BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - John Beardon, Sr., Revolutionary War Pension Application
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JOHN BEARDON, SR.

Contributed by: Richard Smith [rfsmith@deltanet.com]


S2991
National Archives

State of Tennessee
Bedford County

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 
7th of June 1832.

On this 15th day of May One thousand Eight hundred and thirty three, 
Personally appeared before me William Heaslett an acting Justice of the peace 
for said county John Bearden Senr a resident of the county and State aforesaid 
aged, eighty nine years two months and four days, who after being duly sworn 
according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to 
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832 that he 
entered the Service of the united States under the following named officers 
and Served as herein Stated; This applicant Says he was born in the County of 
Spotsylvany and State of Virginia on the 11th of March in the year 1744. 
Agreeable to his Fathers family Record, but has no record of it at this time. 
He further Says that he entered the Service of the united States as a private 
and volunteer in a Company of Rangers or Spies Commanded by Captain Joseph 
Worford and Lieut D. Graham in Spartenburg District and State of South 
Carolina Some time in the month of April 1777 the pricse day he cannot 
recollect, and was marched to a fort up on the head of Inaree river to Princes 
Fort and was there Stationed, but was frequently out on Spying and Scouting 
Expeditions against the Cherokee Indians and a Tory family by the name of 
Bates four in number to wit Wm, Harvey, and Isaac, and their father who were 
Skulking about with the Indians and were frequently engaged with the Indians 
in committing murders on the frontier Settlers and that he remained in Service 
until some time in January 1778 when he was dismissed after Serving not less 
than nine months in actual service; and that he did not receive a discharge in 
writing but was honorably dismissed agreeable to orders. Deponent States that 
about a month afterwards he thinks in February 1778 he volunteered again and 
joined a Company of Spys or Rangers under the Command of Captain John Gowen 
and was marched to a fort on the South fork of Packolett river and was 
frequently out Ranging and Spying on the frontier Settlements on Tigar river, 
he States that on one of the Scouting expeditions he was on the Spies under 
Captain Gowen arrested and took prisoner two men one by the name of Fanning 
and the other by the name of Smith that they brought them back into the white 
Settlement and delivered them up to a Magistrate, as they were both tories, 
and both had a Stolen horse each taken from a Mr. James Ford and a Mr. John 
Patton. Deponant Says he was then marched back to the last mentioned Fort on 
the South fork of Packolett river where he remained in Service until some time 
in the month of August 1778 and was again dismissed It being thought and 
frequently said by the Captain that the Indians had become quiet and that 
there was no further use for the troops at that time. He States that he 
Served on this last mentioned tour not less than Six months. Deponant further 
Says that he removed Shortley after that down into Union District South 
Carolina and there entered the service of the united States again about one 
Week before the Siege of Ninety Six that he was marched to that place, a 
drafted Soldier and was in the Engagement of that place he says was there 
transferred from Captain Blessingames Company to a Company of Volenteers under 
the Command of Captain John Putman and was march through the Country in 
different directions in Search of a band of Tories under the Command of a tory 
Captain by the name of Jesse Gray, that he continued in Service under Said 
last mentioned Capt, a tour of duty of not less than four months when he says 
he was finally dismissed from Service after Serving in all a term of actual 
Service of not less than Nineteen months for which he claims a Pension, this 
applicant Says he remained a citizen in South Carolina until the year 1824 
when he removed to Bedford County Tennessee where he has lived ever Since and 
where he now lives He further Says that he was not acquainted with any Regular 
officer with the troops when he served nor any Regiment of Regular whatever-
Deponent hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the 
present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in 
the United States-He further Says that he has no documentary evidence whatever 
and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify 
as to his Service, and that he is known to the Rev. William Martin and Jacob 
Fuller in his present neighbourhood-
subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me

Wm Heaslet acting J
th peace for Sd County

John Bearden Sr.


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