Mcminn-Blount County TN Archives Military Records.....Hughes, John 
Revwar - Pension 
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JOHN HUGHES



     John Hughes applied for revolutionary pension while living in McMinn

County, Tennessee, Sept. 5, 1832. He was born in 1752. He served in the

Revolution, enlisting first in Burke County, N. C. Later he enlisted again in

Capt. Sevier's North Carolina Company and was in a battle on the Watauga River.

Later he served in Capt. Jacob Tipton's Company under St. Clair and was in the

battle of St. Clair's Defeat. He moved from Burke County, N. C. to what is now

East Tennessee and settled in Blount County. From Blount County he moved to

McMinn County where he died.



     Note:-John Hughes was a brother of Francis Hughes whose record is given

above. He was the son of Francis Hughes of Augusta County, Virginia, the family

moving to that point from Lancaster County, Pa. John Hughes had a son Francis

Hughes. The well known East Tennessee family of Hughes comes from this line.





Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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