Maury County TN Archives Military Records.....Spencer, Moses 
Revwar - Pension 
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MOSES SPENCER



   Moses Spencer, also spelled Spenser, applied for revolutionary pension while

living in Maury County, Tenn., December 28, 1818. He was born January 16, 1744,

but the place of birth and names of his parents are not given. He enlisted

February 10, 1778, in Captain James Baytop's company in the Seventh Virginia

regiment and later in Colonel William Heth's Virginia regiment. He transferred

to Captain Young's company and was in the battle of Monmouth. He received his

discharge February 16, 1779. He volunteered for service in the battle of

Guilford Court House.



  Soon after the close of the Revolution he moved to North Carolina and then

moved to South Carolina. From there he moved to Mercer County, Kentucky, then to

Barren County, Kentucky, and about the year 1810 to Lawrence County, Tenn.,

which had meanwhile been erected from Maury County. He died March 27, 1826, in

Lawrence or Maury County. He married November 20, 1779, in Henry or Amelia

County, Virginia, Elizabeth Tinsley, daughter of Thomas Tinsley, who was present

at the marriage. The eldest child of Moses and Elizabeth Spencer was born

February 9, 1781. In 1820 Moses Spencer referred to his son Amasa Spencer, and

in 1821 he said that his youngest son Amzi, was twenty-three years of age. Other

children were: Ellen Blithe (Blythe), Thomas, who in July, 1850, said he was

sixty-five years old, Tabitha Woods, the oldest daughter.



   The widow, Elizabeth Spencer applied for pension in 1843 when she was a

resident of Lawrence County, and eighty years old. She died August 13, 1849, in

Lawrence County. Her surviving children in that year were: Thomas, Tabitha Woods

and Ellen Blythe.



Additional Comments:
From:



Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution

PAMPHLET NO. V

Compiled From Pension Statements

By

Zella Armstrong





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