Anderson County TN Archives Military Records.....Blackburn, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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CAPTAIN JAMES BLACKBURN



   James Blackburn applied for Revolutionary pension while he resided in

Anderson County, Tennessee, in April, 1818. He was 59 years of age which places

his birth in 1859. In May, 1778, He entered the service as a Captain in

Belinsky's Company- or the Independent Company of Cavalry in Colonel Pulaski's

Dragoons. He went in 1779 to Charleston after the defeat at Savannah where

Belinsky's company was cut to pieces. He was shot through both feet and cut

through the body with a sword. He lay for a long time in a hospital.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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