Anson County NcArchives Military Records.....Rushing, Richard 1834
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension
Revolutionary soldier RICHARD RUSHING (S2147) first enlisted in 1776 in Anson 
County and served three months with Captain John Jackson's Company. During his 
engagement in skirmish as Drowning Creek this soldier's brother, WILLIAM 
RUSHING was wounded and subsequently died as a result. In 1777, RICHARD 
RUSHING reenlisted in Captain Stephen Jackson's Company and served 10 months. 
He served another eight months in the same company during a third enlistment 
in 1778; and a fourth stint with the same company in 1780. He was in a 
skirmish on the Black River, at Bates Bridge, at Lynch's, Richardson's and 
Thompson's Creeks. He lived in Anson County until about 1820, when he then 
moved to Tennessee.

He was born in 1747 "on the Roanoke." He applied for and was granted a pension 
in 1834 at the age of 85. He was then living on Rushing Creek in Jackson, 
Perry County, Tenn. He said he was usually with his brother, Phillip. No other 
family information was given in his pension application.

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