Sullivan County TN Archives Military Records.....Hughes, Peter 
Revwar - Pension 
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PETER HUGHES



   Peter Hughes enlisted while living on Beaver Creek in the Holston Country,

then North Carolina and now Tennessee in 1777 and served two months as a ranger

against the Cherokee Indians as a ranger in Capt. Robert Craig's Company of

Virginia troops. He enlisted again August 20, 1778 and served as a private in

Capt. Archibald Taylor's Company against the Shawnees and Delawares in the Ohio

Country and marched to Fort McIntosh. He served eight months. He enlisted again

in September 1780 and served three months as a private in Capt. Craig's Company,

Col. Campbell's Virginia regiment and was in the battle of King's Mountain and

later against the Indians. In September, 1781, he enlisted again and served two

months in Col. Lynch's Virginia regiment. He was allowed a pension for which he

applied Aug. 29, 1832, while living in Sullivan County, Tenn. In 1847 he had

moved to Virginia where his grandson had built a house for him and his daughter,

the names not being given in the pension record. He died in Washington County,

Va., May 22, 1849. He married sometime in March, April 8, or May 8, 1787, (all

three dates are given) in Sullivan County, Lucy Blevins. She applied for pension

August 26, 1850, while she was living in Washington County, Va., and 88 years

(so born in 1762). She died Nov. 15, 1865. They had a large family of children,

the names given being: David, the oldest son Nancy, married _____ Starling, and

William, Lucy Blevins Hughes, the widow had a sister, Nancy Girtman.



Additional Comments:
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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

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