Chatham County, NC - John Birdsong Revolutionary War Pension, 1830

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February 4, 1932

Mr. Joe M. Birdsong
West Point
Georgia

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of December 19, 1931 requesting
information in regard to John Birdsong, a soldier in the Revolution.

The data contained herein are obtained from papers on file in pension
claim R.855 based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Birdsong.

He applied for pension February 20, 1830 while living in McNairy
County, Tennessee.

It was alleged that while living in Chatham County, North Carolina,
he enlisted sometime in 1780 and served until after the surrender of
Cornwallis; was with the North Carolina troops under Captains Medaris
and William Gholson and Colonels Ambrose Ramsey, Nicholas Long and
John Littrell. He was engaged in carrying expresses from one army to
the other; was in several skirmishes one of which was at Eli Branson's
and he was in the battle of Lindley's Mill.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of the alleged
service which was the requirement of the pension law.

In 1846 he stated that he was "near eighty-four years old" and had
lived in Fayette County, Tennessee for about fifteen years and he
referred to the death of members of his family but did not state
any names.

The soldier, John Birdsong, stated that his father, John Birdsong,
was first major of Chatham County, North Carolina, in 1780 and was
taken prisoner in 1781 shortly after the battle of Guilford and was
held at Wilmington and Charleston until about February, 1782. He also
stated that his brother, Captain Bath? Birdsong was deputy quartermaster
in command of the station at Harrisburg in Granville County for sometime
during the Revolution. The soldier's brother, General William Birdsong,
was living in Madison County, Tennessee in 1846 at which time he was
about eighty-one years of age.

The above noted is the history of the only John Birdsong on account
of whose Revolutionary War service a claim for pension was made to
the United States.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator

Source: John Birdsong Revolutionary War Pension file
        HeritageQuest Online
        Letter found in file

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