Monroe-Cocke County TN Archives Military Records.....Coleman, Spencer 
Revwar - Pension 
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SPENCER COLEMAN



   Spencer Coleman applied for revolutionary pension while living in Monroe

County, Tennessee, December 18, 1832. He was then 80 years and 10 months old,

and was therefore born about February 15, 1752. He was born in King and Queen

County, Virginia. His father, whose name is not given, moved when Spencer

Coleman was about two years of age to Stafford County, Virginia, and when he was

fifteen years old to Shenandoah County, Virginia. Spencer Coleman married while

residing in Shenandoah County when he was about 23 years of age and moved to

Seven Mile Ford in Western Virginia and there joined Captain Francis' Company,

Colonel William Campbell's Virginia regiment He served three months as a

private, guarded the lead mines on New River and marched to Big Glades against

the Tories. He served three months under Captain Wilson. He moved to a point

near Abingdon, Virginia, and served three months in Colonel Arthur Campbell's

Virginia regiment and was out against the Cherokee Indians. Soon after the close

of the Revolution he moved to Big Pigeon River, Cocke County, Tennessee, and in

1826 he moved to Monroe County, Tennessee.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. III



by Zella Armstrong





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