Mcminn-Bradley County TN Archives Military Records.....Crye, William 
Revwar - Pension 
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WILLIAM CRYE



    William Crye applied for revolutionary pension while he was living in McMinn

County, Tenn. where he drew a pension on the 1832 list. As he was 80 years old

when he made his application he was born about 1752. He was a native of the Isle

of Mann but came to America when he was a child and was reared in Chester, Pa.

He moved to North Carolina and was volunteered under Capt. Hagan in Mecklenburg

County, N. C. He volunteered again under Capt. Drummond in Greenville, S. C.,

other officers under whom he served being Col. Neel. and Col. Ezekial Polk. In

1780 he served under Gen. Gates. After leaving North Carolina he lived in South

Carolina, in Hale County, Ga. and in Tennessee. He died Aug. 30, 1835. He

married. Sarah Hagan, April 8, 1779. She died Feb. 8, 1844. She drew pension in

Bradley County. A page from their Bible was enclosed in her application showing

the marriage date and the marriage of their son, William Crye, Jr., to Elizabeth

Barker. Aug. 11, 1822 and that the children of William Crye, Jr. were Sarah,

born June 4, 1823 and Mary, born Nov. 7, 1825. William Crye, Sr., had a brother,

John Crye.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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