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On this third day
of October, 1832 before Jabez Owens and Wright Stanley Justices for the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Williamson and the
state of Tennessee now sitting, Thomas Scott a resident of the state and
county aforesaid aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefits of an Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States about the first day of June
1781 as a volunteer in a company of Rangers to protect the frontier
settlements under the command of Captain Robert Hopewell and Lieutenant John
Allums and that his services wee principally preformed in the counties of
Lawrence and Abbeville, South Carolina but occasionally was marched over the
adjoining counties and on occasion was in Georgia. He also states that he
was twice marched into the Cherokee Nation, the first time he and his
company were commanded by Colonel Robert Anderson and the second under the
command of General Pickett and was discharged about the fifteenth of March
following, 1782, making a period of upward of nine months which he was in
actual service. He was engaged in no battles, received a discharge which was
accidentally destroyed and that he knows of no person by whom he can prove
his services.
He does not recollect any of the officers and the number of regiments of the
Continental or regular army in consequence of his being engaged as a Ranger
and not being at any time compelled to associate with those troops except
Pickett’s troops.
He was born in Entram County in Ireland on the 12th day of August, 1762
according to his father’s register of his age which he has not in his
possession and of which he has no knowledge. When he entered the service of
the United States he resided in Lawrence County, South Carolina, after the
Revolution he lived in Lawrence and Abbeville Counties in South Carolina
till about the year 1810, at which time he removed to Kentucky and resided
in Warren County until 1813. He then removed to Tennessee and resided in
Montgomery County one year, then he resided in the County of Williamson,
Tennessee till 1819, then removed again to Kentucky and resided in Christian
County till 1826 at which time he removed back to Tennessee and has resided
up to this time in Williamson County.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except
the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any
agency of any state whatever.
[signed] Thos Scott
Sworn to and subscribed ))
the day and year aforesaid ))
[signed] Thos Hardimon, Clerk
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