Macon County TN Archives Military Records.....Rose, Samuel December 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 25, 2006, 1:54 pm Pension Application Of Samuel Rose Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 2085, Application # W7141 SAMUEL ROSE, a resident of Macon County, Georgia, aged 77 years in December 1832: “That he entered the service as a volunteer under Captain SAMUEL SHARPE and THOMAS OWEN, major, and Colonel PAISLEY, and joined the main army at Guilford Courthouse, and started to go to Cross Creek and was dismissed before we reached the place. The tour of time was about ten days…” “…The next place I took the state oath and was drafted under SAMUEL SHARPE, captain, THOMAS OWEN, major, and Colonel PAISLEY…and hired a substitute to go in his place to the Cherokee expedition, to fill his tour of time ____ about the year 1776…and served from that time when called upon to the end of the war as a minute man. The next expedition in Wilks County, NC under Captain HARDEN and Major JESSE FRANKLIN and Colonel BENJAMIN CLEVELAND…and that I never was attached to any regular troops and that I herewith enclose all the documentary evidence that I have in my possession…” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/macon/military/revwar/pensions/rose179gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb