Bedford County TN Archives Military Records.....Gibbs, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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JOHN GIBBS



   John Gibbs applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bedford County.

Tennessee, in November, 1832. He was born in 1756 in Pittsylvania County,

Virginia. His parents died when he was very young and at the age of fifteen

years he became an apprentice in Halifax County, Virginia. He volunteered in the

spring or summer of 1777 and served three months in Virginia troops under

Colonel Peter Rodgers in the defense of Portsmouth. In September, 1778, he went

into Granville County, N. C., where he enlisted in Captains Farrar and High's

companies in Colonels Henry Dixon and Lytle's North Carolina troops and was in

an engagement near Charleston, S. C. He was in the battle of Stone Ferry and was

discharged at the expiration of nine months. He returned to Virginia, enlisted

in the spring of 1781 in Captain Bird Wall's comyany and was in the battle of

Cuilford Court House. He enlisted again in Captain Long's Virginia company and

was in the battle of Yorktown.



  He moved after the Revolution from Virginia to North Carolina, then to York

County, South Carolina: then again to the Yadkin River, North Carolina; then to

Kentucky; and to Bedford County, Tennessee. About November, 1842, he moved to

Breathitt County, Kentucky, where he died October 18, 1848.



    He married January 22, 1782 or 1783, in Guilford County, North Carolina.

Hannah, whose maiden name is not given in the pension application. Hannah Gibbs,

the soldier's widow, applied for pension, March 29, 1850, in Morgan County,

Kentucky, where she then resided. She gave her age as ninety-five which places

her birth in 1755, and was survived by the following children: John Gibbs; Sally

Gibbs Woods, and Nathan Gibbs, born October 12, 1793, whose residence in 1850

was West Liberty, Kentucky.



Additional Comments:
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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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