Lincoln-Burke County NcArchives Military Records.....Asher, David May 28, 1850
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of David Asher, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 82, Application #R279
Reynolds County, Missouri, May 28, 1850, David Asher, aged 97 years:

	“That he enlisted on or about the last of March 1780 on Watauga River 
in the County of Burke, in the state of North Carolina under Captain James 
Rodey, alias Roddey, and Colonel Hardin. That he resided in said County of 
Burke at the time he entered the service of the United States. That he marched 
through the country ?west of the Blue Ridge on the waters of the Watauga River 
and the waters of New [Neuse?] River. That he served the United States for the 
term of three years in deriving back the Indians…That Jacob Elexander 
[Alexander] was his lieutenant. That he is so infirm with old age that he 
cannot go to court to make this declaration.”

	6th interrogatory-Did you ever receive a discharge from the service? If 
so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?

	Answer: I think that Lieutenant Jacob Alexander gave me a discharge, 
but I do not know what has become of it.

County of Reynolds, Missouri, 28th December, 1855: David Asher, aged 103 years:

	“Declares that he is the identical David Asher who was a private in the 
company commanded by Captain ____ or Sevier in the __- regiment of North 
Carolina commanded by Colonel Hardy or McDowell in the Revolutionary War, 
declared by the United States against Great Britain. That he enlisted at Tate’s 
mill, Burke County, North carolina on or about the ___ day of _______ , A. D. 
17__ for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said war 
for the term of said months and was honorably discharged at Tate’s Mill, North 
Carolina on the ___ day of _____, A.D. 17__.”


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