Morgan County TN Archives Military Records.....Milton/Melton, Nathaniel 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: Robin Marshall robin_marshall@urscorp.com December 26, 2007, 2:49 pm Revolutionary War Pension Application NATHANIEL MILTON [MELTON] (NC 1703) State of Tennessee} Morgan County} Circuit Court On this 3d day of September personally appeared before the Circuit Court of the county and state aforesaid NATHANIEL MILTON age seventy three years 7th April _______, a resident of the county of Morgan & state of Tennessee, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, served as volunteer under, GENERAL GREEN, Col ______ Christian name not recollected, CAPT NASH & LIEUTENANT ROBERT PATTERSON, that he remained in their service about twenty months entered the service in October 1779 left the service in 1781 that he was in one engagement in Randolph County North Carolina on the waters of deep river the aforesaid officers commanding resided in Cumberland County North Carolina when he entered the service, that he was a volunteer, marched from Chatham County into Cumberland Cty thence on to ____ hill then to George Town then to drowning creek at ____ bridge when they had a slight engagement, thence up to cross back to cross creek, Cumberland County then sent on deformant scouting Lastly that COL THOMAS ARMSTRONG also commanded that he has no documentary evidence now in his possession and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Sworn to in open court. NATHANIEL X MELTON We J_____ DENISON, formerly a clergy ___ for said county and ANDREW P______ residing in the said county of Morgan & state aforesaid hereby certify that we are much acquainted with NATHANIEL MILTON who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about seventy three years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Sworn to in open court. 3 Sep 1832 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/morgan/military/revwar/pensions/miltonme359gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb