Sullivan County TN Archives Military Records.....Gaines, Ambrose 
Revwar - Pension 
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AMBROSE GAINES



     Ambrose Gaines applied for revolutionary pension while living in Sullivan

County. He was born in Amelia County, Va. He enlisted in Virginia troops as a

substitute for his father, Robert Gaines, and served in Capt. John Oliver's

company Col. William Campbell's regiment. He was in the battle of Guilford Court

House and the Siege of Yorktown. He died in Sullivan County, Jan. 12, 1840 and

his widow, Mary Moore Gaines, whom he married in Stokes County, N. C., June 9,

1792, applied for widow's pension while living in Sullivan County, April 10,

1844. She was born 1771.



    Note:-Among their children were Elizabeth, born 1798 married William F.

Butler, son of Zachariah T. Butler; Matthew Moore, born 1809, died 1893, married

No. 11, 1830, Margaret Luttrell, born 1816, died 1892, daughter of James

Churchwell Luttrell I. and Margaret Armstrong Luttrell, Samuel D., born Oct. 19,

1811; Sara E., born Dec. 2, 1813; and Francis Henry. Ambrose Gaines, the

revolutionary soldier was the son of Robert Gaines and Mildred Bohanan Gaines.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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