Hawkins-Sullivan County TN Archives Military Records.....Hansley, Robert 
Revwar - Pension 
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ROBERT HANSLEY



    Robert Hansley applied for revlutionary pension while living in Hawkins

County in 1834. He had resided in the county for about forty years. He

volunteered for service in Sullivan County, North Carolina, now Tennessee as a

private in Captain George Maxwell's company, Colonel Isaac Shelby's regiment. He

was in the battle of King's Mountain after which he went to Salisbury, North

Carolina, and he continued to serve for six months. He enlisted again May 1,

1781, serving as a private in a company of Stokes County, North Carolina,

militia under Captain William Cloud and Captain Jonathan Hawley. During this

enlistment he went to the border of South Carolina against the Indians. This

length of service was also six months. He returned to Sullivan County, and

enlisted in the spring of 1782, serving under Lieutenant Fulkerson and in

Captain Elijah Chisholm's company. He was engaged against the Indians; he was

also in Captain John Blair's company at Campbell's Station. His service included

in all eighteen months. He was pensioned as Robert Hansley but his pension

application includes his name spelled Hinsley and Hensley.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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