Bledsoe County TN Archives Military Records.....Dalton, John Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com October 28, 2005, 8:23 pm JOHN DALTON John Dalton applied for revolutionary pension in Feb., 1833, while living in Bledsoe County, Tenn. He was born Oct. 3, 1758 in Albemarle County, Va. He enlisted in the spring of 1778 in Albemarle County, his company officers being Capt. William Sims. Lieut. William Flint and Ensign William Dowell. He enlisted again in 1779 under the same officers and again in 1781 under the same officers He married a daughter of Capt. William Simms. His uncle was William Grant, two members of whose family were killed by Indians in North Carolina in 1781. After the war John Dalton moved to Rutherford County, N. C., and to Bledsoe County, Tenn., about the year 1817. His widow, _____ Sims Dalton, survived him. Note: His pension does not state that he was a minister, but in signing an application for a friend's pension he wrote his name, John Dalton, D. D. Additional Comments: From: SOME TENNESSEE HEROES OF THE REVOLUTION Compiled From Pension Statements PAMPHLET NO. II by Zella Armstrong File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/bledsoe/military/revwar/pensions/dalton105nmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb