Elbert County GaArchives Military Records.....Teasley, Silas January 22, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Rev. War Pension Application
State of Georgia, Elbert County - On this 22nd day of January in the year of our
Lord 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before, William A. Beck, James Oliver
& Dillard Herndon, Justices of the Inferior Court in and for the County of Elbert
now sitting, Silas Teasley a resident in the County of Elbert and State of Georgia,
aged 77 years, who being first 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 June the 7th 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the
following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he was drafted into the
United States Service for three months, under Captain Valentine Sevier, in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel John Sevier in the year 1780, that at the time when he
was drafted into the service, he the said Silas Teasley resided in the County of
Bute, now Franklin County, in the State of North Carolina, and joined his Regiment
at the Town of Halifax on the Roanoke River, where he remained until after the
expiration of his service, when he received a written discharge for the same, signed
by one Colonel Carter. That he also entered the Service of the United States in the
Militia for three months under Captain Valentine Sevier in a detachment commanded by
Colonel John Sevier, the time he does not exactly recollect, but believes to be in
either of the yars 1780 or '81, that when he entered into the last service, he
resided in the County of Washington, North Carolina (now the State of Tennessee) on
the Watauga River near the Sycamore Shoals, we joined his detachment in the Indian
Nation, from thence marched to the Middle Settlements of the Indians on the
Tennessee River, where he had several Battles with the Indians, from thence back to
the place of his residence, where he was discharged after the expiration of his
service, making in all six months Service in the United States during the
Revolutionary War. He says that he was born in the County of Isle of Wight State of
Virginia on the 25th day of July 1755 and that he has no register of his age. He
saith when he was called into Service of the United States, he lived in the County
of Bute, now Franklin County State of North Carolina, and in the County of
Washington then North Carolina, now the State of Virginia; that he lived about two
years after the Revolutionary War in the State of North Carolina, from thence
removed to the County of Wilkes, now Elbert, in the State of Georgia, where he has
resided ever since, and now resides there. He says that he was drafted into the
service of the United States and that he served with no other Regiment but his own.
He says that he received a written discharge for his first services given by one
Colonel Carter which has either been lost or destroyed, for the last time he entered
the service of the United States, he only received a verbal discharge. He states
that the names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, and who
can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a
soldier of the Revolution, are Moses Hunt, Leonard Rice, James Riley and Harris
Tyner. That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose
testimony he can procure, except (blank in original) who can testify to his
services, as  soldier of the Revolution. 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 the Agency of any State. [Signed} Silas Tesly. Sworn to, and
Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Attest: Benj. W. Fortson, Clk. [James Davis,
a clergyman, and William A. Beck gave the standard supporting affidavit] 

Additional Comments:
Affidavit transcribed by Will Graves from Rev. War Pension File S32009 and as shown
on the site http://southerncampaign.org/pen/index.htm 

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