Knox-Jefferson County TN Archives Military Records.....Quarles, Frances 
Revwar - Pension 
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FRANCES QUARLES



   Frances Quarles applied for revolutiohary pension while living in Knox

County, Tennessee, in February, 1833. He was born February 7, 1752, in Goochland

County, Virginia. He lived there until he was about sixteen years of age when he

moved to Cumberland County. He moved to Prince Edward County and in about two

years moved to Pittsylvania County, where he lived during the Revolution. He

enlisted early in the war and served eighteen months in Captain Thomas Dillard's

company, Colonel Morgan's Virginia regiment. Later he volunteered and served six

months in Captain Gabriel Shelton's company, Colonel Buford's regiment, and was

in the battle of Buford's Defeat and the battle of Camden. He was at the battle

of Guilford Court House but was guarding baggage. He marched to the Siege of

Yorktown and was present at the Surrender of Cornwallis.



He lived in Pittsylvania for five years after the Revolution when he moved to

Henry County and then to Wythe County and then to Tennessee where he first

settled in Jefferson County and then moved to Knox County in 1823.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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