Hamilton-Rhea-Greene County TN Archives Military Records.....Crawford, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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JOHN CRAWFORD



    John Crawford applied for revolutionary pension while living in Hamilton

County, Tenn. He was born Oct. 29, 1762, seven miles below Staunton, Va. He

moved with his father to Surry County, N. C. where he resided during the

Revolution. He enlisted three times, first in Surrey County in 1778; the second

time in 1780 under Capt. Gibson Woodridge and Maj. Joel Lewis; the third time in

1781 under Capt. Edmund Hickman and Col. Rutherford. He was in the battles of

Eutaw Springs, Briar Creek and others. After the War he moved to Washington

County, N. C. (now Tennessee), and then to Greene, Knox, Anderson, Bledsoe and

Hamilton Counties, Tenn. He seems to have lived for a time in Rhea County also.

The arrears of his pension were paid to his children.



    Note:-He also served in the War of 1812, enlisting in the Washington County

Infantry. While he lived in Washington County he was a member of the

Constitutional Convention of Tennessee and a member of the General Assembly of

Tennessee. His descendants lived in the Graysville section of Hamilton County,

Tenn., although it is said in the family records that he died in Ross's Landing.

He died after 1840 as he is on the 1840 Pension List, but by that time the

village of Ross's Landing had been renamed Chattanooga, He married Mary Vernon,

daughter of Alexander and Margaret Chesnee Vernon. She was born in 1767 and the

marriage took place in Spartanburg, S. C. about 1782. They had at least three

children and possibly others. The oldest son, William Ayres Crawford. Another

son, John Crawford, junior, born in Washington County, Dec. 16, 1809, entered

the Confederate Army and died a prisoner at Camp Morton, Ind., April 10. 1762.

[sic] Polly, a daughter of John Crawford and Margaret Chesnee Crawford married

_____ White, (probably Silas White.)



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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