Knox County TN Archives Military Records.....Gillespie, Jacob 
Revwar - Pension 
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JACOB GILLESPIE



    Jacob Gillespie applied for revolutionary pension while living in Knox

County, Tenn., October 4, 1832. He was then 79 years of age and therefore born

in 1753. He entered the United States service in June, 1774, when he was drafted

nto the militia in Augusta County, Virginia, under Colonel Andrew Lewis,

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lewis, Captain George Moffatt and Lieutenant James

Sawyer. He volunteered later under the same officers for another tour. He was in

battle at Big Kanawah River, October 10, 1774. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lewis

was killed, also privates William Gragg, William Bell, John Moffatt, the last a

brother of Captain Moffatt. He recalled that fourteen privates of his company

were killed and wounded including the above mentioned. He volunteered again

under Colonel Dickinson in Augusta County. In 1777 or 1778 he resided in

Rook-ingham. County and volunteered under Major Nawl and Captain Guy Hamilton,

He volunteered again in 1780 under Captain Hamilton and Captain John Rice. He

removed from Virginia to Tennessee about 1796.



Additional Comments:
From:



Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution

PAMPHLET NO. V

Compiled From Pension Statements

By

Zella Armstrong





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