Blount-Greene County TN Archives Military Records.....Houston, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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ENSIGN JAMES HOUSTON



    Ensign James Houston applied for revolutionary pension while living in

Blount County, Tenn., Aug. 10, 1832. He was born Nov. 12, 1757, in Augusta

County. Va. He enlisted in the spring of 1776 under Capt. William Buchanan and

then resided in Augusta County. He served in the battle of Long Island and in

the Chickamauga Expedition under Col. Shelby. He volunteered again under Capt.

Nathaniel Henderson and was in the battle of King's Mountain. He moved in 1782

from Washington County, Va., to Greene County, N. C., now Tennessee, and about

1792 to what is now Blount County, Tenn. He was a member of the Convention of

1796 from Blount County, and was also a member of the First General Assembly of

Tennessee. He was an Ensign in the battle of King's Mountain as he was promoted

to that office at the death of Lieut. Edmundson.



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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

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