Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Jackson, Samuel December 8, 1841 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 June 30, 2006, 2:13 pm Pension Application Of Samuel Jackson, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #R5517 Marion County, Tennessee, December 8, 1841, met at the residence of Jane Jackson, aged 94 years: “That Samuel Jackson was my late husband. Was born in Guilford County, NC March 3, 1748. That he, the said Samuel Jackson and myself intermarried in the year 1760. My maiden name being Jane Field.” “That the said Samuel Jackson entered the service [the precise time this deponent is unable to state] but affirms as soon as any other person after declaration of war and troops raised in Guilford County, North Carolina and in a regiment commanded by Colonel Dougan. The length of time he was drafted the deponent does not recollect but does recollect that after being drafted he joined a light horse company commanded by James Bell.” “Deponent further recollects that he served one tour in a company commanded by Captain Collier. What routes he took or what engagements he was in , deponent has forgotten, except the Battle at Guilford Courthouse when General Greene commanded, in which engagement said Samuel Jackson was detailed as one of the guards to protect the baggage.” “That previous to the death of my husband, he was averse to applying to the government for support, but shortly before his death having become quite ___ and poor and unable to make a support, he was induced by the solicitation of friends to make an application. He arranged his papers, but what was done with them deponent has no knowledge. He died in April 1833.” “The reason this deponent had not earlier made application was that she had never been qualified and hoped she would be able to live out her live without the support from government, she was advised can’t obtain, but now being very old and infirm, and supported by the charity of friends, having been thus induced, deponent that said Samuel Jackson, as well as she now recollects and believes, served the United States during the Revolutionary War at least 3 years and perhaps five.” “The discharges of my husband’s service during the war was burned having had his house burned down about 18 years ago, and his discharges and other papers destroyed. I have no record of my age, that was destroyed also by the burning of the house aforesaid. I was born February 14th, 1747. Deponent never intermarried with any other person except said Samuel Jackson.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/jackson392gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb