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On this 7th day
of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two Personally appeared in open court before the worshipful Samuel
Phillips, John L. Mill and J. B. Armstrong Esquires Gentlemen Justices of
the Bench appointed to hold the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, the
county aforesaid; John F. Marion, a resident of Bedford County in the state
of Tennessee, aged 72 years and thirteen days, who being duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779, and
served as herein stated under the following named officers to wit; that he
enlisted in the month of June 1779, under Captain William Alexander in the
town of Charlotte in the County of Mecklenburg and state of North Carolina
and was marched with his Captain, under the command of Colonel Charles Polk,
to Ingram’s old field on the Congaree River where he says they joined
General Sumpter of South Carolina; and after remaining there about two
months was marched to the Eutaw Springs. He states he was in the engagement
at that place between the British and Americans and was wounded through the
right leg and his horse killed under him. He says that General Greene
commanded the army as Commander in Chief on that day. He says he was then
marched back to Ingram’s Old Field, and was sent to Doctor Faulton’s[?] at
Strawberry Ferry on Ashley River where he remained until he was cured of his
wound. He says that after serving in said state troops the term of ten
months. He then enlisted under Colonel Wade Hampton during the War in his
regiment of Light Horse and was placed in Captain James Simmons’ company
belonging to said regiment of United States troops.
He states he was marched from that place to a place called Monk’s Corner in
South Carolina where he was stationed until within a few days of Christmas
day, and he says that on Christmas day the British sent away their troops
from Charles Town South Carolina and the Americans under General Greene
marched into the town and remained there until the next fall when he says he
was furloughed agreeable to an Act of Resolution of Congress as he was told,
and was never called into service upon said enlistment afterwards, he thinks
he served all this last mentioned tour about eighteen months, making in the
whole a term of service of twenty eight months, for which he claims a
pension, and that he has no documentary evidence whatever; and that he knows
of no person whose testimony he can procure who can certify as to his
service.
He hereby relinquishes all and every claim to a pension or annuity whatever,
except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of
any agency in the United States.
INTERROGGATIONS BY THE COURT
First: Where and in what years were you born?
Answer: I was born in Lancaster County and state of Pennsylvania on the
fourteenth of October in the year 1760, agreeable to my father’s family
record.
Second: Have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?
Answer: I have a record of my age at James Wilson’s in this county, where I
make my home.
Third: Where were you living when called into service?
Answer: I was a resident of Mecklenburg County in the state of North
Carolina where I first entered the service of the United States and the last
time I entered the service it was on the banks of the Congaree River in
South Carolina, but I do not know what county.
Fourth: Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you
now live?
Answer: I went to the Moravian town in the state of North Carolina shortly
after the close of the Revolutionary War where I enlisted in Captain
Hadley’s Company in a regiment of troops that was raised by virtue of an Act
of the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina for the protection of
the white settlers in the county, then called Cumberland, and was marched
under Major Thomas Evans to what is now called Davidson County in the state
of Tennessee; where I remained in that service for two years and from there
I moved to Williamson County, in the same state, and from there to what is
now Bedford County where I have lived ever since and where I now live.
Five: How were you called into service? Were you drafted, were you a
volunteer, were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom did you
enlist?
Answer: I was an enlisted soldier in the state troops of North Carolina the
whole time I was in the Revolutionary army.
Six: State the names of some of the Regular officers who served with the
troops where you served, such Continental and Militia regiments as you
recollect and the general circumstances of your services.
Answer: I knew Colonel Stewart, General Greene, General Anthony Maquire,
Captain Joshua Hadley, Colonel William Washington, Major [illegible],
Captains James and William Worley, General Lee and Captain James, also
Colonel Wade Hampton, Colonel Washington’s Dragoons and some other regiments
of Regulars, but do not recollect the names of other regiments at this time
and I believe my declaration contains as near a general history of my
service as I am able at this time to give.
Seven: Did you ever receive a discharge and if so what has become of it?
Answer: I never did receive a discharge and was declared by an Act of
Legislation of Congress.
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood who can testify as to your service as a soldier of the
Revolutionary War.
Captain John Wortham, James Brittain, Esq., Colonel Robert Gannon and Mr.
James Wilson.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
[signed] Jas McKisick[?], clk; John F Marion {seal}
Declarant further makes oath that there is no minister or regular preacher
living in his neighborhood whose testimony he can procure, who knows any
soldier or otherwise that he knows.
Sworn to in open court 12th February 1833 [signed] John F Marion; Jas
McKisick[?], clerk
Mr. Charles Marion Williams, Jr.
Route 2
Ring Gold, Georgia
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the records of Revolutionary Soldiers,
John F. Marion and Zebedee Williams.
The data which follows were obtained from papers on file in the pension
claim S.2747 based upon the military service of John F. Marion.
He was born October 14, 1760 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The names of
his parents are not given.
While living in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina he enlisted at Charlotte
in June 1779, and served ten months in Captain William Alexander’s and
Samuel Martin’s companies in Colonel William Polk’s North Carolina regiment;
during the battle of Eutaw Springs he was wounded in his right leg and had
his horse killed under him. Immediately after the termination of this
enlistment he enlisted in Captain James Simon’s company in Colonel Wade
Hampton’s regiment of Light Horse and served eighteen months.
Shortly after the close of the Revolution he moved to the Moravian town,
North Carolina where he enlisted in Captain Hadley’s company in a regiment
of North Carolina troops raised for the protection of ‘white settlers’ in
the county then called Cumberland and served two years. From there he moved
to Williamson County, Tennessee and from there to Bedford County, Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 7, 1832, while
living in Bedford County, Tennessee.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to family of John F.
Marion.
Very Truly Yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
To the Administrator
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