Washington County, Tennessee




FIRST LAST COMMENTS
Jacob ACOR Private, Connecticut Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $1448.00 Annual Allowance May 19 1819 Pension Started Age 74 Died June 18 1833 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Edward BANKS alias BRUS. Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $65.06 Amount Received February 5 1810 Pension Started Age 83 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Barron Private, North Carolina Line, $28.33 Annual Allowance $84.99 Amount Received February 20 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Robert BEARD Private, Virginia Line, $23.33 Annual Allowance $56.51 Amount Received January 25 1833 Pension Started Age 71 Died August 6 1833 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Thomas BELL Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received December 14 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John BLAIR NJ Line. (Rev War BLW #1809-200-24) On Feb 1832 to John BLAIR sole divisee, of John BLAIR, an invalid pensioner who served in NJ Line. John BLAIR, Jr. was executor of his father's will in Washington Cty TN on 7 Feb 1832. John Sr. was pensioned under act of 5 Jul 1812 starting on 8 Apr 1811, and he lived in Washington Co, TN in 1818. On 12 Jul 1818, he had a wife Susannah and 8 children, all living, but only John, Martha, Ann & William are named in the file. He died on 13 Jul 1818 (Excerpted from Virgil D. White's Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files)
John BLAIR Lieutenant, Not Stated, $96.00 Annual Allowance $484.17 Amount Received April 8 1811 Pension Started $108.80 Annual Allowance $241.47 Amount Received April 24 1816 Pension Started Died July 13 1818 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
George Brown Private, North Carolina Line, $25.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received December 19 1832 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Jacob Brown Private, North Carolina Line, $38.33 Annual Allowance $95.83 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Michael Broyles Private, Virginia Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received December 14 1833 Pension Started Age 94 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Edward Brus See Edward BANKS
Michael Byerly Private, Virginia Line, $23.33 Annual Allowance $69.99 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 77 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Landon Carter See Landon Carter and Carter County
John Clark Private-Lieutenant, North Carolina Militia, $96.66 Annual Allowance $289.98 Amount Received February 27 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Henry CLICKE Private, 4th Infantry, $48.00 Annual Allowance $128.00 Amount Received May 15 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Cloyd Private, Pennsylvania Line, $45.55 Annual Allowance $136.65 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Pharoah Cobb Born in Northampton, North Carolina, removed early to the Watauga Settlement, served in Capt. Jacob Womack's Company in 1776. See Surnames: C for additional.
Higgins Coppinger Higgins COPPINGER or COVINGER, Washington County, Tennessee, served as a Private, Virginia Continental, $96.00 Annual Allowance $769.06 Amount Received December 23 1824 Pension Started Age 96 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John Douglas Private, North Carolina Militia, $23.33 Annual Allowance $69.99 Amount Received May 8 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Joseph Duncan Private, Virginia Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 83 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John Edwards Sergeant, Maryland Line, $77.50 Annual Allowance $202.70 Amount Received December 13 1833 Pension Started Age 84 Died October 16 1833 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Adam Engle Private, Pennsylvania Line, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.00 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John Engle or INGLE. Private, Virginia Continental, $96.00 Annual Allowance $440.00 Amount Received June 21 1819 Pension Started Age 76 Died December 27 1822 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Ebenezer Fain born 27 Aug 1762 in Chester Co, PA, died 29 Dec 1842, married Jun 1781 to Mary "Polly" MERCER, who died 12 Feb 1846. He applied for his pension on 11 Mar 1836 in Habersham Co, GA, declaring that he had lived in Washington Co, VA at his first enlistement, then removed in 1780 to Washington Co, NC (now TN), and also enlisted there. Resided there until 1783, then moved to 96th District, SC, the part that i snow Pickens, and lived there until 1793 when he moved to Buncombe Co, NC, and then in 1818 to Habersham Co, GA.
George Fitzgerald Private, Virginia Continental, $96.00 Annual Allowance $1403.73 Amount Received June 2 1820 Pension Started Age 80 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Perry Floyd Private, Virginia Continental, $30.00 Annual Allowance $125.85 Amount Received February 15 1812 Pension Started $48.00 Annual Allowance $97.56 Amount Received April 24 1816 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Loyd Ford Private, Maryland Militia, $50.00 Annual Allowance $150.00 Amount Received May 8 1833 Pension Started Age 83 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John Fulkison Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received February 18 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Nathan Gann Private, North Carolina Line, $53.33 Annual Allowance $219.99 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 75 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Bellingsby Gibson Private, Virginia Line, $41.33 Annual Allowance $129.99 Amount Received May 14 1833 Pension Started Age 84 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Greenway Private, Virginia Militia, $80.00 Annual Allowance $240.90 Amount Received February 27 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Samuel Greer Private, North Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $1376.00 Amount Received March 24 1820 Pension Started Age 85 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Amon Hale See Amon & Nathan Hale and Giles County and the Revolutionary War
Samuel Handley Private-Sergeant-Ensign, North Carolina Line, $85.00 Annual Allowance $255.00 Amount Received March 1 1834 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See Franklin County, TNGenWeb Revolutionary Pensioners for more pension details, and also see Tennessee Handlys of the Revolution.
Andrew Hannah Private, North Carolina Line, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.90 Amount Received December 13 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Adam Harmon Private, Virginia Line, $25.00 Annual Allowance $75.00 Amount Received December 13 1833 Pension Started Age 71 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Hugh Harris Hugh HARRIS enlisted in Orange County, North Carolina, but had moved to Washington County, Tennessee by 17 Oct 1832 when he applied for his pension at age 68. On 5 Mar 1855, his widow, Elizabeth applied, stating that she (nee Elizabeth JACKSON) had married Hugh HARRIS on 5 Nov 1834 in Washington County. She was age 75 at the time of her application (Extracted from Pension File W25743). Corporal, North Carolina Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $996.80 Amount Received April 10 1824 Pension Started Age 89 (1835 Tn Pension Roll) See also Washington County, Tennessee Marriages by Brenda Jordan Raymond, which includes this marriage.
Robert Henry Private, Pennsylvania Line, $33.33 Annual Allowance $99.99 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Daniel Horton Sen. Private, North Carolina Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Charles HOWEL Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $60.00 Annual Allowance $180.00 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Michael Ingle Private, Virginia Continental, $96.00 Annual Allowance $179.47 Amount Received December 10 1818 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Zachariah Isbell Biography: The Hon. Zachariah ISBELL (son of Henry ISBELL & Hannah Cox), one of the 13 commissioners called "the founders of Tennessee," was born circa 1722 in King William Co./Orange Co., VA and died circa 1788 (1786-90) in Jonesboro, then Washington Co., Tennessee. He is believed to be buried in a lost grave at Cherokee Baptist Church Cemetery, Highway 81, near Jonesboro, Washington County, Tennessee (The monument at Elizabethton, TN records the names of "The Immortal 13." (Founders of This State), but the marker misspells his name). Earliest records spell his name Zachary.

His first wife Elizabeth is identified by various researchers as a LEWIS, a TAYLOR, or Elizabeth CALLAWAY (born Abt. 1725), daughter of Thomas CALLAWAY. If she was Elizabeth CALLAWAY, she was an aunt of the two CALLAWAY girls who were kidnapped by Indians along with Daniel BOONE'S daughter Jemima while paddling in their canoe and later rescued by a party including the two Henderson brothers who later married the CALLAWAY sisters (one of the famous Daniel BOONE stories).

Judge Zachariah ISBELL was the first sheriff of Bedford Co., VA; the first magistrate of Bedford Co. (the original court order books are all in his own hand); and helped "lay out" the town of New London, the first county seat of Bedford County. He was a captain in the French & Indian War and was granted tracts of land in Camden Dist. (Kershaw Co.), SC for service in 1754. He moved to his plantation in SC and lived quietly for 20 years until the Revolution disrupted his family life. He was a magistrate again in SC. He was a member of the Anglican church early in life and evidenced neutral or Tory sympathies toward Britain, so he moved to Washington Co., N.C., where he was again a magistrate judge, and was one of 13 commissioners appointed to form the Watauga Settlement which became the State of Tennessee (See 1776 Watauga Petition

In 1772, he served on the first court in Tennessee, with John Carter, Charles and James Robertson, & John Sevier, and had the most court experience of all five judges. In 1778, he served on the first court in Washington County (now-Tennessee) with John Sevier (later, the first governor of TN). On March 25, 1775, he witnessed a land lease from the Cherokees to Jacob Brown, making up a large part of Washington County and signed by several Indian chiefs. The huge old tree under which the deed was signed is still there, but lying on the ground.

Zachariah and his son Zachariah Jr. both served in the government of the Watauga Association, and both fought the British in the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780.
(Submitted by Researcher Ray Isbell who adds: See also Tennessee Cousins by Worth S. Ray, Annals of N.C. by Ramsey, The Overmountain Men by Cameron Judd and other histories.

Jonathan Jackson Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $1511.46 Amount Received June 6 1820 Pension Started Age 90 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Samuel Jackson Lieutenant, Georgia Line, $240.00 Annual Allowance $283.33 Amount Received December 23 1830 Pension Started Age 79 Relinquished For Benefits Of Act Of June 7 1832 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John Jones (Pension R5719, BLW #35719-160-55) served in the NC Line and War of 1812, was born Mar 1761 in "Old Henry" Co, VA, and lived in Surry Co, VA [NC?] during the Revolutionary War, and lived in Spartansburg Dist, SC during the War of 1812. He lived in Surry Co, NC a short time after his service in the Revolutionary War, then moved to Old Henry Co, VA, returned to Surry NC, then moved to Lincoln Co, NC, then moved to Spartanburg Dist, SC, and he lived there when he served in War of 1812, and afterwards moved to Carter Co, TN, and shortly after the War of 1812, he moved to Burke Co, NC, then moved to Washington Co, TN where he applied on 27 Feb 1852, and also applied for BLW on 18 May 1855 Washington Co, TN. Source: White's Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, extracted by C. H ammett who notes that another John Jones, aged 86 on 3 Apr 1832, Entered under enlisting master, Andrew ARMSTRONG in 1776. Born Morris Co, NJ. Was in Henry Co, VA when enlisting. Resided in Grayson VA. ("Over the Mountain Men, Their Early Court Records in Southwest Virginia," Anne Worrell, 1934, GPC, Repr. 1991; John Jones (Pension R5714) served in NC and VA Line, was born 3 Apr 1746 in Morris Co, NJ and he lived in Henry VA at enlistment, he applied 24 Sep 1832 in Grayson VA (White:1875)
Jeremiah KEYES Private, Tennessee Militia, $72.00 Annual Allowance $00.00 Amount Received July 8 1834 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Thomas LACKEY 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)
Thomas Langley 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)
William LEDMAN Private, 1ST Rifle Regiment, $72.00 Annual Allowance $283.20 Amount Received May 15 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Andrew Lilburn Private-Sergeant, Virginia Line, $114.00 Annual Allowance $345.00 Amount Received September 9 1833 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Robert LOVE See State of Franklin
Casimon May Private, Pennsylvania Militia, $20.00 Annual Allowance $60.00 Amount Received February 20 1833 Pension Started Age 82 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Nelson Private, Tipton's Company U. S. A., $64.00 Annual Allowance $222.04 Amount Received March 31 1826 Pension Started $96.00 Annual Allowance $876.33 Amount Received January 11 1825 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Edom Panter Private, Virginia Line, $46.66 Annual Allowance $139.98 Amount Received January 23 1833 Pension Started Age 100 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
James Pearce Captain James Pearce, North Carolina Line, resided Washington, Greene and Sevier Counties, fought at King's Mountain and Boyd's Creek. When he was a resident of Washington County, "now Tennessee, then in the State of North Carolina, which county was then a frontier and bordered on a Nation of Cherokee Indians who were in liege with the British in the War of the Revolution and was at that time and before and after committing murders and confrontations on the said frontier in which he resided." In the summer of 1779, he raised a company of volunteers in what is now Greene County by order of Col. John Sevier, marching them to the French Broad River, then Indian Territory, now Cocke and Sevier Counties in Tennessee, in company with Capt. Jacob Brown who also commanded a volunteer company from Washington County, their goal to prevent the Indians from crossing the river to the frontier settlements. In the spring of 1780... marched to Beaver Dam on Lick Creek where the Indians had come in on the frontier settlements... In the early fall of 1780... marched to Gap Creek in what is now Carter County, Tennessee, where they were joined by Colonel Shelby's Regiment from Sullivan County, Tennessee and Colonel Campbell's Regiment from the western part of Virginia. They then marched on to "Kings Mountain atop the Yellow Mountains" by way of Bright's Trace. He further states that there was a hard battle fought on Kings Mountain, in which the American army was successful, the British Colonel killed and his army principally killed and taken prisoners. Immediately after his return to Greene county... march[ed] with his company to guard the frontier neighborhood on the Lick Creek flats against the Cherokee Indians and prevent Indian spies from getting into the white settlement.... marched his company and joined Colonel Sevier's regiment on Lacy Creek, now Jefferson county, Tennessee, in accordance with the order of the said Colonel Sevier. From thence, marched over the French Broad River, encamped on Boyds Creek... having served the full time of nine months in said campaign.

That he resided, as before stated, in Greene county, then Washington co., and there resided for many years but recently removed to Sevier... (See Capt. James Pearce)
JOSHUA PEARCE Private, Maryland Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $451.20 Amount Received November 11 1820 Pension Started Age 79 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John ROCK Private, Pulaskie & Armand's Legion, $96.00 Annual Allowance $1514.13 Amount Received March 24 1821 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll) See Combs & of Washington Co, TN for more re John ROCK
James Sevier Private, Virginia State Troops, $33.33 Annual Allowance $99.99 Amount Received January 15 1833 Pension Started Age 70 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Slaughter Private, Virginia Line, $30.00 Annual Allowance $90.00 Amount Received May 14 1833 Pension Started Age 78 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Smith Private, Pennsylvania Line, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received December 28 1833 Pension Started Age 89 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John M. Smithpeter Private, Virginia Line, $76.66 Annual Allowance $229.98 Amount Received February 18 1833 Pension Started Age 81 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
James Stephenson James Stephenson, born 10 Dec 1754, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, applied for his Revolutionary on 10 Sep 1832 in Fayette County, Indiana, stating that he had resided in Washington County, Tennessee (then North Carolina) at the time of his enlistment (NC line), had moved to Greene County, Tennessee after the Revolution, wher he resided until 1810, when he moved to White County, Tennessee. He further declared that he moved to Franklin County, Indiana in 1815, in 1819 to Fayette County, Indiana, and in 1820 to Wayne County, Indiana until 1822 when his wife (not named) died, and since that time had resided with his children (not named) in the Indiana counties of Wayne, Henry and Fayette. The only child named was a son, Samuel Stephenson, who also resided in Fayette County, Indiana in 1832. (Extracted from Rev War Pension File S4009) James Stephenson, age 86, appears in the 1840 Henry County, Indiana Census, Franklin Township, page 88, line 22, household of Robert BOYD (The USGenWeb Census Project)
John STRAIN Private, North Carolina Militia, $40.00 Annual Allowance $120.00 Amount Received February 12 1833 Pension Started Age 74 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Christopher Taylor Captain, North Carolina Militia, $480.00 Annual Allowance $1208.00 Amount Received February 27 1833 Pension Started Age 88 Died September 10 1833 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
Laroy Taylor Private-Corporal, North Carolina Militia, $143.33 Annual Allowance $429.99 Amount Received February 27 1833 Pension Started Age 76 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
William Thacker Private, Virginia Continental Line, $96.00 Annual Allowance $218.40 Amount Received December 12 1831 Pension Started Age 94 (1835 TN Pension Roll)
John Thornburgh Sergeant, 24TH Regiment U. S. Infantry, $48.00 Annual Allowance $513.33 Amount Received January 30 1817 Pension Started $96.00 Annual Allowance $876.33 Amount Received January 11 1825 Pension Started (1835 TN Pension Roll)

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