Greene-Knox County TN Archives Military Records.....Porterfield, Richard 
Revwar - Pension 
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RICHARD PORTERFIELD



   Richard Porterfield applied for revolutionary pension January 27, 1824, while

living in Greene County, Tennessee. He enlisted in March, 1779, in a company

commanded by Captain Fulkner, in a Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel

William Washington. He served in the battle of Camden, where he was wounded.

According to his age as given in 1840 he was born about 1758 but he does not

give the year of his birth or the place. When he entered the service he was

living in Albemarle County, Virginia. He moved to Greene County, Tennessee, by

or before 1820. He was married twice. In his application for pension in 1824 he

stated that his wife had been dead for about three years and that he had two

sons and two daughters. The name of his deceased wife and the names of the

children are not given. He moved to Knox County where he married, August 31,

1847, Louisa Bose, born 1816. She survived him, applied for a widow's pension,

which was granted, and died in Knox County after 1866.



Additional Comments:
From:



Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution

PAMPHLET NO. V

Compiled From Pension Statements

By

Zella Armstrong





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