Knox County TN Archives Military Records.....Craighead, Robert 
Revwar - Pension 
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ROBERT CRAIGHEAD



   Robert Craighead applied for revolutionary pension while residing in Knox

County Tennessee. He was allowed pension from January 31, 1818. After the fall

of Charleston many North Carolina citizens volunteered for service to oppose

threatened invasion of the state. Robert Craighead was one of the volunteers. He

joined the army at Lansford (which was later in Chester County, South Carolina)

under Major William. R. Davie and General Sumter, on the evening before the

battle of Hanging Rock. In that action he was severely wounded in the right

shoulder, which became stiff and almost totally disabled. His pension was given

in recognition of the disability. Although he is called Captain, there is no

definite proof that he was an officer. After the Revolution he resided in

Mecklenburg County, N. C. and later moved to Tennessee, where he died May 7,

1821. On April 3, 1821, he certified that he had lived in Knox County,

Tennessee, for twenty years.



Additional Comments:
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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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