Fentress County TN Archives Military Records.....Shortridge, Andrew 
Revwar - Pension 
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ANDREW SHORTRIDGE



   Andrew Shortridge applied for revolutionary pension in August, 1834, while he

resided in Fentress County, Tennessee. He was born in Scotland in 1756 and came

to America with his parents when he was an infant. He enlisted in Petersburg,

Virginia, in 1781 in Captain Gardner s Virginia company. At the close of the

tour he re-enlisted in Captain Armistead's company, Colonel Gall's Virginia

regiment and served in Albermarle County, Virginia. Alter the Revolution he

lived in Frederick and Russell Counties, Virginia, and then moved to Pulaski

County, Kentucky, where he lived 18 years. He moved to Fentress County,

Tennessee, in 1827. He died there February 26, 1846. He married about April,

1789. Nancy Garrison at the home of her father in Tazewell, Virginia. She was 15

years of age in August, 1789, four months after her marriage. She applied for a

widow s pension in 1853 in Fentress County, where she died. They had ten children.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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