Blount County TN Archives Military Records.....Kilbourn / Kilburn, Benjamin 
Revwar - Pension 
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BENJAMIN KILBOURN (OR KILBURN)



    Benjamin Kilbourn or Kilburn applied for revolutionary pension July 29,

1819, while living in Blount County, Tennessee. He enlisted at Carlisle,

Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1776 or 1777 for three years under Captain

William Wyley and Colonel Benjamin Flowers and served until 1780, when he was

discharged at the Barracks near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, by Captain John Jordan

by orders of General Irvine. He was in the battle of Paoli. In 1782 he enlisted

for "during the War" at Reading, Pennsylvania, and served under Captain Andrew

Walker and Colonel Richard Butler in the 3rd Pennsylvania Continental regiment.

He was appointed sergeant and served under Captain Christie in the same

regiment. He was discharged at Carlisle, September 30, 1783.



   Diana Kilbourne, aged 78, applied for widow's pension October 3, 1842. She

resided in Blount County. She declared that she married Benjamin Kilbourn in

1781 or 1782 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and that her name before

marriage was Diana Denning; that they moved to Blount County, Tennessee, in 1802

and that her husband died there in June 1828. They had five daughters and two

sons. Three daughters and two of the sons were married and the youngest daughter

was 15 in 1842. One of the said sons had been six years in the United States

Army. In 1842 one daughter, Elizabeth, was aged 61 and the widow of Robert

Hooke, aged about 71.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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