Blount-Mcminn-Polk County TN Archives Military Records.....May, William 
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WILLIAM MAY



    William May was born May 3, 1764, in Essex County Virginia. While residing

in Henry County, Virginia, he enlisted in the fall of 1779 or 1780 in Captain

Hamby's Company, Colonel Abram Penn's Virginia Regiment. Later he enlisted in

Captain Dillard's Company Colonel Penn's Regiment. At the time of the battle of

Guilford Court House he enlisted in Captain Peter Hasting of Hasten's Company.

In 1781 he enlisted in Captain Hiram Crite or Cryte's Company, Colonel Stephens'

Regiment. He was in the Siege of Yorktown. He was discharged October 20, 1781.

About eight years after the War he moved from Henry County, Va., to Union

County, S. C., and six years later he moved to Buncomb County, N. C., and then

to Blount County, Tenn., to a site on the Hiwassee River then in the Cherokee

Nation. He then moved to the Chattahoochee River and later to what became Murray

County, Georgia. He was allowed pension while living in Murray County, Ga.,

August 2, 1833, but his application was executed in McMinn County, Tennessee. He

died March 4, 1844, in Polk County. He married in July 1783 Rhoda ______, her

maiden name not being given in the pension application. She was allowed pension

May 6, 1844, while living in Polk County, Tenn., but in 1849 she was living in

DeKalb County, Ga., for two years. The children of William and Rhoda May were:

Orpha, born May 6, 1784; John, born January 11, 1786; Daniel born April 16,

1788; William May, Jr., born January 11, 1790; Ruth, born October 8, 1792; Mary

Ann, born February 8, 1795  Asa, born October 29, 1797; (in the pension

application lines are drawn through his name and the date of his birth), and

James May, born April 29, 1800.



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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

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