PENSION APPL: Nathaniel Burris, 1832, Mercer Co, KY

Nathaniel Burris enlisted in Orange County, Virginia, and served as
private with the Virginia troops as follows: Jan. 1779, two months in Capt. 
George Waugh's company; from July 1779, two months in Capt. Buckner's company;
in 1779, four months in William Crittendon's brigade of militia; from the
summer of 1781, four months under command of Captains Johnson and
Stubblefield and was in the siege at Yorktown and at the capture of 
Cornwallis, and was wounded at Yorktown.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 11, 1832, at
which time he was living in Mercer County , Kentucky, and he then stated he
was in the seventy-first year of his age.  He was living in Mercer Co. in
1837.

One Samuel Burris was living in 1832, and was then 65 years of age,
relationship to the soldier not shown.  Samuel Burris and Lewis Perry made
oath that they acquainted with Nathaniel and lived in the same county in
Virginia.

Nathaniel Burris born 1795 Virginia and died 1855 near Salvisa, Kentucky.
He is buried in Mercer Co., Kentucky and his name is among the men of Mercer
County who fought in the American Revolution and who sleep in Mercer Co..
This on the memorial which was erected by the Jane McAffee Chapter of the
DAR, Harrodsburg, Kentucky.     From Bureau of Pension Dept. of Interior. 

Submitter:  Nancy  T r i c e

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