Rutherford County TN Archives Military Records.....Beatty, James 
Revwar - Pension 
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JAMES BEATTY



   James Beatty applied for revolutionary pension while living in Rutherford

County, Tennessee, in 1832. He was then 79 years of age and therefore born in

1753. He enlisted in North Carolina troops under Captain Jacob Nicholas, General

Griffith Rutherford, Lieutenant David Henry, General Andrew Williamson and

General Williom Davidson. He was engaged in the Snow Campaign in 1775. He served

under Colonel Francis Locke in the attack on General McLeod. He served under

Colonel James Martin; and under General Griffith Rutherford in the Cherokee

Campaign. He served under General Andrew Pickens in General Andrew Williamson's

"Black Hole" fight. He was under Colonel Francis Locke, Captain Jacob Nicholas

and General Rutherford in a march through South Carolina and Georgia in 1778 and

1779. He was present in General Jorn Ashe's Defeat on Briar Creek, Georgia.



Additional Comments:
From:



Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution

PAMPHLET NO. V

Compiled From Pension Statements

By

Zella Armstrong





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