Bledsoe-Giles-Sumner County TN Archives Military Records.....Curtis, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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JOHN CURTIS



   John Curtis applied for revolutionary pension while living in Bledsoe County,

Tenn., in November 1832. He was born in Dinwiddie County or Sussex County, Va.,

in 1759 or 1760. His father died when he was very young. He was living in

Dinwiddie County when he enlisted and served in Virginia troops. He moved to

Orange County, N. C., and then to Chatham County, N. C. He then moved to Giles

County, Tenn., Sumner County, Tenn., White County, Tenn., and to Bledsoe County.

He died August 7, 1844 in Bledsoe County. He married Dolly Huneycut, Oct., 10,

1793. She survived him and applied for widow's pension while living in McMinn

County, Tenn., in 1848, being then 78 years old, therefore born 1770. Their

oldest child the name not being given in the application, was born in 1796.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

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