Fentress County TN Archives Military Records.....Riley, John June 5, 1837
Revwar - Pension 
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Revolutionary War Pension Application For John Riley
Revolutionary War Pension Application W5703

John Riley



State of Tennessee

Fentress County



This day personally appeared Thomas Riley before me Joseph Upchurch one of the 

acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County and made oath in due form 

of law that he has been personally acquainted with John Riley the applicant 

for a period of twenty years during which time he has frequently heard him 

speak of enlisting and marching to the different places described in this 

amendment and I believe his statements now are the exact statements he always 

made before the acts of congress was passed allowing pensions  to 

revolutionary soldiers and further heard John R. Thurman an old revolutionary 

war soldier and Riley converse about being in the army together and state that 

they found other out by Riley’s relating a circumstance of a British officer 

coming in uniform into the American line he states that Thurman and Riley had 

frequently saw each other before but never heard them converse on that subject 

before the morning before the morning before Thurman died which was a very 

sudden death for he appeared in good health a common at the time and the next 

day he was a corpse he states that Riley is a very old man he would suppose 

eighty five years of age and has every confidence in the statements made by 

him in relation to his service sworn to and subscribed this 4th day of June AD 

1837.



He further states that said John Riley has shown him wounds and states that he 

received them in the Battle of Stony Mount long before they were anything said 

about petitions in this country sworn to and subscribe this 5th day of June AD 

1837.



Joseph Upchurch                                     Thomas  X   Riley

						  (his mark)





…..This applicant would further state the if prompt return of his papers had 

have been made by the War Department he could have proved that he was in the 

army by a certain John Thurman of Cumberland County Kentucky – he would here 

state the circumstances on the morning of the 24th of February last said 

Thurman came to the house of the applicant on his way to the circuit court of 

Fentress County Tennessee when they engaged in a conversation on the events of 

the Revolutionary War.  When said Thurman told the application he could make 

the proof as application is advised.  Said Thurman died the evening of the 

same day of this conversation………..



					John   X  Riley

				             (his mark)





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