugh	Luckey	Fayette	Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received May 6 1834 Pension Started Age 72 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Peter	Luna Sen.	Lincoln	Private, New York Line, $25.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received November 19 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Joseph	LUSK	McMinn	Private, North Carolina Line, $34.66 Annual Allowance $103.98 Amount Received August 14 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John	Lusk	Warren	John LUSK OR LISK, Warren County, Tennessee, Private, New York Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance, $1,346.96 Amount Received, October 6, 1820 Pension Started, Age 99, Warren Co, TN (1835 Rolls) JOHN LUSK applied for his revolutionary pension on 20 Feb 1820 while living in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. He was born 5 Nov 1734 on Staten Island in New York, and enlisted in the spring of 1775 in Captain Joseph Morris' company, Colonel Winant's New Jersey regiment and was in the Siege of Quebec. Early in 1776 he enlisted again and served in Captain Daniel Piatt's and Captain William Piatt's companies, Colonel Ogden's First New Jersey regiment. While helping to build Fort Washngton he was wounded by a piece of timber falling on him. He was wounded in the right thigh at the battle of Brandywine and in the left leg in the battle of Monmouth. He was at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was discharged in the latter part of 1783. (Rev War Pension File) Armstrong adds that after his discharge, John LUSK "re-enlisted and continued in the United States Army until he was eighty years of age. He is called the greatest private soldier who ever lived. He was in literally scores of engagements and campaigns and only once in his more than fifty years of service was assigned to garrison duty for a short period." Saturday, July 7, 1838. Memphis Enquirer "Death of An Old Patriot - The Last Soldier of the Old French War In Canada Is Gone Died – In Warren county, Tennessee, on the 8th of June, Mr. John LUSK, (pronounced LISK in his native Dutch) at the advanced age of one hundred and four years. He was born on Staten Island, New York, on the 5th of Nov., 1734, and was of Dutch extraction. Mr. LUSK was in regular service for well nigh sixty years..." (Warren, County in the Revolution
William	Lytle	Rutherford	Captain, 1ST Regiment North Carolina Line, $480.00 Annual Allowance $1680.00 Amount Received September 1 1828 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)