GREENE COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - John Harmon, Revolutionary War Pension Application --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JOHN HARMON 3 September 1832 STATE OF TENNESSEE, GREENE COUNTY on this 3rd day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the honorable Samuel Powel an Judge of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity for Greene County now sitting John Harmon a resident of said County and State aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the credit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That in the year 1777 he was a citizen of Bedford County, State of Virginia and volunteered under Capt Thomas Dudley, a resident of said county and akd (acting?) Leutinat (Carter?) for three months to go against the British at Williamsburg, Virginia and was xxxxxx at New London the County Seat of said county and was marched to Williamsburg where we joined the main army under General Washington who had drove the British Army from that post two days previous to the arrival of the sd (said) Captain Thomas Dudleys Company. He state that on his arrival at Williamsburg he was placed under the command of Colonel Davis and Major Sharp, the same who was some time after broken of his commission for getting drunk and neglecting his duty. He states that shortly after the departure of the British from Williamsburg Washington's Army was marched to the north and he remained at Williamsburg under the command of his same officers until discharged by this said Capt Dudley after having served a term of three months. He states he believes he volunteered in July 1777 and was discharged at Williamsburg in October. he states that during his stay at Williamsburg he with eighteen others under the command of Capt. Dudley attacked a Bote (boat) at the fork of the Rivers below Williamsburg with seventeen men on hand took the men on bord (board) prisoners though without firing a gun and with lead (?) they had on hand xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx it was understood they were going up the River after provisions xxxxx for the British Army. He states that in the March previous to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis he volunteered under Capt _____ and Leutenant McClung to go to greenbryer County, Virginia to go against the Shawnees Indians. He states that when he arrived at Greenbryer he was placed under the command of Colonel Hamilton and was confined principally to the neighborhood & forts in sd Countys to wit Fort Hamilton Fort Yacaim (?) & Fort Keeney where he remained for a term of twelve months in an United States service to guard the frontier country as an Indian spy he states that he was discharged verbally by his sd Leutenant McClung. He states that he received a written discharge for his first term as aforesaid which discharge has been casualty (?) lost and also that he volunteered the last time in the County of Bedford Virginia He further states that xxxxx his Service as a Volunteer sixteen days under Captain Cotrral (?) against the Tores at New London in Virginia and that he also Volunteered in Bedford County making in all Sixteen (?) months which he was in actual service and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. The xxxxxx relinguishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity escept the present and declars that his name is not on the Pension Role of any of any states xxxx he states that there is no resident (?) minister of the gospel in his neighborhood xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx subscribed this day and year aforesaid Isaac Harmon, John Balch, and John Harmon all residing in the County of Greene and state of Tennessee as having certify that we are well acquainted with John Harmon who has subscribed and sworn to the above xxxxx that we believe him to be eighty two years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed this 3rd September, 1832. V. Sevier Isaac Harmon and John Balch And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting this interragtorus prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to him that Isaac Harmon and John Balch who has signed the same are resident citizens in said County and are credable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. Signed by the Judge of the court ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Janice Parton [jparton@planetc.com] ___________________________________________________________________