GREENE COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Azariah Doty, Revolutionary War Pension
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State of Tennessee, Greene County.

September 1832
On the 5th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the 
honorable Samuel Powell Judge of the circuit court of law and equity for the 
first judicial district in and for the State of Tennessee now sitting in 
Greenville in Greene County, Tennessee, Azariah Doty a resident of Greene 
County, Tennessee aged eighty-seven years who first being duly sworn according 
to law doth on his oath make the following application in order to obtain the
benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that in the year 1775 he 
was a citizen of Burke  County, North Carolina which was at that time a 
frontier county and lay under the mountain and was frequently annoyed by the 
Cherokee Indians and in consequence of which a portion of the citizens were 
left to save the frontier settlement, that in the year 1775 he volunteered on 
the 1st of July and went under Sergeant Latham and Capt. Moon and scouted
through Burke County to keep down the Tories and keep off the Indians and was 
kept in that employment first under one officer and then under another one and 
at other times employed not under any officer until some time in October when 
the Indians turned their attention to some other section of country or at 
least became less troublesome to that neighborhood which service consisted of 
not less than three months he states that he received no written exchange for 
his service that he was only dismissed, he states that he then moved to
Washington County, North Carolina thats now Greene County, Tennessee where he 
has since resided, he states that in September 1781 about the first of the 
month he was drafted to serve a three months tour to the South he was enrolled 
in Washington County then North Carolina now Greene County, Tennessee under 
Colonel Sevier, Capt. John Patterson, Sergeant Flippen and was marched to the 
Santee Swamp by way of Morgantown, ?,   Camden, through the high hills of 
Santee to the Santee Swamp when he joined General Marion when a scouting party
took some British prisoners and brought them to the swamp.  He states that 
Colonel Moon was also at that place with Marion.  He states that his company 
was mustered, he states that he remained at that place until the term of three 
months had expired when they were discharged verbally and returned back to 
Washington then North Carolina after having served the full term of three 
months.   He states he was not in any battle during his tour, he states that 
he served frequent short tours after parties of Indians the summer following 
none of which was more than two weeks, one of which tours he volunteered under 
Capt. Wilson and was marched to French Broad River after the Cherokee Indians 
which tour was about one week, shortly after he volunteered in Washington 
County as before under Capt. Wear and was marched to Little River now Blount 
County, Tennessee, and returned home and then was verbally discharged by the 
said Capt. Wear after having served a tour of two weeks and many other short 
tours he served.  He stated that he served in all ten months and three weeks 
during the War of the Revolution as above stated.  He states he is a citizen 
of Greene County, Tennessee, he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows 
of no person whose testimony he can prove, who can testify to his service, he 
states there is no resident minister of the Gospel in his neighborhood.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or anuity except 
the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the 
agency of any state.
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Sworn to me and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.    Azariah  X   Doty                                                                                             
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