{"id":425,"date":"2025-12-16T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=425"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:41:36","slug":"soldiers-stationed-at-fort-south-west-point-in-1801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/soldiers-stationed-at-fort-south-west-point-in-1801\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers Stationed at Fort South West Point in 1801"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\r\n<p>From <em>Roots of Roane County &#8211; 1792<\/em>, by <strong>Snyder E. Roberts<\/strong>, page 183<\/p>\r\n<p>The muster rolls and payrolls for the militia and regular troops stationed at Fort South West Point from1792 until 1807 have not been found except for one company, as follows:<\/p>\r\n<p>Payroll of <strong>Capt. James Ball<\/strong>&#8216;s Company of Light Dragoons under command of <strong>Lt. William Tharp<\/strong>, January 1801:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>James V. Ball<\/strong>, Capt. (on furlough)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Stephen G. Simmons<\/strong>, Lt.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>William Tharp<\/strong>, Lt.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Norborn T. Nelson<\/strong>, Cadet<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>James Clark<\/strong>, Sgt.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Presley Petty<\/strong>, Corporal<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John Woodrum<\/strong>, Corporal<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>James Nowlin<\/strong>, Corporal<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Hogan Eddy<\/strong>, Trumpeter<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Jacob Fry<\/strong>, Saddler<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>William McGill<\/strong>, Farrier<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Privates:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>John Bird<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>George Burns<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Andrew Bassham<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Archibald Borlin<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>David Crofford<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Albert Cooper<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Michael Carrol<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Patrick Corkins<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Jacob Carter<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Jacob Crowl<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Edward Collins<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Charles Carlin<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>James Conner<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>David Cottrel<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>James Callahan<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>George Dryer<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Christopher Ellis<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Andrew Elliott<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Thomas Eddy<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site) From Roots of Roane County &#8211; 1792, by Snyder E. Roberts, page 183 The muster rolls and payrolls for the militia and regular troops stationed at Fort South West Point from1792 until 1807 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/soldiers-stationed-at-fort-south-west-point-in-1801\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals","category-military-records","category-pre-statehood-history","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}