BURKE COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - James Blair, Revolutionary War 
			      Pension Record
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May 20, 1933

Honorable W.W. Hastings
BA-J/MCS
House of Representative
James Blair, S. 22125
Washington
D.C.

My dear Mr. Hastings

      Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary
War record of James Blair.

      The data which follow were obtained from papers on file
in the pension claim, S. 22125, based upon the military service of
James Blair.

      He was born March 6, 1761, in Augusta County, Virginia.

      While a resident of Burke County, North Carolina, he
enlisted in 1778 and served at various times until the close of the
Revolution, as orderly sergeant, ensign and Indian spy under Captains James
Richardson, Peter Ford, Barnett, John Boman, Andrew Hampton, Barton, William
Gray Norwood, and Welborn, and Colonels Joseph McDowell, Hampton, Hambright,
Cleveland, and Dugan.  He was wounded in the shoulder by the Tories while on
duty as an express rider and he was at the battles of Pacolet River,Sumters
Defeat, Cane Creek, Kings Mountain, Blackstocks, and the siege of Augusta. He
also served as captain for eleven months under Generals Pickens and Anderson
during an Indian War.

      He was allowed pension on his application executed October
16, 1827, while residing in Habersham County, Georgia.  He had previously
lived in Ray County, Tennessee, Pendleton District, South Carolina, and
Franklin County Georgia.

      The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's
family.  The above noted is the history of the only soldier named James
Blair who was from the vicinity of Chester South Carolina, that is found in
the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator