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Muster-roll of Captain John H. Hamilton’s company
CELINA, June 8, 1837.
DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 22d of May has come safe to hand, and I
hasten to comply with your request. The company which was organized by
myself, and started for Fayetteville, was as follows, and was raised by
myself in the forty-ninth regiment, Tennessee militia.
JOHN H. HAMILTON.
Governor NEWTON CANNON.
Muster-roll of Captain John H. Hamilton’s company of Tennessee
mounted volunteer militia.
No. Names- Rank. No. Names- Rank.
present and absent. present and absent.
1 John H. Hamilton Captain 32 Benjamin Homes
2 Ervine Langferd First lieutenant 33 Vatchel Clarke
3 Samuel H. Fitch Second lieutenant 34 Sanford Walker
4 John Savage Ensign 35 Holyard Adkins
5 John Herard 36 William Johnston
6 Nero Kirkpatrick 37 Andrew Flin
7 Jonathan Crawford 38 Clarke Gideons
8 Joel Rich 39 James Carniham,
9 John Richardson 40 Hiram Bailey
10 John W. Walker 41 Thomas Strong
11 Samuel Peake 42 John Wilson
12 Robert Foster 43 J. H. Hendricks
13 Jessey Savage 44 R. N. Riggs
14 Joseph Carter 45 Samuel H. Fitch
15 Alfred Riston 46 G. H. Bell
16 William Comes 47 N. Coons
17 Peter Ricar 48 Charles Williams
18 Berry Carter 49 Green Copeland
19 Vincent Carter 50 David Vaney
20 David Armor 51 James M. Strong
21 William P. Stith 52 James Saygo
22 Henry Eakle 53 Joseph Green
23 John Eakle 54 William Linsby
24 Stewart Henderson 55 Hambleton West
25 Thomas J. Wood 56 Abner Waddle
26 Jonathan Eakle 57 William Saleman
27 William Lay *59 James Cole
28 Bayley Elder 60 Francis Colter
29 John H. Clarke 61 John Slacey
30 Thomas Brown 62 Hardin Smith
31 William Bosel 63 Benjamin Eakle
STATE OF TENNESSEE, Jackson County:
This day came Colonel John H. Hamilton before John W. Chew, one of the acting
justices of the peace for said county, and made oath that the annexed roll,
as it stands, contains the names of all the men which enrolled themselves under
the proclamation of the governor of the State of Tennessee for volunteers in 1836,
and that about fifty started for the place of rerdezvous at Fayetteville; and I
have no doubt but the most of them would have followed on if they bad not
understood that their services would not be accepted of.
JOHN H. HAMILTON.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of June, 1837.
JOHN W. CHEW, J. P.
I hereby certify that I reported to Governor Cannon a full and
complete roll of a company of volunteers who tendered their services
to the United States under Governor N. Cannon's proclamation of the
6th of June, 1836, which report I made some time past, and furthermore
understood that said company was accepted by his excellency
This is an additional report to the one referred to.
Given under my hand, August 19, 1837.
JOHN H. HAMILTON, Captain, Commanding the Jackson Blues.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, Jackson County:
This day personally appeared John H. Hamilton before me, M. L. Armstrong, an acting justice of the peace for said county, and makes oath that the facts set fortli in the foregoing are correct.
JOHN H. HAMILTON, Captain.
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 19th day of August, 1837.
M. L. ARMSTRONG, J. P.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, Executive Department: I
I, Newton Cannon, governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify
that the company of Captain John H. Hamilton was received by me, as stated
in his certificate, and held in readiness to supply any deficiency that might
occur in raising the East Tennessee brigade, or the place of those who might
retire from the service at the expiration of the six months for which they
were received.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great
seal of the State to be [L. S.] affixed, at Nashville, the 12th day of
September, 1837,
N.CANNON.
By the governor:
LUKE LEA, Secretary of State.
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[* 58 omitted, in the original.]
Source:
American State Papers, House of Representatives, 25th Congress, 2nd
Session. Military Affairs: Volume 7, Pages 751-752.
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