Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Alley, James October 29, 1833 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com January 31, 2007, 3:06 am Pension Application Of James Alley, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #W256 Roane County, Tennessee} On this 29th day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1833, personally appeared in open court, it being a court of Record, James Alley, 80 years, who being first duly according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration…: That in the year 1777, volunteered Captain Culpeper’s regiment in the regiment commanded by Colonel Love, went from Tyron County [Guilford County at one time was a part of this county], NC, marched from Tyron to the head of the Catawba, at which applicant was transferred into Captain Roberson’s in the same regiment, and was attached to the brigade commanded by General Rutherford . marched through various parts of the country to the Hiwassee on a tour after hostile Indians, at which time this was discharged after having served 7 months, as he believes, in 1777, but received no discharge. Applicant then went back to Tyron, where he remained about 12 months. In 1779 , he again volunteered in Captain Snoddy’s company in the regiment commanded by colonel Smith. Marched to Boonsborough in Kentucky to defend the place at the time an Indian called Black Fish besieged it, at which place this applicant was discharged after serving 3 months. He did not receive a written discharge. From thence he went to what is now, Lee county, Virginia, where he remained about 12 months, when he again volunteered in defense of his country in the company commanded by Captain Snoddy (his former captain), colonel’s name not recollected. Marched to a place called the Block House on the ___ of the Holstein, from thence to the Crab Orchard in Kentucky after the Indians, at which place this applicant was discharged, after serving three months. This was in 1780. He received no discharge. He did not return home immediately from the Crab Orchard, but substituted for a man by the name of McKinney in Captain Martin’s company, on an expedition against the hostile Indians. Marched out of the settlement to Lee’s Town, after serving two months. This was in 1781. He was discharged at this time. He received no discharge. From which place he went back to the Crab Orchard where he remained a short time, when he returned from service and to his father’s house on Clinch River, now Lee county, Virginia, after serving 15 months as above stated. Applicant was born in ?Henrico County, Virginia in the year 1753. He had a record of his age, but it is lost… He now resides in Roane County, Tennessee, and has lived here ever since 1821. Morgan County, Tennessee} On this 18th day of March, 1839, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the justices of the peace in and for Morgan County, Tennessee, Massey Alley, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, aged about 80 years…: That she is the widow of James Alley. That in the year 1777 or 1778, he volunteered in Guilford County, NC in the brigade commanded by General Rutherford, and was a private and served a campaign against the Cherokee Indians and marched to Big Valley River in NC and marched back; after serving three months, was discharged. Whether he received a written discharge or no, this affiant can not say. That in the year 1779 he again volunteered in the service in the brigade commanded by General Davidson. Marched from Guilford to the edge of SC, passed Hill’s Works thence to ?Warfed [Marfed?] Works [had a little skirmish with the Tories near the latter place] from thence to Gilbert Town in NC. Had another skirmish with the Tories there, thence back to Hill’s Works, thence to Cherokee ford on Broad River, and was there discharged after serving three months. Inferior officers names not recollected by this affiant. Affiant further states that to the best of her recollection, he again volunteered in the year 1780, perhaps in the winter of that year, in Guilford County under a Captain Culpepper or Love. Affiant c’not recollect which, and was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse and served six months. It was during this said service that affiant and said James was married, to wit: sometime in April or May, 1781. That she is well satisfied that he served six months, and was discharged, and she knows not whether he received a written discharge or not. That he afterwards volunteered and went perhaps in 81 or 82, went to the western frontier against the Indians and she has often heard him speak of being on the Cumberland where Nashville now is. That he was gone six months, as well as the applicant remembers, and as she thinks, under Captain Love. Affiant has no distinct recollection of any other services that he performed, and that he is the same James Alley that drew a pension for his revolutionary services under the provisions of the Act of Congress of the ___ of 183_. [left blank by the clerk.] She further declares that she was married to the said James Alley in the month of April or May, 1781 by a certain Esq. Love, but there being no family record kept of the same, she is unable to state which of those months or the day of the month she was married and that her husband, the aforesaid James Alley died on the 2nd day of August, 1834. That she was married to him prior to the first day of January 1794, viz. at the time stated above. Sworn and subscribed to on the day and the year above written. Massey Alley, her mark. Morgan County, Tennessee} This day personally appeared the undersigned, a justice of the peace for Morgan County, David Alley (whose statements are entitled to credit), a citizen of Morgan County, Tennessee, aged 45 years, who being duly sworn according to law, makes oath that he is the son of James and Massey Alley. That he has often heard his father speak of having served a three month tour against the Indians in the year 1777 or 1778 and also of having served three months against the Tories in the year 1781 and 2, and of being at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and that a short time after said battle was fought, his said father and mother was married at a place called ?Little? Block House, and by a justice of the peace named Love. That he served a six months tour afterwards to the west after the Indians. [He] has often heard him speak of being at the place where Nashville now stands. Recollects of hearing his father often speak of Captain Culpeper and Captain Love, but affiant does not know what other officers he served under, nor does he recollect of hearing his father say what regiment and etc, he served in. Affiant further states that Father was drawing a pension for his Revolutionary services to the time of his death, which was in August 1834. Affiant also further states that his mother, the present applicant, was always called, reputed and believed to be the wife of the said James, his father, from the first of affiant’s recollection until his death and that she was never married to any other man, and that they have had nine children, one of which is dead, to wit: Betsy, aged about fifty or over, James, aged 49 years, Fany, aged about 48 years, Sally about 46 or 47, and this affiant aged 45 years, Leah bout 41 years and Joseph aged about 39, William who is dead; being the only children the said James and Massey had. That the said James, his wife and family moved from Guilford County, NC to the head of Powel’s Valley over 45 years since, and remained there about 10 years, and then moved down said valley to a place called the Old Town, remained there four or five years, then moved to Wayne County, Kentucky, stayed there 10 or 12 years, moved to Monroe County, Tennessee, remained there 3 or 4 years, and then moved to Roane County, where he resided until his death, and it was during his residence there that he obtained his pension, since which time, his widow, said Massey, has reside in Morgan County, Tennessee, ever since. Affiant further states that there is no family record of the marriage of his father to his knowledge, that he thinks from the statement of his father and mother, he believes she is 80 years old. Sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of March, 1839, David Alley, his mark. 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