Davidson County TN Archives Military Records.....Tatum, James April 2, 1818
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Tatum, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #S39102
District of West Tennessee:

	“On the 2nd day of April, 1818, Howell Tatum appeared before me and 

made oath that he was a Revolutionary officer in the 1st regiment of NC 

Continental troops, and that he served from the 1st day of September 1775 until 

sometime in 1782. That he well knew James Tatum, the applicant for a pension, 

as he is the brother of the said deponent and knows of his appointment as an 

officer which took place sometime about the 12th of August 1777 in the 9th 

regiment of NC Continental troops, commanded by Colonel Williams, in which 

regiment he served until a new arrangement of the army took place in the year 

1778, at which time he became a 2nd lieutenant in the 3rd regiment of the said 

state, commanded alternately by Colonels Hogan and Mebane, in which regiment he 

was captured in Charleston, SC on the 12th day of May 1780, and continued a 

prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The different changes in his rank while 

a prisoner this deponent has no knowledge of, but well knows he was never 

otherwise than a commissioned officer during the service.”



State of Tennessee, Davidson County:

16th October, 1820



	“James Tatum, late a lieutenant in the NC line of the army of the 

Revolution, aged 63 years, a resident in Davidson County…that he entered the 

service on the 12th of August 1777 as an ensign under the command of Colonel 

John Williams of the 9th regiment of the NC line. That he continued in the 

service during the whole of the war. He was at the siege of Charleston and at 

Lampere’s Point, and had the command of three eighteen pounders under Colonel 

Malmedy. He was during the war, promoted to a lieutenant and at the close of 

the war, honorably discharged.”



Letter dated October 7, 1937, addressed to a descendant:



	James Tatum was commissioned August 12, 1777, ensign in Captain 

McCrory’s company in Colonel John Williams 9th NC regiment. He was commissioned 

January 1, 1779, 2nd  lieutenant and was commissioned December 14, 1779, 

lieutenant and served in Captain Rochelle’s company in Colonel James Hogun’s 

and Mebane’s 3rd NC regiment, and in Colonel Thomas Clark’s 1st NC regiment, 

was captured at the surrender of Charleston, SC and was a prisoner until the 

close of the war.”

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