Robertson County TN Archives Military Records.....Ellison {Allison}, Charles 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Charles Ellison [Allison], Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #  W354
[The first page is missing from the Heritage Quest file. It is possible that it 

is missing from the microfilm.]



“…He states that he was taken by Col. Tinnen and placed as a driver on one of 

the public wagons and remained in [smudges____] three months and was then 

discharged.”



	“He states that he was again drafted and put under the same officers 

and was started again to Hillsborough and when we got there we was all taken 

prisoners by Col. Fanning, a Tory colonel and was taken to Wilmington and was 

there put into a prison ship for about two months. The day we was taken we was 

taken by Fanning was the 9th of September. He states that him and his 

companions were taken from Wilmington by water to Charleston, South Carolina 

where they was kept in a prison ship until some time in the month of August 

1782 when a part of us was exchanged. He states that he was one of that number. 

We was taken ?above? town to General Greene and he sent us home after 

discharging us. He states that he has no writing to prove anything about his 

service, nor does he know any person living by which he can”…etc.

Robertson County, Tennessee



September 8, 1851, Robertson County, TN: Massey Ellison, widow of Charles 

Ellison: “That she was married to Charles Ellison in the 4th day of September 

in 1786 or 87. She has no documentation and has to rely on the age of the 

oldest child, which is 63 years old and the record in the Bible was torn out 

some years ago and so is lost…She was married in Caswell County, NC by one John 

Wamach, a Justice of the Peace” which may be found in the Caswell County 

office, or the Person County office. They lived in Person County until 1822 

when they moved to Tennessee where they have lived ever since. Her husband, 

Charles Ellison died on the 2nd day of May, 1851, and that she has remained a 

widow.

Additional Comments:
A printed form by the Dept of Interior has this additional information: That he 

was entered into service in August 1780 for three months under General Butler, 

Major William Williams and Captain Thomas Thompson.

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