Gibson County TN Archives Military Records.....Martin, Rhodeham April 24, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Rhodeham Martin, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #W9907
Gibson County, Tennessee}

	On this 24th day of April, 1833, personally appeared, Rhodeham Martin, 

in open court now sitting, the Circuit Court for the aforesaid county and 

state, being a court of record, _______ Clark, a resident of said county and 

state, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, 

doth on his oath make the following declaration…:



	That he entered the service as a volunteer in the army of the United 

States in the year before Cornwallis was taken, and served in the regiment of 

the ____ line under the following named officers, viz., Colonel Pacely 

[Paisley], Major John McAdo [McAdow or McAdoo], Captain Peter O’Neil [O’Neal], 

and that he entered the service of the united States on a first tour in the 

month of January, in the year as above, and served three months; and that he 

entered the service the second tour in the month of November in the year 

thereafter, and served three months, and left the service in the month of 

January or the first of February in the year thereafter.



…and that was in a battle against the British [against whom he went out] at 

Whitesell’s Mills on the Reedy Fork of the Haw River in the state of North 

Carolina, Guilford County, and that he resided in said state of North Carolina 

in Guilford County, where he resided when he entered the service, and that he 

entered the service and performed the same as a volunteer as before mentioned, 

and that his services were performed altogether in the state of North Carolina. 

That he entered the service of the United States at in Guilford County and 

first marched to Bell’s Mills and there was stationed; from thence to 

Ramsaur’s. The number of regiment or company not recollected; and says that 

Colonel Moore was also in the tour of services at the same time, and served as 

officer of the day at the Battle of Whitesell’s Mills; and that Major Donahoo 

was also in the same tour of service. He further says that he has no 

documentary evidence owing to the loss of his discharge, whereby he can 

identify his services. He hereby relinquishes, et…



The following are interrogatories propounded to the applicant for a pension on 

account of his services as a volunteer in [as] a Revolutionary soldier.



1st: When and in what year were you born?

Answer: in Fairfax, Virginia in the year 1761.



2nd Have you any record of you age and if so, where is it?

I have none and my evidence of my age on what I recollect of my father’s family 

record.



3rd Where were you living when called into service? Were you drafted; did you 

volunteer, or were you a substitute?

Answer: I lived in Guilford County, North Carolina when I entered the service, 

and I went out as a volunteer. 



5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops 

where you

served. 

Answer: Colonel Moore and Major Donahoo were in the same service.



Gibson County, Tennessee}

	On this 19th day of November, 1853, personally appeared before me, a 

justice of the peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, Jane 

Martin, aged about 54 years being duly sworn according to law, declares that 

she is the widow of Rhodeham Martin, deceased, who was a private in the army of 

the Revolution, which will fully appear by the rates of the war department and 

exhibited herein[?] and made part of this. She further states that she was 

married to the said Rhodeham Martin in the said county of Gibson and state of 

Tennessee on the 3rd day of September, 1840, by one William Shane, esq., then 

an acting justice of the peace for said county, and that her name before her 

said marriage was Jane [looks like Affix.] That her said husband died in said 

county of Gibson on the 13th day of February, 1853 and that she is still a 

widow. She here files an exhibit [several unreadable words] She makes this 

declaration for the purpose of  obtaining any pension to which she may be 

entitled. Jane, her mark, Martin



Attached is a very faint marriage license and her maiden name is too faint to 

read.

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