Meigs-Cocke-Rhea County TN Archives Military Records.....Dyer, John 
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:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com October 28, 2005, 8:28 pm

JOHN DYER



   John Dyer was born May 7, 1760, in Braintree Norfolk County, Mass. He

enlisted in the Revolutionary Army in 1775, while residing in Braintree, Norfolk

County, Mass., and served nine weeks as fifer in Capt. Nathan Alden's

Massachusetts' Company. He enlisted again in 1776 and served six months in Capt.

Alden's and Capt. Nathan Snow's Companies, Col. Jeremiah Hall's Massachusetts

Regiment. He enlisted again in the spring of 1778 and served nine months as drum

and rifle major under Lieut. Zachariah Watkins in Cols. Woods and Bailey's

Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted again in the spring of 1781 and served under

Capt. Mark Packard. He was in the skirmish at Morrisania and at the capture of

Cornwallis. After the Revolution he moved to Halifax County, N. C., thence to

Edgefield District. S. C., thence to Hancock County, Ga., thence to Cocke

County, Tenn., thence to that part of Rhea County, which was later Meigs County,

Tenn., where he died. He applied for pension while living in Meigs County, May 3

1836. There is no information in the pension applicaton concerning his family.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/meigs/military/revwar/pensions/dyer109nmt.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb