Hardin County TN Archives Military Records.....Perkins, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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JOHN PERKINS



   John Perkins applied for revolutionary pension while living in Hardin County.

Tennessee. He was born in Halifax, Va., May 11, 1765. His father died when he

was very young and he took the name of his mother's second husband, Thomas

Carson. He enlisted in April, 1781, under that name, but he received his pension

under his own name, John Perkins. He served with Captain James Turner in the

Siege of Ninety-six. He moved to Caswell County, N. C., in 1782 and served with

Captain Elijah Moore and Captain Rhodes and was discharged at Ten Mile House

near Charleston. When his step-father died in 1782 he began to be called by his

own name. He married Frances _____.



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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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