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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** CANNON, JOHN, S30309, SC Line 10 May 1843, Hart County, Kentucky, Declaration of Applicant JOHN CANNON, resident of Hart County, Kentucky aged eighty-two years, on oath in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following officers and Served as herein after stated to wit: This Declarant states that he was born in the District of Ninety Six South Carolina in the year Seventeen hundred & Sixty; and that he entered the United States Service as a drafted militia on the 1st June Seventeen hundred and Seventy five from the District of Ninety Six under Captain JAMES DAVIS and General WILLIAMSON who marched us across the Savannah River into the State of Georgia in pursuit of the Indians. We were drafted for a tour of three months; but during this tour we were in no engagements and after the expiration thereof we were disbanded and returned to Ninety Six District. This Declarant states that after he returned to the District aforesaid he apprenticed himself to a blacksmith to learn the trade of a Blacksmith and continued at that business for four years which brought time up to September Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine and he states that he worked as a Journeyman Smith until the 1st September in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty when he volunteered from the Said District under Captain JAMES DILLARD and Col. LEV CASEY and continued in the volunteer service under the aforesaid officers against the British and Tories untill the 1st June Seventeen hundred eighty one when he again volunteered under Major LAW and Col. BRANDON and was marched to the seige of Ninety Six and was at that Fortress during the seige. Soon after the abandonment of Ninety Six by Gen GREENE this declarant was put under the command of Col. BENJAMIN KILLGORE who was engaged in chaseing the Tories under "bloody" BILL CUNNINGHAM (as he was called) and continued in protecting of the inhabitants from the Tories untill the last of July in the year aforesaid. This Declarant states that he was again in the Service on the 1st of August next ensuing under Captain JAMES DILLARD and Major JOHN FORD for a tour of Six months. This company were marched in pursuit of the British after their defeat at the battle of Eautaw Springs on towards Charleston and we were continued in service untill the expiration of said tour when the war was closed in the South. This Declarant further States that owing to the lapse of time as well as his failing memory he is unable to give a detailed and minute narrative of the events which transpired during the time he was engaged in said Service. He was in no engagements except the Siege at Ninety Six and an occasional skirmish with the Tories and British of no noteriety. He recollects distinctly to have served as above to wit - three months after the Indians in Georgia in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy five and also that he volunteered on the 1st September Seventeen hundred and eighty and continued as above Stated untill the last of January Seventeen hundred and eighty two. He states that he knows of no persons by whom the foregoing Services can be proved except his brother who lives in Indiana (if alive). 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. Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid. JOHN [his X mark] CANNON [Court Officer/Affiant's name cut off] We, ROBERT REAMES a clergyman, residing in the neighbourhood of the above JOHN CANNON and WM E. GARDNER residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with JOHN CANNON, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. [Signed] ROBT REAMES, WM E GARDNER Sworn to and Subscribed ... C. BOARD, J.P.H.C., who also states ROBERT REAMES and WM E. GARDNER are credible, etc. GEORGE T. WOOD, Clerk of the County Court, affirms C. BOARD is J.P. of Hart Co. 4 June 1843, Edmondson County, Kentucky personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, THOMAS ADKINS, a resident of said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following statement in relation to the services performed by JOHN CANNON, now of Hart County Kentucky; in the South Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War - This Affiant states that he was well acquainted with JOHN CANNON in the District of Ninety Six South Carolina, before the War of the Revolution; and that this Affiant knew the said JOHN CANNON, during the continuance of the War, and also after the end of the same, and he states that said CANNON was a soldier in said war. This Affiant states that his first acquaintance with said CANNON, as a Soldier, was on the 1st of September Seventeen hundred and eighty, when said CANNON was a volunteer under Capt. JAMES DILLARD and COL. CASEY. This Affiant states that from the date last mentioned untill the seige of Ninty Six, in June Seventeen hundred and eighty one, said CANNON was engaged against the Tories and British in Scouting and foraging parties and this Affiant frequently met with, and saw him in said Service. This Affiant states that said CANNON was at the Seige of Ninty Six; and after said Seige said CANNON still continued in service under Col. KILLGORE who was in pursuit of the Tories under "bloody" BILL CUNNINGHAM. This Affiant States that after said Affiant's return to Ninty Six District, from the Eutaw Springs in September Seventeen hundred and eighty one, that said CANNON was still about in the service and continued so untill in January Seventeen hundred and eighty two when said CANNON returned home. This Affiant Stated that he and said CANNON were neighbours, before and after the war, and that he knows that said CANNON did render the services as above to wit that he became a soldier on the 1st September 1780 and continued in Service untill the 1st January 1782, though the Affiant was not with said CANNON "all the time" during the period above reffered to; but was with said CANNON often and frequently during said service and knows that he rendered the service. THOMAS [his X mark] ADKINS Edmondson County, Kentucky} Affirmed: JAS R. ?SHAWLER, J.P.E.C. 20 or 26 May 1843, RECORD OF INDENTS of Audited Accounts of JOHN CANNON from the Comptroller General, Columbia, South Carolina: No. 416, Book S, June 1785 for Twelve pounds six shillings & five pence sterling, duty done & provisions for the Militia, Militia duty as Liet., per Col. ANDERSON'S return. No. 534, Book Y, isued 14 Decbr 1785, Forty two pounds ten shillings & eight pence sterling, Militia duty in 1781 & 1782. Book ?22, for Two Hundred & Ninety five days duty in Col. McDONNALD'S Regt, Genl MARION'S Brigade from 2 April 1785 thro 16 Decbr 1782, 235 pounds Currency. 4 October 1843, Brownville, Kentucky, Letter of Transmittal to J. L. Edwards [Pension Office] enclosing documents relating to JOHN CANNON'S application. [Signed] M. D. HENDRICK 16 November 1843, Daviess County, Indiana, affidavit of JAMES CANNON On the 16 day of Nov 1843 Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County JAMES CANNON who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Statement in relation to the Service rendered by JOHN CANNON now of Hart County, Kentucky in the South Carolina Militia during the War of the Revolution. JAMES CANNON deposeth as follows. That his brother JOHN CANNON served in the Revolutionary War under Capt. JAMES DAVIS and Genl WILLIAMSON as drafted Militia June 1st 1775 and crossed the Savannah River into Georgia in pursuit of the Indians how long I cant say - on his return he work at his trade as Black Smith he again volunteered under Capt JAMES DILLARD and Col LEVI CASEY I can not say for sertain how long he served as My Memory dont serve me. I also recollected of his serving under Col. KILLGORE, also I was with him when he served under Capt. DILLARD & Major JOHN FORD 1781 how long I cant say probably 6 or 12 Months. JAMES [his X mark] CANNON Sworn to...FRANCIS WILLIAMS, J.P. Indiana Daviess County, This is to Certify that I am well acquainted with the above Affiant JAMES CANNON and he is reputed as an old Gentleman of truth and respectability and that the foregoing Statements are entitled to full Credit. Given under My hand this 16th day of Nov 1843. [Signed] FRANCIS WILLIAMS, J. P. Affidavit of JOHN VAN TREES that FRANCIS WILLIAMS is acting Justice of the Peace of Daviess County, Indiana. [Signed] JNO VAN TREES, Clerk 27 September 1843, HART COUNTY, KENTUCKY, This Supplemental Declaration of JOHN CANNON taken at the home of his son THOMAS CANNON before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. JOHN CANNON, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following addition to his Declaration of the 10th May 1843 for a pension. The Declarant states that the cause why he has delayed attempting to procure a pension for the Services rendered by him in the South Carolina Militia during the War of the Revolution, must be attributed to the circumstance, that he has heretofore been possessed of a competent amount of this world, wealth; but that he is reduced to poverty and indigence now and is compelled to Subsist upon the Charity of his children. That while this Declarant was able to support himself by other means he did not wish to avail himself of the benefit of the provisions made by Congress ?touching pension. This Declarant further states that since making the Declaration of the 10th May 1843 he has been reflecting upon the events of his revolutionary Service and he is now able to remember having the Service thirteen different times under various officers, all of whose names he can not now recollect; and that he now believes that instead of having the service in January Seventeen hundred and eighty two, he continued in service untill in the autumn of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty two. This Declarant further States that he received several discharges and certificates of Service but they have been mislaid and lost. JOHN [his X mark] CANNON Sworn Sept 27, 1843, C. BOARD, J.P. This is to Certify that the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for Hart County, Kentucky, is a near neighbour of the above Declarant JOHN CANNON and that I am well acquainted with said CANNON that in consequence of old age and the infirmaties attending it as well as the distance from said CANNON'S to the County Seat (being 10 miles) it is my opinion that it would be impossible for said CANNON to attend in open Court. I further certify that said CANNON is generally too feeble and infirm to visit his near neighbours. Given under my hand at the County aforesaid this Sept 27, 1843. [Signed] C. BOARD, J.P.H.C. 3 January 1844, Certificate of Pension issued, Hart County, State of Kentucky 26 September 1939, letter from A. D. HILLER of pension office to Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker, 120 South Myers St, Charlotte, NC, transmitting pension record of JOHN CANNON. She had requested record of JOHN and brother WILLIAM FINCANNON/FINCANNON/FINKANNUM, etc. [Note: JOHN CANNON'S brother, JAMES CANNON, of DAVIESS COUNTY, INDIANA, also received pension for Revolutionary War service.