Anderson-Sullivan-Knox County TN Archives Military Records.....Cross, William 
Revwar - Pension 
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WILLIAM CROSS



   William Cross applied for Revolutionary service while he resided in Anderson

County, Tennessee, in 1833. He was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, about

March 5, 1761 or 1762. The names of his parents are not given in the

application. He moved to that part of North Carolina which later became Sullivan

County, Tennessee, near the Virginia line. He enlisted in September, 1776 in

Captain William Hicks' North Carolina Company and served as a drummer boy,

against the Cherokee Indians. He was discharged in October, 1777. He enlisted in

August 1781, serving as a private in Captain Thomas Wallace's Company, Colonel

Isaac Shelby's regiment, against the British and Tories and awarding: the

frontier against Indians. The length of this tour was three months. In 1817 he

moved to Knox County, Tennessee, and in a year moved to Anderson County,
Tennessee.



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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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